Best Book Award 2013
- Voted for by the Regional Studies Association membership from a list of titles published in 2012:
 - Professor Nicola Bellini, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
 - Professor Mike Danson, Heriot-Watt University, UK
 - Professor Henrik Halkier, Aalborg University, Denmark
 - Book title: Regional Development Agencies: The Next Generation? Networking, Knowledge and Regional Policies (2012).
 
Nathaniel Lichfield Award 2013
- Janne Kaiser, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Germany
 
RSA and Routledge Early Career Award 2013
- Dr Thilo Lang, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany
 
Regional Studies Best Paper 2013 (published in 2012)
- Voted for by the Editors of Regional Studies:
 - Professor Bernhard Truffer, EAWAG, Switzerland
 - Dr Lars Coenen, Lund University. Sweden
 - Paper title: Environmental innovation and sustainability transitions in regional studies
 
Regional Studies Best Referees 2013 (articles published in 2012)
- Voted for by the Editors of Regional Studies:
 - Dr Sarah Drakopoulou-Dodd, The American College of Greece, Greece
 - Dr Victor Venhorst, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
 - Professor Leon Oerlemans, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
 
Spatial Economic Analysis Best Paper 2013 (published in 2012)
- Voted for by the Editors of Spatial Economic Analysis:
 - Dr Nicolas Debarsy, Université d’Orléans, France
 - Paper title: The Mundlak Approach in the Spatial Durbin Panel Data Model
 
Spatial Economic Analysis Best Referee 2013 (articles published in 2012)
- Voted for by the Editors of Spatial Economic Analysis:
 - Dr Luisa Corrado, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy and University of Cambridge, UK