Dimitri Corpakis Formerly European Commission (E.U.), Belgium Member of the RSA Research Committee (2024-2027) 2021 RSA Fellow (FeRSA) 2023 Award for Distinguished Service to Regional Studies Dr Dimitri Corpakis, is an independent expert, writing and talking on innovation, growth and technological change. An engineer and planner by training, he has close to 45 years’ experience […]
Professor Riccardo Crescenzi London School of Economics, UK Regional Studies Co-Editor Co-Organiser of the 2025 RSA Research Network on Green(ing) Global Value Chains for Sustainable Regional Development (GGVC4SRD) Co-author of the 2022 RSA Policy Expo Book: Global Value Chains and Regional Innovation
Andy Pike Henry Daysh Professor of Regional Development Studies, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University, UK. His research interests, publications and research projects are focused on the geographical political economy of local, regional and urban development and policy. He has undertaken research projects for the OECD, UN-ILO, European Commission, UK Government […]
Dr hab. Grzegorz Micek, prof. UJ Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland My research interests lie within economic and human geography, with a particular focus on the spatial reorganisation of business services, the geographical patterns and determinants of collaborative spaces, the evolution of emerging industries, and the restructuring of manufacturing across Central Europe. I was co-organiseer of […]
Andrea Belmartino Università degli Studi di Sassari, Italy RSA Network Research Grant: KIRDSA (2023 and 2025) 2025 RSA Conference Bursary RSA Member since 2019 Contact Andrea via LinkedIn
Andy Jonas Emeritus Professor of Human Geography, University of Hull, UK Past Editorial Board member of Territory Politics Governance 2015 Fellowship Research Grant Project: Global Infrastructure Public-private Partnerships and The Geopolitics of City-Regions
Prof. Dr. Heike Mayer Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland President of the RSA, 2024-2026 International Editorial Advisory Board for Regional Studies 2019 MeRSA Grant Awardee Project: “Slow Innovation in Europe’s Peripheral Regions”
Dorota Czyżewska-Misztal Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poland More information https://ue.poznan.pl/osoby/dr-dorota-czyzewska-misztal/
Jesper Manniche PhD, senior researcher, Rural development & Innovation Centre for Regional and Tourism Research, Bornholm, Denmark Co-organiser of the RSA Research Network on Transformative Knowledge Regions (2023-26)
Gernot Grabher Professor, Urban and Regional Economics HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany Member of the International Editorial Advisory Board for Regional Studies and Regional Studies, Regional Science 2003 – 2019: RSA Regions and Cities Book Series Co-editor
Coro Chasco Professor, Director, Spatial and Regional Economics Group (ECONRES) Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain 2023 RSA Small Grant Scheme on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry Project: Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Green Patents in the Eurozone
Dr Martin Quinn LUMS Director of Postgraduate Programmes Reader in Organisation, Work and Technology Department of Organisation, Work and Technology, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University, UK 2016 RSA Early Career Grant Awardee Project: The Search for the Social Contract in England’s Regions Member of the Place Leadership Research Network University webpage – https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/our-departments/organisation-work-and-technology/people/martin-quinn LinkedIn […]
Henrik Halkier Professor, Tourism & Regional Development Aalborg University Business School, Denmark Organiser for the RSA Research Network on Tourism, Regional Development and Public Policy 2007 -2016
Professor David Charles Northumbria University, UK 2025 RSA Policy Expo Grant Project: University support for regional policy development: Hubs and Networks David Charles is Professor of Enterprise and Innovation at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University and a member of the EPIC research centre. David’s research has focused primarily on regional aspects of innovation and innovation […]
Dr. Simón Sánchez-Moral Department of Geography, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. https://www.ucm.es/geografia/simon-sanchez-moral 2020 MeRSA Grant Project: “Disentangling COVID-19 as a driving force of path development processes in Spain”. Further information Deputy Editor Journal of Regional Research-Investigaciones Regionales.
Professor Tomasz Mickiewicz Centre for Business Prosperity, Department of Economics and International Business, Aston University, UK Senior Honorary Research Fellow, University College London Regional Studies Co-editor, 2013-2018. Research interests: regional economics, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial ecosystems, local social capital, human capital, institutions, Central Eastern Europe, UK Further Details: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, co-editor Recent publications: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=C7u33xwAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Miriam de Oliveira Gonçalves (PhD Candidate) CIAUD, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal 2026 RSA Conference Bursary 2025 RSA Research Network on Peripheries and Peripherality (EdgeNet) Workshop and Presentation, Peripheries Research at the Edge, University of Umea, Umea, Sweden 2025 RSA Research Network on Smart Policies […]
Professor Max Munday Cardiff Business School, Wales Chair of RSA Wales Branch
Professor John Harrison Loughborough University, UK RSA Trustee, RSA Board Member (Conference & Events) Regional Studies Deputy Editor-in-Chief Regional Studies Urban and Regional Horizons Section Editor 2011 RSA Award for Early Career Excellence
Prof. Roger Vickerman Emeritus Professor, School of Economics, University of Kent, UK Visiting Professor, Transport Strategy Centre, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London, UK Web page: https://www.kent.ac.uk/economics/people/3276/vickerman-roger
dr. Martijn Smit Utrecht University, The Netherlands 2024 FeRSA Grant Project: Lonely Teleworkers
Professor Nicola Pontarollo University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy 2016 RSA Travel Grant RSA Fellowship (FeRSA) (2018 – present) 2021 RSA Small Grant Scheme on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry Project: Build back better cities for aged people in Europe Nicola Pontarollo is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Management at […]
Dr. Karel (K.B.J.) Van den Berghe Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands RSA Policy Impact Book Series (Going circular: unlocking the potential of regions and cities to drive the circular economy transition) 2022 RSA Annual Conference Early Career Keynote Speaker RSA Research Network Grant on Polycentricity (2020-2022) Other information Horizon Europe RIA grant No. […]
Joanie Willett Associate Professor in Politics, University of Exeter, UK Co-editor, Territory, Politics, Governance Co-convenor: RSA Research Network Edgenet on Peripheries 2023-2026 RSA Research Network Grant: Edgenet 2018-2019 MeRSA Research Grant: Understanding Brexit and Trump in Post-Industrial, Peripheral Areas: Implications for Regional Development. Led to the publication of the first monograph, Affective Assemblages and Local […]