18 Business School PhD Bursaries Closing date: 31st March – Noon UK Time The University of Bristol Business School is offering 18 bursaries of £18,000 to be awarded to successful PhD students. The School has a strong track record in research that impacts our world. 88% of our Business and Management research is rated as “world-leading” or “internationally excellent” and we […]
PhD in Population Sciences interrelated perspectives on population issues Four schools of University of Lisbon (ULisboa)- Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território and Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão – got together to offer a unique PhD programme on Population Sciences, starting in […]
Small Grant Scheme on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry: Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Green Patents in the Eurozone The project presented here looks at several highly relevant issues that are interrelated and require a joint approach: innovation, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Firstly, innovative investment is considered a particularly relevant topic, since […]
The Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is currently the largest global investment initiative into infrastructures. In this blogpost we present the actor constellations behind two exemplary Chinese funded road infrastructures in two major BRI projects. To realise the BRI, China makes use of several investment and delivery arms to fund projects, which […]
Dates: March 22-23, 2023, 10:00 – 17:00 (GMT+2 Kyiv) Location: Kyiv National University of Economics named after Vadym Hetman (Kyiv, Ukraine). Scientists and academic staff, students of higher education institutions, civil servants and local government officials, and all those interested in the Forum’s topics are invited to participate in the Forum! The purpose of the Forum: […]
I am an economic geographer with research expertise on financial geography. My research interests include geographies of money and finance, global cities, service sectors and market formation, focusing particularly on issues of financialisation, knowledge networks, and economic development in Asia and their wider production networks with Europe. My work also draws upon interdisciplinary ideas from […]
Dariusz Wójcik is Professor at the School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University, and Fellow of St Peter’s College. His research focuses on economic geography, corporate governance, and finance. His book The Global Stock Market (Oxford 2011) explores the role of stock markets in the world economy. His book co-authored with Gordon L. Clark […]
CSIL is pleased to announce that registrations for the X edition of the Milan Summer School on Cost-Benefit Analysis are now OPEN. The training course offers an intensive and participative learning experience focused on CBA as a tool supporting the decision-making process of public investments. The School is structured to allow participants to acquire a solid background […]
We would like to cordially invite you to the LRN Summer School “Doing Justice! Doing Just This! Understanding justice in transdisciplinary and transformative research” hosted by the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) in Dresden, Germany, June 28th – 29th 2023. Transdisciplinary and transformative research (TTR) seeks to address pressing and complex […]
There are four YUFE post-doctoral positions on societal challenges in an urban context in the field of sustainability or digital societies available at the University of Antwerp. The positions have a duration of 36 months, including a six month stay at a co-hosting university of the YUFE network. The research has to be carried out […]
CHASM PhD – Quantitative Research on Financial Resilience and Financial Wellbeing CHASM is pleased to offer funding for a motivated and talented quantitative researcher interested in undertaking doctoral research on financial resilience and wellbeing. CHASM is an interdisciplinary research centre investigating the causes and consequences of financial risk and insecurity, and promotes policies to foster […]
Regional and urban sustainability transitions was the theme of the 2022 RSA Winter conference, set at the Holiday Inn in Bloomsbury, London, after a two-years break due to the pandemic. Sustainability transitions is a term used to describe the radical and structural shifts in socio-technical and socio-ecological systems that need take place to overcome the […]
Dr Robert Bowen is an International Entrepreneurship academic at Cardiff Business School at Cardiff University, and has previously held academic positions at Swansea University and Aberystwyth University in Wales, and the University of Nantes in France. He also currently holds a position of Visiting Professor at Audencia Business School in Nantes, France. Dr Bowen undertakes […]
Welcome to the 35th International Geographical Congress – Dublin 2024 Join us for this festival of Geography as we welcome more than 2,000 geographers from around the world to Dublin in summer 2024. Our programme will include: • Academic papers • Poster presentations • Fieldtrips and other excursions across the island of Ireland • Networking events for […]
The Regional Studies Association (RSA) provides a range of research funding opportunities to suit different career stages and we are pleased to share with you details on forthcoming application deadlines. We encourage non-members to apply for a grant and join the RSA at the same time. Deadlines for the 2023 RSA Awards and Funding are as […]
The School of Politics and International Studies has several funding opportunities open to candidates in political theory. You can find more about our supervision areas here: https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/contemporary-political-theory The School of Politics and International Studies is pleased to announce the availability of several scholarship opportunities for School of Politics and International Studies postgraduate research applicants. Further […]
Welcome message from the RSA Ambassador to Spain, Professor Coro Chasco Estimado colega, bienvenido a la delegación en España de la Asociación de Estudios Regionales (“Regional Studies Association, RSA”). La RSA es una sociedad científica dedicada a las cuestiones regionales y al análisis geoespacial, en general, que constituye una auténtica red para académicos, estudiantes, profesionales […]
International Development: Full Fees Scholarship The School of International Development is pleased to offer five competitive scholarships equal to our International tuition fee amount of £19,800 to international fee status students taking any of our full-time Master’s courses in 2023/4. Successful recipients will receive this award in the form of a tuition reduction from our […]
Ethnobotany, at its most visible for the tourist, can be seen in local botanical gardens and ethnography museums. Consider for example, the Ljubljana Botanical Garden, Slovenia, established in 1810 and containing more than 4500 species, or the onion museum in Roscoff, France, whilst a seaweed collection company in Roscoff provides an example of entrepreneurship that […]
The International Society for Ecological Modelling Global Conference 2023 (ISEM 2023), under the theme ‘Ecological Models for Tomorrow’s Solutions’, will bring together scientists from all professions and applications that deal with the use of ecological models and systems ecology. The abstract submission system is still open until 25 November 2022 (https://www.elsevier.com/events/conferences/international-society-for-ecological-modelling-global-conference/submit-abstract). Toronto shall be the inspiring […]
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 […]
Locating Media Industries: Cities, Spaces, Places A Three-Day International Interdisciplinary Conference King’s College London Bush House, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG 19-21 June 2023 Co-organisers: Professor Paul McDonald, Kings College London; Professor Andrew Spicer, University of the West of England Bristol Deadline for Proposals: 15 January 2023 We invite proposals for […]
To read the full paper on Brexit disruption and transborder leadership, click here. Across borders in the UK and mainland Europe, relationship-building activity that aims to stimulate problem solving and the co-creation of innovative projects and programmes has been a long-standing and important feature of city and regional development. Grand challenges and leadership […]
The blog post is based on the article “Can decentralization help address poverty and social exclusion in Europe?” published in Territory, Politics, Governance. This research benefited from a Regional Studies Association Membership Research Grant (MeRSA) awarded to Vassilis Tselios. More than 20% of the European Union (EU) population are at-risk-of poverty or social exclusion. […]