By John Harrison and Michael Hoyler (in collaboration with the other research network organizers, Xingjian Liu, Evert Meijers and Ben Derudder). The RSA Research Network on Polycentric Urban Regions in nutshell ‘Polycentric urban regions’ (PURs) have become a key concept in regional studies and described extensively in our previous article published in Issue 4. In that issue, we reported on our first […]
By Mariachiara Barzotto, Newcastle University, UK, Carlo Corradini, University of Birmingham, UK, Sandrine Labory, University of Ferrara, Italy, Felicia Fai, University of Bath, UK and Phil Tomlinson, University of Bath. The last decade has been particularly challenging for the European Union (EU). The aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) has seen stagnant growth, […]
By Olga Levytska, Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Ukraine) This year I have gained valuable experience by participating in the Regional Studies Association (RSA) Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Conference ‘Metropolises and Peripheries of CEE Countries: New Challenges for EU, National and Regional Policies’. The Conference was […]
By Dr. Jason C Wong, LSE Fellow in Environmental Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK This year’s RSA Summer College took place in the beautiful Cagliari in Sardinia, Italy. As an early career researcher, I was foremost glad to meet other motivated scholars from around the world and from different disciplinary orientations […]
