Professor Helen Lawton Smith Birkbeck, University of London, UK 2018-2019 Chair of RSA Gender & Equalities Committee, and member of RSA Board 1997-2000 Member, RSA Executive Committee 2024 RSA Policy Impact Book, 6: 2 A Seat at the Table: A Place for Disabled Entrepreneurs and Innovators, edited by Helen Lawton Smith, Connie L. McNeely, […]
Dr John Gibney Birmingham Business School, UK John is currently an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Birmingham Business School. He joined the University of Birmingham following an influential career in city, regional and cross-border economic development in the UK and mainland Europe. John was a founding member of the RSA international research network on sub-national […]
Dr. Kean Fan Lim Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University, UK 2019 RSA Routledge Early Career Award 2019 RSA Winter Conference Early Career Speaker RSA -Routledge Early Career Award recognises outstanding achievements in the first five years post-PhD, while the plenary speaker award recognises the excellent potential of an ongoing topic. […]
Dr Mark Sandford, House of Commons Library, UK 2024 RSA Distinguished Service Award RSA Professional Development Webinar Series Speaker (Engaging with the workings of Parliament)
Prof Jen Nelles Oxford Brookes University, UK North American Editor, Regional Studies, Regional Science Co-Director of the RSA Research Network on Infrastructural Regionalisms (NOIR) since 2019
Dr. Mabel Sanchez Barrioluengo Senior Lecturer in Science Policy and Innovation. Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIOIR), Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK Associate Editor Regional Studies, Regional Science Mabel Sánchez Barrioluengo is Senior Lecturer in Science Policy and Innovation at the Alliance Manchester Business School and Deputy Director of the Manchester Institute […]
Professor Riccardo Crescenzi London School of Economics, UK Regional Studies Co-Editor Co-Organiser of the 2025 RSA Research Network on Green(ing) Global Value Chains for Sustainable Regional Development (GGVC4SRD) Co-author of the 2022 RSA Policy Expo Book: Global Value Chains and Regional Innovation
Andy Pike Henry Daysh Professor of Regional Development Studies, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University, UK. His research interests, publications and research projects are focused on the geographical political economy of local, regional and urban development and policy. He has undertaken research projects for the OECD, UN-ILO, European Commission, UK Government […]
Andy Jonas Emeritus Professor of Human Geography, University of Hull, UK Past Editorial Board member of Territory Politics Governance 2015 Fellowship Research Grant Project: Global Infrastructure Public-private Partnerships and The Geopolitics of City-Regions
Dr Martin Quinn LUMS Director of Postgraduate Programmes Reader in Organisation, Work and Technology Department of Organisation, Work and Technology, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University, UK 2016 RSA Early Career Grant Awardee Project: The Search for the Social Contract in England’s Regions Member of the Place Leadership Research Network University webpage – https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/our-departments/organisation-work-and-technology/people/martin-quinn LinkedIn […]
Professor David Charles Northumbria University, UK 2025 RSA Policy Expo Grant Project: University support for regional policy development: Hubs and Networks David Charles is Professor of Enterprise and Innovation at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University and a member of the EPIC research centre. David’s research has focused primarily on regional aspects of innovation and innovation […]
Professor Tomasz Mickiewicz Centre for Business Prosperity, Department of Economics and International Business, Aston University, UK Senior Honorary Research Fellow, University College London Regional Studies Co-editor, 2013-2018. Research interests: regional economics, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial ecosystems, local social capital, human capital, institutions, Central Eastern Europe, UK Further Details: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, co-editor Recent publications: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=C7u33xwAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Professor Max Munday Cardiff Business School, Wales Chair of RSA Wales Branch
Professor John Harrison Loughborough University, UK RSA Trustee, RSA Board Member (Conference & Events) Regional Studies Deputy Editor-in-Chief Regional Studies Urban and Regional Horizons Section Editor 2011 RSA Award for Early Career Excellence
Prof. Roger Vickerman Emeritus Professor, School of Economics, University of Kent, UK Visiting Professor, Transport Strategy Centre, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London, UK Web page: https://www.kent.ac.uk/economics/people/3276/vickerman-roger
Joanie Willett Associate Professor in Politics, University of Exeter, UK Co-editor, Territory, Politics, Governance Co-convenor: RSA Research Network Edgenet on Peripheries 2023-2026 RSA Research Network Grant: Edgenet 2018-2019 MeRSA Research Grant: Understanding Brexit and Trump in Post-Industrial, Peripheral Areas: Implications for Regional Development. Led to the publication of the first monograph, Affective Assemblages and Local […]
Tony Champion Emeritus Professor of Population Geography, CURDS/GPS, Newcastle University, UK Committee member of the RSA Northern Branch 1976-80, Chairman 1980-83. Deputy Editor and Book Review Editor of the Regional Studies journal, 1979-84. Member of the RSA Executive Committee 1981-86. Northern Region Secretary to the RSA Inquiry into the Regional Problem in the UK, 1982-83. […]
Professor Max Nathan University College London, Centre for Economic Performance and IZA@LISER 2015 RSA Early Career Grant Project: Evaluating Tech City: Identifying effects on firm entry, employment and rents using difference in difference analysis Further details Editorial board member, Economic Geography Full profile: https://max-nathan.github.io/
Ray Hudson, PhD DSc DLitt FBA FAcSS MAE Emeritus Professor of Geography Durham University, UK 2014 Sir Peter Hall award 2016 RSA Best Book Award: Approaches to Economic Geography: Towards a Geographical Political Economy, Routledge.
Dr Mariachiara Barzotto University of Bath, UK 2022 Regional Studies Best Referee Award 2017 RSA Policy Expo Grant Awardee Research project: Smart Specialisation and Industry 4.0: Upgrading regional capabilities for a balanced industrial development and growth through networks
Dr Felicia Fai Associate Professor Director of the Centre for Governance, Regulation and Industrial Strategy (CGRIS) School of Management, University of Bath, UK E mail: F.M.Fai@bath.ac.uk My research interests include the organisational actors, industrial clusters, regional innovation systems and industrial strategy, predominantly through an evolutionary economics lens. For my research profile visit https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/felicia-fai/ 2017 RSA […]
Dr Carolin Ioramashvili Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Spatial Economic Analysis Early Career Editor RSA Women’s Network Organiser
In 2024, Finance and Space, a pioneering interdisciplinary journal focusing on diverse aspects of the spatial production of finance and the financial production of space, was launched.
In 2019, the Regional Studies Policy Impact book series was launched to address topical policy questions of contemporary importance to all communities engaged in regional and urban studies.