Alan Kinder

📢 Call for Editors

We invite applications for 2 Editors for @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social . Help shape the future of this leading #openaccess journal in regional studies.
Full call at www.regionalstudies.org/news/rsrs-ed...

🗓️ Deadline: 30 Sept 2025

And here's another one! @elvirauyarra.bsky.social www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa60... @regstud.bsky.social

Nice to see some @regstud.bsky.social 60th anniversary events being celebrated around the world, by doing what we do best: bringing those passionate about regions together. www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa60...

⌛Two weeks to abstract submission deadline ⌛

🔶 Beyond GDP: Measuring Just and Green Transitions for Resilient Societies

Rethink how we measure progress beyond income, toward green, inclusive, resilient economies.

Abstract deadline: 4th August 2025

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For the avoidance of doubt, here are twelve good reasons (including some that might surprise you) to study subjects in the humanities and social sciences. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

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Not a bad location for the @cjres.bsky.social annual conference! Looking forward to it.

We are delighted to present the 2025 Regional Studies Association Institutional Ambassador Award to ARL - Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association. Watch the online ceremony with @rsachiefexec.bsky.social and Britta Bockhorn at www.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-in...

Researching regions: The Professional Challenges Experienced By Regional Researchers - RSA Main In 2024 and early 2025, a large number of Regional Studies Association (RSA) members participated in a series of focus group sessions convened by the RSA to understand the priorities of the regional s...

🔥 What are the biggest pressures facing regional researchers today?
Find out in this new RSA blog by @rsachiefexec.bsky.social & @gretegans.bsky.social, based on RSA’s 2024–25 focus groups.
Read: bit.ly/406UEb9
Also✨ Rolling call for blogs = OPEN!
🌍 Summer blog series lands soon—watch this space.

Researching regions: The Professional Challenges Experienced By Regional Researchers - RSA Main In 2024 and early 2025, a large number of Regional Studies Association (RSA) members participated in a series of focus group sessions convened by the RSA to understand the priorities of the regional s...

This @regstud.bsky.social blog summarises the challenges facing regional researchers. Thanks to all those who contributed their experiences and to @gretegans.bsky.social for working with me to put this together www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

Very pleased to see the @regstud.bsky.social featuring in this handy map of the UK academic-policy ecosystem, alongside colleagues from @rtpiplanners.bsky.social upen.ac.uk/the-academic...

Pleased to see DG Christophidou's address to the @regstud.bsky.social Annual Conference in Porto up on our website. Interesting to revisit this and reflect on the three research themes in her 'call to action' www.regionalstudies.org/news/call-to...

International finance and the global polycrisis It has become commonplace to suggest that we are living through a kind of ‘global polycrisis’. This article shows how the mobilisation of international finance has been at the core of political res...

🚨New in Finance & Space 🚨

Eric Helleiner delivers a tour de force analysis of international finance amid polycrisis, encompassing:

🌍 Pandemic
🚩 Geopolitical conflict
🔥 Climate crisis
💱 Geoeconomic fragmentation
💣 Impending financial crisis?

Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted to have Victoria Grout join the @regstud.bsky.social team as its Business Support Officer. Welcome aboard Victoria! www.regionalstudies.org/news/busines...

We're super excited to be supporting #YSI @max-roessler.bsky.social and @crhistianjoel.bsky.social on this fantastic webinar series. Some great speakers confirmed.

To find out more and register, starts 16 July: ysi.ineteconomics.org/event/ysi-rs...

A big @regstud.bsky.social welcome to Marcus Atkinson, our new Head of Partnerships and Engagement. Many of you might have met Marcus already, at our Annual Conference in Porto. I'm sure others will have an opportunity to meet and work with Marcus very soon. www.regionalstudies.org/news/welcome...

Great to see Etienne: all the way from Dunedin (NZ) to Falmer, Sussex (UK) to be stood in front of a photo of Lugano (It). Who wouldn't feel jetlagged after that!

Could there be a more timely call? We are offering up to £300k for international research projects on a series of transnational and planetary challenges including digital technology, global health and earth system governance. Please spread the word!
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/know...

Lovely evening at the EURA25 conference. Thanks to local organisers @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social and everyone at EURA for putting on such a welcoming event.

Looking forward to hearing about the @rtpiplanners.bsky.social international strategy at the EURA conference 2025

Yes I took these place references to signal recognition of the way policy and place are entangled, whereas the article seemed to trivialise the use of place names and the places themselves. Maybe a case of a politician being ahead of the journalist on this occasion…

⏳ Two weeks to apply for Student and ECR Conference ⏳

⏱️ Deadline: 24 June

🗓 9–10 September 2025
📍 University of Westminster, London, UK

For more information on this conference and to apply:

www.regionalstudies.org/events/2025s...

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The Geordie Child Poverty Puzzle - RSA Main Child poverty is regarded as a multidimensional, yet heavily economically based phenomenon. Previous studies on the UK or OECD countries underline the role of low income, job insecurity and worklessne...

In “The Geordie Child Poverty Puzzle”, the RSA blog examines why child poverty persists despite economic growth.
It questions our measures of local “success” and sheds light on overlooked disparities. @rsa-regions.bsky.social @rsaeurope.bsky.social @rsa-adp.bsky.social
🔗 bit.ly/45KVmOT

So impressed to see this call emerging so soon after the arrival of a new editor in chief for this amazing series. www.regionalstudies.org/news/welcome...

We have a call out for a special issue of the RSA Blog focused on Asian Perspectives on Regional Development. Find out more www.regionalstudies.org/new...

Well said. Researchers with expertise in this area may be interested in the call: www.regionalstudies.org/news/rsa-rcc...

Stuck in place: why fewer people moving home matters for housing, jobs and society - RSA Main The first signs of a slowdown in residential address changing were identified towards the end of the last century, starting in the USA, as is so often the case with social trends and then being found ...

Delighted to see this @rsablog.bsky.social by Tony Champion emerging from a @regstud.bsky.social seminar series collaboration with the UK MHCLG. Some very important points raised here about UK internal migration, from a foremost expert in the field. www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

🔔 Call for Abstracts

Join the “Beyond GDP” Conference the RCC, in partnership with the @regstud.bsky.social
Rethink how we measure progress beyond income, toward green, inclusive, resilient economies. 🌱📊🌍

📝 Submit now: www.regionalstudies.org/events/beyon...

#BeyondGDP #SEE #InclusiveGrowth

Call for Proposals: RSA Regions & Cities Book Series on 'Places, Networks, and Uneven Spatial Development' that address the complex geographies of uneven spatial development. Find out more at bit.ly/3ZEP7YW

So exciting to see this new call for the @regstud.bsky.social Regions and Cities book series, put together by the new Editor in Chief Stephen Ramos (and colleagues). Great work everyone and looking forward to the responses. www.regionalstudies.org/news/rc-plac...