Regional Studies Association

🌟 Next Institute of Place Management and Regional Studies Association webinar happening soon 🌟

🔶 Pride of Place in the UK
📆 9 February 1pm GMT / 2pm CET
📢 Cathy Parker; Chloe Steadman & Ilze Mertena
🪑Jenny Kanellopoulou

For info & to register: https://www.regionalstudies.org/events/2025-ipm-rsa/

A new SEA paper, “Why size really doesn’t matter: from megacity myths to place-sensitive prosperity” by @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social, challenges the idea that bigger cities are always more successful.

Open access: doi.org/10.1080/1742...

In case you missed it, the 2025 Area Development and Policy Annual Lecture paper is a must-read.
Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common by Kohei Saito & Ryuji Sasaki

doi.org/10.1080/2379...

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⏳12 days to submit your application to the ARL, @rsaeurope.bsky.social and University of Amsterdam joint summer school. ⏳

🔶 New Perspectives on Urban Infrastructures
📆 8-10 July

School is aimed at 2 & 3 year PhD students.

For more info & submit your application: www.rsaeurope.org/event/summer...

The next RSA Research Network webinar is in 24hrs.

🔶 Green Dreams in Peripheral Development Series: Securitised Resource Peripheries
📆 4th February 09:00-10:30 GMT

For more info and to register: www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa-r...

RSA webinars are open to all and free to attend.

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A critical review of the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy: lessons for ‘place-based’ policy The paper explores the implications for regional development contained within the UK’s recently launched Modern Industrial Strategy White Paper (2025). We critically examine the industrial strategy...

Delighted our recent @regionalstudies.bsky.social paper ‘A critical review of the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy’ is getting so many reads and attention; it’s a call to arms for putting place at the centre of a modern industrial strategy @regstud.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Great to see Regional Studies and Spatial Economic Analysis Journals being represented in the Meet the Editors session at #GEOINNO26 in Budapest, Hungary.

@dfkogler.bsky.social Ugo Fratesi

💬 What should RSABlog explore next? Share your ideas!
📣 Our poll is live on LinkedIn 👉 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Eager to hear from you:
@regstud.bsky.social @rsa-regions.bsky.social @financeandspace.bsky.social @rsaeurope.bsky.social @rsa-adp.bsky.social @rsa-tpg.bsky.social

Beyond Agglomeration. Towards A Rethinking of Industrial Strategy? - RSA Main In recent years, industrial strategy has returned to the centre of political and economic debate. Governments across advanced economies are once again asking how they can shape growth, support innovat...

New @rsablog.bsky.social ‘Beyond Agglomeration.’ Time to go beyond agglomeration as an organising principle in industrial strategy & take place seriously. @regionalstudies.bsky.social @rsaibis.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

New year starts great with the CfA for the Workshop ‘Regional Inequalities & Perceived Left-Behindness’(w @regstud.bsky.social, YSI & Edgenet)

📅 11–13/05 2026 | 📍 L’Aquila
PhD & Early Career
Keynote speakers: @stefaniafiorentino.bsky.social @simonaiammarino.bsky.social @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social

Speakers: Joanie Willett, Madeleine Eriksson, Al Rainnie, Harry Pitts and Darryn Snell

@regstud.bsky.social @cornwallcouncil.bsky.social @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @hass-cornwall.bsky.social

Warm invitation for your insightful participation! 😊
@regstud.bsky.social

@rsa-regions.bsky.social

@financeandspace.bsky.social

@rsaeurope.bsky.social

@regstud-brazil.bsky.social

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Human Flourishing Geographic Index (HFGI): A County-level Dataset for Measuring Regional Flourishing in the United States - RSA Main Policymakers often rely on familiar indicators such as GDP, employment rates, and education levels to assess regional well-being. Yet these metrics tell only part of the story. Human flourishing, enco...

🌟 New RSA blog:
The Human Flourishing Geographic Index (HFGI) offers a new way to study regions—tracking happiness, belonging, purpose, and well-being at fine spatial and temporal scales across the U.S.
By Stefano Iacus & Devika Jain

🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

When Democracy Centralizes: Why Ghana Still Governs from the Center - RSA Main Ghana is often celebrated as one of Africa’s most stable democracies—peaceful transitions of power, competitive elections, and a vibrant civic sphere (Gyimah-Boadi 2009; Paller 2019). Yet beneath this...

🚀 First blog in our Historical Regions series is live.

Why does a celebrated democracy like Ghana still govern from the center?

Isaac Asante-Wusu unpacks how colonial legacies, party politics entrenched centralization—despite decades of democracy.

🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...

Register for the RSA CREST webinar next week "Sustainable Cross-border Innovation Systems" which will explore obstacles to sustainable development in regions crossing national boundaries.
🗓️ 27 Nov 11am GMT
Register at lounge.regionalstudies.org/Meetings/Mee...

Things about to begin for 2025 @regstud.bsky.social #RegionalFutures Conference…

🕰️ Extending warm invitations to our RSA Community for contributions☺️
@regstud.bsky.social
@rsa-regions.bsky.social
@financeandspace.bsky.social
@rsaeurope.bsky.social
@regstud-brazil.bsky.social
@rsa-adp.bsky.social
@rsa-tpg.bsky.social
@rsa-rsrs.bsky.social
@rsachiefexec.bsky.social

⏳ Just over a week to go – final spaces left!

The programme is now live for the RSA 60th Anniversary Workshop: Inclusive Innovation for Regional Futures (30 Sept, Manchester).

👉 Register free: www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa60...
@regstud.bsky.social, @alliancembs.bsky.social

#RSA60 Anniversary Workshop: Inclusive Innovation for Regional Futures: Bridging Economic Development, Ecological Recovery and Social Equity

Join us at @alliancembs.bsky.social, @officialuom.bsky.social on 30 Sept 2025.

Register here 👉 www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa60... @regstud.bsky.social

🚨 RSA Latin America Conference - Registration Deadline Extended 🚨

▶️Adapting Local and Regional Development to Changing Environments
⏰ 22-24 October 2025
🌎 Monterrey, Mexico

Registration deadline: 23rd September 2025

www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsala...

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🚨The 2nd webinar in the #YSI and #RegStud supported series organised by @max-roessler.bsky.social & @crhistianjoel.bsky.social happening soon. 🚨

🕰️ 16th Sept 2pm BST / 3pm CEST
▶️ Spatial imaginaries of ‘left behind places’ in policy discourse

bit.ly/47hnppY

Free to attend. 😁🔄

🚨Open Session submitted for the upcoming RSA & ANZRSAI Conference 🚨

S01: Rethinking Talent Geographies in Shrinking and Peripheral Regions: New Methods, Global Patterns, and Policy Innovation

For more information on this session and the conference:

💻 bit.ly/4okCnlk

Abstracts by: 19 September

🚨Abstract Deadline Day for 2025 Regional Futures Conference 🚨

⌛18 August

Join the RSA community in 🌎London, UK 🗓️13-14 November.

For more information and to submit your abstract:

🔗 bit.ly/4lgfLj3

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🚨We are delighted to announce our closing plenary for RSA Regional Futures Conference, 13-14 November 🚨

📣Patricia Daley, University of Oxford
🪑Zack Taylor, EiC TPG

🔶 Territory, Politics, Governance Lecture

Abstract deadline approaching: ⌛18 Aug

ℹ️and submit: bit.ly/4lgfLj3

Join us in London 🌟

🚨We are delighted to announce our opening plenary for RSA Regional Futures Conference, 13-14 November 🚨

📣Andres Rodriguez-Pose & Rachel Franklin
🪑Luisa Corrado

🔶Spatial Economic Analysis Lecture

We have extended the abstract deadline: ⌛18 August

ℹ️and submit: bit.ly/4lgfLj3

Join us in London 🌟

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The @regstud.bsky.social and @rsaibis.bsky.social seek to appoint a new Co-Editor for @spatialeconomic.bsky.social

Deadline: 30 September 2025
Start Date: 1 January 2026
Open to applicants worldwide

More info www.regionalstudies.org/news/sea-co-...

The journal @spatialeconomic.bsky.social seeks a Digital Media Editor to lead its online engagement strategy.

🔍Ideal for scholars with an interest in spatial economics & research dissemination

Start: Jan 2026
Deadline: 30 Sept 2025
More info: www.regionalstudies.org/news/sea-dig...