The UK has historically failed to learn important lessons from European countries on spatial rebalancing. It has recently acknowledged the need for effective local institutions and a long-term national strategy, but its asymmetric approach is unlikely to reduce geographic inequality. The failure of levelling up When the previous UK government launched its levelling up agenda […]
Marcus joined the RSA in 2025 as the Head of Partnerships and Engagement. Marcus brings extensive experience having worked across higher education, marketing, and international collaboration. His professional focus has been on facilitating meaningful, two-way interaction between academia and external organisations—supporting the societal and commercial impact of research through partnerships, collaborative projects, and tailored programmes. Before […]
Victoria began her career as a Receptionist Administrator and progressed to Assistant Manager at two leading recording studios in London. She then moved into a Business Enterprises Administrator and customer service role at IPC Media. After relocating to Sussex in 2000, she joined Quadrant Subscription Services (part of Reed Business Information) as a Database Administrator, […]
Masters in Political Ecology, Lancaster University https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/postgraduate-courses/political-ecology-ma/2025/ The only UK master’s degree dedicated to political ecology Directly engage with practitioners of political ecology through our networks of professionals Become an environmental ‘change maker’ and have the freedom to be critical Intro The Earth is faced with unprecedented and interconnected environmental challenges. From biodiversity loss to […]
This post is full time, 35 hours per week and is fixed term for 30 month. We are looking for a post-doctoral researcher to work on a Leverhulme funded project exploring what lessons the past might hold for the diverse condition of urban neighbourhood living in Britain in the 21st century. Social and spatial encounters […]
Fully-funded (3.5 yrs) PhD opportunity at the University of Exeter. This project focuses on assessing the short- and long-term activities, outcomes and impact of the Isles of Scilly Community Research Network. Research will be locally led, co-designed, innovative and community-driven. The successful applicant would be based in Sustainable Futures, University of Exeter Business School on […]
The Department of Geography at Durham University seeks to appoint an outstanding individual to an Associate Professorship in Human Geography. The post is part of Durham University’s strategic Heritage 360 initiative and applicants must demonstrate research excellence in the field of Heritage Landscapes and/or Social Justice and Wellbeing in heritage, with the ability to teach […]
Child poverty is regarded as a multidimensional, yet heavily economically based phenomenon. Previous studies on the UK or OECD countries underline the role of low income, job insecurity and worklessness, especially in lone-parent and minority households (Bradshaw, 2002; Thevenon et al., 2018). Additionally, in-work poverty is rising, and other factors, like housing, parental health and […]
The first signs of a slowdown in residential address changing were identified towards the end of the last century, starting in the USA, as is so often the case with social trends and then being found to be particularly marked across the rest of the New World. But other countries, including the UK, have not […]
Call for Proposals for the Regional Studies Association’s Regions & Cities Book Series Published by Routledge Places, Networks, and Uneven Spatial Development Regions and cities develop unevenly, within and without, and value is created spatially across their unevenness through places and networks. Regions and cities are sub- and supra-national geographies, often with contested, overlapping boundaries, […]
The Covid-19 pandemic led to a substantial growth in the level of home-based and flexible working, and higher levels of such working have persisted in the post-Covid period. This shift in working patterns has had varied and wide-ranging impacts on both the mobility patterns of such workers and their mental and social wellbeing, which have […]
On the 9th April, 2025, the Association reached its sixtieth anniversary. To celebrate this milestone, a new logo was released and several events were organised across the year.
We are delighted to invite you to participate in City+2025@Oxford, an international conference on interdisciplinary urban studies, taking place on 29–30 September 2025 at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. The conference theme is “Urban Data Analytics and the Polycrisis.” We are pleased to invite you to submit an abstract by April 20, 2025 for consideration […]
Ignazio is Professor of Regional Economic Development at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. He is also Head of the Accounting and Financial Management Department (AFM), and Research Fellow at the EU*Asia Institute, ESSCA School of Management, Angers (France). Ignazio’s work addresses multiple themes and topics in the economics and environment fields, with particular emphasis on […]
Ignazio is Professor of Regional Economic Development at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. He is also Head of the Accounting and Financial Management Department (AFM), and Research Fellow at the EU*Asia Institute, ESSCA School of Management, Angers (France). Ignazio’s work addresses multiple themes and topics in the economics and environment fields, with particular emphasis on […]
Ignazio is Professor of Regional Economic Development at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. He is also Head of the Accounting and Financial Management Department (AFM), and Research Fellow at the EU*Asia Institute, ESSCA School of Management, Angers (France). Ignazio’s work addresses multiple themes and topics in the economics and environment fields, with particular emphasis on […]
Ignazio is Professor of Regional Economic Development at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. He is also Head of the Accounting and Financial Management Department (AFM), and Research Fellow at the EU*Asia Institute, ESSCA School of Management, Angers (France). Ignazio’s work addresses multiple themes and topics in the economics and environment fields, with particular emphasis on […]
Tom joined the RSA in 2025 as the Head of Publishing after many years working for leading academic publishers, specifically Elsevier and Sage Publishing. At the latter, as a Director, he helped lead the development of the company’s (then) nascent medicine and life science programme, as well as its gold OA journal programme. Throughout his […]
This year the CJRES annual conference is taking place in Cambridge at St. Catherine’s College the 17th and 18th of July 2025, as usual sponsored by the Cambridge Political Economy Society. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘The Climate Crisis: making cities resilient’ Further on the call for papers is available here: https://cpes.org.uk/events/cjres2025/ The current deadline for […]
Conscious that next year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Regional Studies Association (RSA), at the most recent meeting of the RSA Board, Board members and I began thinking about an updated strategy for the Association. We agreed that a strategic plan should be finalised no later than December 2025. Why take […]
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. The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed how and where we work. Rates of remote working skyrocketed during national lockdowns; for many, this was the ‘grand experiment nobody wanted’. […]
Sarah Ayres is Professor of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Bristol, UK. Her central research interest is the governance of place, space and territory. This core provides the basis for two main strands of work. First, her research is concerned with devolution and decentralisation in both a UK and an international context, […]
Sarah Ayres is Professor of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Bristol, UK. Her central research interest is the governance of place, space and territory. This core provides the basis for two main strands of work. First, her research is concerned with devolution and decentralisation in both a UK and an international context, […]
Neil Lee is a Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE. He is also Professor II at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and theme convenor at the LSE’s International Inequalities Institute. His research has been funded by international and private sector organisations including the World Bank, OECD, the EIB, and Barclays Bank, and cited in […]