I am currently looking for doctoral researchers for the Junior Research Group „Digitalization and Social Transformation“, which will start on January 1st, 2025, at the Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna. The group will investigate how digital platforms—such as those in the gig economy, dating, and social media—shape and are shaped by processes of social inequality. Our […]
For the project “Territorial Inequality in Education”, led by the Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with Cardiff University and the University of Kent, we are looking for a postdoctoral research fellow (2 years, 0.7 FTE). The position will be based at the Freie Universität Berlin. Full details of the requirements and application process can be […]
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join the research group Sustainability Transition Policy at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, at the School of Business, Economics and Society in Nürnberg, Germany. The Sustainability Transition Policy groups does problem-driven, interdisciplinary research about policies and strategies for the transition to climate neutrality in Germany, Europe and globally. The full […]
We are delighted to announce eight PhD positions (4 years) in the multidisciplinary science and technology studies (STS) project »Fixing Futures: Technologies of Anticipation in Contemporary Societies«, starting May 1, 2025, funded by the German Research Council (DFG) and based at Goethe University Frankfurt. The official call for applications will be published on October 23, 2024. With this […]
In the Faculty I – Educational and Social Sciences, the Institute of Social Sciences at the Chair of Organisation and Innovation has a PhD position (100%) in social science energy research. This person analyses interfaces between technologies (“sector coupling”) in institutional and social configurations using the example of and in collaboration with the technological research platform […]
As part of a Lower Saxony project consortium on the sustainability governance of global supply chains, two political science-oriented doctoral positions in the field of “Sustainability Policy and Governance of Global Value Chains (GVC)” are being advertised at the professorships of Andrea Lenschow (Osnabrück) and Jens Newig (Lüneburg): Administrative and legal implementation of Global Supply […]
As part of a Lower Saxony project consortium on the sustainability governance of global supply chains, two political science-oriented doctoral positions in the field of “Sustainability Policy and Governance of Global Value Chains (GVC)” are being advertised at the professorships of Andrea Lenschow (Osnabrück) and Jens Newig (Lüneburg): Administrative and legal implementation of Global Supply […]
The University of Notre Dame seeks to appoint a postdoctoral scholar in WASH, Poverty, and Health to support a multi-year project on Innovative Solutions to Interlinked Water Insecurity, Poverty, and Poor Health in Africa’s Urban Slums, sponsored by the Notre Dame Poverty Initiative. The Project’s long-term goal is to understand how poverty interacts with water insecurity […]
Research Assistant (Postdoc) (m/f/d) (E 13 TV-G-U) to be filled for a limited period of 36 months at the earliest possible date. The salary grade is based on the job characteristics of the collective agreement applicable to Goethe University (TV-G-U). The project is jointly led by Prof. Dr. Birgit Becker and Dr. Thomas Zimmermann. The […]
We’re recuiting a full-time, Assistant Professor (tenure-track). Position beginning on January 1st 2025. The successful candidate will be affiliated to the Center for Research on social InequalitieS (CRIS). Candidates should have a PhD. This assistant professorship position is designed to reinforce and complement our expertise in the study of environmental inequalities. We welcome applications from candidates with a recent […]
The Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) bundles top-level research and transfer at an international level, thereby creating an interdisciplinary innovation network and an excellent science and technology location. Together with its renowned partners, the BTU forms the Lausitz Science Network – an alliance of research institutions that together want to further develop the strengths […]
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 […]
Imogen Liu is Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Prior to joining the VU in 2023, she was a PhD candidate at Maastricht University where her dissertation focused on the transnational integration of Chinese state capital in Europe. Situated at the intersection of political economy, economic geography and development studies, […]
Kerstin J. Schaefer is an assistant professor in Economic Geography at Utrecht University (UU) and a research project leader at the Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography at Leibniz University Hanover (LUH). Her active engagement in the Economic Geography scholar community includes serving as RSA Early Career representative and supporting the Young Economic Geographers Network […]
Ron Boschma is a Full Professor in Regional Economics at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University. He also holds a Chair in Innovation Studies at the UiS Business School, Stavanger Centre for Innovation Research, at Stavanger University. He has widely published in international journals on Evolutionary Economic Geography, the spatial […]
Dimitri Corpakis, is an independent expert, writing and talking on innovation, growth and technological change. An engineer and planner by training, he has more than 30 years’ experience on the European integration process. Dimitri worked for the European Commission in Brussels as well as for the Greek civil service. Prior to retiring from the European […]
The OECD’s Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) helps national, regional and local governments unleash the potential of entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), promote inclusive and sustainable growth in regions and cities, boost local job creation and implement sound tourism policies. Our work helps shape public policies to support growth, resilience […]
This blog follows the recent release of the book Paradiplomacy in Europe. The cases of Galicia, Åland, Flanders and Greenland. The idea of the “Europe of the regions”, multilevel governance, and the so-called paradiplomacy (Aldecoa and Keating, 2000) of substate governments is something that has less of a shine than what was the case […]
Staying in or Moving out? – Quality of Life, Interregional Migration Decisions and Covid-19 Although COVID-19 is a global health emergency, it is experienced in local contexts, which may not all be equally equipped to offer good quality of life in pandemic conditions. Exogenous shocks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and associated “lockdown” policies, may […]
Dr. Marcin Dąbrowski teaches and researches spatial planning and (multi-level) governance issues related to sustainable urban and regional futures. He is an assistant professor at the Department of Urbanism, being part of Delft University of Technology and its Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. With a background in political science and experience in research […]
We are delighted to share news about our sister organisation, the RSA’s European Foundation delivering the first Commissioner Seminar on Cohesion Policy in Brussels this month. This seminar series is an initiative by Dr Elisa Ferreira, Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms and a collaborative venture organised between Commissioner Ferreira and her Cabinet; the European Commission’s […]
September saw the final events of the 2022 CEE Programme on Bridging Old and New Divides: Global Dynamics & Regional Transformations, including the 2022 CEE Conference held in Leipzig, Germany. The programme, originally planned for 2021, had been delayed due to the pandemic and we were pleased to finally being able to work with our partners […]
In 2019, a friend knowing that I’m a regular cyclist asked me if I’d like to join a group planning to ride the iconic UK “end to end”. Pre-pandemic I was riding regularly and pretty fit and I readily agreed. When covid struck the 2020 trip was postponed to 2021 and then to 2022. I’ve […]
We will be part of next week’s GCEG in Dublin which promises to be an exciting event and an opportunity to meet many RSA members and the wider community in person again. If you are attending the conference in Dublin, please join an RSA session (see below) or visit the RSA stand. We’d love to […]