RSA Events 2024: Career Development Sessions at the Student and Early Career Conference

The RSA Student and ECR conference series is a well-established and serves as a vibrant platform for emerging scholars from across the world to present their research, engage in thought-provoking debates, and cultivate valuable connections. During the Conference, student and early career researchers will have the opportunity to meet like-minded peers and forge future new connections.  There will be opportunity to present papers and receive constructive feedback, as well as a panel session to explore fresh perspectives on how to drive positive regional change, promote sustainability, and nurture inclusivity within your community and beyond.

We are delighted that there will also be workshops that are designed to equip student and early career researchers with essential skills and knowledge that will empower academic and professional journeys. During the conference, the Editors of Regions eZine, Stefania Fiorentino and Robert Bowen will be presenting a workshop, entitled “How to publish short articles that make an impact” (Read more here). This is designed to aid prospective authors in getting an additional publication – either a short article or a thought-piece – by publishing in Regions eZine.

The workshop will encourage participants to consider ideas aligning with the three themes of this year’s Regions issues:

• Navigating AI and New Technologies in Regional Policy and Practices: Opportunity or Challenge?
• Exploring Green Growth, De-Growth, and Post-Growth: Heterodox Frameworks in Regional Development.
• Global Challenges, Regional Solutions: Rethinking Regional Development Policies?

The workshop will offer a platform for participants to share their concepts and receive feedback from both the audience and journal editors, and the best articles will be selected for publication on Regions.

Fransizka Sohns, Karen Lai and David Bassens, editors of the interdisciplinary RSA journal, Finance and Space, will also present a workshop, designed to aid prospective authors in contributing to the journal.

Both workshops will offer a platform for participants to share their concepts and receive feedback from both the audience and journal editors, and these feedback conversations can continue beyond the session.

There will also be workshops on External Research Funding and How to take the Next Steps in your Career and more information on these will be posted in due course.

For more information about the Conference, please click here