Eduardo Medeiros Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal 2023 MeRSA Grant awardee Research project: Effective Project Appraisal and Regional Development My research interests are EU Cohesion Policy, Territorial Cohesion, Impact Assessment, Cooperation, Development and Planning, and Sustainable Development. I am a member of the European Commission Cohesion for Transitions Academic Sound Board.
Dr. Donatas Burneika, Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, Lithuania RSA Ambassador to Lithuania Board Member of the RSA Nordic Division (NoRSA)
Dr Crolina Castaldi Utrecht University, The Netherlands 2019 MeRSA Grant Awardee Project title: Soft innovation? Towards new narratives on regional capabilities and policies
Dr Carolin Ioramashvili Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Spatial Economic Analysis Early Career Editor RSA Women’s Network Organiser
Dr. Emil Evenhuis PBL – Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Netherlands RSA Policy Committee member
In 2024, Finance and Space, a pioneering interdisciplinary journal focusing on diverse aspects of the spatial production of finance and the financial production of space, was launched.
In 2019, the Regional Studies Policy Impact book series was launched to address topical policy questions of contemporary importance to all communities engaged in regional and urban studies.
In 2014, Regional Studies, Regional Science, an open access journal about regional and urban issues in geography, economics, regional science, environmental studies, planning and governance. was launched.
In 2016, Area Development and Policy was launched, publishing high quality, original academic research examining the economic, political, cultural and geographical contexts which play a fundamental role in shaping and developing regions, cities and rural areas.
In 2006, Spatial Economic Analysis was launched, a pioneering economics journal dedicated to the development of theory and methods in spatial economics, published by RSA and the RSAI-BIS.
In 2013, Territory, Politics, Governance, an interdisciplinary journal committed to theory and research on territorial politics and the governance of space was launched.
In January 2026, the 2026-30 Regional Studies Association Strategy is published.
In February 2024, Alan Kinder was appointed the new Chief Executive of the Association.
In March 2024, Sally Hardy retired after almost 40 years with the Association.
David Bailey is Professor of Business Economics at the Birmingham Business School and a Senior Fellow of the ESRC’s UK in a Changing Europe programme, exploring the impacts of Brexit on UK automotive and manufacturing. He has written extensively on industrial and regional policy, especially in relation to manufacturing and the auto industry. He has […]
Noela Mahmutaj (PhD) is an early-career researcher and lecturer at the Institute of European Studies at the University of Tirana, Albania. Her main research interests and publications focus on IR topics, especially those related to contemporary geopolitics and external influences in the Western Balkans and Black Sea regions. She has published several research papers and […]
In 2020, a merger of the counties of Troms and Finnmark in northern Norway was implemented as part of a nationwide regional reform. Unlike some mergers that took place at the time, this merger was not based on an initial voluntary agreement between the respective county councils. A consultative referendum held in Finnmark two years […]
Andy Pike is the Henry Daysh Professor of Regional Development Studies in the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University, UK. His research interests, publications and research projects are focused on the geographical political economy of local, regional and urban development and policy. He has undertaken research projects for the OECD, UN-ILO, […]
Research project: Stuck in Place: Unpacking Residential Immobility in the UK Dr. Conor O’Driscoll is an Assistant Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Groningen’s Faculty of Spatial Science. Conor holds a PhD in Economics from University College Cork, Ireland, where he studied the determinants of travel behaviour, with particular attention to the relationship between […]
In recent years, industrial strategy has returned to the centre of political and economic debate. Governments across advanced economies are once again asking how they can shape growth, support innovation, and address deepening regional inequalities. For decades, however, much of industrial policy has rested on a powerful but often unquestioned assumption: that economic growth is […]
2026 ARL Congress | Cologne (“Maternushaus”) | 01 – 02 October 2026 Call for Abstracts EUROPEAN REGIONAL POLICY IN TIMES OF TRANSITION The ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association invites scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to submit abstracts for the upcoming ARL Congress 2026 on “European Regional Policy in Times of Transition”. […]
Powering Development? Solar Energy, Poverty Alleviation and Just Transition in Rural China Yunpeng Zhang is an Assistant Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin. His research interests lie at the intersection of social geography, political economy and development studies, with a focus on urbanisation, […]