Ambassadors
The Regional Studies Association has an extensive international network of Branches, Sections, Divisions and Territorial Ambassadors who work together with the Association to expand the opportunities and benefits offered to its members and to introduce the Association to those who do not yet know us.
These networks are set up to organise a range of activities open to all and to inform and disseminate information on regional studies at a local, regional and/or national level. They also act as an invaluable link to the Association for those who work in a language other than English and also for those who cannot attend major events organised by the Association.
If you would like more information on the global RSA territorial representatives scheme, please read the Ambassador Guidelines and the Branch-Chair-Guidelines or contact samantha.wannop@regionalstudies.org
Please click on our interactive map to find your nearest Territorial Representative.
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Territorial Networks
The Regional Studies Association has an extensive international network of Branches, Sections, Divisions and Territorial Ambassadors who work together with the Association to expand the opportunities and benefits offered to its members and to introduce the Association to those who do not yet know us.
Research Networks
RSA Research Networks are formed by RSA members interested in collaborating to examine an issue that responds to the aims and goals of the Association, and which is of interest and concern to both members and non-members. These issues need not necessarily to have a direct policy focus, but the examination would normally lead to policy-related conclusions.
The maximum funding for Research Network Grant Scheme is:
- £10,000 (c. $12,700; c. €11,200) for newly established networks;
- £7,500 (c. $9,500; c. €8,400) for renewing networks.
Read more about this grant scheme here.
Online Communities
We also have active communities across social media platforms.
Follow @regstud to keep up to date with the latest research, news and opinion in regional studies and related fields.
You can also follow our Publication Twitter pages
- Regional Studies
- Spatial Economics Analysis
- Territory Politics Governance
- Area Development and Policy
- Regional Studies, Regional Science
- RSA Blog
- Regions eZine
We have several Facebook pages and groups including:
Regional Studies Association Facebook page,
RSA Student and Early Career group
Women in Regional Studies and Regional Science
Please see below for details of our Student and Early Career Facebook group, and the RSA Women’s Network WhatsApp group (a very active and supportive online community).
Facebook pages include dedicated journal pages:
- Regional Studies
- Area Development and Policy
- Territory Politics, Governance
- Spatial Economics Analysis
- Regional Studies, Regional Science
Please do follow our Instagram account.
We have a dedicated LinkedIn page, and two popular groups: the EU Cohesion Policy group, and RSA Pandemics, Cities, Regions and Industry Group.
The Regional Studies journal also has a dedicated LinkedIn page.
On Facebook, we have our Regional Studies Association-Students & Early Careers open group where PhD and Early Career researchers in the regional studies community can post and discuss topics of interest. Members are an active and engaged group of students and Early Career scholars with a multidisciplinary interest in social, political, economic and environmental aspects of cities, regions,and interstitial spaces.
The Women in Regional Studies and Regional Science is a group where early and mid career women from the fields of regional studies and science join to discuss topical issues in the field.
We also support the Women’s Network via a closed Women’s Network Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/614254942304587/). This was an outcome from our earlier in-person RSA Networking Workshops for Early and Mid-Career Women in Regional Studies and Science. If you would like to join, please click on the link above and request to join.
As part of our ongoing commitment to supporting early and mid-career women in regional studies, we have also set up a Women’s Network WhatsApp group. This group continues to grow and has now reached over 80 members. Members of the group regularly engage in discussion and conversation, sharing tips and disseminating information.
If you are interested in joining the WhatsApp group, please email Alex for more information.
