⏳ 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... 🔁😁

🚨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 😀🔁

🚨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 🌟

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...

📢 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

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

🔥 Shanghai: A city, a strategy, a regional powerhouse. Yin Dou & Yishuai Zhang unpack how Shanghai’s leadership shaped the Yangtze River Delta over 4 decades. 📖 Dive into the RSA summer blog: bit.ly/4l4dG9J 💬 Will the YRD model shape China’s future? @regstud.bsky.social @regionalstudies.bsky.social

#RSAsummerseries blog is out! This time from China! More coming soon!🔥 @rsa-regions.bsky.social @rsaeurope.bsky.social @regstud-brazil.bsky.social @rsa-adp.bsky.social @rsa-tpg.bsky.social @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social @rsachiefexec.bsky.social @financeandspace.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social

🌟We are delighted to announce the next ANZRSAI & RSA Conference 🌟 🔶Population Change and Regional Resilience 📆1-2 Dec 2025 🌏University of Waikato, New Zealand To view the CfPs and for more info, go to: 💻 bit.ly/4okCnlk Join us in the beautiful city of Hamilton

⌛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 💻 bit.ly/3GUdVWW 🔄😀

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

🎉 Thrilled to share that City-REDI's @anne-e-green.bsky.social has been honoured with the 2025 @regstud.bsky.social Distinguished Service to Regional Studies Award for her outstanding contributions to regional economic development and service to the field! 🌍🏆 www.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-rs...

We were delighted that Kathleen Stokes (DCU) and Mary Lawhon (University of Edinburgh) have received the Best Paper Award for 'What counts as infrastructural labour? Community action as waste work in South Africa’ (doi.org/10.1080/2379...) www.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-adp-best-paper-award/

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...

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...

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...

🔔 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

Our first student presentation is by Biagio Lacolare, University of Naples Federico II who is looking at spatial patterns of foreign residential segregation.

Second up is Gabriele Dore who is researching depopulation dynamics at Università di Firenze. @gssisocialsci.bsky.social

Our third presentation this afternoon is by Giada Garofani @liverpooluni.bsky.social who is sharing her research on English neighbourhoods and life trajectories.

We now have Rachel Barber from Queen's University & EHESS sharing her research on community engagement and policy intervention in places left behind. @gssisocialsci.bsky.social

Our final presentation today is Turan Abbaszade, University of Cambridge, sharing her research on urban development and economic resilience @gssisocialsci.bsky.social

This morning’s 2nd speaker is Annalisa Busetta (UNIPA). In her talk, “Mapping Demographic Inequalities: Beyond the Expected,” she highlights the role of spatiality in demography & challenges us to look beyond traditional models to uncover hidden patterns of inequality. @gssisocialsci.bsky.social

The Summer College continues today at UNIPA and our first speaker is Daniele Vignoli. He explains changing demographics in his seminar on Positive Demography: Re-Thinking Demographic Dynamics.

Onto our 2nd keynote and Alessandra Faggian @gssisocialsci.bsky.social convinces us why peripheral regions are so important.

And the 2025 Summer College has begun - with Fabio Mazzola giving an opening keynote on human capital and regional development.

🔔 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

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...

We were delighted to welcome our New Zealand Territorial Ambassador, Etienne Nel, to the @regstud.bsky.social office today. He gets the prize for travelling the furthest to see us!

We are delighted that @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social has won the 2025 @rsa-tpg.bsky.social Best Referee Award. Watch the recording with EiC @bigcitypolitics.bsky.social here www.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-tpg-best-referee/

Congratulations to @lucynatarajan.bsky.social et al on winning the @regionalstudies.bsky.social Best Paper Award for their paper - 'Social Infrastructure and 'Left Behind Places''. Watch the recording at www.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-regional-studies-best-paper/

The @rsa-tpg.bsky.social Best Paper Award goes to Gonzalo Álvarez and Cristian Ovando Santana for 'Indigenous People and Paradiplomacy: Confronting the State-centric Order from Latin American Transborder Spaces’. Watch the recording ww.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-tpg-best-paper/

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...

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

⏳ 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... 😃🔄

Congratulations to Lance Newey for receiving the 2025 Urban and Regional Horizons Best Paper Award for his paper: Absorptive Capacity, Complexity and Regional Renewal: A Developmental Psychology Perspective. doi.org/10.1080/0034... @regionalstudies.bsky.social @drjwharrison.bsky.social

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...

Newcastle ranks high economically in the North East 📈 Yet, it faces alarmingly high child poverty rates. What explains this contradiction? 🧵 A thread via the @regstud.bsky.social @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social @regionalstudies.bsky.social ⬇️

The @regstud.bsky.social is inviting new voices for its Summer Blog Series! 📝 Learn more & contribute: www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/ #RSAblog #ChildPoverty #GeographiesOfInequality

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...