This year’s Campaign for Social Science Annual Sage Lecture will be delivered by Professor Dame Diane Coyle FAcSS, Bennett Professor of Public Policy and Research Director, Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge. Andy Burnham has set out an ambition for “growth in every postcode”. Professor Dame Diane Coyle, FAcSS, will discuss this challenge, […]
The Welsh Graduate School of the Social Sciences (WGSSS) is currently open for applications for its doctoral training programme. This is a great opportunity for doctoral funding. You can find out more about it here: https://wgsss.ac.uk/ The programme is run across several Welsh universities. Bangor is part of the ‘environmental planning pathway’ of the WGSSS. […]
Access to PhD funding through the ESRC’s Welsh Graduate School of Social Sciences. The Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at Aberystwyth hosts two pathways in this competition for fully funded scholarships in Human Geography and in Environmental Planning. The application deadline is Dec 14th. A link to the WGSSS website is here https://wgsss.ac.uk/student-led-general-competition/ Links to […]
Is ‘Manchesterism’ a model that can – or should – be replicated elsewhere? ‘Manchesterism’ has gone national. With Andy Burnham now in Downing Street, the experiment in regional leadership, devolution and place-based growth that has developed in Greater Manchester is no longer simply a story about Manchester. It is potentially a blueprint for how the […]
In west Belfast, a community group is campaigning for the council to formally adopt an alleyway they describe as dangerous (Lynch 2025). It is a small, almost bureaucratic request: recognise this lane as part of the public road network, so someone is responsible for maintaining it. Yet it captures something larger about how Belfast’s back […]
The Sussex Energy Group, within the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School, are seeking to appoint a Senior Research Fellow in Political Economy to work with Professor Matthew Lockwood as part of the Production and Consumption Transformation (PACT) research centre jointly funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the […]
Want to turn evidence into real-world policy change? Northumbria University’s Common Sense Policy Group is running a five-day online course, between 19 – 23 October 2026, for postgraduates, early career researchers and policy practitioners. Northumbria has a strong track record of delivering impactful CPD to make a difference across a variety of industries, and this […]
The Centre for Contemporary Political Theory (CCPT) at the University of Leeds invites applications for non-stipendiary Visiting Fellowships at the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS). Visiting Fellows will benefit from the vibrant research environment at the CCPT and POLIS. In addition, they will have access to the University’s Library and other digital resources. The applications will […]
LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university As an equal opportunities employer strongly committed to equity, diversity and inclusion, we encourage applications from women and people from ethnic minority backgrounds as they are currently under-represented at this level in this area. All appointments will be made on merit or skill […]
Assistant Professor in International Development (Quantitative Social Science) LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university As an equal opportunities employer strongly committed to diversity and inclusion, we encourage applications from those of Minority Ethnic backgrounds and Women as they are currently under-represented at this level in this area. […]
Industrial policy is back, not least in the UK, with a new Prime Minister entering office committed to a substantial reboot of the country’s economic model. Across advanced economies, geopolitical uncertainty, supply-chain restructuring, economic security concerns, intensifying technological competition, and the transition to net zero are prompting governments to rethink how economic development is organized. […]
Dr Robert Bowen Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, Wales Co-Editor of Regions Member of the RSA Publications Committee
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 […]