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Watch as Dariusz Wojcik, Editor in Chief of Finance and Space presents the 2025 Award for the Finance and Space Best Referee to Fabio Contel, of the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.

Watch as Dariusz Wojcik, Editor in Chief of Finance and Space, presents the award for the Best Paper published in 2024 to Andreas Noelke (Goethe University, Germany) for his paper entitled ‘Private Institutions in Infrastructure Geoeconomics: Limits to the Rise of Emerging Economies in Global Finance’. We are delighted to present this, the very first […]

Watch as Zack Taylor, Editor in Chief of Territory Politics Governance, presents the award for the 2025 Best Referee to Andrés Rodriguez-Pose, (London School of Economics, UK).

Watch as Jennifer Clark, Editor in Chief of Regional Studies, presents the award for the Best Paper published in 2024 to John Tomaney, Lucy Natarajan, Dimitrios Panayotopoulos-Tsiros, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, and Myfanwy Taylor,(all of University College London, UK) and Maeve Blackman, (Durham University, UK) for their paper entitled Social Infrastructure and ‘Left Behind Places’ The research […]

Watch as Zack Taylor, Editor in Chief of Territory, Politics, Governance, presents the award for the Territory, Politics, Governance Best Paper published in 2024 to Gonzalo Álvarez (University of Tarapaca, Chile).  The paper, ‘Indigenous People and Paradiplomacy: Confronting the State-centric Order from Latin American Transborder Spaces’ was authored by Gonzalo Álvarez and Cristian Ovando, both […]

Deadline: 31 July 2025 Apply here About the role The Regional Studies Association seeks to appoint an Editor to its journal Area Development and Policy (ADP). The successful candidate will join the existing team of Editors in managing the peer review of general and special issue submissions in their area of expertise, enhancing the journal’s reputation as a world-leading publication […]

Deadline: 31 July 2025 Apply here About the role The Regional Studies Association seeks to appoint a Co-Editor to the journal, Territory, Politics, Governance. The successful candidate will join the existing team of Co-Editors in managing the peer review of general submissions in their area of expertise, enhancing the journal’s reputation as a world-leading publication in the field of regional studies, […]

The Regional Studies Association (RSA) is dedicated to supporting regional and urban research efforts globally and to disseminating research evidence. As part of these commitments and in celebration of its 60th anniversary year, the RSA has launched the Start-Up Grant Scheme to build research capacity in emerging economies and the global south. These grants are […]

As part of the RSA’s 60th anniversary celebrations, this curated collection of previously published articles from the RSA’s journals highlights the contribution of regional research to policy development and practice. Released in alignment with the 2025 Annual Conference theme, Navigating Regional Transformation, the articles have been made freely accessible for a period of time to […]

Read our journals with an RSA membership RSA member benefits include access to alll our journals. Below is a taster of content from each journal – the most read articles of 2024.  RSA members can access these articles through the RSA Lounge. Not yet a member? Join today.   Most read articles of 2024   […]

Since January 2025, the RSA journals have been available exclusively online. This move to a fully digital format allows us to offer quicker access, environmental benefits, and a more streamlined experience for you. For more details about this transition, please visit the 2023 news article. Members can now access all journal content through RSA Lounge, […]

We welcome Katarzyna (Kathy) Kopczewska as a new co-editor of SEA. Katarzyna (Kathy) Kopczewska is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw, Poland. She is a quantitative economist focusing on regional socio-economic development in a spatial context. Her research includes spatial modelling of geo-localised economic processes – location and […]

A quick summary of the Index Listing and Impact Factors of the RSA journals. Journal Metrics – Regional Studies Indexed in Clarivate Analytics’ Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) Indexed by Scopus More info at the T&F Regional Studies metrics page   Journal Metrics – Territory Politics Governance Indexed in Clarivate Analytics’ Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) […]

We welcome Carolin Ioramashvili as the new Early Career Editor fpr Spatial Economic Analysis. Carolin is Lecturer in Innovation Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, where her research focuses on the impacts of innovation and technological change on local economies, especially on jobs and inequality. She is currently a […]

We welcome Duygu Buyukyazici as the new Early Career Editor for Regional Studies. Duygu is a postdoctoral researcher whose work spans regional development, skills-based industrial diversification, regional capabilities, and the circular economy. Her research delves into the intricate interplay between skills, innovation, and regional economic structures, examining how these factors drive industrial transitions, economic resilience, […]

We are delighted to welcome Gaurav Mittal as the Early Career Editor of Territory, Politics, Governance.  Gaurav is a Researcher in Mobility Governance at the Transport Studies Unit and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in Human Geography from the National University of Singapore, a master’s degree in […]

We welcome Steven Bond Smith as a new co-editor, moving from his current early career editor role. Steven Bond-Smith is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization (UHERO) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Steven is an urban and regional economist with a research focus on the effects of spatial […]

We welcome Carlo Inverardi-Ferri as a new co-editor, moving from his current early career editor role. Carlo Inverardi-Ferri, of Queen Mary University of London and the Italian National Research Council, is an economic geographer whose work develops political economic, and ecological approaches to the study of globalised systems of production. His research interest centres on […]

The RSA and Territory, Politics, Governance are pleased to announce changes to the journal’s editorial team. These changes will diversify the editorial board in a variety of respects, including disciplinarily and geographically, and will complement the scholarly and editorial experience of the continuing team members. The expansion of the team is occasioned by several changes. […]

We would like to welcome the new Early Career and Digital Media Editors for Finance and Space. Finance and Space is a pioneering interdisciplinary journal focusing on diverse aspects of the spatial production of finance and the financial production of space, published by the Regional Studies Association and the Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo). […]

The RSA is delighted to announce the new Editor-in-Chief of our journal, Territory, Politics, Governance, Professor Zack Taylor. Zack Taylor is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Specializing in comparative urban political economy, the multi-level governance of cities, and political geography, his work lies at the intersection of political […]

Read our journals with an RSA membership RSA member benefits include access to alll our journals. Below is a taster of content from each journal – the most read articles of 2023.  RSA members can access these articles through the RSA Lounge. Not yet a member? Join today.   Most read articles of 2023   […]

The RSA Board, at their meeting in Ljubljana 2023, took the decision to cease print copies of the RSA journals Regional Studies; Spatial Economic Analysis; Territory, Politics, Governance; and Area Development and Policy.  The journal Regional Studies, Regional Science is a gold open access journal and already only available online and the new journal Finance […]

The RSA is delighted to announce the new Editor-in-Chief of our journal Spatial Economic Analysis is Ugo Fratesi of Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Congratulations Ugo! Professor Fratesi has been involved with various roles in a large number of research project, especially at European level, financed by the Espon programme, FP5, FP7, Horizon 2020 and the […]