Opportunities Categories: Non-RSA Event

The Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA) II Urban Methodologies Summer School (UMSS) is a four-day event aimed at PhD researchers, early-career academics and advanced postgraduate students. It will be held online, on 21-24 June 2021, focusing on the theme of Urban Inquiries for a Post-pandemic City. The Summer School will feature four masterclass sessions led […]

New book exploring urban austerity governance and resistance, published by Bristol University Press. The Centre for Urban Research on Austerity will host a launch event at 16:00 on Wednesday 16th June. Further details of this event will follow in due course. Davies, J. S. (2021) Between Realism and Revolt: Governing Cities in the Crisis of […]

This years rural entrepneurship is planned to take place in Swansea in July, assuming the roadmap to freedom progresses as planned.  The call for abstracts and joining details are all available here: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/som/rural-entrepreneurship-conference-2021/ ABSTRACTS ARE INVITED FROM RESEARCHERS IN ANY OF THE FOLLOWING THEMES: Rural social entrepreneurship Rural artisanal entrepreneurship Migration effects on rural development […]

Call for Contributions: regiosuisse-Wissenschaftsforum 2021: «Forschungsupdate Regionalentwicklung, Regionalwirtschaft und Regionalpolitik» 13.–14. September 2021, Andermatt (UR) Who can submit contributions?  The forum is open to all the people of any scientific disciplines and professional activities interested and/or working in the field of regional and urban economic and development. Young researchers and professionals with impactful ideas are […]

UACES 51st Annual Conference 6-8 September Online Following the recent committee meeting, the UACES Committee has taken the decision to move to a fully virtual format for our annual conference taking place from 6-8 September 2021. Read the full statement here: https://www.uaces.org/statement-annual-conference In light of this decision the CfP has been further extended to 1 April 2021 (00:00 GMT) to […]

Organised by the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University, and North of Tyne Combined Authority Thursday 25th March, 12:30-4:30pm In a context of rising social and spatial inequality, slow or non-existent economic growth and net zero carbon transitions, there is growing interest in new approaches to local development. The aim of […]

What can communities do to spur the recovery from Covid-19? How can local action complement governmental and EU actions? Is engaging local actors the way forward to a more sustainable future? Following positive feedback from participants in LDnet’s 2020 series of webinars, LDNet are launching a new series of four webinars in April 2021 on “The […]

Call for applications, Ph.D. course: ‘The Political Ecology of Pandemics’ Date: 9 – 11 August, 2021 Venue: Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo, Norway Organised by:  Centre for Development and the Environment, The Norwegian Political Ecology Network (POLLEN-Norway) and the Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH), Application deadline: 15 March, 2021 (Application form).   The objective of this interdisciplinary PhD course is to critically approach the relationship between food […]

Scope of the Workshop As amplified by the recent pandemic and crises, innovation is more crucial than ever. Being able to produce the next vaccine can decide about the life and death of thousands, developing the next digital communication tool shapes the learning experience of an entire generation; coming up with a radically new solution […]

13-15 April 2021 Remaking the Future 70th Anniversary Virtual Conference 2021 CALL FOR PAPERS Dear colleague 2021 marks the 70th Anniversary of the British Sociological Association’s Annual conference.  The theme is Remaking the Future and little did we know how relevant the choice of words would turn out to be. The BSA is having to […]

** CALL for ABSTRACTS ** IGU Commission Geography of Governance 2021 Annual Conference “NEW CHALLENGES OF LOCAL GOVERNANCE IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY AND COMPLEXITY”   Date: 23-25 June 2021 Location: Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland Faculty of Human Geography and Planning – Metropolitan Research Center Conference Website: https://sites.google.com/view/geogov2021/ Deadline for abstract submission: 1.02.2021 PROGRAM THEMES Track 1. Centralization […]

Event details:  7th July 2021  Sheffield Hallam University  £ 50.00  PPP Editorial Team (ppp-online@shu.ac.uk)   A one day conference hosted by the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) Date: 1st July 2020 Venue: Sheffield Hallam University Organised by: People, Place and Policy (PPP) Journal Register here: https://store.shu.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/social-sciences-arts/events/ppp-conference-2020 The 6th annual PPP conference welcomes papers which explore contemporary social and […]