In 2006, the Regional Studies Association (RSA) founded a new Research Network on ‘Employability and Labour Market Policy in International Perspective’, hosted at the Employment Research Institute at Napier University, Edinburgh. The Network’s activities centred around two international seminars, which sought to build upon the success of a previous ‘Employability and Labour Market Policy’ seminar series (co-funded by the RSA) organised by Napier University, Warwick University, and Paisley University in 2003-4 (findings were published in a February 2005 special edition of Urban Studies journal and resulted in the Routledge book ‘Employability and Local Labour Market Policy’ in 2006).