Original listing Reference number PAR 2023/1392 The University of Gothenburg tackles society’s challenges with diverse knowledge. 56 000 students and 6 600 employees make the university a large and inspiring place to work and study. Strong research and attractive study programmes attract researchers and students from around the world. With new knowledge and new perspectives, the […]
Two 3 year positions open: Post-doctoral researcher and a PhD student for the Kone Foundation-funded project “In the shadow of carbon”, with PI Anna Krzywoszynska (University of Oulu) and Co-I Galina Kallio (Helsinki University). For full details, see https://rb.gy/92hywm , deadline 4th April, interviews to be held in the week starting 22nd April. The […]
Two 3 year positions open: Post-doctoral researcher and a PhD student for the Kone Foundation-funded project “In the shadow of carbon”, with PI Anna Krzywoszynska (University of Oulu) and Co-I Galina Kallio (Helsinki University). For full details, see https://rb.gy/92hywm , deadline 4th April, interviews to be held in the week starting 22nd April. The […]
The NTNU Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture is inviting applications for a 3-year PhD position within Science and Technology Studies (STS) focused on collaboration, innovation and planning in urban and regional energy transitions. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with socio-technical case studies in Norway and beyond linking energy transition, planning and notions […]
The Department of Human Geography at Uppsala University in Sweden currently has an open position for a chaired Professor of Human Geography (meaning: human geography generally, i.e., very broadly defined). Our department currently has two chairs: one held by Don Mitchell, and one vacant (the one currently advertised). The ad has a deadline on May […]
About the job At the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture (KULT), NTNU, a two-year position is available as a postdoctoral fellow (postdoc) exploring the international aspects of China’s agri-food complex relating to meat and dairy. The work is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) project ‘A Middle Way? Probing Sufficiency through Meat and Milk […]
Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked as one of the world’s leading universities. There are approximately 45,000 students and more than 8,000 employees in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our quest to understand, explain and improve our world and people’s conditions. Lund University welcomes applicants with different backgrounds and […]
Postdoc in Networks of Expertise of the green transition – the case of energy islands – DTU Wind If you are establishing your career as a social scientist within Science & Technology Studies (STS) and interested in engaging with cutting-edge engineering sciences in the realm of the energy transition, it is right here in front […]
The Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark invites applications for a number of 4-year assistant professorships at the Centre for Border Region Studies in Sønderborg. We are looking for talented and dynamic individuals with the ambition of establishing themselves as leading scholars in their field of research. Starting date is planned […]
The Department of Human Geography at Stockholm University Sweden welcomes applications for a fully funded place on our Doctoral Studies program in Human Geography. PhD student in Geography with an emphasis on Human geography within residential mobility, segregation, neighborhood studies, housing studies, or migration at the Department of Human Geography. Stockholm, Ref. No. SU FV-0659-24 Closing date: 1 April 2024. The Department […]
Postdoctoral fellow in the Horizon Europe project PROTEMO: Emotional dynamics of protective policies in an age of insecurity The Danish Centre for Welfare Studies (DaWS), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, seeks to appoint a Postdoctoral Fellow (100%) as part of the Horizon Europe project PROTEMO – a 3-year (2024-2026) interdisciplinary research project that investigates the […]
Peripheral Regional Development: Researchers’ Roles in Empowering Sustainable Futures 3-5 June 2024, Umeå, Sweden CALL FOR PAPERS We hereby invite PhD students and recently graduated PhDs to participate in the 6th workshop of the Young Economic Geographers Network (YEGN) “Peripheral Regional Development: Researchers’ Roles in Empowering Sustainable Futures”, which this year will be held in […]
The RSA is pleased to announce the appointment of a new RSA Ambassador to Norway. Maria Tsouri is Associate Professor in Innovation and Regional Development at the Mohn Centre for Innovation and Regional Development, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. Maria has had strong engagement with RSA over time, is a Fellow of the RSA and was the recipient […]
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. Link to Original Article: Do EU goals matter? Assessing the localization of sustainable urban logistics governance goals in Norwegian cities. Urban logistics- the transport of goods and services in […]
This blog follows the recent release of the book Paradiplomacy in Europe. The cases of Galicia, Åland, Flanders and Greenland. The idea of the “Europe of the regions”, multilevel governance, and the so-called paradiplomacy (Aldecoa and Keating, 2000) of substate governments is something that has less of a shine than what was the case […]
Marte C.W. Solheim is Associate Professor and Head of the Stavanger Centre for Innovation Research, UiS Business School, Norway and a public speaker on diversity and innovation. She carries out research on diversity and innovation, combining insights from organizational theory, innovation studies and economic geography She is invited to speak at national diversity conferences as […]
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. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures – Little did I know what influence the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic would have on my plans of conducting a case study to […]
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. Iceland’s remote communities are experiencing the combined impact of declining fisheries, de-population and socio-economic instability. Having spent twenty years working on industrial heritage conservation in a professional capacity I […]
This article first appeared on ROBUST’s website and has been re-blogged with permission from the authors. Modern lives are increasingly multilocal – but rural-urban policies are often yet to catch up. ROBUST’s Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins, Ulla Ovaska and Theresia Oedl-Wieser reflect on what we know about multilocality, and what we should rethink as rural regions look ahead to futures beyond recovery. […]
A welcome message from the RSA Ambassador to Denmark, Laura James Laura James is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Learning at Aalborg University in Denmark. Laura is a long time friend of the RSA and has been on the RSA Nordic Division (NoRSA) Board for many years. She replaces Henrik Halkier who […]
Welcome message from the RSA Ambassadpr to Sweden, Roman Martin Dear friends of regional studies! It is a pleasure to introduce myself to you as RSA Ambassador to Sweden. Feel welcome to contact me if you are curious about regional studies in Sweden or want to get involved in RSA. Please find below a welcome […]
Welcome message from the RSA Ambassador to Norway Maria Tsouri Kjære RSA-medlemmer, Jeg heter Maria Tsouri, jeg er førsteamanuensis ved Mohn Senter for innovasjon og regional utvikling ved Høgskolen på Vestlandet, og jeg er ambassadør for RSA for Norge. Min personlige akademiske bakgrunn er økonomisk geografi, og mine forskningsinteresser ligger mellom innovasjonsgeografi og overgangen til […]
Lars Coenen is an economic geographer and scholar in innovation studies. His research interests converge around the geography of innovation: Why is it that some regions and cities in the world stand out in their ability to foster and diffuse novelty? What explains this spatial concentration of innovation in an era of globalization? How can […]
NORSA was formally established at a meeting in Umeå, Sweden, in September 2008. NORSA is a non-political, voluntary, self-governing organisation with non-profit objectives andshares the aims and objects of the Regional Studies Association, which are: (a) to promote education in the field of regional studies (those studies which relate to the economic, physical and sociological […]