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Regional Studies Association
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Supporting and connecting researchers and policy-makers engaged in regional analysis and research. We're mostly on BlueSky now.
www.regionalstudies.org/
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Interested in finding out about the Regional Studies Association, our journals, publications and people?
We've made a starter pack of RSA-related profiles which we'll keep updating.

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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/...
February 7, 2026 at 1:52 PM
🎇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
February 6, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Read this #openaccess TPG article by Håvard Haarstad and Mahir Yazar, 'Urban sustainability: a spatial justice critique' which reflects on the apparent growing discontent against urban sustainability policies. doi.org/10.1080/2162...
February 5, 2026 at 9:23 AM
🌟 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/
February 3, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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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...
February 3, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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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
February 3, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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⏳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...
February 3, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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.

🔁 😊
February 3, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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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....
A critical review of the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy: lessons for ‘place-based’ policy
The paper explores the implications for regional development contained within the UK’s recently launched Modern Industrial Strategy White Paper (2025). We critically examine the industrial strategy...
www.tandfonline.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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
January 29, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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💬 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
January 26, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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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...
Beyond Agglomeration. Towards A Rethinking of Industrial Strategy? - RSA Main
In recent years, industrial strategy has returned to the centre of political and economic debate. Governments across advanced economies are once again asking how they can shape growth, support innovat...
www.regionalstudies.org
January 20, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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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
January 9, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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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
January 22, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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🌟 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...
Human Flourishing Geographic Index (HFGI): A County-level Dataset for Measuring Regional Flourishing in the United States - RSA Main
Policymakers often rely on familiar indicators such as GDP, employment rates, and education levels to assess regional well-being. Yet these metrics tell only part of the story. Human flourishing, enco...
www.regionalstudies.org
January 5, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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🚀 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...
When Democracy Centralizes: Why Ghana Still Governs from the Center - RSA Main
Ghana is often celebrated as one of Africa’s most stable democracies—peaceful transitions of power, competitive elections, and a vibrant civic sphere (Gyimah-Boadi 2009; Paller 2019). Yet beneath this...
www.regionalstudies.org
January 10, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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...
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Things about to begin for 2025 @regstud.bsky.social #RegionalFutures Conference…
November 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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⏳ 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
September 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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#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
September 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🚨 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...

🔁😁
September 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🚨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. 😁🔄
August 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM