In January 2026, the 2026-30 Regional Studies Association Strategy is published.
In February 2024, Alan Kinder was appointed the new Chief Executive of the Association.
In March 2024, Sally Hardy retired after almost 40 years with the Association.
I am sharing a call (pdf link) for two PhD researchers to work on the repression, criminalization, securitization, and human rights-ization of climate activism in UK and Germany. The project is part of my ERC Starting Grant “Legal Governmentality – governing climate activism through criminal law and human rights in Europe (LeGo)” (2026 – 2031, […]
David Bailey is Professor of Business Economics at the Birmingham Business School and a Senior Fellow of the ESRC’s UK in a Changing Europe programme, exploring the impacts of Brexit on UK automotive and manufacturing. He has written extensively on industrial and regional policy, especially in relation to manufacturing and the auto industry. He has […]
Noela Mahmutaj (PhD) is an early-career researcher and lecturer at the Institute of European Studies at the University of Tirana, Albania. Her main research interests and publications focus on IR topics, especially those related to contemporary geopolitics and external influences in the Western Balkans and Black Sea regions. She has published several research papers and […]
The CreativeAI studentships (2026-29) – fully-funded PhD studentships on cutting-edge creativeAI projects – will explore the rapidly evolving relationship between creativity and artificial intelligence (AI), considering what AI does for creativity and what creativity does for AI. Six supervisor-led interdisciplinary projects bring together outstanding expertise by over 15 academic staff in arts, languages and cultures, computer science, […]
From CSIL, we are pleased to share information about our upcoming Workshop on Counterfactual Impact Evaluation (CIE), which will take place in Milan on 11–13 May 2026. The workshop focuses specifically on the application of counterfactual methods to regional and cohesion policy evaluation, addressing questions that could be very relevant for RSA members: How can […]
17 September 2026
Happy to host applications relating to China’s Digital / Space Silk Road and beyond. Deadline is May 5, so get in touch soon! Research Area: All Disciplines Funding Type: Postdoctoral Fellowships Target Group: Early Career Researchers up to 5 years after completing their PhD Max.: 450.000 EUR Max.: Three years The fellowships span 36 months […]
In 2020, a merger of the counties of Troms and Finnmark in northern Norway was implemented as part of a nationwide regional reform. Unlike some mergers that took place at the time, this merger was not based on an initial voluntary agreement between the respective county councils. A consultative referendum held in Finnmark two years […]
On behalf of the Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific and the John von Neumann University Organizing Committee, we hereby cordially invite you to the 38th AUAP Annual Conference, which will be held in Europe, the city of Kecskemét, Hungary from May 19-21, 2026, bringing the best of universities and scientific public life […]
Applications are open for the Master of Science in Mobility Management, offered by the National School of State Public Works (ENTPE) – University of Lyon, in partnership with Université Gustave Eiffel. This one-year, full-time, English-taught programme is designed to foster strong academic and professional connections across borders. It welcomes students seeking a high-level, specialised […]
Andy Pike is the Henry Daysh Professor of Regional Development Studies in the 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, […]
Research project: Stuck in Place: Unpacking Residential Immobility in the UK Dr. Conor O’Driscoll is an Assistant Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Groningen’s Faculty of Spatial Science. Conor holds a PhD in Economics from University College Cork, Ireland, where he studied the determinants of travel behaviour, with particular attention to the relationship between […]
Keynote Speakers Announced – EURINT 2026 The organisers of the 15th EURINT International Conference – “The EU’s future: Cohesion in an age of inequalities” (14–16 May 2026, Iași, Romania) are pleased to announce the keynote speakers for this edition: Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, London School of Economics and Political Science Sébastien Bourdin, IESEG School of Management Their […]
In recent years, industrial strategy has returned to the centre of political and economic debate. Governments across advanced economies are once again asking how they can shape growth, support innovation, and address deepening regional inequalities. For decades, however, much of industrial policy has rested on a powerful but often unquestioned assumption: that economic growth is […]
2026 ARL Congress | Cologne (“Maternushaus”) | 01 – 02 October 2026 Call for Abstracts EUROPEAN REGIONAL POLICY IN TIMES OF TRANSITION The ARL – Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association invites scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to submit abstracts for the upcoming ARL Congress 2026 on “European Regional Policy in Times of Transition”. […]
Powering Development? Solar Energy, Poverty Alleviation and Just Transition in Rural China Yunpeng Zhang is an Assistant Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin. His research interests lie at the intersection of social geography, political economy and development studies, with a focus on urbanisation, […]
The Gran Sasso Science Institute is organising SPACERAISE, an international summer school designed to equip international students (Bachelor, Master, and PhD levels) with theoretical insights and practical skills for working with non-traditional and geospatial observational data in applied economics and quantitative geography. The summer school will take place 18–22 May 2026, during the thematic week on […]
15 January 2026
Advances in Spatial and Network Modelling for Policymaking – 2nd Edition Join us in May 2026 in Sevilla for the second edition of this workshop, hosted by the JRC. The call for papers is open until 15 February 2026. The workshop aims to promote scientific exchange among researchers, academics, and practitioners working on Spatial Econometrics […]
David Bassens is Professor of Economic Geography and Director of Cosmopolis: Centre for Urban Research at Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium). He is Deputy-in-Chief of Finance and Space and one of the founding members of the Global Network on Financial Geography. His earlier work on financial geography has dealt with the geographies of Islamic Finance and […]
Our reliance on cars is one reason why domestic transport is the UK’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 2024). Using alternatives, like walking and cycling, can cut these emissions quickly (Brand et al., 2021), much quicker than even the quickest shift towards electric vehicles. Yet we continue […]