🌟Are you a PhD student or ECR? Join the RSA Student and EC Conference 📆3-4 September 2026 🌟
🔶 Emergent Directions in Regional Research
🌍 Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK
For detailed info, view the cfp and submit your abstract:
🔗 bit.ly/4kJkYBh
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Final webinar in the RSA and IPM collaboration
➡️ Netherlands Day Special: International Collaboration with academics from the Netherlands
📣 Jeroen Roose-Van Leijden & Nina Wols-Boons
🗓️ 11 May 13.00 BST
To register: bit.ly/3NRs0rm
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🌟 Abstract deadline extended⏳10 May for the 20th Regional Policies Conference 🌟
🔶Navigating Futures with Innovation: Resilient and Resurgent Regions
📆 17-18 September 2026
🌍 University of Birmingham, UK
For more info and to submit your paper:
🔗 bit.ly/4lkHHE1
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Recently published: 'Tracing paths to internationalisation: historical trajectories, ownership advantages and outward FDIs from Shanghai and Shenzhen' by Ruilin Yang, John Cantwell & Yijia Chen.
https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2025.2608008
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We're streaming the keynote from TRAKR workshop live from Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
➡️ Matters Beyond Knowledge – The Role of Valuation in Transition Studies and Potential Lessons for Regional Policy
📣 Bernhard Truffer , EAWAG, Switzerland
🗓️ 16 April 12.30 BST / 13.30 CEST
🔗 bit.ly/3EzQn69
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Newly published and #openaccess 'Drought and regional labour markets: evidence from Australia' by David Fleming-Muñoz & Tim Capon
doi.org/10.1080/21681376.20...
New #openaccess article ‘But we are a rich nation!': the persistent extractivist development myth in Algeria and Venezuela, by Luíza Cerioli
Read for free at doi.org/10.1080/21622671.20...
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🚨We are delighted to announce our 5th CEE conference is taking place 🌍 Poznan University of Economics And Business, Poland 🗓️ 14-16 September 2026 🚨
➡️ Resilience, Realignment, and Renaissance: Regional Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe
For detailed information:
🔗 bit.ly/4c3RyuY
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New article ‘Where do digital entrepreneurs thrive? The geography of Douyin vloggers in China, by Xue Peng & Sho Komatsu
Find more at doi.org/10.1080/23792949.20...
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✨Upcoming RSA webinars for your diary ✨
We've a varied selection of webinars ranging from RSA Research Networks, collaborations or Professional Development.
Click on the images below for more info.
For detailed info and to register: bit.ly/4vdq0uN
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The RSA is delighted to announce the publication of its 13th Policy Impact book: Improving Inclusive Innovation Outcomes: Lessons from Post-Industrial and Post-Conflict Cities.
Authored by Michael Glass et al.
Find out more www.regionalstudies.org/news/improvi...
🌟 Less than 2 weeks to submit your abstract for the 20th Regional Policies Conference 🌟
🔶Navigating Futures with Innovation: Resilient and Resurgent Regions
📆 17-18 September 2026
🌍 University of Birmingham, UK
For more info and to submit your paper:
🔗 bit.ly/4lkHHE1
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🚨 Three days to benefit from the Early Bird rate for #RSA26 🚨
Normal fees apply from 1st April.
🔶 Regions as Arenas in a Changing World
📆 15-18 June 2026
🌍 School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
To register:
🔗 bit.ly/4atPUlH
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We’ve highlighted the most-read articles from each journal in 2025. Explore the list at www.regionalstudies.org/new...
Our new RSA Policy Impact book is out!
One of our key findings: innovation and equity need not be in tension.
4 case studies: Medellin, Newcastle, Pittsburgh and Belfast.
Thanks @regstud.bsky.social 😀
www.regionalstudies.org/news/improvi...
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🌟We are livestreaming the Keynote from the TRAKR Workshop taking place next month 🌟
📌 Matters Beyond Knowledge – The Role of Valuation in Transition Studies and Potential Lessons for Regional Policy
📣 Bernhard Truffer
🗓️ 16 April 12.30 BST / 13.30 CEST
Info & register:
bit.ly/3EzQn69
Cover of the book entitled 'Improving inclusive innovation outcomes' with a pale blue cover showing clip art images of houses, tower blocks and bridges.
New RSA Policy Impact Book just published: “Improving inclusive innovation outcomes: Lessons from post-industrial and post-conflict cities” by Michael Glass et al. Find out more at www.regionalstudies.org/news/improvi...
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a PhD Student to join the Board of the Regional Studies Association.
www.regionalstudies.org/news/rsa-stu...
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🌟 Early Bird rate ends soon for #RSA26 🌟
Join the RSA community in Gothenburg in June.
🔶 Regions as Arenas in a Changing World
📆 15-18 June 2026
Normal fees apply from 1st April. For more info & to register:
🔗 bit.ly/4atPUlH
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Nature-based solutions aren't enough — we need community-based solutions too. Without people, there's no climate adaptation. 🌿
Join us to learn from El Pacífico's experience at @universidad-eafit.bsky.social
Special thanks to JAC El Pacífico & @regstud.bsky.social for making this possible
Recently published #openaccess 'Spatial imaginaries and the construction of regions: a cultural political economy approach' by Philip O'Brien
doi.org/10.1080/2162...
Why are international finance centres absent from debates on post-carbon transitions?
In this new commentary, Sabine Dörry calls for forensic research into the institutional structures through which IFCs constrain rapid and just transitions.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/2833...
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🌟Are you a PhD student or ECR? Join the RSA Student and EC Conference 📆3-4 September 2026 🌟
🔶 Emergent Directions in Regional Research
🌍 Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK
For detailed info, view the cfp and submit your abstract:
🔗 bit.ly/4kJkYBh
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