The Association’s guiding mission is to be the world’s leading community of scholars, policy makers and practitioners in regional studies, and to support them in using their work to promote more inclusive and sustainable local socio-economic development. Our Annual Awards Ceremony was established to celebrate contributions to the field, both at personal and institutional levels. It is an excellent occasion to meet and network.
Many thanks for helping us to make our recent annual President’s Event and Awards dinner such a wonderful evening. We do hope to see you all at another RSA event in the near future.
The photos from the event are now available to view on Flickr – you can access them by clicking here.
RSA Awards Winners 2018
Nathaniel Lichfield Award
- David Dodds, Newcastle University, UK
- ‘Path creation in the periphery: the case of Sunderland’s software industry’
RSA PhD Student Award
- Lydia Schoeppner, Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Manitoba, Canada
- ‘The role of international organizations in dealing with sovereignty conflicts in the Arctic‘
RSA Routledge Early Career Award
- Jana M. Kleibert, Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space & Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
- ‘Global Production Networks, Offshore Services and the Branch-Plant Syndrome’
Best Referee Regional Studies
- Stephan Brunow, University of Applied Labour Studies, Germany
- Luisa Gagliardi, Université de Genève, Switzerland
- Phil Tomlinson, University of Bath, UK
Best Paper Regional Studies
- ‘The mismatch between local voting and the local economic consequences of Brexit’
- Bart Los, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Philip McCann, University of Sheffield, UK
- John Springford, Centre for European Reform, UK
- Mark Thissen, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Netherlands
Best Referee Spatial Economic Analysis
- Ana Barufi, The University of São Paulo Regional and Urban Economics Lab, Brazil
Best Paper Spatial Economic Analysis
- ‘An evolutionary approach to the delimitation of labour market areas: an empirical application for Chile’
- José Manuel Casado-Díaz, University of Alicante, Spain
- Lucas Martínez-Bernabéu, University of Alicante, Spain
- Francisco Rowe, University of Liverpool, UK
Best Referee Territory, Politics, Governance
- Federico Savini, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Best Paper Territory, Politics, Governance
- ‘Hannah Arendt’s spatial thinking: an introduction’
- Bernard Debarbieux, Université de Genève, Switzerland
Best Referee Regional Studies, Regional Science
- Adelheid Holl, CSIC -Spanish National Research Council, Institute of Public Goods and Policies, Spain
Best Paper Regional Studies, Regional Science
- ‘The impact on welfare and public finances of job loss in industrial Britain’
- Christina Beatty, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
- Steve Fothergill, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Best Referee Area Development and Policy
- Mia Bennett, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Best Paper Area Development and Policy
- ‘Rethinking the East Asian Developmental State in its historical context: finance, geopolitics and bureaucracy’
- Henry Wai-Chung Yeung, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Routledge Best Book Award
- ‘In the Post-urban World Emergent Transformation of Cities and Regions in the Innovative Global Economy’
- Edited by Tigran Haas, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Hans Westlund, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden