Funded PhD Studentship: The peace potential of everyday economic spaces and practices in conflict-affected societies This three-year funded PhD studentship enables research into the everyday economic spaces and practices that emerge during and following war, exploring the peace potential they offer to conflict-affected societies. Project details Everyday economic spaces and practices give insight into […]
The opportunity is open to both UK and overseas applicants. The deadline is 15th January 2025 for a May 2025 start date Project title: People make Coventry: A study in relational place-making This PhD scholarship embraces a ‘relational’ approach to place-making, according to which places are not ‘made’ by urban planners, policy-makers and politicians, but […]
We are currently seeking applications for two positions in human geography at Durham University at the assistant professor (grade 8) level. The closing date for applications is 12th of January 2025. More details about applicant qualifications, the positions, and the department can be found here: https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=24002138&tz=GMT%2B00%3A00&tzname=Europe%2FLondon The Department of Geography at Durham University seeks to […]
Northumbria University has an existing collaborative agreement with Neuron Scooters UK and is seeking a candidate to conduct a public sentiment study using a broad range of methods to utilise existing computational GPS data around geographies of inclusion, risk and use value, whilst drawing insights from route-maps (Geo-fencing) that shape travel decision and behaviours. This […]
PhD funding for political theory projects within the Centre for Contemporary Political Theory (CCPT) at the University of Leeds. We are delighted to advertise full fees + maintenance scholarships to support doctoral research in political theory: The PhD Scholarship in Politics and International Studies (UK and International) The Leeds Doctoral Scholarship (UK only) Leeds Opportunity […]
Funding available for PhDs in Stirling, Scotland The Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory, a new Leverhulme-funded interdisciplinary centre based in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, are recruiting 2-4 PhD studentships, fully funded by the University of Stirling, which will aim to advance knowledge of the dynamic relations between place and memory […]
The School of Social and Political Science (SPS) at the University of Edinburgh is offering a 3-year PhD studentship on ‘Analysing interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in whole systems energy research’. This fully funded PhD studentship (covering stipend and fees) is available to UK / Home fee status applicants only. The application deadline is Thursday 30th January […]
The Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Science at the University of Exeter has scholarship funding of over £1.7m available to support both home and international PhD applicants starting their postgraduate research degree in September 2025. Exeter is a centre for world-leading research across the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Our departments are consistently placed at […]
COMING SOON: Rethinking Economic (in)Activity UKRI funding opportunity UKRI is looking to fund an interdisciplinary project that will identify ways of supporting economic activity in places experiencing high rates of ill-health, disability, and informal care in the UK. The opportunity is open to all disciplines covered by UKRI and we particularly welcome proposals that cut […]
The project will explore ways in which borders and migration are produced, governed, experienced, imagined, contested and/or transformed through affective practices. Over the last years we have witnessed an increasing political, discursive and legislative criminalisation of migrants and solidarity acts in the UK, Europe and beyond. The research examines the affective and emotional dimension of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Alan is the Chief Executive of the Regional Studies Association and General Manager of the RSA Europe foundation. He joined both organisations in February 2024, arriving with extensive experience of organisational and professional leadership. Alan’s background is as a geographer and geography educator. He led the Geographical Association (GA) for over 11 years and played […]
Alan is the Chief Executive of the Regional Studies Association and General Manager of the RSA Europe foundation. He joined both organisations in February 2024, arriving with extensive experience of organisational and professional leadership. Alan’s background is as a geographer and geography educator. He led the Geographical Association (GA) for over 11 years and played […]
Dr Stefania Fiorentino is an Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge (Department of Land Economy), a Fellow of Downing College (Cambridge), and an Honorary Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London (UCL). Her research interest and expertise combine urban planning and economic geography for more inclusive and resilient local economic development […]
Dr Dieter F. Kogler, School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy & Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University College Dublin, Ireland RSA Early Career Research Grant holder Project: International Knowledge Flows and Spillovers and the Evolution of National Technology Trajectories (2013-2014) Dieter’s RSA funded research delivered for the first time, a structured and replicable empirical test […]
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. There has been much research on motorways and their impact on surrounding areas with considerable evidence that motorways cause suburbanisation while also increasing population levels and economic performance […]
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 impacts of climate change in the UK are becoming increasingly tangible, while the farming sector’s role in mitigating and adapting to these changes is a hotly debated […]