The Regional Studies Association Winter Conference 2022 offers a timely opportunity to discuss and debate important issues, and to rethink the key theories, concepts and methods used in the field of regional studies in the face of changing regional challenges, and to provide new evidence for the...

The conference organisers are keen to attract papers and sessions which rethink cities and regions by identifying new fields of enquiry, which address a broad research and policy agenda, and include contributions from any discipline which can offer relevant insights at local and regional levels....

This conference will give PhD students and early career researchers (within 5 years after finishing a PhD) the opportunity to network, collaborate and socialise with others working in regional and urban studies, planning, geography, politics, development studies, economics and related fields....

Broad themes and key shifts the organisers are keen to facilitate discussion around include, but are not limited to: - Post-2020 EU Budget, the future of EU Policies and their likely implications for cities and regions, - Energy transitions, environmental sustainability, and designing urban and...

This conference will discuss the emergence of new forms of industrial development and policies targeted on the competitiveness of regions and cities. The aim of the conference is to share knowledge and experiences in industrial and territorial development. Developed, emerging, and developing...

Conference themes: - Regional and urban development theory revisited - City and regiona governance for a post-crisis age - Growing apart? The increase in social and spatial inequality - Evidence-based urban and regional policies - Smart cities, smart regions? - Financing city and regional...

We welcome all submissions with a regional focus and especially those in the following areas: Urban and regional polic; New challenges in urban planning; New economic geography; Big data and regions; Climate change and sustainability; Politics and territory; Mega-regions and City regions;...

Papers which are collaborative, international or multi-disciplinary are especially welcome: - Modelling and theorising the space economy: urban renewal and regional growth; - New approaches to agglomeration and the clustering of economic life; - The impacts of devolution and constitutional change...

Contributions are therefore invited which focus primarily, although not necessarily exclusively, on one or more of the following themes: - New sites and forms of territorial cooperation and/or conflict at the scale of regions and localities - Cooperation, disputes and resistance around...

Contributions are invited which focus primarily, although not necessarily exclusively, on one or more of the following themes: - Remapping of regions and localities and the implications of this for multilevel governance, policy success or policy failure; - Global comparative perspectives on...