The Awards ceremony took place at the President’s Event on 14th November 2019 in London, UK. Please click here to view the photos. We are proud to announce the 2019 RSA Awards Winners:
Sir Peter Hall Award for Contribution to the Field
- Professor Meric Gertler, President of the University of Toronto, Canada
Student and Early Career Awards
- Nathaniel Lichfield Award – Clara Lea Dallaire-Fortier, Institute of Political Ecology, Croatia
- RSA PhD Student Award – Huiwen Gong, Kiel University, Germany
- RSA Routledge Early Career Award – Kean Fan Lim, Newcastle University, UK
Best Referee Regional Studies
- Silvia Rocchetta, Dublin City University Business School, Ireland
- Juan Carlos Leiva, Costa Rica Institute of Technology, Costa Rica
- James Wilson, Orkestra – Basque Institute of Competitiveness, Spain
Best Paper Regional Studies
- Proximity, knowledge base and the innovation process: towards an integrated framework
- Mila Davids, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Koen Frenken, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Best Referee Spatial Economic Analysis
- Harry Kelejian, University of Maryland, USA
Best Paper Spatial Economic Analysis
- Measuring regional inequality: to weight or not to weight?
- Konstantin Gluschenko, Novosibirsk State University, Russia
Best Referee Territory, Politics, Governance
- Mia Bennett, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Best Paper Territory, Politics, Governance
- Territories in contestation: relational power in Latin America
- Nick Clare, University of Nottingham, UK
- Victoria Habermehl, University of Sheffield, UK
- Liz Mason-Deese, University of Mary Washington, USA
Best Referee Regional Studies, Regional Science
- Brian Webb, Cardiff University, UK
Best Paper Regional Studies, Regional Science
- Students’ consumption expenditures in economic impact studies: assumptions revisited in an input–output approach for Scotland
- Kristinn Hermannsson, University of Glasgow, UK
- Peter McGregor, University of Strathclyde, UK
- Kim Swales, University of Strathclyde, UK
Best Referee Area Development and Policy
- Yangmi Koo, Seoul National University, South Korea
- Su Xiaobo, University of Oregon, USA
Best Paper Area Development and Policy
- Patronage and politics in a South African city: a case study of Nelson Mandela Bay
- Crispian Olver, Public Affairs Research Institute, South Africa
Routledge Best Book Award
- Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy
- By Sami Moisio, University of Helsinki, Finland
Recognition of Outstanding Contribution to the Regional Studies Association
- Alan Townsend, Durham University, UK