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Watch as Haifeng Qian (University of Iowa, USA) is presented the 2022 Regional Studies, Regional Science Best Referee Award by Stephen Hincks, Editor in Chief of RSRS (University of Sheffield, UK)

Voting is open for the new cover of Territory, Politics, Governance Volume 11 2023! Territory Politics Governance is the successful journal which explores the interface between territory, politics, economy, identity and the organisation of political space. Every year, RSA members and the wider community vote for the following year’s cover. You can see some of the […]

Watch as Henry Yeung receives the Sir Peter Hall Award at the 2022 RSA Winter Conference. Presented by Sarah Ayres, Treasurer, RSA Board.

In this video, Regions Editors Stefania Fiorentino and Eduardo Oliveira present the 2022 Regions Best Paper Award to Beth Cummings, Samantha Burvill and Leonie Themelidis (all of Swansea University, Wales) and Robert Bowen (Cardiff University, Wales) for their paper ‘A well-being network approach to Covid-19 recovery: the approach of 4theRegion’.

The RSA is pleased to announce the publication of our 8th Policy Impact book – Harnessing Global Value Chains for regional development: How to upgrade through regional policy, FDI, and trade by Riccardo Crescenzi and Oliver Harman. This Regional Studies Policy Impact Book brings together the latest academic evidence and public policy insights on global value chains (GVCs) […]

In this video, Eduardo Oliveria, Editor of the Regions eZine, presents the 2022 Regions Best Paper Award for ‘Building networks for sustainable transition of old industrial areas’ to authors Carolin Schack, Thomas Neise, Davi d Heimann, and Martin Franz, all of Osnabrück University in Germany.

In this video, Klaus Dodds, Editor-in-Chief of Territory Politics Governance presents the award for 2022 Territory Politics Governance Best Paper to Derick Becker of University of Nottingham Malaysia and John Aberg from Malmö University in Sweden for their paper ‘The world is more than a stage: foreign policy, development and spatial performativity in Ethiopia’

We are delighted to have John Harrison, Editor of the Urban and Regional Horizons section of the academic journal, Regional Studies, present the 2022 Award for Best Paper in Urban and Regional Horizons to Nora G. Bækkelund of the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences for her paper ‘Change agency and reproductive agency in the […]

We are pleased to award the 2022 Regional Leadership Award to European Policies Research Centre. We are delighted to have Jessie Poon, Chair of the Regional Studies Association to present the award to Director, John Bachtler, in our virtual ceremony.

We are delighted to have Klaus Dodds (Royal Holloway University of London), and Editor-in-Chief of the Territory Politics Governance present the 2022 Territory Politics Governance Best Referee Award to Carolyn Cartier of the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.  

We are delighted to have Phil Tomlinson (University of Bath), and Editor of the Regional Studies Policy Debates section present the 2022 Regional Studies Policy Debates Best Paper Award to John Gibney (University of Birmingham), Joyce Liddle and John Shutt (both from Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University) for their paper entitled ‘Brexit disruption and transborder […]

Established in 1980 in Milan, CSIL is an independent research and consulting company specialising in applied economic research with specific expertise in regional, industrial, research and innovation policies. CSIL’s experts are driven by the search for hard facts that tell relevant stories and by a genuine passion for understanding growth and innovation processes. Over the […]

We are pleased to award the 2022 Distinguished Service to Regional Studies Award to James Walsh, Maynooth University, Ireland. We are delighted to have John Bachtler, representing the Board of the Regional Studies Association to present the award in our virtual ceremony.

We are pleased to award the 2022 Regional Studies Institutional Ambassador Award to the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. We are delighted to have Sally Hardy, CEO Regional Studies Association awarding the 2022 Regional Studies Institutional Ambassador Award to Professor Weidong Liu, Deputy Director-General of the […]

We are pleased to announce the winners for the 2022 RSA Student and Early Career Awards. The  Regional Studies Association have determined that all the winners have made an original and outstanding contribution to the field of regional studies. Mia Gray, University of Cambridge, UK and the Secretary of the RSA and the Chair of […]

We are delighted to share news about our sister organisation, the RSA’s European Foundation delivering the first Commissioner Seminar on Cohesion Policy in Brussels this month. This seminar series is an initiative by Dr Elisa Ferreira, Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms and a collaborative venture organised between Commissioner Ferreira and her Cabinet; the European Commission’s […]

September saw the final events of the 2022 CEE Programme on Bridging Old and New Divides: Global Dynamics & Regional Transformations, including the 2022 CEE Conference held in Leipzig, Germany. The programme, originally planned for 2021, had been delayed due to the pandemic and we were pleased to finally being able to work with our partners […]

The RSA is pleased to announce the publication of our 7th Policy Impact book – Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: the challenges facing cities and regions by Stephen Parkes and Ed Ferrari. The past decade has seen substantial progress towards the development of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). Accompanying the technological developments, there has been much dialogue around the potential […]

We join the UK and international community in mourning the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. As a mark of respect, on Monday 19th September 2022, the Regional Studies Association office will be closed for the State Funeral. We will reopen on Tuesday 20th September.

We welcome Simon Clarke MP to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities and we offer any help to him as he begins to understand the depth and breadth of his portfolio. Our Policy Impact book Levelling Up Left Behind Places: The Scale and Nature of the Economic and Policy Challenge, co-authored by Professor […]

We were very much saddened to hear of the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and we are thinking of the Royal Family at this very difficult time.

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: the Challenges Facing Cities and Regions  Authors: Ed Ferrari and Stephen Parkes Over the last decade there has been substantial progress towards the development of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). As the technology that provides CAVs with the ability to undertake more advanced driving tasks has reached the real-world testing stage, […]

This edited volume presents a compendium of emerging and innovative studies on the proliferation of new working spaces (NeWSps), both formal and informal (such as coworking spaces, maker spaces, fab labs, public libraries, and coffee shops), and their role during and following the COVID-19 pandemic in urban and regional development and planning. This book has […]

The RSA is pleased to announce that its Research Network Grant Scheme is open once more. The scheme was placed on hold during the Covid-19 pandemic and has now been reinstated with a deadline of 29 November 2022. The maximum funding for a Research Network is: £10,000 (c. $13,300; c. €11,800) for newly established networks; £7,500 (c. $10,000; […]