Advisor: Dr. Steven Farber

External Co-Advisors: Harvey J. Miller and/or Morton O’Kelly

Start Date: January 1st 2014

Steven Farber is currently seeking a doctoral student for an NSF funded research position to investigate the social interaction potential of metropolitan regions. A project summary and several published articles in this research area can be found in the links below.

This is a 2-year position with a strong probability of continuation beyond the initial term for up to 4 years of total funding. The initial two year funding package includes salary, full tuition waiver, travel and limited fringe benefits.

The successful applicant must possess a Master’s degree in Geography, Computer Science, Urban Planning, or some other related discipline such as Economics, Regional Science or Civil Engineering. Candidates should have expertise in several of the following areas: GIScience, time geography, transportation, regional science and segregation. The research is computationally intensive and the successful candidate will also be able to demonstrate competencies in scripting for GIS and data analysis, and be comfortable with learning how to modify and run C++ code in a cluster computing environment.

In order to meet the application deadline to our PhD program, interested candidates MUST APPLY TO THE PHD GEOGRAPHY PROGRAM BY OCTOBER 1st, 2013. Information about applying can be found at: http://www.geog.utah.edu/graduate-program.html. You may contact MaryAnn Golightly (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with any additional questions concerning your PhD application.

Applicants should send a cover letter, CV, and the contact details for three references directly to Steven Farber (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by September 27th, 2013. Please feel free to contact Dr. Farber with any inquiries about the position.

http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1339462&HistoricalAwards=false

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2013.03.002

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2012.06.007

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2012.689238

http://stevenfarber.wordpress.com

We invite to apply Doctors and PhD in Economics and Geography. We will specially value the knowledge in the fields of regional economics, economic geography, urban economics, natural resources economics and economic development. The position requires a medium level of Spanish language. The applicant must 1) contribute to graduate-level teaching; 2) teach undergraduate courses; 3) ability to develop and maintain an externally funded research program; 4) ability to contribute to the department’s interdisciplinary mission.

It is expected that the candidate will be available to start working preferably in October, 30th 2013.

Required qualifications: 1) a full curriculum vita, 2) a doctoral degree closely related to the fields above describe at the time of appointment, 3) letter of application describing research and teaching interests, 4) samples of writing or publications and 5) the names and contact details of two referees plus the recommendation letter

Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled.

Any question about the application process must be sent to Dusan Paredes, Tel. 56 55 355746, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   

Applicants are invited to apply for either of these two exciting PhD studentships. Informal inquiries can be made to Prof Mike Danson This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Gender & Occupational Segregation in Apprenticeships  Funded by the ESRC and SDS (Skills Development Scotland)

This project will carry out a major review of gender and occupational segregation in apprenticeships in Scotland. It will look at horizontal segregation (concentration in different occupational frameworks) and vertical segregation (concentration at different VQ levels) within the apprenticeship system.  The project will examine the causes, nature and consequences of gender segregation across occupations in the wider economy, consider the key challenges to addressing occupational gender segregation in apprenticeships and identify good practice approaches to addressing these challenges. The studentship is a well-resourced 3-year scholarship (including an annual maintenance allowance of £13,726 and training support of £750), co-funded by SDS (Skills Development Scotland) and the ESRC and offering the student unique access to policy and practitioner expertise and impact. The successful applicant will start as soon as possible.

Supervisors: Prof Mike Danson This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Prof Ailsa Mackay, GCU

Micro-brewing and distilling entrepreneurs: the origins, development and integration of real ale breweries and distilleries

Microbreweries have become an important element of the brewing industry over a relatively short period of time. However, research on this competitive fringe of the brewing sector remains sparse. Micro-distilleries have had a later start but are also beginning to be established. This PhD will focus on the motives, characteristics, sources of funding, and ambitions of the entrepreneurs who have established these businesses and will work closely with the International Centre for Brewing and Distilling (ICBD) at HWU to analyse evidence for take-overs and mergers, backward and forward integration and an evolving geography of production. Access to the graduates of the unique ICBD will provide a rich dataset of primary material which has not been evaluated before. It is anticipated that a mixed methodology will be appropriate. The successful applicant will be expected to make a contribution to activities in the Department in return for a fee-waiver plus an annual maintenance allowance of £13,590.

Supervisors: Dr Laura Galloway This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Prof Mike Danson This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

In addition both studentships are entitled to a maximum of £2250 over the course of their three years of study to contribute towards conference attendance and research/training costs.

How to apply

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Deadline

All applications must be submitted by 30 September 2013.

Professor Mike Danson, DLitt, AcSS, FIED, FeRSA

Professor of Enterprise Policy

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Dear Members

ERSA is pleased to announce that at this years’ Congress in Palermo, we have an unanimously decision in the ERSAC meeting of electing, Professor Jouke van Dijk, as the next President of ERSA and Professor André TORRE as the next Vice-President of ERSA, both terms starting in January 2014 for five years.

As the term of our present President Professor Charlie KARLSSON ends in December 2013 and that the current Vice-President Professor Andrés Rodriguez-Pose, he will be moving into the position of President of RSAI next year.

ERSA wishes them all success in the future.

ERSA September, 2013

General and specifics aims of the program

Bringing, to Medellin, international human talent in order to enhance tourism measurement in Antioquia framed in INRoute, which helps World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) in subjects such as the contribution of regional tourism to the economy of the country.

The more accurate the figures of any economic sector are the bigger the chances are of getting international investment on that sector. Due to the last sentence this program is aimed to encourage industries, authorities and academics to precisely measure tourism in their territories. At the same time, to teach how tourism can be measured on a smaller scale is also one of the goals of this conference. Not only tourism can be measured in a national quantity but also on a departmental scale. Therefore, tools and techniques to take decisions are to be shown in the present program.

Metodology

Plenary conferences with the participation of well renowned keynote speakers and policy makers.

Justification of the program 

Tourism is unevenly distributed across the national territory; therefore a better understanding of tourism activity at sub-national level will be instrumental for a more efficient policy design at national level. Thus, sub-national measurement and analysis of tourism becomes an extremely relevant issue.

The present MOVE2013 Conference is organized within the conceptual framework of the International Network on Regional Economics, Mobility and Tourism (INRouTe), an initiative promoted by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). This network is dedicated to advancing policy-oriented measurement and analysis of tourism in order to provide operational guidance to entities involved with regional and local tourism destinations.

Tourism Observatories

The design of a Regional Tourism Observatory as proposed by INRouTe is conceived to be the necessary institutional tool for the setting up of a Regional Tourism Information System (R-TIS) and its sustainability. The setting up of a R-TIS is not just a technical challenge associated to the creation of a database:  it goes well beyond that issue. It also requires an institutional tool in order to bring together legitimacy and credibility for regional tourism and assist to the sustainability of such system. The design of a Tourism Observatory as proposed by INRouTe should consider the following elements: The strategic objective / Programmes / Activities / Assessing the effectiveness of programmes implementation / Technological infrastructure and other resources.

Visitors Behavior Measurement and Deconstruction of Tourism Destinations Demand

Household and borders surveys are the main methodologies used for the measurement and analysis of tourism nationwide. However, when knowing what does a visitor do when he/she is in a certain destination turns to be key for designing tourism policies, such surveys fall short. Assuming that national or regional surveys should be the basis for comparison at the national and international levels, it seems also necessary to establish a set of guidelines for performance measurement and analysis of sub-regional tourism. The collection of detailed information on the behavior at the destinations, the visited points, the means of transport used, and the associated costs, requires new forms of measurement. Gaining further knowledge on these aspects means advancing on the measurement of typologies, products and itineraries.

Meetings Industry

The present conference is interested in making advances on constructing a coherent and systematic picture of the economic relevance of the Meetings Industry in regional economies, specifically evaluating different options to measure the Meetings Industry linkage to tourism.

More information: Here

Please find enclosed the call for abstracts for the NECTAR 6 Cluster Workshop in Seville, Spain 6^th and 7^th February 2014.The deadline for submission of abstracts is the 6^th of October 2013.

Please note that all enquiries should be directed to the organizing committee by Ana Condeço (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). 

Please find enclosed the call for abstracts for the NECTAR 1 Cluster Workshop in Liege in April 2014.The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 23^rd .

Please note that all enquiries should be directed to the organizing committee at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

Regional Science Policy & Practice

© RSAI
Volume 5, Issue 3 Pages i - i, 263 - 368, August 2013

The latest issue of Regional Science Policy & Practice is available on Wiley Online Library

Issue Information

Issue Information (page i)
Article first published online: 18 AUG 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-7802.2013.01095.x

ARTICLES

A spatial microsimulation approach to economic policy analysis in Scotland (pages 263–288)
Malcolm Campbell and Dimitris Ballas
Article first published online: 16 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12009

Economic base multipliers: a comparison of ACDS and IMPLAN (pages 289–303)
Gordon Mulligan, Randall Jackson and Amanda Krugh
Article first published online: 16 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12010

Tolls, exchange rates, and northbound international bridge traffic from Mexico (pages 305–321)
Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Angel L. Molina Jr and Adam G. Walke
Article first published online: 2 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12011

Spatial and temporal evolution of urban-rural integrated development levels in Jiangsu Province, China (pages 323–341)
Yueting Guo and Jiangang Xu
Article first published online: 2 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12012

Growth in Indonesia's manufacturing sectors: Urban and localization contributions (pages 343–368)
Jennifer Day and Peter Ellis
Article first published online: 2 MAY 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12015

University of California, Irvine

Department of Planning, Policy, and Design

Associate or Assistant Professor in Urban and Regional Planning

The Department of Planning, Policy, and Design at UC Irvine invites applications from productive Planning scholars to fill an Associate or Assistant Professor position. The topical focus is open but candidates with research interests in the areas of the legal aspects of land use and environmental planning, planning theory, sustainable development, transportation, environmental planning, and/or international development planning are of special interest in the search. The successful candidate for this tenure-track position will have a Ph.D. in Planning and show clear evidence of strong ties to Planning scholarship and practice. A track record of external funding is desired.

Faculty members in the Department of Planning, Policy, and Design have been ranked in the top ten in scholarly productivity among all U.S. planning programs and a recent survey of over 350 Planning educators ranked UC Irvine’s Master of Urban and Regional Planning program as the second best graduate Planning program in the U.S. and Canada. We have research strengths in land use and transportation, housing and community development, environmental policy and planning, inequality and economic opportunity, urban design, and regional governance and the faculty conducts research in U.S. and international settings. The department offers a Ph.D. degree in Planning, Policy, and Design, a Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree, a collaborative Master of Public Policy degree, and an undergraduate degree in Urban Studies.

For full consideration, candidates should apply by October 11, 2013. The position will remain open until filled. We anticipate that the successful candidate will start July 1, 2014. Candidates should apply online at https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/apply/JPF02087 by submitting a cover letter, c.v., three letters of reference, publications or writing samples, and a brief statement of teaching interests and capabilities. For more information, please contact the search committee chair, Victoria Basolo (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

UC Irvine, with over 28,000 students, is a member of the Association of American Universities and is consistently ranked among the nation’s best universities, public and private. The campus is located five miles from the Pacific Ocean and forty miles south of Los Angeles, in a dynamic region at the heart of the diverse Southern California metropolis. UC Irvine is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity and strongly encourages applications from all qualified applicants, including women and minorities. UC Irvine is responsive to the needs of dual career couples, is dedicated to work-life balance through an array of family-friendly policies, and is the recipient of an NSF ADVANCE Award for gender equity.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA, Department of Geography, invites applications for a tenure-track position in Human Geography at the rank of Assistant Professor. The successful candidate will exhibit clear potential for a robust extramurally funded research program in Population, Development, and/or Health that is empirically grounded and informed by social science theory. Candidates will preferably have research programs that integrate at least two of these domains. A Ph.D. is required by the date of appointment. Current human geography faculty members are active participants in the Broom Center for Demography, the Center for Spatial Studies, and graduate emphases in Cognitive Science and Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences. We welcome candidates who are willing to collaborate with departmental faculty in spatial science and physical geography, and/or with faculty from other research units and departments across campus. To learn more about the department, visit our website at www.geog.ucsb.edu. The application deadline is November 30, 2013; the starting date is July 1, 2014.

To apply, please log in to  https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF00215 to submit your cover letter, curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching interests, and names of three referees with their contact information. For more information, please contact the search committee chair Dr. Stuart Sweeney (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

The department is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching, and service. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer.