The RSA Russia Division in collaboration with the Ural Federal University Graduate School of Economics and Management successfully conducted an international workshop associated with the XII annual conference “Russian Regions in the Focus of Changes” on 16-18 November 2017. This annual conference is one of the biggest international discussion forums in Russia covering issues of […]
Charting a Career Path: Sharing the Learning and Lessons, 2nd – 3rd November 2017, Newcastle, UK By Jakob Sparn, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Minas Gerais, Brazil The RSA Early Career Conference 2017 started as a conference on regional dimensions should, by embedding the participants a little bit in the region, or rather the locality […]
Smart City-Regional Governance for Sustainability – Spatial Smartness 21st and 22nd of September 2017, Gdańsk, Poland By Gerd Lintz, Iwona Sagan and Tassilo Herrschel The increasingly popular adjective ‘smart’ seems to be mostly associated with the term ‘smart city’ and the opportunities and risks associated with the use of new information and communication technologies (ICT) in […]
Regional Polarisation and Unequal Development in CEE: Challenges for Innovative Place-based Policies 10th – 13th September 2017 at Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania By Júlia A. Nagy The increasing territorial inequalities, reflected through growing regional disparities, leave a strong imprint especially on the Central and Eastern European countries and call for urgent […]
Camilla Chlebna, a postdoctoral researcher in the REENEA project on Regional Energy Transitions at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany, has been appointed the Early Career representative to the RSA Board. Her research interests are the geography of innovation, agency based perspectives on sustainability transitions and the conceptualisation of power and politics in economic […]
Hello everyone I’m pleased to have the opportunity to introduce myself and outline some of my thoughts in my new role as the Student Representative on the RSA Board. After many years of business experience in senior roles with large organizations, and several years as the founder/CEO of my own start-up enterprise, I have returned […]
Mia Bennett is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the development of transportation infrastructure in places often thought of as frontiers, namely the Arctic and areas under China’s Belt and Road Initiative. She integrates fieldwork and […]
Oladayo Ramon Ibrahim is a lecturer of Urban and Regional Planning at Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. He holds two masters in Geography and Planning, and Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Lagos and he is currently working on his PhD, also in Urban and Regional planning, at the University of Lagos. […]
Elizabeth Mack is an Assistant Professor in the department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. Before working at Michigan State she held a number of posts at Arizona State University, as well as a Ph.D. from Indiana University, an MA from the University of Cincinnati and a BA and BS from […]
Nick Gray is a doctoral Researcher, part-time Research Associate and occasional tutor at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. Prior to joining Northumbria, he spent several years working in public policy, principally as a Policy Advisor at Newcastle City Council but also in the NHS and charity sector. Outside of public policy he worked in the […]
