Prof. Dr. Heike Mayer Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland President of the RSA, 2024-2026 International Editorial Advisory Board for Regional Studies 2019 MeRSA Grant Awardee Project: “Slow Innovation in Europe’s Peripheral Regions”
I am sharing a call (pdf link) for two PhD researchers to work on the repression, criminalization, securitization, and human rights-ization of climate activism in UK and Germany. The project is part of my ERC Starting Grant “Legal Governmentality – governing climate activism through criminal law and human rights in Europe (LeGo)” (2026 – 2031, […]
Heike Mayer is Professor of Economic Geography in the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern in Switzerland. She is also a member of the University of Bern`s Center for Regional Economic Development (CRED). As a member of the University of Bern executive board, she holds the function of Vice-Rector Quality and Sustainable Development […]
Heike Mayer is professor of economic geography at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Her research is in local and regional economic development with a focus on dynamics of innovation and entrepreneurship, place making and sustainability. Heike started her academic career in the United States, where she completed a Ph.D. in Urban Studies (Portland State […]
Dr. Huiwen Gong is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Environmental Social Sciences Department at Eawag and an affiliated member of Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE), Lund University, Sweden.
Tanya is a PhD candidate at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich. She is part of the Urban-Rural Systems team at Future Cities Laboratory, focused on capturing the different territorial transformation taking place across Monsoon Asia. Her doctoral work focuses on translating the territorial transformation unfolding in India’s Bengal region into policy evaluation tools by […]
A welcome message from the RSA Ambassador to Switzerland, Hugues Jeannerat Chers et chères membres de la RSA en Suisse, Au cœur de l’Europe, la Suisse est, à de nombreux égards, un laboratoire économique, social, politique et environnemental du développement régional et urbain. N’hésitez pas à me contacter si vous souhaitez bénéficier du soutien […]