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 […]
Commonwealth Shared Scholarships 2025 Entry Newcastle University, UK, is offering a fully funded scholarship for the MSc in Urban Planning, covering tuition fees, living expenses, and return airfare for the September 2025 entry. MSc Urban Planning The application system is now open and will close on Thursday, 12 December at 16:00 GMT. For more details on eligibility and […]
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 […]
https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/5004/0/441207/15539/assistant-professor-in-international-social-and-public-policy LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university As an equal opportunities employer strongly committed to diversity and inclusion, we encourage applications from women and those of Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic backgrounds. All appointments will be made on merit or skill and experience relative to the role. Department of Social Policy […]
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 […]
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 management, economic geography and economics. The event takes place in Reading UK next spring from 1 to 11 April 2025. The open call is between 1 December 2024 to […]
Migrant and Refugee Welcome: Achieving Social Sustainability through Local Migration Governance Australia and the UK are both among the top 10 recipient countries of people on the move (migrants and refugees) globally, while migration control is also high in their respective national policy agendas. Local and city-level governing bodies in the two countries are often […]
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 […]
Application is now OPEN for a new ESRC-funded PhD studentship on ‘A place-based, intersectoral approach for Net Zero’, starting in Oct 2025 at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. Please see the link below for more information. https://www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/news/applications-invited-esrc-funded-phd-studentship-place-based-intersectoral-approach-net-zero https://www.esrcdtp.group.cam.ac.uk/programme/phd-funding-opportunities/
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 4 years in the first instance, due to limited funding.The Department of Land Economy is a leader in its field. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework assessment, 67% of the Department’s research was found to be “World Leading” and a further 31% “Internationally Excellent”, making it […]
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 4 years in the first instance, due to limited funding. The Department of Land Economy is a leader in its field. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework assessment, 67% of the Department’s research was found to be “World Leading” and a further 31% “Internationally Excellent”, making […]
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 […]
AHRC/TECHNE PhD Studentships at Kingston University London for October 2025 entry The Department of Architecture and Landscape at Kingston University London is delighted to invite expressions of interest from strong researchers to join our PhD Programme from October 2025. Funded full-time and part-time studentships are available on a competitive basis through the TECHNE Doctoral Training […]
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 […]