Tasos Kitsos

Regional Inequalities in the UK: a Research Showcase Join us for an afternoon of insight and discussion on regional inequalities with a special focus on the West Midlands.

📢 You’re invited: “Regional Inequalities in the UK: A Research Showcase”

Join us for an #Festival of #Social #Science showcase of #research and evidence on #regional #inequalities of opportunity and #wellbeing.

When: Friday 24/10, 2-4
Where: Library of Birmingham
Register 👉: tinyurl.com/bdx77a3u

Our new paper on "Place-based solidarity: Crisis, austerity and the devolution of responsibility"

authors: Coco Huggins and Mia Gray

is now available free online: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

3/3 and a podcast!!

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KIBS and Non-KIBS Business Dynamics in Urban Micro-Spaces A Google Notebook Briefing Document of our research: KIBS’ and non-KIBS’ business creation and closure: evidence from the urban…

2/3 Quite interesting results. a 6 minute grasp of the paper

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KIBS’ and non-KIBS’ business creation and closure: evidence from the urban micro-space Our study explores the factors influencing the creation and closure of firms in urban micro-spaces, highlighting the relationship between knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) and non-KIBS s...

📣 I've got Google Notebook to make a briefing note of our recent #research paper with Korneliusz Pylak and @tomekmickiewicz.bsky.social "KIBS’ and non-KIBS’ #business creation and closure: evidence from the #urban micro-space" in @regionalstudies.bsky.social

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Job Vacancy at Aston University: Lecturer Aston Business School, located in the heart of Birmingham – England’s second largest city – seeks to appoint a highly motivated, ambitious and committed academic with a passion for making a positive c...

📢📢 We have an #academic #job ( #lectureship) in #International #Business at @astonpress.bsky.social. Would particularly suit a quantitative oriented scholar that will benefit from and contribute to our great local environment.

#econsky
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A major new report published for anyone interested in #innovation, #productivity, #industrialstrategy, #econsky. I'll now do a short thread that pulls out the main findings and recommendations...

🚨 Heads up! If you're working on skilled migration and innovation, submit your papers to our GeoInno 2026 sessions in Budapest, 28-30 January 👇

Closing date or papers or extended abstracts: 14 July 2025.

www.geoinno2026.com/session/s8-g...

##EconSky 📉📈 #geosky

toilet paper shortages soon

⭐ Star collaborators @emilyfry.bsky.social @gthwaites.bsky.social, @dalilariba.bsky.social, Richmond Egyei and Enrico Vanino

🔗 Want to find out more? See the report launch (www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/the-p...) or read the report itself (www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...)

🚨 🚨 Interested in #regional #economic #inequalities in the #UK? Have a look at the video that came out of our project on the drivers of #wage disparities across English #cities.

#econsky📉📈
#geosky

@astonpress.bsky.social
@resfoundation.bsky.social
@sheffielduni.bsky.social

Our latest report by @emilyfry.bsky.social @tasoskitsos.bsky.social @gthwaites.bsky.social @dalilariba.bsky.social Richmond Egyei and Enrico Vanino looks at the impact of place in regional inequality.

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📈 Map data & make an impact with Hackney Foodbank

🔢 Help Leukaemia Care understand its reach

Find out more here 👇
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Special thanks to @ukri.org for the support and collaborators Richmond Egyei, @gthwaites.bsky.social, @emilyfry.bsky.social, @dalilariba.bsky.social & Enrico Vanino.

‪📣📣 Very happy to see our work on #regional #pay #disparities in the UK out.

#econsky📈📉
#geosky

@astonpress.bsky.social
@sheffielduni.bsky.social
@resfoundation.bsky.social

Have a look at the event and the report and stay tuned for more!

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www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

Great insight from @xiaoweixu.bsky.social in her presentation of new ‪@theifs.bsky.social‬ research - why overall job mobility across the UK is declining, for young graduates geographic mobility is increasing.

Young people know where the high paying labour markets are...‪

The pay postcode lottery • Resolution Foundation Britain is racked by pay divides – on gender, race, age and education status. But one of its starkest inequalities centres on geography, which is far more complex than Londoners earning more than ever...

Starting at 9.30am!

The pay postcode lottery: What is driving Britain’s place-based wage divides?

Watch our event with @ruthcurtice.bsky.social @gthwaites.bsky.social @xiaoweixu.bsky.social @henrimurison & Rachel Taylor, PWC here

www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/the-p...

Cork 2025 Conference Information 51st ANNUAL CONFERENCE Cork, Ireland ​ 18 and 19 June 2025

All ready and looking forward to welcome attendees to our annual #conference in #Cork next week! #RSAIBIS25

@decjordan.bsky.social
@calvjones.bsky.social

www.rsai-bis.org/cork-2025-co...

This is going to be so much craic the Grand Canyon gonna scuttle off to the gym and get on the 'roids to beef up.

Emotion work and the children of the Chilean exile, 50 years on Despite recent attempts to broaden the scope of migration research beyond its adult-centric focus, the experiences of forced displaced children remain underexplored. This article aims to address th...

Happy to see my article published now in JEMS
@scmrjems.bsky.social !
Heartfelt thanks to all the participants who generously shared their experiences. This work wouldn’t be possible without you.

@warwick-smlc.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Great as always attending the #RSA25 conference @regstud.bsky.social in Porto (amazing city)!
Glad for the feedback I received on my work with @tasoskitsos.bsky.social S Grabner & Delis on #transformative #resilience through #innovation

PhD Studentship: Unpacking Global Profit Shifting: The Impact of Tax Policies on Multinational Enterprises at Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership At jobs.ac.uk, you can apply for a PhD Studentship: Unpacking Global Profit Shifting: The Impact of Tax Policies on Multinational Enterprises. Explore our diverse range of PhD opportunities today.

🚨🚨 We have a #PhD #studentship with @ibprofaston.bsky.social (Centre for Business Prosperity (CBP), Aston Business School) and Miroslav Palanský @taxjustice.net on the #impact of #Tax #Policy on #MNEs funded by @mgsesrcdtp.bsky.social

#econsky📈📉

📅 Deadline: May 19!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMW972/p...

PhD Fellowship | Stone Center PSE

The Paris School of Economics Stone center on Global Wealth Dynamics is offering fully-funded PhD fellowships for student working on inequality. Deadline May 4. Details and applications here

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"At what point is cities changing just part of the general flux that makes places interesting to live in and when is it a problem?"

Holly Lewis of We Made That talks creative firms, workers, and neighbourhood gentrification in the latest episode of City Talks🎧

Listen now 👇
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📣📣 Do you work at the intersection of #digital transitions and #space? Do consider submitting to our (@tasoskitsos.bsky.social‬ & I) special issue in REGION 👀👇

"#DIGITAL #DISRUPTIONS OF SPACE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR #REGIONS AND #CITIES"

#econsky
#geosky
#geoinno

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"We are tackling the link between creatives and gentrification."

@tasoskitsos.bsky.social of Aston Business School talks his latest paper on creative firms, workers, and neighbourhood gentrification 🎧

Listen now 👇
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👂📚 Great to hear Tasos talking on our paper with Holly and Andrew!

Don’t Shoot the Pianist: Creative Firms, Workers, and Neighborhood Gentrification We examine links between creative activity and gentrification at the neighborhood level. These dynamics are both complex and important to understand. Artists may help upgrade inexpensive neighborho...

Here’s the full paper - it’s open access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Had a great time doing a @centreforcities.bsky.social podcast on our new paper (joint work with @maxnathan.bsky.social and @diana-gupo.bsky.social). Have a read of the paper, listen to the podcast and get in touch for more info!

links 👇

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