14 May 2026
Regional studies often treat the region as a sub‑national unit, and it spans from neighbourhoods to cross‑border macro‑regions. In Asia, this elasticity is intensified by language. Words that look equivalent on paper rarely carry identical histories, politics, or scales. This short piece reflects on the Chinese notion of quyu (区域) and how it travels between […]
Programme Title: Sociology of Authoritarian Law: Insights from Central Asia (SOCIAL) Funding: Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska‑Curie Doctoral Networks Start: September 2025 | Duration: 48 months | Deadline: January 31, 2026 Consortium: 14 leading universities across Europe & Canada Programme Synopsis SOCIAL‑DN trains 17 doctoral candidates (DC) in the sociology of authoritarian law, with a regional focus on Central […]
We’re excited to announce new PhD positions available in the Science, Society & sustainability (3S) research group. Please share these details with anyone who you think might be interested. We are advertising 3 PhD positions to work with researchers from the 3S research group based in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of […]
The call for applicants for a two year postdoctoral fellowship on adaptive reuse of buildings, based at the University of Bologna, is open from now until the 12th December. Please share widely! The project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, as part of the project “From Baukultur to Umbaukultur / From a […]
As part of the CENTA and Flood-CDTs, I’ve got two funded PhDs available at Loughborough University, UK. 2026-LU02 Storm Triplets and Beyond: Jet Stream Forcing of Cyclone Sequences This project on compounding hazards will move beyond simply the coincidence of pairs of flooding and/or extreme wind. It opens a new line of enquiry into how […]
Open call for applications for fellowships (postdoctoral to senior level) starting in October 2026 for up to twelve months, application deadline December 31, 2025. Fellowships The Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research (c:o/re) is an international center for advanced studies for history, philosophy, and sociology of science and technology at RWTH Aachen University. It […]
Location: Newcastle, GB Contract Type: Fixed Term Working Pattern: Full Time Posted Date: 18 Nov 2025 Salary: Research Assistant: £33,002 – £34,610 per annum/ Research Associate: £35,608 – £37,694 per annum Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing […]
Please see and forward on details for a PhD opportunity at Glasgow commencing in October 2026: https://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvls/graduateschool/phd-research-opportunities/futures-programme/projects/health-inequalities/hi03markmccann/ Summary: Understanding Social Relationships and Health Inequalities: A Mixed-Methods PhD Opportunity This interdisciplinary PhD project explores how social relationships shape health outcomes and contribute to health inequalities. Drawing on large-scale datasets, the research investigates how intersecting social identities—such […]
Research Associate, University of Glasgow, Scotland Project: ‘Racial Equality Since Devolution: Divergences, Outcomes and Frontiers’. https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN244/research-associate Closing date: 23:45 on Wednesday 10th December 2025
The blog below offers a reflexive, research-informed reflection on regional perception and spatial scale, grounded in lived experience in Australia. While it begins with a personal anecdote, it develops insights that align with broader discussions around borders, mobility, and comparative spatial experience. It contributes to ongoing conversations about how regions are perceived, experienced, and constructed […]
Why do some firms weather crises while others disappear? And what role do productivity and geography play in determining who survives? These questions are at the heart of understanding how economies recover from downturns. Productivity is one of the main engines of long-term growth and competitiveness. A central lesson from economic research is that competition […]
WORLD PLANNING SCHOOLS CONGRESS 2026: Call for abstracts, roundtable proposals and PhD workshop applications is open! The 6th World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC) will take place from June 29th to July 3rd, 2026, in Espoo & Helsinki, Finland. The WPSC PhD workshop will be organized in Tampere prior to the congress (June 26-29, 2026). The […]
Rural areas are vulnerable to climate change but also contribute to it through their close ties to the natural environment through agriculture, forestry, tourism and resource extraction. Unsurprisingly, then, the local level is considered one of the key areas where reaction to climate change should be conceived (European Commission 2021); however, their responses are often […]
Lonely Teleworkers Remote work has become easier in the past years. For some employees, working fewer days at the office means fewer days of travelling, and they choose a longer travelling distance and settle in cheaper, greener, more spacious peripheral locations. However, there is a drawback to that spatial reorganization. Living away from the bustle […]
Interested in applying for a NINE DTP PhD studentship? Staff in the School of Geography and Natural Sciences at Northumbria University welcome expressions of interest for applications to the Environment, Climate and Sustainability and Human Geography pathways. Submission deadline in early January, with an earlier internal review. Find full details here: https://www.ninedtp.ac.uk/awards/
The International Conference on Urban e-Planning, the annual event of the Urban e-Planning Research Network (UEPNET), will mark its 10th edition in 2026. It is organized in collaboration with the International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR). It will be held online from 8–10 April 2026. After nine successful conferences from 2016 to 2025, the 10th […]
Earlier in 2025, the UK government announced a commitment to reduce spending on disability benefits by restructuring entitlements and eligibility to various health-related benefits. It claims through its Pathways to Work, papers that it seeks to reduce economic inactivity across the UK ‘…[so] that everyone who can realise the benefits of work is expected and […]
In the UK, the Covid-19 pandemic was marked by strong spatial differences in the strictness and duration of government-mandated lockdowns. The average number of weeks spent in strict lockdown was 50% higher in urban local authorities than in rural ones. The marked increase in working from home that ensued, largely facilitated by the use of […]
We are glad to announce the Winter School Geography of Innovation for doctoral students and junior researchers, jointly organized by the University of Pavia and Icrios-Bocconi University. It will be held at the University of Pavia on February 2-6 For information and registration please visit: https://tinyurl.com/paviawinterschool2026 Key features: 5 days intensive training programme Participants present their research & discuss their publication strategies 10 speakers Two […]
Devolution has been at the core of the UK government’s initiatives to reduce regional inequality across the country. The Conservatives’ ‘Levelling up’ agenda was built around it, and Labour’s plan to ‘Power Up Britain’ also relies on the empowerment of local and sub-regional authorities and communities, based upon an analysis that areas have been ‘held […]
The UK government can meet some of its biggest challenges by combining mayoral devolution with its mission-led approach. Empowering local leaders to deliver on national missions will mean giving them greater control and bigger budgets. In the UK, Keir Starmer’s Labour government has had a rocky first year in office. With opinion polls tumbling and […]
Place leadership has come to be seen as the ‘missing factor of the regional development puzzle’ (Sotarauta et al, 2017), but how such leadership operates in environments of conflict and contestation is still poorly understood. Using Northern Ireland as an illustrative case, recent research has sought to better understand how place leadership dynamics manifest when […]
The FinGeo Seminar aims at debating on advances in financial geography within the following broad nexuses: (1) Geography, Finance, Development & Social Businesses (2) Geography, Finance & Environmental and Social Sustainability (3) Geography, Finance & Technology advances We will discuss, among others, about FinTech, AI-finance nexus, sustainable finance, biofianance, climate finance, finance for social business, […]