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PhD studentship on Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS)— Analysing activity-travel behaviour and its application to on-demand multi-modal mobility solutions in cities  Deadline: Monday 20th April 2020 at 5pm BST. Interviews: Interviews will take place on Thursday 30th April 2020 in Manchester or via Skype. Studentship Funding This full-time 3 year PhD studentship, starting in September 2019, is fully […]

Translating Memories: The Eastern European Past in the Global Arena, funded by the European Research Council (ERC), is being carried out at the School of Humanities, Tallinn University (2020-2024). Principal Investigator (PI) is PhD Eneken Laanes. The project is recruiting two post-doctoral Researchers. Position: Research fellow (post-doctoral fellow) – 2 positions Academic unit: School of Humanities The […]

Job Title: Professorial Research Fellow (CIRCLE) Contract Type: Open-ended, subject to satisfactory performance after the first 5 years Working Pattern: Full-time Faculty: Social Sciences Department: Faculty of Social Sciences Salary: Professorial Pay Scheme Band Structure (see www.sheffield.ac.uk/hr/thedeal/profequiv/bandstructure) Closing Date: 4th May 2020 The Faculty of Social Sciences is seeking to appoint a Professorial Research Fellow to […]

Segmentation techniques for persuasive demand management: energy and transport PGR-P-407 Key facts Type of research degree:PhD Application deadline: Friday 10 April 2020 Country eligibility: UK and EU Funding: Funded Source of funding:  Other Supervisors: Dr Kate Pangbourne Additional supervisors: Professor Jillian Anable Schools: Institute for Transport Studies Original listing Summary This project aims to combine the principles of persuasive demand-management in […]

Uppsala University welcomes applications for two doctoral student positions in sociology based at the Department of Sociology. One further doctoral position will be appointed in urban sociology linked to the Institute for Housing and Urban Research. Research groups at the Department include the Urban Sociology Research Group: https://www.soc.uu.se/research/research-groups/urban-sociology-group/ The Department seeks to appoint candidates with excellent […]

The Chair of the RSA Wales Section is Max Munday, Director of the Welsh Economy Research Unit at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. “The Welsh section of the RSA has been active since the early 1990s. The Welsh economy is a valuable lens through which to examine regional policy and economic issues, being a devolved […]

The Chair of the RSA Ireland Section is Justin Doran, Director of the Spatial and Regional Economics Research Centre and a Lecturer in the Department of Economics, Cork University Business School, University College Cork “The Regional Studies Irish Section (RSAIR) was officially open in 1974 to provide a forum to discuss regional issues in Ireland. […]

I am a Senior Lecturer at the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health, and  a program leader for an MSc in Social Innovation at Glasgow Caledonian University.  I have studied political science and sociology at the University of Florence.  I hold a Master Degree in Applied Social Research from the University of Manchester and […]

The Chair of the RSA Yorkshire and Humberside Branch, Will Eadson, is a Reader in Urban and Regional Sustainability at CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University. Will has been involved in the RSA for over a decade and more generally has taken an active role in promoting urban and regional studies as a discipline since the early […]

The Chair of the West Midlands Branch, Jun Du is Professor of Economics and Director of Lloyds Banking Centre for Business Prosperity at Aston Business School, Aston University. “Hello! This is Jun Du, Chair of RSA in West Midlands. It is my great pleasure to send this welcome message to you at the outset of […]

The Branch Chair, Elvira Uyarra, is a Reader, Innovation Policy & Strategy and Director, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, University of Manchester. “Having been a member of the RSA for over a decade, RSA Fellow since 2017 and having attended the conferences since my PhD days, I am honored to contribute to the life of […]

The RSA East Midlands Branch Chair, Gary Bosworth, is a Reader at the University of Lincoln. “I first joined the RSA in 2009 as an Early Career Member.  This was my first year at the University of Lincoln where I began as a Research Fellow in the Business School and now, as a Reader of […]

The Chair of the RSA South West Branch, Ian Smith, is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol). “I work on a wide range of issues relating to regional economics and to the production of public policy at different territorial levels.  In this I hold to the […]

Ignazio Cabras is the Faculty Director for International Research Partnerships and a member of the Strategic Management and International Business Group (SMIB) at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a Fellow of the Regional Studies Association (FeRSA). He is fully qualified with a BSc(Hons) and […]

Hi there. I’m Dave Valler, Reader in Planning in the School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brookes University. It’s an honour to take up the Chair of the RSA London and South East Branch and I look forward to meeting and working with colleagues within and outside the area. It’s a fascinating time, not least against the […]

The Chair of the RSA East of England Branch, Pete Tyler is Professor, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge and Director of Studies in Land Economy at St. Catharine’s College Peter Tyler is a Professor in Urban and Regional Economics. He has been a Project Director for over seventy major research projects for Government, […]

WISERD Civil Society Post-Doctoral Fellowships  These 1 year fellowship opportunities are designed to support those who are within 12 months of completing their PhD, to support them in consolidating their PhD and to prepare them for the next stage of their research careers either within or beyond academia. Application documents required are: Your CV A supporting statement […]

WISERD is pleased to announce that its eleventh Annual Conference will take place on 7-8th July at Cardiff University.  The WISERD conference has become a key event within the social science calendar, showcasing the breadth and diversity of research in Wales.  The conference provides the opportunity for colleagues from different sectors to share, discuss and […]

The 3rd International Conference on Migration and Mobilities (iMigMob) will be being hosted by the University of St Andrews 8th-10th July 2020. This three-day conference builds on the successes of the first two iMigMob conferences (in Loughborough in 2016 and Plymouth in 2018) in bringing together scholars from a range of disciplinary perspectives to discuss […]

At UCD School of Geography, we are delighted to announce the launch, from September 2020, of the new MSc Programme ‘Critical Geographies: Power and Inequality’. Given the rarity of taught programmes which are formally and entirely dedicated to critical geographies, we hope in some help from the international scholarly community for the success of this […]

Call for Papers and Panels 12th International Social Innovation Research Conference 2020, Sheffield University Management School, Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development 1st – 3rd September 2020 Theme: ‘Social innovation and enterprise for more prosperous, fair and sustainable societies’ Conference website: https://isircconference2020.com/ Regional and Geographical Aspects of Social Innovation Stream chairs: Michael Leyshon, Catherine […]

This fully funded PhD project will use a combination of econometric and computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling techniques to look at the impact of high-tech new businesses on employment in local and regional economies. This project aims at capturing and measuring the impact of new businesses generation on local and regional economies in the UK. […]

Applications are invited for a 3-year PhD scholarship in political science to be based at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), as of August 1st, 2020. The position will be part of the newly established interdisciplinary Core Group “The Politics of Insecurity (POINS)”, led by professor (wsr) Peter Starke, and funded by the Velux Foundation. […]