Professor in Rural Development with a focus on the Global South, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
“Professor in Rural Development with a focus on the Global South” at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, in Uppsala (deadline August 2020). Details here: https://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/jobs-vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=3557&rmlang=UK The Department of Urban and Rural Development at SLU has a strong social science research environment comprised of four research subjects: Rural Development, Environmental Communication, Landscape Architecture, and Agrarian […]
Two teachers/researchers in Environmental Communication, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
The Department of Urban and Rural Development at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences is now advertising this position. Full details and how to apply can be found at: Two teachers/researchers in Environmental Communication: https://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/jobs-vacancies/ Closing date 1st May.
Postdoctoral researcher in Environmental Communication, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
The Department of Urban and Rural Development at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences is now advertising this position. Full details and how to apply can be found at: Postdoctoral researcher in Environmental Communication in a new 3 year project: Governance, justice and resistance – on the way to a fossil-free welfare society https://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/jobs-vacancies/ Closing […]
PhD Positions in Child & Youth Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden
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 […]
Nordic Division (NoRSA)
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 […]
Smart City‐Regional Governance for Sustainability: Smart Governance (and Institutions) – A Question of Sustainability?
Historical Constructions of Regions and Regionalism
Final Report RSA Research Network Regional Economic and Policy History (ReHi)
Organisers Marijn Molema, Fryske Akademy, Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, the Netherlands Arno van der Zwet, University of the West of Scotland, UK Martin Åberg, Centre for Regional Studies, University of Karlstad Sara Svensson, Center for Policy Studies, Central European University The past plays a crucial role in understanding, developing and implementing regional economic development […]
Crossing the Fehmarn Belt: A New Transnational Region in the Making
Commencing operation in 2021, a new tunnel will provide the final piece in the jigsaw linking the city of Hamburg in Germany to Copenhagen in Denmark and Malmö in Sweden which together form the STRING region. This fixed link will complement the existing bridge crossing the Öresund strait between Denmark and Sweden which opened to […]
Regional Governance in the EU
Hot off the press from the European Commisssion’s Regional Policy unit is a working paper by Nicholas Charron, Lewis Dijkstra and Victor Lapuente Gine on the quality of regional governance in the EU. This is part of the ‘Regional Focus & Working Papers’ series and it contains some fascinating insights into the quality of regional […]