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...

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

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...

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... Video below

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

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....

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 😱 😂

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

📘 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.

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

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

Brilliant to attend the @lborouniversity.bsky.social screening of Bajo Fuego - a powerful documentary that is part of a project led by Kate Gough and @giuliapiccolino.bsky.social exploring the peace process in rural Colombia. Do check out the trailer here bajofuego.com

🚨Four days to submit your special session proposal for #RSA25 🚨 To submit your #SS by ⏰ 28th November: bit.ly/RSAAC25 To view #SS submissions: bit.ly/sspto25 Join us in Porto 6-9 May 2025 🔄☺️ @drjwharrison.bsky.social @carvalho-luis.bsky.social @rsaeurope.bsky.social @rsachiefexec.bsky.social

🌟Thinking about #RSA25 taking place at University of Porto, Portugal 🌟 ⏰6-9 May 2025 ➡️Navigating Regional Transformation ⏳Deadlines: Special Session Proposals: 28 November 2024 Early Career Plenary Speaker: 10 December 2024 Abstracts & Bursary: 19 December 2024 💻 bit.ly/RSAAC25 🔁😊🍷

🚨Check out this fantastic opportunity for all ECRs 🚨 🌠ECR Plenary Speaker competition at the upcoming RSA Annual Conference in Porto #RSA25🌠 For more information and the application process: bit.ly/RSAAC25 Deadline: 10th Dec 2024 @rsaeurope.bsky.social

... and for a different kind of starter pack on #global #urban #research, see the collection edited with @drjwharrison.bsky.social (spot who appears in both packs!) uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/do...

So glad it's Friday. Spent the past 2 hours wondering why the light in my office seemed dull, phone screen looked all weird. Turns out I still had my prescription polarised sunglasses on from the school run. Even worse my wife had to tell me 🥴 Not living this one down for a while 😬🤦‍♂️

Recently awarded a PhD on cities, regions, planning, governance? Or just about to finish? Consider a Loughborough University ESRC postdoctoral fellowship @gawc.bsky.social Full info and forms warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... Internal EOI deadline is 6 Jan 25. Please email or DM me if interested

This is odd: Torygraph discovers studentification 20 years after rest of us. And describes Headingley as picturesque: The picturesque university cities at war over student housing www.telegraph.co.uk/money/proper...

pls share: funded by EPA: Economy & Space, up to 8 travel + accommodation stipends available to enable doctoral & postdoctoral researchers to participate in the "ideational geographies" workshop at UBC, June 11-13, 2025. Application details: blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...

📢NEW JOB ALERT Come and join us in Geography & Environment at Loughborough University ** Lecturer in Human Geography ** 💷£45,585 to £54,395 - permanent position ⏰Deadline to apply 30 October jobs.ac.uk/job/DDD737/l... Applications welcome from any relevant specialism linking to our research