As part of the RSA’s 60th anniversary celebrations, this curated collection of previously published articles from the RSA’s journals highlights the contribution of regional research to policy development and practice. Released in alignment with the 2025 Annual Conference theme, Navigating Regional Transformation, the articles have been made freely accessible for a period of time to support critical engagement with the complex challenges and opportunities facing regions today. The collection offers both a reflection on the intellectual foundations of the field and a resource for contemporary research and policy discourse.
Regional Studies
From regional to global and back again? A future agenda for regional evolution and (de)globalised production networks in regional studies
Henry Wai-chung Yeung (Published 19 Mar 2024)
Regions, emotions and left-behindness: a phase model for understanding the emergence of regional embitterment
Susann Schäfer, Matthias Hannemann & Sebastian Henn (Published 12 Jul 2023)
Spatial Economic Analysis
Behavioural theory and regional development: nurturing cultures of possibility
Robert Huggins & Piers Thompson (Published 18 Mar 2025)
The geography of interregional FDI activity in Europe: uneven distribution and determinants
Dimitris Kallioras, Evangelos Rasvanis, George Petrakos, Panos Manetos, Maria Adamakou, Maria Tsiapa & Miguel Ángel Almazán-Gómez (Published 12 Feb 2025)
Territory, Politics, Governance
Discontent in the ‘peripheries’: an investigation of the rise of populism in Italy
Giulia Urso, Alessandra Faggian & Alessandro Palma (Published 04 Apr 2023)
Grassroots authoritarianism: WhatsApp, middle-class boundary-making and pandemic governance in New Delhi’s neighbourhoods
Lipika Kamra, Philippa Williams & Pushpendra Johar (Published 16 Feb 2023)
Regional Studies, Regional Science
Regional development and non-territorial policies: meaningful evidence of a neglected relation
Jorge Malheiros, Paulo Miguel Madeira & Mário Vale (Published 02 Apr 2024)
Change agency in social innovation: an analysis of activities in social innovation processes
Monika Bandi Tanner, Samuel Wirth, Heike Mayer & Pascal Tschumi (Published 19 Jan 2023)
Area Development and Policy
Capitalism qua development in an era of planetary crisis
Joel Wainwright (Published 28 Feb 2024)
Still a work in progress: the ongoing evolution of the role conception underlying China’s Belt and Road initiative
Jörn-Carsten Gottwald, Sebastian Bersick & Niall Duggan (Published 28 Feb 2024)
Finance and Space
Insurance in a changing climate: from commonsense to catastrophe
Grace Martini & Kate Booth (Published 14 Jul 2024)
To whom does the money go? Mapping the uneven financial geographies of venture capital in ‘Silicon Savannah’, Kenya
Ben Mkalama & Stephan Ouma (Published 13 Oct 2024)