PhD fellowship in #Innovaton and #Regional Studies at @unistavanger.bsky.social. Study the #Green Transition and its implications. Join RENOVATE, where true intellectual calibre meets genuine collegiality and warmth. Deadline for applications: 16 Oct. Full info: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

The geography of #decarbonisation is uneven: vulnerability clusters, preparedness is patchy, responsiveness varies. @sbaumgartinger.bsky.social, @balazspager.bsky.social & @michaelatrippl.bsky.social address these contrasts in CEE in their new Economic Geography paper. doi.org/10.1080/0013...

Regional #convergence in #Europe is not a single queue but a set of clubs. @kamilaborsekova.bsky.social, @Samuel Korony & Martin Kahanec, writing in @economyandspace.bsky.social, show labour markets —not #GDP per head— as the truer lens. doi.org/10.1177/0308...

#Cohesion policy is #Europe’s glue, binding regions and citizens to an idea. To fold it into national plans is less reform than nationalisation in disguise. It is like pouring solvent on fragile trust My @feps-europe.eu Progressive Post article: feps-europe.eu/cohesion-nee... doi.org/10.1080/0013...

💰 🇪🇺The #MFF is not just a question of figures, but of methodology & criteria, This week's ProgPost dossier analyses the MFF's potential negative impact on the EU's #CohesionPolicy & #JustTransition. 🖊️ Kata Tutto @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social & Olivier Vardakoulias 🗞️ feps-europe.eu/dossier/the-...

The Nordic ideal of territorial #equality falters where it matters. As Lehtonen et al show in the Journal of Rural Studies, #Finland's public #investment props up #cities, while peripheries are pacified by subsidies. A politics of neglect in plain sight. doi.org/10.1016/j.jr...

Tourism does not follow the map; it redraws it. In "Economic Geography of Tourism", João Romão reframes #tourism as a force shaping economic space, not merely inhabiting it. Destinations inherit their pasts, but futures can still be forged anew. doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Financial gravity is not fate or destiny: #Bilbao’s refusal to become a financial colony is captured by Gil de San Vicente & @jamierwilson.bsky.social in @compchange.bsky.social, who show how institution-building can let #regions defy the pull of #capital. doi.org/10.1177/1024...

Truly honoured & grateful to receive the Sir Peter Hall Award from @regstud.bsky.social- Please watch the online ceremony here: www.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-rs... Many thanks to the RSA and all who make its intellectual community such a rare and generous thing.

Leading newspapers are noticing my research. Discontent is on the rise. From rural Spain to east Germany, resistance grows. Policy is felt as imposition, not opportunity. @elpais.com: elpais.com/economia/neg... SZ: www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/infr... doi.org/10.1093/cjre... doi.org/10.1093/cjre...

LSE’s Cañada Blanch Centre is inviting applications for its Winter Term 2026 LSE-Miguel Dols Fellowship scheme. Open to all ranks. For those with bright ideas on #inequality, #climate or #democracy, among others, and aims to reshape global debates. 👉 www.lse.ac.uk/canada-blanc...

#EU Cohesion Policy: a bulwark for regional equity, is becoming, according to @fmolica.bsky.social, De Renzis. @bourdinseb.bsky.social in @regionalstudies.bsky.social, a stabiliser for national crises. For them, #Cohesion Policy slips from development to national expedience. doi.org/10.1080/0034...

Our study on political #extremism’s toll on #innovation has struck a nerve. Coverage in F&L and @resprofnews.bsky.social shows that Europe is suffocating science at the ballot box. doi.org/10.1016/j.re... www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/po... www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Financial inclusion is often imagined as a personal failing. It is not. Alexandra Sandu & I show in EPA: Economy and Space that, in #CEE, local #trust & #geography outweigh financial literacy & national policies in determining who gets access to banking. doi.org/10.1177/0308...

#China’s patent #progress is laced with #paradox: women step forward, but mostly alone. Zixuan Zhang and Frank van der Wouden, writing in Economics of Innovation and New Technology, show that collaborative #invention remains, stubbornly, a male preserve. doi.org/10.1080/1043...

In a year short on solace, #ERSA2025 in #Athens offered it in spades; panels brimming & lecture halls full. Roberta Capello presided, Yannis Psycharis organised & inspired. The Parthenon nodded in approval. Few intellectual pilgrimages are this uplifting. ersa.eventsair.com/ersa2025/

When politics polarises society, the lifeblood of progress—#science & #innovation— runs cold. @martingreenacre.bsky.social distils in @sciencebusiness.net our RP findings, showing how a drift toward extremes saps #Europe's engines of growth sciencebusiness.net/news/interna... doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

Many thanks to @joelsuss.ft.com in the @financialtimes.com (www.ft.com/content/727d...) for spotlighting a hard truth: populist economics leaves nations poorer. As Suss stresses, the fuel for this turn is not #poverty but long-term regional #decline. doi.org/10.1080/0013..., doi.org/10.1080/0034...

#ERSA2025 starts tomorrow in #Athens. This is where regional science meets reality: 1,100+ papers, 930 minds, and a shared intent to turn turbulence into prosperity. 930 participants, 1,100 papers & the will to turn chance encounters into new research. ersa.eventsair.com/ersa2025/

#EU integration leads to economic #growth, but not evenly. As Petrakos, Sotiriou & Alexiou argue in @regionalstudies.bsky.social, trade in goods hollows out peripheral regions, while services uplift them. The two single market economies: one thrives, the other stalls. doi.org/10.1080/0034...

Ask if a #Trump-style war on #science could cross the #Atlantic and you miss the point: it already has. As my new paper with Zhuoying You & Peter Teirlinck in Research Policy shows, in #Europe there are no bonfires, just the slow unpicking of its #research & #innovation. doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

Honoured to receive the Sir Peter Hall Award from the RSA (@regstud.bsky.social). To be named alongside scholars who have shaped my field is humbling. More lasting still are the life-long friendships and debates that make research a community, not a solitude. www.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-rs...

Political extremism is not just a political risk. It is a brake on #Europe’s capacity to invent its future. My new Research Policy paper with Zhuoying You & Peter Teirlinck shows that #research and #innovation falter precisely where the extremes thrive. doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

Public R&D is meant to bridge Europe’s divides; instead, it shores up the winners. @fitjar.bsky.social, in a thought-provoking article just out in Research Policy, finds that funding flows towards #regions rich in talent and infrastructure, exacerbating #inequality. doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

#Devolution without local capacity is like a gift that cannot be used. Where local #institutions require improvements, targeted #investment, not mere #autonomy, is the main driver of #resilience. Check my new paper with @rajkharel8.bsky.social in World Development: doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...

Rural identity and welfare anxieties are not mere subplots but central to the changing Dutch politics. As Veenhof, Halleck Vega & van Leeuwen show in @politicalgeography.bsky.social the deepening fractures in the #Netherlands are a symptom of neglected places & fading #trust. doi.org/10.1016/j.po...

Resilience in #Nepal is not the child of #decentralisation alone; it flourishes where #devolution takes the form of targeted, well-designed investment. Raj Kharel & I on the limits of local autonomy in an emerging country in our new World Development paper. doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...

From the blue coasts to neglected interiors, #banking deserts carve invisible wealth divides across #Europe. As Alexandra Sandu & I show in @economyandspace.bsky.social, a geography of exclusion persists; a simple bank account divides the fortunate from the forgotten. doi.org/10.1177/0308...

Europe’s #green & #digital ambitions map unequally across the continent, shaped less by policy than by inherited economic and institutional strengths. Check the new Barbero, Collado, Rodríguez-Crespo & Santos paper in European Planning Studies: doi.org/10.1080/0965...

The digital age grants us endless methods, but the real prize is synthesis. @jose lui Sánchez-Hernández, writing in @thegj.bsky.social, reminds us that in a data-rich era, economic #geography flourishes through plurality and the messy dialogue of evidence, theory & context. doi.org/10.1111/geoj...

#Brexit’s drama starved #UK #SMEs of #credit, especially in the periphery. @cemsoner.bsky.social‬, Alsakka & Mantovan reveal in the Journal of Rural Studies how uncertainty choked SME lending, leaving #rural #Britain especially exposed and deepening regional divides. doi.org/10.1016/j.jr...

#Banking deserts persist in #CEE. There, #geography, not grit or policy, dictates financial fate. My new research with Alexandra Sandu in EPA: Economy & Space shows that financial #inclusion remains hostage to place and, without trust, #DigitalBanking cannot bridge the gap. doi.org/10.1177/0308...

Radicalism stems less from #poverty or #inequality than from the ache of being stuck in a place that doesn't matter. According to @cbd-paradigm.bsky.social, Burger & Webber in @socialindicators.bsky.social‬‬ , it grows in towns drained of people and public culture. doi.org/10.1007/s112...

Where the world’s discontented fight, rural Japan picks the same party. As @hajent.bsky.social sky.social‬ & @kovsiannikov.com show in JEPOP#populismsm thrives on absence. I#Japan’ss declining towns, the state never left, with subsidies & social ties guaranteeing stability.doi.org/10.1080/1745...95

Beneath the glamorous surface of “Made in Italy” lies a disquieting truth. @dariadenti.bsky.social & @simonaiammarino.bsky.social find that forced #labour is far more prevalent that imagined. #Italy has a geography of exploitation where race is not the sole determinant. doi.org/10.1093/jeg/...

Where others see periphery, many see potential. According to Korsgaard, Gartner, Dentoni, Tillmar & Gaddefors in Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, #rural areas can use local entrepreneurship and cooperative ingenuity to turn ‘nothing’ into novel markets. doi.org/10.1080/0898...

As the #EU drifts into discontent, it eyes dismantling its main tool for development & the one policy that binds its parts. Cohesion is the scaffolding of the idea of #Europe & the key to unlocking the continent’s untapped potential ec.europa.eu/regional_pol... doi.org/10.1080/0013...

#AI is the crop that only few fields can grow. @markmuro1.bsky.social & ‪@shriyared.bsky.social find that two Bay cities bag 13% of #US AI hiring. They divide America into superstars and also-rans, revealing big adoption gaps. Investment beyond the coasts is needed. www.brookings.edu/articles/map...

Cohesion once let regions set their future; the new budget folds #Cohesion into a packed mega-envelope. Empowerment & democracy are swapped for compliance. When one in three voters flirts with Euroscepticism, this is political arson. commission.europa.eu/strategy-and... doi.org/10.1080/0013...

The places deemed ‘left behind’ are neither uniform nor easily defined. Behind the easy narratives of #rural decay & #urban success lies a subtler, more fractured reality. Martínez de Vega, Díaz-Dapena & Vinuela lay it bare in Regional Science Policy and Practice: doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

The #pandemic redrew the #migration map of #Germany. @paulaprenzel.bsky.social & Tomczyk’s paper in the Review of Regional Research finds that post-2020 migrants have favoured roomier, quieter places. #Covid nudged migrants away from big cities toward space and affordability. doi.org/10.1007/s100...

#Coal may be gone from the #Rhondda and #Cynon valleys in #Wales, but the ethic of solidarity it forged still decides which #regeneration projects flourish and which fail, argue @Emma Halford, Robert Huggins and Richard Gale in Geoforum. doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

The map of #Italy is not just one of wealth but of gratitude. Monturano, Resce & Sonzogno research in Socio-Economic Review finds Citizenship Income drew southern cheers but northern suspicion. Even the returns of policy obey #geography doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

Delighted to help Tej Parikh explain America's ec divides in the FT Red and Blue America continue to represent "fundamentally contrasting economies" on.ft.com/4lelvdP @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social @brookings.edu @pbump.com @annielowrey.bsky.social @crampell.bsky.social @jfallows.bsky.social

Celebrating @ronboschma.bsky.social: Vautrin Lud laureate and now now reigning atop the #IDEAS #RePEc economists' ranking as the world's top economic geographer. Excellence & resilience in life arise from close, creative alliances, leading to both long-lasting friendships & academic triumphs.

#Discontent is local. French communes that trail their neighbours have rebelled at the polls. Fernández García, Gutierrez-Posada, Rubiera Morollón & Torre in Spatial Economic Analysis show 2022 backing for Marine Le Pen rises with local relative poverty. doi.org/10.1080/1742...

#Europe’s single market runs on two gears: #cities in pole position, hinterlands idling. As @martinapardy.bsky.social and I show in Growth & Change, intra-#EU #trade widens regional gaps; global exports don’t. Openness needs inclusion, or the economic engine grinds. doi.org/10.1111/grow...

Europe’s #Cohesion Policy must move beyond bean-counting & measure what money builds— #institutions and real impact. To judge regional #policy by speed of spending is to mistake the clock for the compass, as argued by @fmolica.bsky.social & Santos in @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1080/2168...

Constitutions are written in capital cities but their fate is sealed in places that rarely make the headlines. @pedrofierroz.bsky.social new research shows how #Chile’s divides are mirrored worldwide: #geography shapes #discontent & #centralisation fuels disaffection doi.org/10.1177/2399...

In #Italy, #EU funds do much more than mend roads—they redraw electoral maps. Di Cataldo & @elenarenzullo.bsky.social's new research in the Journal of Economic Geography reveals that new, visible projects translate into #votes. But only where need and scale converge. doi.org/10.1093/jeg/...