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As part of the 2019 RSA Winter Conference, we welcome proposals for Special Sessions. Special Sessions are a great way to bring together presenters to discuss and highlight a particular topic and to develop or further extend your network.

As part of the 2019 Central and Eastern Europe Conference, we welcome proposals for Special Sessions. Special Sessions are a great way to bring together presenters to discuss and highlight a particular topic and to develop or further extend your network.

We would like to thank conference delegates who have made a donation to the RSA as part of this conference. Your financial contribution helps us to continue our work and offer free events such as the 2nd CEE conference in Lublin. Thank you!

McGill University Located in the heart of Montreal, McGill University is one of Canada’s best-known institutions of higher learning and one of the leading universities in the world. With students coming to McGill from over 150 countries, our student body is the most internationally diverse of any research-intensive university in the country. Donald J. Savoie […]

As part of the 2019 RSA Latin America Division Conference, we welcome proposals for Special Sessions in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Special Sessions are a great way to bring together presenters to discuss and highlight a particular topic and to develop or further extend your network.

Please select one of the plenary speakers below to view their bio and download their plenary presentation (subject to the presentation made available by the speaker).

Professor Michael Storper (UCLA, the London School of Economics, and Sciences Po/Paris) Michael Storper (PhD, Economic Geography, University of California, Berkeley), is an economic geographer who holds concurrent appointments at UCLA, the London School of Economics, and Sciences Po/Paris. Storper is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed academic articles and 13 books, including the widely-cited […]

As part of the 2019 RSA Latin America Division Conference, we welcome proposals for Special Sessions in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Special Sessions are a great way to bring together presenters to discuss and highlight a particular topic and to develop or further extend your network. Please submit your abstract for one of the special […]

Established in 2015, this research network brings together scholars, policymakers and practitioners across Europe and beyond to provide a forum for debating current and emerging issues on European economic migration as well as fostering collaboration and expanding research opportunities. Main organisers of this research network are: Dr. Agnieszka Rydzik, Lincoln International Business School, University of Lincoln […]

Skills, Mobility and Entrepreneurship 2019 RSA Europe Socio-Spatial Dynamics Summer College, Cagliari, Sardinia Jennifer Clark, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Riccardo Crescenzi, London School of Economics, UK Maria Chiara Di Guardo, University of Cagliari, Italy Frederick Guy, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Dieter F. Kogler, Spatial Dynamics Lab, UCDublin, Ireland Emanuela Marrocu, CRENoS, Università di Cagliari, Italy […]

Dr Franziska Sielker, University of Cambridge, UK Dr Maria Luz Loureiro García, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain Professor Dr Jannika Mattes, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany Sally Hardy, Regional Studies Association, UK Dr. Alex Holmes, Regional Studies Association, UK  

For each Annual Conference, the RSA awards a number of bursaries here are the winners for this year’s conference. Rhiannon Pugh, Örebro University, Sweden – Innovation Policy and Peripheral Regions: a Research Framework Encompassing Economic, Environmental, Cultural, and Geo-Political Perspectives Hilal Erkuş Öztürk, Akdeniz University, Turkey – The Role of Fictional Expectations in the Resilience of a Crisis-Ridden Tourism […]

The organisers encourage joining special sessions, themed workshops and innovative forms of networking and collaboration. As part of the 2019 Annual Conference, participants can submit their abstracts to Special Sessions listed below. Special Sessions are a great way to bring together presenters to discuss and highlight a particular topic and to develop or further extend your network. […]

Sponsors and Exhibitors   Local host and partners: University of Santiago de Compostela With more than five centuries of tradition, the University of Santiago de Compostela is a historic institution that projects itself to the future and beyond its frontiers, always attentive to the different demands of society, where it stands as an important academic […]

The 2019 Australasia Conference is supported by the following organisations: The Ngāi Tahu Research Centre (NTRC) was founded for the purpose of being a leader in indigenous scholarship and to provide a centre for the intellectual capital and development of Ngāi Tahu, the principal Māori iwi of the southern region of New Zealand. The NTRC […]

Metropolises and Peripheries of CEE Countries: New Challenges for EU, National and Regional Policies Plenary Session: Polarisation and peripheralisation in CEE   Dr Thilo Lang, Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde, Department for Regional Geography of Europe, Germany: “Responding to increasing socio-economic Polarisation in CEE” Thilo Lang is Head of Department at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, and […]

Thursday 15th November 10.25-12.25 Financing Urban and Regional Futures Andy Pike: Financialising City Statecraft Martin Sokol: Regional Studies and the Flows of Finance: Building a ‘Financial Chains’ Perspective Adam Drobniak: Hybridization of Regional and Urban Development – Reflections on Changing Patterns of Contemporary Development Olga Mrinska: Revitalising Ukrainian Cities through Mobilising Communities 10.25-12.25 Economic Clustering: New Trends, New Impacts […]

Plenary Presentations Vanessa Watson, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, South Africa – The Return of the City-region in the New Urban Agenda: another Global Imposition on Southern Cities? Danny Dorling, University of Oxford, UK – Brexit Coincided with Peak UK Economic Inequality – Causes and Effect? Marco Do Cataldo, London School of Economics, […]

Plenary Session [1] Dr Anett Kiss, Research and Enterprise Services, University of Sussex, United Kingdom Applying for Research Funding: What Support is Available? Plenary Session [2] Charlotte Humma, School of Business, Management and Economics, University of Sussex, United Kingdom Why (and how to) Engage with Policy? Alasdair Rae, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Publish Without […]

You can watch the plenary sessions recordings below: Opening and Plenary Session 1: Plenary Session 2: Plenary session 3: Plenary sessions 4: Statements from Members of the Scientific Committee, Science Policy Roundtable, Closing Remarks:

As part of the 2019 Central and Eastern Europe Conference, we welcome proposals for Special Sessions. Special Sessions are a great way to bring together presenters to discuss and highlight a particular topic and to develop or further extend your network. SS1: Territory, Politics, Governance in the Western Balkans Region SS2: Creative Cities in the CEE […]