Introduced to celebrate excellence, our winners for the 2011 RSA Awards are:
Routledge RSA Award for Early Career Excellence 2011
- This year, the jury decided to award the prize to two candidates due to the very high quality of their papers:
 - Paolo Veneri, Department of Economics at Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy
Paper Title: Urban Polycentricity and the Costs of Commuting: Evidence from Italian Metropolitan Areas - John Harrison, Department of Geography, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
Paper Title: Configuring the new ‘regional world’: on being caught between territory and networks 
Nathaniel Lichfield Award (Formerly known as Taught Master Award) 2011
- Peter Knight, University of Southampton
 - Paper Title: Investigating Eastleigh as a case of small town cultural and creative regeneration in the UK
 
Best Paper Regional Studies 2011
- Voted for by the editors of Regional Studies.
 - Economic linkages across space
 - Published in 2010
 - Authors: Henry G. Overman; Patricia Rice; Anthony J. Venables
 
Best Referees Regional Studies 2011
- Voted for by the editors of Regional Studies.
 - Giovanni Sulis, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
 - Professor James Sidaway, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 - Tobias Schulz, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) Environmental and Resource Economics, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
 
Best Paper Spatial Economic Analysis 2011
- Voted for by the editors of SEA.
 - Combined and Uneven Development: Reflections on the North–South Divide
 - Published in 2010.
 - Authors: Robert Rowthorn
 
Best Referee Spatial Economic Analysis 2011
- Voted for by the editors of SEA.
 - Pedro Amaral, Cambridge University
 
Best Book Award 2011
- Voted for by the Regional Studies Membership from a list of titles published in 2010:
 - Author: Martin Perry
Title: Controversies in Local Economic Development
Book Series: Regions and Cities