🌟The abstract portal is open for our 2026 Student and Early Career Conference 🌟 🔶 Emergent Directions in Regional Research 📆 3-4 September 2026 🌍 Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK For detailed information and to view the call for papers: 🔗 bit.ly/4kJkYBh 😊 🔁

🎇Our 2026 Regional Futures Conference will take place 📆 12-13 November, London 🎇 For more information on this popular conference and to view the full call for papers: bit.ly/4roSG1j 🔁 😊

🌟The abstract portal is open for our 2026 Student and Early Career Conference 🌟 🔶 Emergent Directions in Regional Research 📆 3-4 September 2026 🌍 Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK For detailed information and to view the call for papers: 🔗 bit.ly/4kJkYBh 😊 🔁

✨Upcoming Professional Development webinar ✨ 🔶 How to Enhance your Research: Tips for Academics 📆 18 March 12pm GMT / 1pm CET 📢 Don Webber 🪑 Kate Broadhurst For more information and to register: 🔗 bit.ly/rsaprofdev Free to attend, just need to register. 😊 🔁

🌟 Abstract Deadline Day for #RSA26 🌟 ⏳ 19th February 2026 Join the RSA community in Gothenburg in June. 🔶 Regions as Arenas in a Changing World: Rethinking Spatial Theories 📆 16 June 2026 For more information and to submit your paper: 🔗 bit.ly/4atPUlH 😊 🔁

📣 📣 The opening plenary for #RSA26 is now complete 📣 📣 The Early Career Plenary Speaker competition winner is: 🎉 @Kristin Smette Gulbrandsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 🎉 Kirstin joins a fantastic line up of speakers. For info on the plenary and conference: bit.ly/4atPUlH 😊 🔁

New @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social article 'Creating engagement in planned ecosystems: a case study on innovation districts' by Kathryn Anderson doi.org/10.1080/2168...

🌟We are delighted to announce the Student and Early Career Conference for 2026 🌟 🔶 Emergent Directions in Regional Research 📆 3-4 September 🌍 Cardiff Business School, UK To find out more about this fantastic conference, go to: 💻 bit.ly/4kJkYBh Please share with your networks 🔄😁

Looking for support to advance your research or develop new ideas? The RSA offers a range of grants designed to support innovative research and career development in regional studies and related fields. Deadline to apply: 3rd March 2026. Learn more at www.regionalstudies.org/funding-awards/

Looking for support to advance your research or develop new ideas? The RSA offers a range of grants designed to support innovative research and career development in regional studies and related fields. Deadline to apply: 3rd March 2026. Learn more at www.regionalstudies.org/funding-awards/

✨Missed the deadline to submit a paper to a SS at #RSA26? There's still time to submit to the general pool ✨ ⏳ Deadline: 19th February For more information on the conference: bit.ly/4atPUlH Join the RSA community in Gothenburg ➡️ Regions as Arenas in a Changing World 📆 15-18 June 2026 😀🔄

As the EU discusses a ‘Made in Europe’ strategy & prepares to unveil its Industrial Accelerator Act, where has the UK got to on industrial strategy? Our recent critical review in @regionalstudies.bsky.social gets you up to speed. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @regstud.bsky.social

Is the UK’s industrial strategy really place based? New @rsablog.bsky.social blog on our recent @regionalstudies.bsky.social paper. Blog here: regions.regionalstudies.org/ezine/articl... paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @regstud.bsky.social @rsaibis.bsky.social @prt1969.bsky.social

Still time to register for the upcoming IPM & RSA webinar 🔶 Pride of Place in the UK 📆 9 February 1pm GMT / 2pm CET 📢 Cathy Parker; Rebecca Madgin; Chloe Steadman & Ilze Mertena 🪑Jenny Kanellopoulou To register for free: lounge.regionalstudies.org/...

🎇Submit your abstract to one of the open sessions submitted to #RSA26 🎆 To gind out more, go to: bit.ly/4aCzjLl Submitted session: 12th February General pool: 19th February ➡️ Regions as Arenas in a Changing World 📆 15-18 June 2026 🌍 University of Gothenburg, Sweden

🌟 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... @regstud.bsky.social

⏳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. 🔁 😊

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

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 @rsa-adp.bsky.social @rsa-tpg.bsky.social @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social

🌟 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...

🚀 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... 🔁😁

🚨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