What can I say, I have a terminal fear of being boring. (There's actual research content in there, I swear!)

🕰️ 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

And now, @rsfrankl.bsky.social takes on old marriage adage to describe the coming together of different approaches to Spatial Economic Analysis

Beyond print: @RegionalStudies in the digital age. Exciting new era as the journal shift to Build content online (BiO) and drops print. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Professor @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social highlights the complexity of density, size and agglomeration in influencing economic success.

Things about to begin for 2025 @regstud.bsky.social #RegionalFutures Conference…

Thank you very much, @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social, for the inaugural lecture of the @ucm.es Geography PhD program. A highly relevant topic and a fantastic presentation! #Europe #Euroscepticism #growth @gge-age.bsky.social @age-geografia.bsky.social @regionalstudies.bsky.social

How well do you know the Nordic Region? Which country has: 👥 the highest relative population growth 👶 the lowest fertility rate 💶 the highest GDP per capita ❤️ the highest life expectancy Test your knowledge in our short quiz 👇 nordregio.org/news/world-s... #WorldStatisticsDay #NordicStatistics

Have you seen our @researchgate.bsky.social account: lots of papers to engage with and further information about the Regional Studies journal: www.researchgate.net/journal/Regi...

Please join us for the next Regional Studies Women’s Network workshop! Participation is free, and we have online and in person (including free lunch!) options. A great opportunity to catch up with friends and meet new faces ahead of the Winter Conference ☺️

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...

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...

To hollow out #cohesion is to erode the #EU’s credibility from within. In my brand new @regionalstudies.bsky.social paper, I argue that #Europe’s competitiveness and very viability depends less on emulating competitors and more on exploiting our latent potential. DOI: doi.org/10.1080/0034...

Competitiveness thrives on cohesion, not concentration. My brand new article in @regionalstudies.bsky.social makes the case for unlocking #Europe’s full potential, wherever it can be found, as #cohesion is the foundation of #competitivenes, not its antithesis. doi.org/10.1080/0034...

#Europe faces not a choice between #efficiency and #equity but the need to reconcile both if it wants to become more competitive. As I argue in my new @regionalstudies.bsky.social paper, a more centralised #EU will thin its own strength by silencing its citizens' voices. doi.org/10.1080/0034...

New #OpenAccess paper: 'Role of universities in early graduate entrepreneurship: enablers or constrainers of ‘missing’ entrepreneurs?' by @mariaabreu.bsky.social & Vadim Grinevich www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Have you seen our #Trending paper: 'Does a 180-day cap on short-term rentals affect housing markets? Evidence from regional New South Wales' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

#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...

In our @rsablog.bsky.social blog we explore how mayors can enact change in complex policy spaces when they don't have control over the policy levers. www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202... Evidence is drawn from our article in @regionalstudies.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New #OpenAccess paper: 'Regional counter-institutionalisation: contestation and propositions for alternative regionalities' by Kristin Smette Gulbrandsen www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to share my paper "(Other) temporary populations and the rise of platform-mediated medium-term rentals" in @regionalstudies.bsky.social! It examines how temporary populations drive Lisbon’s medium-term rental market through platforms & state policies. doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2025.2523977

#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...

How do regions drive change? 🇬🇧 UK → bottom-up, market-led 🇨🇳 China → quyu (区域), state-shaped governance In our latest RSA Summer Series blog, Qinying Sun unpacks innovation directionality across two models. 🔗 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202... @regstud.bsky.social @regionalstudies.bsky.social

New #OpenAccess Paper: 'Green to stay? Mechanisms explaining green industrial resilience during an external shock' by Stig-Erik Jakobsen, Nora Geirsdotter Bækkelund, Svein Gunnar Sjøtun & Heidi Wiig www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New in #OpenAcces: Entrepreneurial local governments and the development of the decentralised platform economy in China by Jun Sun, Kai Jia & Martin Kenney www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🔥 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

New Linkedin Post: 'Shuffling the Deck? Rethinking Workspaces and Regional Development in a Polycrisis Economy' by Mariachiara Barzotto, Carlo Corradini, and Sandrine Labory: www.linkedin.com/pulse/shuffl...

2/3 Quite interesting results. a 6 minute grasp of the paper tasos-kitsos.medium.com/kibs-and-non...

📣 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 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/3

🏛️ New blog Efthimios Georgio explores how Athens’s past and present meet in places like Plaka, Thissio, & Acropolis Museum. Reflection on culture, urban planning & democracy. Read: bit.ly/46yFzTG 👀 & stay tuned, Summer Blog Series launches July 15 with perspectives on place & regional futures

Congratulations!!! @regionalstudies.bsky.social 👏

Latest with @dgbailey.bsky.social and Paddy Bradley on #supplychains #securonomics and the new #industrialstrategy @uniofbath.bsky.social @uniofbathipr.bsky.social @uresg76.bsky.social @regionalstudies.bsky.social 👇🏼 theconversation.com/new-industri...

New in #OpenAccess: 'Does a 180-day cap on short-term rentals affect housing markets? Evidence from regional New South Wales' by Zhenpeng Zou, Thomas Sigler, Alicia Rambaldi, Elin Charles-Edwards & Jonathan Corcoran www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In a crisis, looking inward is always the initial instinct. But in the #USA, according to Crescenzi & Ganau in @regionalstudies.bsky.social, regions that looked outward—investing abroad—reaped all the rewards. Knowledge, like rain, fertilises best when it travels. doi.org/10.1080/0034...

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

And available 'Social infrastructure and ‘left-behind places’ is available in #OpenAccesss here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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/

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

🆕 paper by Paolo Veneri & others in @regionalstudies.bsky.social on remote work spatial effects. Analyzing housing markets in 16 OECD countries, they found compelling evidence on how flexible work is reshaping where people live & enlarging metropolitan boundaries Read more👇 tinyurl.com/2s3689vk

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 ⬇️

New Paper: "Reframing creativity in the city: on the emergence of contemporary township creativity" by Irma Booyens www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New in #OpenAccess: 'The effect of R&D co-location on innovation activities in Great Britain' by Richard Harris & John Moffat www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🧭 Exploring Regions, Sustainability & Inclusivity The 2025 RSA Annual Conference in Porto brought together nearly 900 scholars—a record event! Helen Lawton Smith shares reflections on the big debates shaping regional research. 📖 Read: bit.ly/43FLpQg @regstud.bsky.social @regionalstudies.bsky.social

Not all euros are born equal. In Finland, Makkonen & co show in their new @regionalstudies.bsky.social paper that government funds science in Helsinki & survival in Lapland. One fosters #growth, the other survival. Redistribution may preserve geography more than transform it. doi.org/10.1080/0034...

Why do businesses co-locate? What makes a cluster thrive? In Cooperatives Across Clusters, Anil Hira examines the cranberry industry to explore how cooperation & geography shape dynamics. 📖 Read: bit.ly/3FwaEw9 @regstud.bsky.social @rsa-adp.bsky.social @regionalstudies.bsky.social

💰 NEW: Understanding Modern Money Theory, Money and Credit in Capitalist Economies, by L. Randall Wray FREE content: doi.org/10.4337/9781... More information: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97... #ModernMoneyTheory #MMT #Value #EconomicTheory #Economics #Sociology #PoliticalScience #Anthropology

New & #OpenAccess "Mind the gap: gender, geography and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on publication in Regional Studies Association (RSA) journals" @gainbipark.bsky.social @rsfrankl.bsky.social, @sallyhardy.bsky.social, Simona Iammarino & Jessie P. H. Poon www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I was so pleased to be involved in this project and the subsequent paper. The article is open access so please do enjoy it. :-)

🚨New article! Mind the gap: gender, geography and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on publication in Regional Studies Association (RSA) journals www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....