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Bucknell University is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in Quantitative Sociology this fall. Applications are due Oct 1. Though not explicitly asking for environmental sociology expertise, we would be open to an environmental sociologist. Bucknell University’s Department of Sociology & Anthropology invites applications for a tenure-track position in Quantitative Sociology beginning in the fall semester of […]

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The group, the Data-Driven EnviroLab (DDL), housed within the University of North Carolina’s Institute for the Environment, is currently recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join our interdisciplinary research team. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a major initiative focused on evaluating the role of cities in global climate mitigation efforts. The […]

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Job Title: Assistant or Associate Professor – Coastal Social Sciences Department: Department of Coastal Studies The direct link to the job announcement is: https://ecu.peopleadmin.com/postings/87990 Job Duties The Department of Coastal Studies at East Carolina University is seeking applicants for a tenure-track, nine-month faculty position beginning August 2026. We are looking for a social scientist with […]

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Women’s Entrepreneurship and Rural Regional Revitalisation – Comparative Study Women’s Entrepreneurship and Rural Regional Revitalisation – Comparative Study addresses the persistent policy challenge of how to stimulate economic revitalisation in ‘left behind’ rural regions. This comparative, exploratory ethnographic study examines the extent to which locally led entrepreneurial ventures by less-visible social actors (rural women) are contributing […]

Stephen is a professor of urbanism in the College of Environment and Design at the University of Georgia. His research focuses on port cities, infrastructure, and logistics. Stephen is an active member of the international planning history community, serving as Associate Editor of Planning Perspectives, the U.K.-based journal of the International Society of Planning History, for […]

The agricultural sector is entering an “age of disruption” (Deloitte, 2015). Advances in technology, like robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), are reshaping farm work and rural development (RBC, 2019; The Economist, 2016). Agricultural technology (AgTech) adoption is viewed as critical in solving global challenges such as feeding a growing world population, responding to the impacts […]

Zack Tayor is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Specializing in comparative urban political economy, the multi-level governance of cities, and political geography, his work lies at the intersection of political science, urban geography, planning studies, and urban sociology. He is a fellow at the Institute on Municipal and […]

Zack Tayor is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Specializing in comparative urban political economy, the multi-level governance of cities, and political geography, his work lies at the intersection of political science, urban geography, planning studies, and urban sociology. He is a fellow at the Institute on Municipal and […]

Geographies of Refugee Resettlement and Post-industrial Urban Renewal in Rust Belt Cities Refugees are active agents of urban change. According to the United Nations, 60 percent of the world’s refugees are in cities and as such, cities of today are uniquely positioned to seek solutions that address refugee concerns alongside interrelated urban social justice and […]

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.   Newfoundland and Tasmania, Australia, have been described as ‘mirror islands’ with striking linkages. Site of one of the field excursions during the authors’ 12-day exchange to Tasmania, Australia. (Author Provided, Brady Reid)   In an era of “global […]

Grete Gansauer is an economic geographer and interdisciplinary public policy researcher focused on regional development, place-based policy, and the local state in peripheral regions and ‘left behind’ places. Focusing on rural contexts and natural resource production, her research examines regional development and sustainability challenges amidst spatial inequality, and how central policies ‘touch down’ at the […]

Jennifer Clark is Knowlton School Distinguished Professor and Head of the City and Regional Planning Section in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. She is also a Visiting Professor of City and Regional Planning with the School of Business at the University of Stavanger in Norway. She has authored numerous articles, chapters, […]

Jennifer Clark is Knowlton School Distinguished Professor and Head of the City and Regional Planning Section in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. She is also a Visiting Professor of City and Regional Planning with the School of Business at the University of Stavanger in Norway. She has authored numerous articles, chapters, […]

Small Grant Scheme on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry: Racial Disparities of the Paycheck Protection Program: Focusing on Structural Differences in Banking Infrastructure This project examines the distributional outcomes of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was implemented by the U.S. federal government to preserve jobs in small businesses in response to the 2020 coronavirus […]

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.    During the COVID-19 pandemic, select regions around the globe formed ‘travel/quarantine bubbles’ with imposed hard borders such as the ‘Trans-Tasman Bubble’ involving New Zealand and Australia and the […]

The RSA is pleased to announce that its Research Network Grant Scheme is open once more. The scheme was placed on hold during the Covid-19 pandemic and has now been reinstated with a deadline of 29 November 2022. The maximum funding for a Research Network is: £10,000 (c. $13,300; c. €11,800) for newly established networks; £7,500 (c. $10,000; […]

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.    If the American West could be defined by one characteristic, it would be aridity. Water quantity and quality deficiencies perennially frame development controversies across the West– particularly in […]

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