Several RSA journals have open calls for special issues, offering the opportunity to contribute to focused debates on key topics in regional studies. Each call outlines specific themes and deadlines for manuscript submission.
Below you will find a summary of the current opportunities. Simply click on the journal name to find full details of each call.
Regional Studies
From knowledge-intensive to transformative knowledge regions (15 Dec 2025)
Moving and interacting across borders: a people-centric approach to reimagine border regions (15 Oct 2025)
Regions, Societal Challenges and Mission-Oriented Industrial Policy (1 Sept 2025)
Urban and Regional Horizons (ongoing call)
Policy Debates (ongoing call)
Regional Studies, Regional Science
RSRS: PhD Student & Early Career Mentored Paper Section (30 Sept 2025)
Finance and Space
The UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation: Negotiating an End to Tax Injustice? (31 Aug 2025)
Area Development and Policy
Services and Development in the Global South (31 Dec 2025)
Theorizing Back for Evolutionary Economic Geography? (31 Mar 2026)