Ignazio is Professor of Regional Economic Development at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. He is also Head of the Accounting and Financial Management Department (AFM), and Research Fellow at the EU*Asia Institute, ESSCA School of Management, Angers (France). Ignazio’s work addresses multiple themes and topics in the economics and environment fields, with particular emphasis on […]
Ignazio is Professor of Regional Economic Development at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. He is also Head of the Accounting and Financial Management Department (AFM), and Research Fellow at the EU*Asia Institute, ESSCA School of Management, Angers (France). Ignazio’s work addresses multiple themes and topics in the economics and environment fields, with particular emphasis on […]
Ignazio is Professor of Regional Economic Development at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. He is also Head of the Accounting and Financial Management Department (AFM), and Research Fellow at the EU*Asia Institute, ESSCA School of Management, Angers (France). Ignazio’s work addresses multiple themes and topics in the economics and environment fields, with particular emphasis on […]
Ignazio is Professor of Regional Economic Development at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. He is also Head of the Accounting and Financial Management Department (AFM), and Research Fellow at the EU*Asia Institute, ESSCA School of Management, Angers (France). Ignazio’s work addresses multiple themes and topics in the economics and environment fields, with particular emphasis on […]
A great opportunity to join a growing team and contribute teaching on the MSc Transport and Urban Planning at the University of Manchester. https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=31671 We are looking for expertise in transport planning, including but not limited to transport modelling, transport economics and appraisal and transport policy, and experience in teaching/using industry standard transport modelling and […]
The SWIFFT collective at Vrije Universiteit Brussel- Université Libre de Bruxelles is hiring a postdoctoral researcher on the theme of Decarbonization and Finance. This is a 5-year non-tenured position, full-time (but part-time work negotiable), based in Brussels (Belgium). You will be part of a team of 4 other postdocs, 8 PhD researchers and 8 PIs. […]
Tom joined the RSA in 2025 as the Head of Publishing after many years working for leading academic publishers, specifically Elsevier and Sage Publishing. At the latter, as a Director, he helped lead the development of the company’s (then) nascent medicine and life science programme, as well as its gold OA journal programme. Throughout his […]
The concept of ‘entrepreneurial ecosystem’ is gaining popularity in regional studies. Under this label, we find various conditions and policies that either support or inhibit local entrepreneurship, especially its most dynamic variety – innovative and growth-oriented new firms. In our ongoing research, we ask if the city ecosystem characteristics that support dynamic entrepreneurship are consistent […]
The MA in Spatial Justice is designed for students who wish to deepen their understanding of critical geographical ideas and themes and apply this knowledge to the most pressing societal and environmental challenges of the 21st century. Students will be empowered to think geographically, to develop their critical thinking skills, undertake independent research in an […]
Resilience of pastoral societies to social-ecological change in central Kenya https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-opportunities/research-students/research-studentships/resilience-pastoral-societies-central-kenya/ Duration: Full-Time – between three and three and a half years fixed term Application deadline: 27 May 2025 Start date: September 2025 For further details contact: Dr James Bennett – apy073@coventry.ac.uk Introduction Pastoralism is a livelihood strategy premised on livestock mobility in marginal environments around the world, […]
This year the CJRES annual conference is taking place in Cambridge at St. Catherine’s College the 17th and 18th of July 2025, as usual sponsored by the Cambridge Political Economy Society. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘The Climate Crisis: making cities resilient’ Further on the call for papers is available here: https://cpes.org.uk/events/cjres2025/ The current deadline for […]
Sustainability First is recruiting a policy researcher (energy & water) – which I thought may be of possible interest to some of your alumni community / jobs network. More detail about the role and a job description can be downloaded from the Sustainability First website – Sustainability First – Policy Researcher – January 2025<https://sustainabilityfirst.org.uk/work-with-us/> Deadline […]
2025 YEGN Workshop – Agency and Regional Transformation We hereby invite PhD students and recent graduates to participate in the upcoming YEGN Workshop on agency and regional transformation in the Hanseatic City of Greifswald. It will take place at the University of Greifswald, one of the oldest universities in Europe, founded in 1456. The Young […]
The Department of Economics and Law at Sapienza University of Rome organizes a workshop on “Advances in Spatial and Network Modelling for Policy Making”, to be held at the Faculty of Economics of Sapienza University of Rome on 29th and 30th May 2025. Keynote Speakers: Giovanni Millo, University of Trieste Luisa Corrado, University of Rome […]
CALL FOR PAPERS The International Conference on Urban e-Planning is the main annual meeting of the ‘Urban e-Planning Research Network’ (UEPNET). It will have its 9th edition in 2025. These conferences have been promoted in articulation with the International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR) and were hosted at the U. Lisbon from 2016 to 2024. […]
Funded PhD Studentship: The peace potential of everyday economic spaces and practices in conflict-affected societies This three-year funded PhD studentship enables research into the everyday economic spaces and practices that emerge during and following war, exploring the peace potential they offer to conflict-affected societies. Project details Everyday economic spaces and practices give insight into […]
COMING SOON: Rethinking Economic (in)Activity UKRI funding opportunity UKRI is looking to fund an interdisciplinary project that will identify ways of supporting economic activity in places experiencing high rates of ill-health, disability, and informal care in the UK. The opportunity is open to all disciplines covered by UKRI and we particularly welcome proposals that cut […]
Conscious that next year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Regional Studies Association (RSA), at the most recent meeting of the RSA Board, Board members and I began thinking about an updated strategy for the Association. We agreed that a strategic plan should be finalised no later than December 2025. Why take […]
This blog was written for the RSA Blog Student Summer Series that will highlight graduate student success in regional studies across the globe throughout the summer. The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed how and where we work. Rates of remote working skyrocketed during national lockdowns; for many, this was the ‘grand experiment nobody wanted’. […]
Sarah Ayres is Professor of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Bristol, UK. Her central research interest is the governance of place, space and territory. This core provides the basis for two main strands of work. First, her research is concerned with devolution and decentralisation in both a UK and an international context, […]
Sarah Ayres is Professor of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Bristol, UK. Her central research interest is the governance of place, space and territory. This core provides the basis for two main strands of work. First, her research is concerned with devolution and decentralisation in both a UK and an international context, […]
Neil Lee is a Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE. He is also Professor II at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and theme convenor at the LSE’s International Inequalities Institute. His research has been funded by international and private sector organisations including the World Bank, OECD, the EIB, and Barclays Bank, and cited in […]
For more related to this blog, check out the full article recently published. Legal geography as a subdiscipline of human geography has been progressively gaining momentum across geographic and legal fora. Legal geography examines the co-constitutivity of law, power, and place, and has been employed to explore issues of spatial justice across contexts and […]
Heike Mayer is Professor of Economic Geography in the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern in Switzerland. She is also a member of the University of Bern`s Center for Regional Economic Development (CRED). As a member of the University of Bern executive board, she holds the function of Vice-Rector Quality and Sustainable Development […]