In 2021, we continued to celebrate the research and work that has made an original and outstanding contribution to research concerned with the analysis of regions and regional issues.
Sir Peter Hall Award
- JAMIE PECK, University of British Columbia, Canada & Western Sydney University, Australia
Regional Leadership Award for Practice and Policy
- Statistics Poland, Poland
Media Communications in Regional Studies Award
- The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center (CRC)
Regional Studies Institutional Ambassador Award
- The Territorial Development Unit, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Spain
Student and Early Career Awards
- Nathaniel Lichfield Award: ŞÜKRÜ YILMAZ, Newcastle University, UK
- Paul Benneworth PhD Student Award: SEBASTIAN LOSACKER, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany & JONATHAN MURINGANI, University of Stavanger, Norway
- RSA Routledge Early Career Award: LISA NIETH, Technopolis Deutschland GmbH, Germany & RHIANNON PUGH, Lund University, Sweden
Best Book Award
- Cities and Regions in Crisis – The Political Economy of Sub-National Economic Development – MARTIN JONES, Staffordshire University, UK
Best Paper Regional Studies
- The geography of EU discontent – LEWIS DIJKSTRA & HUGO POELMAN, European Commission, Belgium; ANDRÉS RODRÍGUEZ-POSE, London School of Economics, UK
Best Paper Regional Studies – Urban and Regional Horizons
- Urban conceptions of economic inequalities – NIHAN AKYELKEN, University of Oxford, UK
Best Paper Regional Studies – Policy Debates
- Perceptions of regional inequality and the geography of discontent: insights from the UK – PHILIP MCCANN, University of Sheffield, UK
Best Paper Spatial Economic Analysis
- Global spatial economic interaction: knowledge spillover or technical diffusion? – XUN ZHANG, Beijing Normal University, China & Shanghai Finance Institute, China; GUANGHUA WAN, Chongqing Technology and Business University, China; JING LI, Chongqing Technology and Business University, China; ZONGYUE HE, Beijing University of Technology, China
Best Paper Territory, Politics, Governance
- What is policy assemblage? – GLENN C. SAVAGE, University of Western Australia, Australia
- Place, pipelines and political subjectivities in invisibilized urban peripheries – SOPHIE VAN NESTE, Institut National de Recherche Scientifique, Canada
Best Paper Regional Studies, Regional Science
- Well-being and unemployment during the Great Recession: an empirical analysis across UK local authority districts – KEVIN MULLIGAN & MARTA ZIEBA, University of Limerick, Ireland
Best Paper Area Development and Policy
- The iron Silk Road: how important is it? – PÉTER BUCSKY, University of Pécs, Hungary
Best Referees Regional Studies
- MARCO BELLANDI, University of Florence, Italy
- ROBERT HASSINK, University of Kiel, Germany
- ERICA SANTINI, University of Trento, Italy
Best Referee Spatial Economic Analysis
- ABHIMANYU GUPTA, University of Essex, UK
Best Referees Territory, Politics, Governance
- COLIN FLINT, Utah State University, USA
- GUNILLA OLSSON, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Best Referee Regional Studies, Regional Science
- CRISTINA PEÑASCO, University of Cambridge, UK
Best Referee Area Development and Policy
- MATT GLASSER, Centre for Urban Law and Finance in Africa, South Africa
Best Papers Regions eZine
- Sidewalk Labs closed down – whither Google’s smart city – CONSTANCE CARR, MARKUS HESSE, Department of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Financialisation and urban densification: London and Manchester’s niche student housing markets – STEFANIA FIORENTINO, University of Cambridge, UK & NICOLA LIVINGSTONE, MICHAEL SHORT, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, UK
Best Paper RSA Blog
- Old-fashioned innovation theories ignore the affordances of peripheries: How slow innovators flourish in Europe`s peripheral regions – HEIKE MAYER, University of Bern, Switzerland
Best RSA Blog Student Summer Series 2021
- Understanding trends of population loss across Irish Electoral Divisions since 1986 – JOSH O’DRISCOLL, University College Cork, Ireland
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