Professor Simona Iammarino Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), L’Aquila, Italy and London School of Economics (LSE), UK Member of the RSA Board and Executive group, and Chair of the RSA Journal Committee (2020-2025); Member of the RSA Journal Committee (2017-2025) RSA Research Committee (2017-2021) Co-editor of Regional Studies (2008-2013) Member of the International Editorial Advisory […]
Dr. Bradley Loewen Associate Professor in STS and Sustainability Transitions Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
Robert Hassink, Professor of Economic Geography Dept. of Geography, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany https://www.wigeo.uni-kiel.de/en/People/robert-hassink Visiting Professor at CURDS, Newcastle University, UK https://www.ncl.ac.uk/curds/contact-us/people/visiting/profile/roberthassink.html International Editorial Advisory Board Member of Regional Studies (since 2022) International Ediorial Advisory Board of Regional Studies, Regional Science (since 2014) Guest editor of Special Issue/Collection in Regional Studies Emerging Industries: Institutions, […]
Marco Bellandi University of Florence, Italy 2021 Regional Studies Best Referee Award Local Coordinator 2024 RSA Annual Conference, Florence.
Dr Felicia Fai Associate Professor Director of the Centre for Governance, Regulation and Industrial Strategy (CGRIS) School of Management, University of Bath, UK E mail: F.M.Fai@bath.ac.uk My research interests include the organisational actors, industrial clusters, regional innovation systems and industrial strategy, predominantly through an evolutionary economics lens. For my research profile visit https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/felicia-fai/ 2017 RSA […]
dr. József Benedek Faculty of Geography, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and Budapest Metropolitan University, Hungary RSA Ambassador to Romania
Marjan Nikolov Center for Economic Analyses, North Macedonia Latest work: Nikolov, M.; Petrovska, A.M.; Mitevski, I. Challenges and opportunities for a just green transition in North Macedonia. Eur. XXI 2026, https://doi.org/10.7163/eu21.2025.49.1.
Eduardo Medeiros Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal 2023 MeRSA Grant awardee Research project: Effective Project Appraisal and Regional Development My research interests are EU Cohesion Policy, Territorial Cohesion, Impact Assessment, Cooperation, Development and Planning, and Sustainable Development. I am a member of the European Commission Cohesion for Transitions Academic Sound Board.
Dr. Donatas Burneika, Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, Lithuania RSA Ambassador to Lithuania Board Member of the RSA Nordic Division (NoRSA)
Dr Crolina Castaldi Utrecht University, The Netherlands 2019 MeRSA Grant Awardee Project title: Soft innovation? Towards new narratives on regional capabilities and policies
Dr Carolin Ioramashvili Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Spatial Economic Analysis Early Career Editor RSA Women’s Network Organiser
Dr. Emil Evenhuis PBL – Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Netherlands RSA Policy Committee member
In 2024, Finance and Space, a pioneering interdisciplinary journal focusing on diverse aspects of the spatial production of finance and the financial production of space, was launched.
In 2019, the Regional Studies Policy Impact book series was launched to address topical policy questions of contemporary importance to all communities engaged in regional and urban studies.
In 2014, Regional Studies, Regional Science, an open access journal about regional and urban issues in geography, economics, regional science, environmental studies, planning and governance. was launched.
In 2016, Area Development and Policy was launched, publishing high quality, original academic research examining the economic, political, cultural and geographical contexts which play a fundamental role in shaping and developing regions, cities and rural areas.
In 2006, Spatial Economic Analysis was launched, a pioneering economics journal dedicated to the development of theory and methods in spatial economics, published by RSA and the RSAI-BIS.
In 2013, Territory, Politics, Governance, an interdisciplinary journal committed to theory and research on territorial politics and the governance of space was launched.
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.
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 […]