Territories Categories: Western Europe

The Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre for Migration and Minorities is a recognised Centre of Expertise at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) bringing together over 100 researchers from 11 disciplines. The Centre aims to increase the visibility of VUB research on questions relating migration and minorities. It will develop and support interdisciplinary research projects in these […]

MPPSC is a first-class international Master’s programme focusing on the analysis of public policies in the light of social changes and societal challenges at the national, regional and global level. It trains highly-motivated international BA graduates of political science, sociology and related social-science disciplines to become the policy analysts of tomorrow, for a world better […]

The University of Kassel is a modern and growing University with round about 25.000 students. She has a extraordinary wide section with expertise of nature, technique, culture and society.  The University of Kassel, Department of Sociology and Economy of the Welfare State (Prof. Dr. Patricia Frericks) offers the following position to be occupied preferably on April […]

Research at the Faculty of Humanities is carried out by six research schools under the aegis of the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research. The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), one of the six research schools, currently has a vacant postdoctoral position as part of the ERC Starting Grant project ‘Platform Labor: Transformations of Work and Livelihood […]

We have a job offer that might be interesting: the Faculty of Spatial Sciences of the University of Groningen is looking for an Assistant Professor in the field of Environmental Planning. We are looking for an Assistant Professor with an interest in environmental planning to strengthen our research and education in coping with several dominant […]

ESPON are looking for a motivated trainee (for the Unit Administration and Management) to join our international team for a period of 5 months. Your profile You are in the final stage of your university studies related to territorial development and planning, geography, regional economics, European studies, political science, financial management and/or other relevant fields. You are registered […]

2 fully funded PhD positions in Economic Geography (3+1 years) Project: Regional approaches towards alternative economies and sustainable finance (AltFin) funded by the National Research Fund Luxembourg (FNR) In a joint research project co-coordinated by both the University of Luxembourg (UL) and the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), we are looking for two PhD […]

At the Faculty of Social Sciences, a full-time position is vacant for a Professor in the field of Social Data Science. The selected candidate will be part of the Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO). Website unit Duties Research Social change requires that social scientists rethink their methodological approaches. The candidate contributes to the innovation of […]

Chair: Leaza McSorley (University of Sunderland, United Kingdom) Speakers: John Bachtler (University of Strathclyde) Giancarlo Cotella (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Marcin Dąbrowski (TU Delft, Netherlands) Sonia de Gregorio Hurtado (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) The session, chaired by Leaza McSorley (University of Sunderland) and organised under the banner of the RSA Research Network on EU […]

Name of event: KOSMOS Conference – Navigating the Sustainability Transformation in the 21st Century, Humboldt University Berlin The RSA Travel Grant allowed me to attend the KOSMOS Sustainability Conference in Berlin, where I presented a paper and also participated in a cutting-edge public conference format displaying some of my PhD work on low-carbon energy transitions. […]

The European Week of Regions and Cities – #EURegionsWeek is an annual four-day event during which cities and regions showcase their capacity to create growth and jobs, implement EU Cohesion Policy, and prove the importance of the local and regional level for good European governance. Over the years, the event has grown into the key event on […]

Huiwen is a PhD student with a  focus on opening concepts in Economic Geography to perspectives from the Global South and Asia.  Huiwen will provide a significant voice representing the views of emerging scholars on the Committee and it is hoped her active involvement will provide a distinct and valuable perspective.

Michaela Trippl is Full Professor of Economic Geography at the Department of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna, Austria. The main focus of her research is on regional innovation dynamics, regional industrial development and structural change and innovation policies. She has widely published in leading international journals such as Economic Geography, Regional […]

Elisa Roller is Head of Unit for Structural Policy and Economic Analysis in the Director-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries in the European Commission.  Before that, she was Deputy Head of Unit for Conception, Forward Studies and Impact Assessment in the Directorate-General for Regional Policy and Policy Coordinator in the Lisbon Task Force of the […]

Wolfgang Petzold is head of unit in the communication department of the Committee of the Regions, the EU’s assembly of regional and local representatives in Brussels. Before, he worked for ten years for the European Commission’s Regional Policy and Employment and Social Affairs Directorate-Generals. Being a sociologist, Wolfgang graduated from the University of Bremen in […]

Britta Klagge is full Professor of Geography at the University of Bonn, Germany. Her research focuses on economic and urban geography with a special interest in energy issues, finance and governance. A Master of Science in Geography at the the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Vienna in 1997 and […]

Prof. dr. L.G. (Ina) Horlings (1962) studied land- and watermanagement and human (environmental) geography. She obtained a PhD in Policy Science, and currently holds a chair in Socio-Spatial Planning at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Her research work broadly deals with ‘the human factor’ in spatial planning. […]

Lewis Dijkstra is the deputy head of the Policy Development and Economic Analysis Unit of the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy in the European Commission. He is the editor the Cohesion Reports, which analyse economic, social and environmental issues in EU regions and cities. His latest work and publications cover topics such as regional […]

Verena trained as spatial and regional planner with a PhD in the field of regional planning and regional economics, investigating the impact of a decentralized location pattern of universities on the development of their (rural) location region.  She has been the Chair of the AESOP Young Academics Network and served on the AESOP executive committee. […]