Ireland

The Chair of the RSA Ireland Section is Justin Doran, Director of the Spatial and Regional Economics Research Centre and a Lecturer in the Department of Economics, Cork University Business School, University College Cork

“The Regional Studies Irish Section (RSAIR) was officially open in 1974 to provide a forum to discuss regional issues in Ireland.

The conferences and workshops hosted by the Irish Section continue to attract policy makers and academics whose interests are in the area of regional studies and in the coming years we will continue to contribute to discussions on regional policies in Ireland.

I would encourage those who are not already members of the RSA to join and to contribute and attend the events of the Irish Section.

Please feel free to contact me to discuss regional studies in Ireland.”

Aims of this section

• To stimulate regional awareness, and to assess and advise on regional issues and policies affecting the public and private sectors and local communities.
• To facilitate contact and exchange of ideas between practitioners and researchers in the field of regional development and policy.
• To strengthen the ongoing and dynamic process of spatial planning in order to promote an integrated approach to urban and rural, regional and local development.
• To support regional policies that seek to achieve balanced regional development leading to innovative approaches to the optimum utilisation of the social and natural resource potential of each region, and a reduction in the disparities within and between regions.
• To advocate strategies for regional development that are complementary to policies for sustainable development, with full regard to quality of life, social cohesion, and conservation of the environment and the natural heritage.
• To support proposals for the effective implementation of regional development strategies through participative governance structures organised at local, regional and national levels that can facilitate integration of multi-annual programmes.

Please note: The Ireland Section is a limited agent for the Regional Studies Association but without any authority to incur financial liability for that Association.

Forthcoming Event

RSA-Irish Section Workshop 2024 – Transport and the Regions

Friday 15 March 2024, 2:00-4:00, AL2.15, Aras Na Laoi, University College Cork

Provisional Program
14:00-14:15 Registration.
14:15-14:45 Conor O’Driscoll – Groningen University: Commuting Flows and Land-Use Patterns in The Cork Metropolitan Area.
14:45-15:15 Hannah Daly – University College Cork: Ireland’s carbon budget implications for transport decarbonisation.
15:15-16:00 Coffee

Online Registration at: http://rsa-ireland.weebly.com/register.html 
For conference details: Workshop information
For further information: chris.vanegeraat@mu.ie

Past Events

RSA-Irish Section Workshop 2023 – The role of Enterprise Agencies in Economic Development ​

Workshop information

RSA Irish Section AGM 2023

RSA-Irish Section Annual Conference 2022

Thursday 8 September 2022, Maynooth University  ​

More details available here.

For conference updates see: http://rsa-ireland.weebly.com

RSA-Irish Section RSA-Irish Section Workshop 2022 – Rural Regeneration

More details available here.