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As part of the 2025 RSA Annual Conference, there will be a number of  Special Sessions running throughout the academic programme. Click here to submit your abstract.

The 2025 RSA Annual Conference is supported by a number of organisations and partners which are listed below:  

For all information on the Plenary Sessions and Speakers for the RSA 2024 Winter Conference, please see below.  To return to the main conference website click here.

As part of the 2024 RSA Winter Conference, there will be a number of closed Special Sessions running throughout the academic programme. For more information please see below.

The RSA CEE Conference in Dubrovnik provides an opportunity for researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and students working in all areas related to regional policy, regional development and regional studies to come together and discuss the changing internal and external dynamics of CEE. For all information on the Plenary Sessions and Speakers for the RSA 2024 Central and Eastern […]

The 2024 RSA Central and Eastern Europe Conference is supported by a number of organisations and partners which are listed below:  

As part of the 2024 RSA Central and Eastern Europe Conference, there will be a number of Special Sessions running throughout the academic programme. If you would like to submit an abstract to one of the sessions, submit your abstract in the normal way and you will find each session listed in the gateway themes on the […]

2024 Annual Conference Bursary Winners   We were pleased to support a number of researchers with a 2024 Annual Conference Bursary.  This year’s bursary winners are: Laura Sariego-Kluge, Universidade de Costa Rica, Costa Rica Anwar Hossian, The University of Melbourne, Australia Ozge Yenigun, University of Illinois, USA Diana Prelorenzo, Université Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle, France Adela […]

For all information on the Spotlight Sessions for the RSA 2024 Annual Conference, please see below.  To return to the main conference website click here.

    We are pleased to announce that the RSA has teamed up with the Association of European Planning School’s Young Academics Network (AESOP YAN) to deliver three webinars as part of the RSA’s Professional Development Webinar Series specifically designed for PhD students and early career researchers. The sessions will address different issues concerned with […]

The 2024 RSA Annual Conference is supported by a number of organisations and partners which are listed below:  

As part of the 2024 RSA Annual Conference, there will be a number of Special Sessions running throughout the academic programme. If you would like to submit an abstract to one of the sessions, submit your abstract in the normal way and you will find each session listed in the gateway themes on the abstract submission page.

For all information on the Plenary Sessions and Speakers for the RSA 2024 Annual Conference, please see below.  To return to the main conference website click here.

For all information on the Plenary Sessions and Speakers for the RSA 2023 Winter Conference, please see below.  To return to the main conference website click here.

As part of the 2023 RSA Winter Conference, there will be a number of Special Sessions running throughout the academic programme. If you would like to submit an abstract to one of the sessions, submit your abstract in the normal way and you will find each session listed in the gateway themes on the abstract submission page.

2023 Annual Conference Bursary Winners We were pleased to support a number of young researchers with a 2023 Annual Conference Bursary.  This year’s bursary winners are: Chandrima Mukhopadhyay, Ahmedabad University, India Sergio Palomeque, Department of Economics – Universidad de la República, Uruguay Mariia Rastvorova, University of Graz, Austria Luke Green, Newcastle University, UK Carolina Guevara, […]

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Regional Studies Association (RSA) are co-organising the 2023 SMARTER conference stream in the context of the RSA Annual Conference 2023 in Ljubljana. The overall focus of the SMARTER stream is on challenges and opportunities of place-based transformations towards sustainability and resilience. The JRC will curate a […]

We are pleased to announce the 4th Networking Workshop for Early and Mid-Career Women in Regional Studies and Regional Science, taking place on Wednesday 14th June 2023, 13.00 – 17.00. Please see below for details of the session. To register for the event please click here.   Empathetic Leadership in Academia Five years ago, the […]

For all information on the Plenary Sessions and Speakers for the RSA 2023 Annual Conference, please see below.  To return to the main conference website click here.

The 2023 RSA Annual Conference is supported by a number of organisations and partners which are listed below:  

As part of the 2023 RSA Annual Conference, there will be a number of Special Sessions running throughout the academic programme. If you would like to submit an abstract to one of the sessions, submit your abstract in the normal way and you will find each session listed in the gateway themes on the abstract submission page.

The 2022 RSA Winter conference took place from 10th-11th November 2022 at the Holiday Inn London Bloomsbury. Delegates enjoyed two days of presentations, discussion and plenary sessions. Please click here to view the conference photos. To join the conversation, please use #RSAWinter

We are delighted to share news about our sister organisation, the RSA’s European Foundation delivering the first Commissioner Seminar on Cohesion Policy in Brussels this month. This seminar series is an initiative by Dr Elisa Ferreira, Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms and a collaborative venture organised between Commissioner Ferreira and her Cabinet; the European Commission’s […]

September saw the final events of the 2022 CEE Programme on Bridging Old and New Divides: Global Dynamics & Regional Transformations, including the 2022 CEE Conference held in Leipzig, Germany. The programme, originally planned for 2021, had been delayed due to the pandemic and we were pleased to finally being able to work with our partners […]