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Geography Seminar Series, Autumn 2025 lineup. Summer Summaries Check out what your colleagues have been up to! Robert Kloosterman, Universiteit van Amsterdam Migrant & Ethnic Entrepreneurs & the Emerging Societal Context Sarah Mills, Loughborough University: The Gamiflcation of Citizenship Ania Zielonka, Polish Academy of Sciences Mountain Rivers as Critical Hotspots of Secondary Microplastic Production Josh Wolstenholme, Loughborough University Sediment transport & flood risk: Why is it important and how can we monitor it? Trivik Verma, Loughborough University Constructing Just Mobility Futures Nick Midgley, Nottingham Trent University Assessment of tussac grassland degradation in the Falklands Islands Powerpoint Karaoke We've made describing other people's research a holiday tradition!

Check out the exciting Autumn 2025 line up for our Loughborough Geography Seminar Series! We are dedicated to creating an exciting space for knowledge exchange versus webinar-style lectures, so most of these talks are in person. Please feel free to DM with any questions!

On the 12th of November, the @regstud.bsky.social will host the RSA Women's Network Workshop. It will be a hybrid event, with topics covered including that of careers and CV's, academia in the #GlobalSouth, and grant application: For more and to register, see:
www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa-w...

Place-based leadership: advancing feminist, intersectional and anti-racist approaches Leadership is often hailed as an antidote to a range of place-based problems. Yet it continues to be a slippery, highly political and deeply uneven practice, and area of study. At a time of authori...

New in our #UrbanAndRegionalHorizons section: 'Place-based leadership: advancing feminist, intersectional and anti-racist approaches' by @emmao.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @drjwharrison.bsky.social

Announcing a forthcoming book, “Regions in Evolution - A History of Regional Planning”, a critical and deep analytical look at the ebbs & flows of regional planning globally over 100 years, with @drjwharrison.bsky.social & Daniel Galland, due to be published early in 2026

Webinar 'Where do Climate Leaders Begin? 19 June 2025, 5-6pm (CET)

The Department of Geography and Environment @lborouniversity.bsky.social is launching the MSc Climate Change, Energy and Humanitarian Action, a brand-new distance learning programme co-designed and delivered with @unitar.bsky.social.

💻 Register for an open webinar at unitar.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

If you have an idea for an Urban and Regional Horizons paper, do get in touch. URH is effectively a 'Debates & Discussion' section where we are looking for contributions that challenge our ways of thinking and propose step-changes in how we do regional studies

It was an absolute delight earlier this week to award Lance Newey with this years Urban and Regional Horizons Best Paper Award for his @regionalstudies.bsky.social paper | Absorptive Capacity, Complexity & Regional Renewal: A Developmental Psychology Perspective doi.org/10.1080/0034...

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Heike Jöns introducing @lborouniversity.bsky.social first Geography and Environment hologram lecture as part of our Yr 2 Globaliztion module. Johanna Hautala from the University of Vaasa is talking to our students about "Geographies of knowledge in the era of AI" #lovegeography @rgsibg.bsky.social

Climate Compatible Growth is led by Mark Howells and the @lborouniversity.bsky.social Centre for Sustainable Transitions: Energy, Environment, Resilience (STEER) based in the Department of Geography & Environment in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Brilliant to see this new Climate Compatible Growth brochure showcasing the positive impact this @lborouniversity.bsky.social led programme has had on achieving the transition to clean energy + sustainable economic growth in the Global South.

climatecompatiblegrowth.com#flipbook-df_...

This #Editorial forms part of the recently published 'Territorial development: new challenges in a fragmented world' collection of articles. Territorial development can be seen as a form of 'safe haven', allowing people to steer individual and collective projects www.tandfonline.com/journals/cre...

New in #OpenAccess: Highways and local development: insights from two decades of investments by Adelheid Holl www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New and in #OpenAccess: 'Trading borders: the importance of interregional integration and economy size for the impact of secession' by Gioele Figus, Peter McGregor, Stuart McIntyre & Graeme Roy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New #OpenAccess paper: 'The use and misuse of regional data: perspectives, challenges and policy implications from across the UK' by
James Black, Kevin Connolly, Sharada Nia Davidson & Mairi Spowage www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Four phases of city-regionalism in China: the state, geopolitics and business of mega city-region development Recent studies suggest that city-regionalism is mixed with, and overlaps with, geo-economic, political-administrative and geopolitical dimensions. However, these studies tend to focus on the comple...

Looking forward to reading this new article by Yi Li in @rsa-adp.bsky.social

Four phases of city-regionalism in China: the state, geopolitics and business of mega city-region development

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Oh no, doing some training and the video said 'if you don't watch the full video it will not record the activity as complete'. They are on to me 😱 😂

Spatial imaginaries and the construction of regions: a cultural political economy approach Spatial imaginaries are central in the construction of spaces of governance, as alternative conceptualisations of the region compete and combine with existing regional forms. This paper analyticall...

Excited to read 'Spatial imaginaries and the construction of regions: a cultural political economy approach' by Philip O’Brien in @rsa-tpg.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/2162...

A beautiful day at @lborouniversity.bsky.social for the first day of our Geographies of Education Virtual Fieldcourse! All those days in New York and in the UK when I prayed to wake up to nice weather and the one day I don't need it 😎🌞Today it's VR to visit to Hunan and Kassel Universities

Check out our new paper in IJURR on philanthropy and urban governance: BLOOMBERG’S GLOBAL MAYORALTY:
Philanthropy and the ‘Crisis of Capacity’ in City Government.
Wiley tells me there's a link here:

Today we launch our new report "CreaTech: How the fusion of emerging technologies and the Creative Industries can transform the UK's approach to skills, innovation and business", commissioned by The Royal Anniversary Trust and DCMS.

royalanniversarytrust.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Things you 💚💜 to see. Well done @charnwoodforest.bsky.social and @lborouniversity.bsky.social 👏 Great to see this initiative

Critical Planning Futures: New Directions in Planning Theory Planning lies at the heart of successful and sustainable places, yet planning scholarship often appears stuck in routinised patterns of thought. Critical Planning Futures brings together an internatio...

📘 Coming soon: "Critical Planning Futures - New Directions in Planning" (May 2025)

📖 Includes chapter with Miriam Jensen, Daniel Galland on "The mistreatment of time in planning theory: Towards planning beyond the clock in a world increasingly out-of-sync"

www.routledge.com/Critical-Pla...

For my non-university followers, there’s a real crisis in UK universities at the moment.

If you have children at university, or you want them to go in the next few years, or even if you just care about education and our regional economies, you might want to pay attention to what’s happening.

Loughborough’s research into living standards secures four more years of funding from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Loughborough’s Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP) has secured a further four-year partnership with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) to continue its work defining socially acceptable stand...

Brilliant to see @lborouniversity.bsky.social colleagues in the Centre for Research is Social Policy (CRSP) secure 4 more years funding from @jrf-uk.bsky.social to conduct essential policy facing research into living standards www.lboro.ac.uk/media-centre...

Highlight of my week: Sarah at work, who helps manage my diary, sending this screenshot saying it made her chuckle 😂 Although I’m northern I promised her I’m not that tight that I 'break up' with my wife every year to avoid Valentine’s...but it might mean break up if I don't remember 😬

Exciting opportunity to be Editor-in-Chief of the @regstud.bsky.social Regions and Cities Book Series. It is a great series with lots of fantastic contributions to advancing the field of regional studies. Do check out all the details about applying 👇

Exciting opportunity to become the new @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief. It is a great journal serving a very important role in the @regstud.bsky.social portfolio. Do take a look 👇

🚨 We’re Hiring! 🚨

The Regional Studies Association (RSA) is excited to announce an incredible opportunity to join our team as the Head of Partnerships and Engagement!

🔗 Learn more and apply here: bit.ly/4fMts6s

@rsachiefexec.bsky.social @miagray00.bsky.social @drjwharrison.bsky.social

Exciting opportunity to join the @regstud.bsky.social board as our new Treasurer. I've been on the RSA Board for 3 years and it's a great team. I've learned plenty and I highly recommend it

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Out of office is officially on for two whole weeks 🙌 Time for a 🍺