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 […]
Plenary Session [1] “Why Places Matter” Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, London School of Economics, United Kingdom Why places matter: The geography of discontent and the revenge of the places that don’t matter Charles Wessner, Georgetown University, United States Smart Specialization in the U.S: Growing New York’s Nano-Cluster Plenary Session [2] “Moving to Smart Specialisation 2.0” Peter […]
A World of Flows: Labour Mobility, Capital and Knowledge in an Age of Global Reversal and Regional Revival RSA Annual Conference 2018, Lugano, Switzerland Conference Papers Submitted Tatiana Bystrova: INDUSTRIAL SETTLEMENT SYSTEM DENSITY AS A BASIS FOR MEASURES FOR CULTURAL REGENERATION OF SMALL TOWNS OF THE URALS Jarosław M. Nazarczuk: Vulnerability to the consequences of […]
Conference papers will be available on this website in due course. Wednesday 26th September 16:15–18:15 Smart Specialisation Worldwide Room: AUDITORIUM Silke N. Haarich: Smart specialisation in peripheral and border regions in Latin America – challenges and lessons 16:15–18:15 Web Based Tools for Territorial Economic Analysis, Monitoring and Evaluation in Support of Smart Specialisation Room: SALA POLIVALENTE 3 Trond […]
Wednesday 26th September 16:15–18:15 Smart Specialisation Worldwide Room: AUDITORIUM Silke Haarich: Smart Specialisation in Peripheral and Border Regions in Latin America – Challenges and Lessons Kevin Hartley: Applying Smart Specialisation in an Atlantic Canadian Context 16:15–18:15 Implementing Smart Specialisation Strategies: Early Results, Challenges and Lessons Learned Room: SALA POLIVALENTE 1 Martin Eichler: S3 Implementation and the “Correct” Level of […]
Building Bridges: Cities and Regions in a Transnational World Path dependency and regional renewal The limits of post-transition: Regional development at the crossroads in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe Entrepreneurial Cities and Regions for Climate Policy and Governance? The Emerging City of Milan The development of Peripheral Areas in Italy: A European Perspective Cohesion Policy […]
Building Bridges: Cities and Regions in a Transnational World Opening Plenary Session (Prof. Iain Begg, Professorial Research Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK) Opening Plenary Session (Prof. Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, Director of the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA in Regional Economies) […]
Cities and Regions: Managing Growth and Change SS1. Smart City-Regional Governance for Sustainability SS2. Working Regions: Rethinking Regional Manufacturing Policy Panel Session. Regional Collaboration for Effective Economic Development Manufacturing Strategies: IMCP Communities What Open Access Can do for You? : Special Session with RSA Editors SS1. Smart City-Regional Governance for Sustainability Session organiser(s) Dr. Gerd […]
Cities and Regions: Managing Growth and Change Plenary 1. New Manufacturing Model and Implications for Regional Development (Professor Lisa De Propris, Birmingham Business School, UK) Plenary 2. Socializing Data: Mapping Culture and Governance in the Era of Smart Cities (Professor Matthew Zook, University of Kentucky, USA) Plenary 3. The Evolution of Knowledge Spaces: Inventors, Firms, […]
Global Challenges for Regions and Cities: Adaptation, Development, Governance Understanding Cities through Urban Analytics (Prof Alex Singleton, Professor of Geographic Information Science at the University of Liverpool) Urban challenges on post-Soviet space (Dr Oleg Golubchikov, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography) Understanding Cities through Urban Analytics Prof Alex Singleton, Professor of Geographic Information Science at the […]
A World of Flows: Labour Mobility, Capital and Knowledge in an Age of Global Reversal and Regional Revival The organisers encourage joining special sessions, themed workshops and innovative forms of networking and collaboration. As part of the 2018 Annual Conference, participants can submit their abstracts to Special Sessions listed below. Special Sessions are a great way to […]
A World of Flows: Labour Mobility, Capital and Knowledge in an Age of Global Reversal and Regional Revival An international conference under the patronage of the Government Council of the Republic and Canton of Ticino. Local host: Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) is one of the 12 […]