Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate with knowledge and experience in participatory mapping and energy studies. The successful applicant will work on the British-Academy-funded project ‘Energising Landscapes: lands, livelihoods, and energy infrastructures in Ghana’. The project explores the multidimensional land and livelihood challenges linked to large-scale energy infrastructures in Ghana. The local impacts […]
Part-time postdoctoral researcher on EU climate and energy governance The Brussels School of Governance at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) invites applications for a part-time (50-75%) postdoctoral researcher on European climate and energy governance (beginning in April 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter). As a postdoctoral researcher you will form part of the Brussels Schools’ Centre […]
Durham University’s Department of Geography, together with IBRU (Durham’s Centre for Borders Research), Queen’s University Belfast’s Department of Geography, and the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), is pleased to announce that it is recruiting one prospective PhD student for a fully-funded, 3.5-year PhD studentship in ‘Ethnographies of Border Mapping’, funded by the UK Arts & […]
Northumbria University’s Urban Futures Interdisciplinary Research Theme is advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship at the nexus of young mens’ health/wellbeing and urban social infrastructures (USIs) in UK-Cities. Cosupervised by Jason Luger (Human Geography), Ozge Dilaver (Business) and Lisa Thomas (Psychology), this is an exciting opportunity for a cross-disciplinary exploration with support from the IDRT. Project details […]
The Human Geography Pathway of the ESRC-funded Wales Graduate School of Social Sciences (WGSSS) invites applications for fully funded PhD studentships at Aberystwyth, Cardiff, and Swansea Universities. The application deadline is December 11th, and applications should be sent directly to the individual universities—see the links below. Research topics are open, although the strongest applications will […]
I am excited to announce that I am recruiting 3 PhD candidates to join my ERC Starting Grant project on the generative tensions of slavery and colonial heritage tourism. We seek for PhD candidates who have the necessary academic training, research experience and language skills to respectively conduct one of the subprojects on: 1) Ghana-Suriname-Netherlands; (2) […]
Henley International Business Masterclasses – Spring 2025 The Henley International Business Masterclasses are offered by the Henley Business School to PhD students and postdoctoral researchers studying International Business topics in the field of business management, economic geography and economics. The Spring 2025 Session consistis of the following three courses: International Human Resource Management, by Chris […]
Including community re-use and repair groups in circular economy digitalisation. Application deadline: 15 December, 2024 Fully-funded 3.5 year PhD, based at the CAM-DTP (University of Cambridge/Anglia Ruskin University), sitting in the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University. The PhD’s focus: 🔧 Community re-use and repair groups (e.g. informal freecycling groups, pop-up repair or […]
The Faculty of Geosciences and the Environment (FGSE) of the University of Lausanne invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences to be based at the Institute of Geography and Sustainability (IGD). We are seeking a candidate with broad training and theoretical expertise in the social sciences and […]
Applications are invited for funded PhDs in the College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences at Brunel University. These funding awards are for commencement of study in October 2025 and are open equally to UK and international applicants The funding is awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through the Doctoral Training consortium Techne, which […]
Conscious that next year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Regional Studies Association (RSA), at the most recent meeting of the RSA Board, Board members and I began thinking about an updated strategy for the Association. We agreed that a strategic plan should be finalised no later than December 2025. Why take […]
This blog was written for the RSA Blog Student Summer Series that will highlight graduate student success in regional studies across the globe throughout the summer. The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed how and where we work. Rates of remote working skyrocketed during national lockdowns; for many, this was the ‘grand experiment nobody wanted’. […]
Sarah Ayres is Professor of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Bristol, UK. Her central research interest is the governance of place, space and territory. This core provides the basis for two main strands of work. First, her research is concerned with devolution and decentralisation in both a UK and an international context, […]
Sarah Ayres is Professor of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Bristol, UK. Her central research interest is the governance of place, space and territory. This core provides the basis for two main strands of work. First, her research is concerned with devolution and decentralisation in both a UK and an international context, […]
Neil Lee is a Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE. He is also Professor II at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and theme convenor at the LSE’s International Inequalities Institute. His research has been funded by international and private sector organisations including the World Bank, OECD, the EIB, and Barclays Bank, and cited in […]
For more related to this blog, check out the full article recently published. Legal geography as a subdiscipline of human geography has been progressively gaining momentum across geographic and legal fora. Legal geography examines the co-constitutivity of law, power, and place, and has been employed to explore issues of spatial justice across contexts and […]
Heike Mayer is Professor of Economic Geography in the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern in Switzerland. She is also a member of the University of Bern`s Center for Regional Economic Development (CRED). As a member of the University of Bern executive board, she holds the function of Vice-Rector Quality and Sustainable Development […]
Our Corporate member, the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL), is an independent, non-partisan institution for the spatial sciences, offering knowledge-based analysis and advice on current sustainable spatial development issues. The ARL operates a Knowledge and Communication Platform (www.arl-international.com) that provides access to the Academy’s work internationally and serves as an information, […]
We would like to introduce our new Corporate member, Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL) The ARL offers knowledge-based analysis and advice on current sustainable spatial development issues. Complex social challenges require integrative and thus interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives. The specific working method of the ARL, which is transdisciplinary and network-based, allows […]
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the European landscape has been completely transformed by Ukrainian migrants fleeing their homeland. According to the European Union, around 4.2 million Ukrainians currently receive temporary protection in EU countries, which entitles them to residence permits, […]
Logistics warehouses, hubs, and freight villages are spreading rapidly in European metropolitan peripheral areas. They sustain local economies, but as an adverse effect, they increase traffic, pollution, land consumption, and, sometimes, migrant workers’ exploitation. Policy and planning by public administrators and decisions by private logistics stakeholders have essential and controversial roles in logistics development, which […]
Do rural banks help women’s microenterprises? [A case from Indonesia] The low value and number of loans extended to women entrepreneurs in micro sectors is often associated with societal gender inequality. Previous studies have shown that in patriarchal societies, where gender bias against women is stronger, women tend not to apply for loans, relying instead […]
Governing Diverse Polities: How Regional Language Shapes Political Attitudes Research on democratization, state-building and community formation stresses the importance of language and identity for building cohesive polities and fostering democratic legitimacy; and research shown that regionalism and regional identity have consequences for people’s political behavior and attitudes, including anti-democratic sentiment. Language is a major aspect of […]
Effective Project Appraisal and Regional Development In some countries EU Cohesion Policy (ECP) serves as the main source of policy investment for regional development. Consequently, the Project Appraisal effectiveness of ECP is crucial to fostering their regional development trends. However, our experience in analysing wide sets of ECP approved projects’ databases, in countries such as […]