‘Co-Producing EDI Interventions for Virtual Production’ is a four year AHRC-funded research project which seeks to address structural inequalities in the film and television sector. Working with partner companies and freelancers, the project will co-produce, test and evaluate new ways of working in film and television that offer fairer and more inclusive forms of employment. […]
In 2024, Urbavis will organise the XXX anniversary National Urbanism Conference at the invitation of MUT – Hungarian Urban Society, in which the RSA Hungary Section will also participate as a professional partner. Date: 14 November 2024, Thursday 8.30-19.30 Location: Flashback Fotóstúdió, Budapest, Bogdáni út 1, 1033 This year, the conference will focus on the […]
Lectureships in Real Estate and Planning The Department of Real Estate and Planning, Henley Business School (University of Reading, United Kingdom) is seeking to appoint two new faculty members at Lecturer level. The first position is for a lecturer in ‘Housing Markets and Policy’. Areas of interest include: housing economics, housing finance and mortgage […]
We are delighted to announce eight PhD positions (4 years) in the multidisciplinary science and technology studies (STS) project »Fixing Futures: Technologies of Anticipation in Contemporary Societies«, starting May 1, 2025, funded by the German Research Council (DFG) and based at Goethe University Frankfurt. The official call for applications will be published on October 23, 2024. With this […]
As part of a Lower Saxony project consortium on the sustainability governance of global supply chains, two political science-oriented doctoral positions in the field of “Sustainability Policy and Governance of Global Value Chains (GVC)” are being advertised at the professorships of Andrea Lenschow (Osnabrück) and Jens Newig (Lüneburg): Administrative and legal implementation of Global Supply […]
As part of a Lower Saxony project consortium on the sustainability governance of global supply chains, two political science-oriented doctoral positions in the field of “Sustainability Policy and Governance of Global Value Chains (GVC)” are being advertised at the professorships of Andrea Lenschow (Osnabrück) and Jens Newig (Lüneburg): Administrative and legal implementation of Global Supply […]
The University of Notre Dame seeks to appoint a postdoctoral scholar in WASH, Poverty, and Health to support a multi-year project on Innovative Solutions to Interlinked Water Insecurity, Poverty, and Poor Health in Africa’s Urban Slums, sponsored by the Notre Dame Poverty Initiative. The Project’s long-term goal is to understand how poverty interacts with water insecurity […]
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’. […]
Green transition towards new urban futures: perspectives, impacts and challenges for the cities The recent agreement on the green transition in the European context is one of the most significant commitments with society and the cities in which we live, similar to the territorial cohesion policy in the past and still in force in territorial […]
SI: Climate change integration in urban and regional planning: new perspectives and solutions towards urban sustainability Increasing urbanization as a global process of socio-urban development seems to be limitless, and climate events are beginning to be a constant in urban societies that were once far removed from this global phenomenon. Climate change is starting to […]
We’re recuiting a full-time, Assistant Professor (tenure-track). Position beginning on January 1st 2025. The successful candidate will be affiliated to the Center for Research on social InequalitieS (CRIS). Candidates should have a PhD. This assistant professorship position is designed to reinforce and complement our expertise in the study of environmental inequalities. We welcome applications from candidates with a recent […]
Sarah Ayres is the 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 […]
Sarah Ayres is the 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 […]
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 […]
The Spanish and Castilian-La Mancha Associations of Regional Science cordially invite you to participate in the XLVIII International Conference on Regional Science, which will be held from the 16th to the 18th of October 2024 at the Campus of the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Cuenca. Find full details here. As with previous editions, the […]
Our Corporate member, the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL), is an independent, non-partisan institution for the spatial sciences, offering knowledge-based analysis and advice on current sustainable spatial development issues. The ARL operates a Knowledge and Communication Platform (www.arl-international.com) that provides access to the Academy’s work internationally and serves as an information, […]
We would like to introduce our new Corporate member, Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL) The ARL offers knowledge-based analysis and advice on current sustainable spatial development issues. Complex social challenges require integrative and thus interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives. The specific working method of the ARL, which is transdisciplinary and network-based, allows […]
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the European landscape has been completely transformed by Ukrainian migrants fleeing their homeland. According to the European Union, around 4.2 million Ukrainians currently receive temporary protection in EU countries, which entitles them to residence permits, […]
Logistics warehouses, hubs, and freight villages are spreading rapidly in European metropolitan peripheral areas. They sustain local economies, but as an adverse effect, they increase traffic, pollution, land consumption, and, sometimes, migrant workers’ exploitation. Policy and planning by public administrators and decisions by private logistics stakeholders have essential and controversial roles in logistics development, which […]
Do rural banks help women’s microenterprises? [A case from Indonesia] The low value and number of loans extended to women entrepreneurs in micro sectors is often associated with societal gender inequality. Previous studies have shown that in patriarchal societies, where gender bias against women is stronger, women tend not to apply for loans, relying instead […]
Governing Diverse Polities: How Regional Language Shapes Political Attitudes Research on democratization, state-building and community formation stresses the importance of language and identity for building cohesive polities and fostering democratic legitimacy; and research shown that regionalism and regional identity have consequences for people’s political behavior and attitudes, including anti-democratic sentiment. Language is a major aspect of […]
Effective Project Appraisal and Regional Development In some countries EU Cohesion Policy (ECP) serves as the main source of policy investment for regional development. Consequently, the Project Appraisal effectiveness of ECP is crucial to fostering their regional development trends. However, our experience in analysing wide sets of ECP approved projects’ databases, in countries such as […]