Introduced to celebrate excellence, our winners for the 2011 RSA Awards are:
Routledge RSA Award for Early Career Excellence 2011
- This year, the jury decided to award the prize to two candidates due to the very high quality of their papers:
- Paolo Veneri, Department of Economics at Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy
Paper Title: Urban Polycentricity and the Costs of Commuting: Evidence from Italian Metropolitan Areas - John Harrison, Department of Geography, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
Paper Title: Configuring the new ‘regional world’: on being caught between territory and networks
Nathaniel Lichfield Award (Formerly known as Taught Master Award) 2011
- Peter Knight, University of Southampton
- Paper Title: Investigating Eastleigh as a case of small town cultural and creative regeneration in the UK
Best Paper Regional Studies 2011
- Voted for by the editors of Regional Studies.
- Economic linkages across space
- Published in 2010
- Authors: Henry G. Overman; Patricia Rice; Anthony J. Venables
Best Referees Regional Studies 2011
- Voted for by the editors of Regional Studies.
- Giovanni Sulis, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
- Professor James Sidaway, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Tobias Schulz, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) Environmental and Resource Economics, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Best Paper Spatial Economic Analysis 2011
- Voted for by the editors of SEA.
- Combined and Uneven Development: Reflections on the North–South Divide
- Published in 2010.
- Authors: Robert Rowthorn
Best Referee Spatial Economic Analysis 2011
- Voted for by the editors of SEA.
- Pedro Amaral, Cambridge University
Best Book Award 2011
- Voted for by the Regional Studies Membership from a list of titles published in 2010:
- Author: Martin Perry
Title: Controversies in Local Economic Development
Book Series: Regions and Cities