The Department of Human Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) invites applications for a full-time, tenure stream appointment in the area of Quantitative Social Science and GIS. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor and will commence on July 1, 2019. Applicants must have a Ph.D in Geography or a related field at the time of appointment or shortly thereafter. Candidates must also have a demonstrated record of excellence in research and teaching and be able to communicate effectively as an undergraduate and graduate teacher. The successful candidate will be expected to pursue innovative and independent research at the highest international level and to establish an outstanding, competitive, and externally funded research program. Candidates must provide evidence of research excellence as demonstrated by a record of publications in top-ranked and field relevant journals or forthcoming publications meeting high international standards, the submitted research statement, presentations at significant conferences, awards and accolades, and strong endorsements from referees of high standing. Evidence of excellence in teaching will be provided through teaching accomplishments, the teaching dossier, a statement of teaching philosophy, sample course syllabi, and the teaching evaluations submitted as part of the application, as well as strong letters of reference. The Department maintains research and teaching focuses in urban, social-cultural, and environmental geography as part of a broader commitment to research excellence within the social sciences at UTSC.

Applications are invited from social scientists with research contributions based on geographic information science and potentially combined with spatial statistics, computational approaches, or other quantitative methods. The successful candidate will demonstrate excellence in data collection and verification, data analysis, modelling, visualization, and/or computational methods using geographic information. Candidates with research interests across the social sciences are welcome, but candidates must conduct research with an emphasis on urban, health, population, social, or economic geography. We seek candidates who value influencing policy, public opinion, and decision-making processes via outreach and research partnerships. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The candidate’s undergraduate appointment will be at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), a research-intensive institution with an interdisciplinary commitment, a multicultural student body, and a modern campus. The University offers the opportunity to conduct research, teach and live in Toronto, one of the most diverse and opportunity-rich cities in the world. The University also offers opportunities to work in a range of collaborative programs and centers of research. Applicants may in particular be interested in opportunities to engage with industry and researchers in one of the fastest growing tech-clusters in the world. For more information about the Department of Human Geography at UTSC please visit our home page: http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/geography/. The successful candidate will teach core undergraduate courses in the Minor Program in Geographic Information Science in the Department of Human Geography They also will be a member of the Tri-campus Graduate Department of Geography and Planning, and will engage in graduate teaching, supervision, and service in that Department. UTSC is strongly committed to maintaining a research-intensive home for its faculty and students. The successful candidate will be expected to develop a program of research that furthers the academic mission of the Department of Human Geography at UTSC. Competitive research funding is available both internally and through Canada's SSHRC and other research funding organizations (http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/). All qualified candidates are invited to apply online by clicking https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersecti…/10050/jobdetail.ftl… Applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a research statement outlining current and future research interests, up to three representative publications and a teaching dossier (including a statement of teaching philosophy, sample course syllabi, and teaching evaluations). Applicants must also arrange to have three letters of reference sent directly by the referee via email (on letterhead and signed) to GeogSearch@utsc.utoronto.ca by the closing date. All application materials including the reference letters must be received, by the closing date, January 28, 2019. Submission guidelines can be found at http://uoft.me/how-to-apply. We recommend combining attached documents into one or two files in PDF/MS Word format. If you have any questions about this position, please contact Sue-Ann Hicks at sahicks@utsc.utoronto.ca. The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from racialized persons / persons of colour, women, Indigenous / Aboriginal People of North America, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ persons, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. As part of your application, you will be asked to complete a brief Diversity Survey. This survey is voluntary. Any information directly related to you is confidential and cannot be accessed by search committees or human resources staff. Results will be aggregated for institutional planning purposes. For more information, please see http://uoft.me/UP.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Program Description

In this interdisciplinary M.Sc. in Urban Strategies (MUS) program, students will acquire fundamental knowledge about contemporary urban transformation and the necessary skills and tools for developing and implementing urban projects of various scales, scopes, and specificities. The program is open to students from any academic discipline and professional background who are interested in urban issues and potential solutions.

Throughout the one-year program, students will learn urban development theories and methods through case studies from Southeast Asia and beyond. In addition to required classes that focus on basic knowledge and skills, students will select their concentrations from four topics: Urban Development and Mobility, Urban Living and Livelihoods, Urban Regeneration, and Urban Security and Resilience. Students will also write their theses based on the selected concentration.

Our basic pedagogical philosophy is student-centric and interactive. Our program combines interactive lectures and studio-based classrooms where students are encouraged to share and demonstrate concepts and ideas. The learning processes are facilitated by our faculty members who have extensive experience in teaching, research, consultancy, and advocacy in Thailand and overseas. The studios use real cases in Bangkok and other cities in Thailand, so as to promote in-depth exploration of urban issues and solutions. Specific skills indispensable for developing urban projects are also emphasized, including data analytics, institutional analysis, strategic foresight, city branding and marketing, finance, and project management. For their theses, students are encouraged to work collaboratively in actual projects with partner organizations in Thailand or other countries of interest. Through such collaboration, students gain first-hand experience of applying the knowledge and skills learned in class to real-world cases.

Studying urban issues and strategies in Bangkok offers a unique learning and living experience. Bangkok, or for that matter other cities in Thailand, is a living laboratory for exploring contemporary urban issues and solutions. From transit-oriented development projects and flood management efforts to community-based housing development and formalization of informal activities, students will live and learn in a real and dynamic platform where they gain insights into how social, economic, and political institutions actually shape urban transformation. As a regional hub for international development agencies, the city also offers uniquely international exposure while learning local specificities that could provide global lessons.

More information at: http://www.cuurp.org/courses-apply/msc-urban-strategies/

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
 
We are opening a 2-year Post Doc position in the ANET Lab Budapest.
 
The future colleague will work on a project entitled "The Role of Geography in the Complex Diffusion of Innovation"  under the supervision of Balázs Lengyel. In this interdisciplinary research, motivated by the increasing urban-rural divide in Western societies, we aim to understand how topologies of large social networks influence adoption dynamics on local scales. To achieve this goal, we analyze data revealed from various sources including social media websites, cell-phone communication, patent and scientific publication databases and reveal empirical features of spatial diffusion. Further, we develop models of dynamic adoption in networks, which reflect on the role of social connections within towns and across locations, in order to forecast adoption in specific places and over the life-cycle of technologies.
 
ANET Lab is an interdisciplinary group at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and aims to uncover how urbanization and the structure of social networks are interrelated. We build our research projects on large data bases and intend to answer the questions how social networks form in geographical space, how the structure of social networks explain economic and technological progress in cities and how dynamic learning and spreading processes happen in spatial social networks. For more information, see our website at http://anet.krtk.mta.hu.
 
Please, find the call details on this link.
 
Application deadline: January 30, 2019. Starting date: February 4, 2019 or upon agreement. 
 
With best regards,
Balazs

We are are happy to launch the Call for Application of the 32nd edition of our Summer School, co-organized by ERSA Polish Section and the University of Katowice, Poland.

Target: PhD students and junior researchers with less than 10 years of research experience.

Call for Application Deadline: 8 March 2019. more

Highlight on the Invited professors to provide ex-cathedra lectures

Ron Boschma, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; Andrea Caragliu, Politecnico di Milano, Italy ; Chiara del Bo Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy; Leila Kebir, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland; Stefan Rehak, University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovak Republic; André Torre, University Paris Saclay, INRA-Agroparistech, France; Eveline van Leeuwen, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands

The Journal of Regional Research – Investigaciones Regionales (http://investigacionesregionales.org/en) announces a call for papers for a Special Issue devoted to the spatial dimension of Social Inclusion policies.

The special issue is titled “Towards a social inclusion model: territorial experiences and challenges”, and expects to collect research articles and letters, devoted to topics such as

• Inclusion strategies within and between regions and cities, including comparative analysis;
• Community development to promote social inclusion
• Childhood investment to prevent the social exclusion
• Inclusive employment policies and intervention programs
• Good practices of coordination within and between social services and employment services

The promotion of social and territorial inclusion in Europe is one of the goals of European 2020 Horizon and to this day, it is a commitment acquired by the different European countries. European policies such as the Structural funds and the European Social Fuds are mainly focused on the fight against unemployment and poverty, such as job activation programs. Nevertheless, Social Inclusion is a multidimensional process, including social networks, participation, housing, etc. In this line, recent studies emphasize that the inclusion strategy in Europe must contemplate different sustainable goals such as adequate protection on basic income systems, community development, childhood investment, inclusive employment policies, social services or partnership alliances.

Several studies have advanced in the comparative analysis of minimum income policy impact on poverty reduction (OECD, 2017, Atkinson et al., 2010) or the diagnosis of new social exclusion dynamics (Förster, et al., 2003; European Commission, 2015). The impact of the economic crisis and austerity policies are having devastating effects on social protection (Taylor-Gooby, 2017). As a result, various restrictive actions have been implemented to access economic benefits or employment inclusion policies for vulnerable groups (Targeting strategy). However, other territories opted for actions that reinforced the inclusion process with programs such as Housing First (Feantsa, 2016), community networks or investment actions in childhood (European Social Network, 2014). All these experiences can help identify some innovations in the inclusion field, with potential for mutual learning between territories.

Special Editor: this Special Issue is edited by Miguel Laparra. The volume collects international works on Social Inclusion and also works resulting from the INCLUSIVE project (CSO2014-51901-P, funded by Spanish Ministry 2015-2017) and also welcomes other works on this topic.

The Journal of Regional Research – Investigaciones Regionales is the flagship journal of the Spanish Regional Science Association (https://investigacionesregionales.org/en/). While being specialized in regional issues, this journal is multidisciplinary and strongly devoted to European and Latin American topics. It is an academic journal, where all papers are subject to a double and blind review process. The journal is full Open Access, free for authors and readers. It is indexed in Clarivate’s Analytics Emerging Sources Citation Index and in Scopus, where it is listed in the first quartile of Economics according to the 2017 CiteScore rank.

Deadlines and publication schedule

• December 21^st, 2018: Deadline for Title and Abstract (//aecr.org/es/novedad/journal-of-regional-research-investigaciones-regionales-call-for-papers-for-a-special-issue-towards-a-social-inclusion-model-territorial-experiences-and-challenges/investig.regionales@uah.es" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 138, 178); text-decoration: none;">investig.regionales@uah.es)
• February 28^th, 2019: Deadline for full papers submission
• Expected publication: Fall 2019 – Early 2020.

Submission Instructions

• All works submitted must be analytic and rigorous and will be subject to the normal blind refereeing process undertaken by the journal.
• All submitted works must not be under review by any other journal
• Letters should be about 3,000 words. Full articles are should have between 8,000 and 10,000 words.
• Submission guidelines are reported at https://investigacionesregionales.org/en/envio-de-articulos/submission-of-papers-and-others-contributions/
• The article will be sent through the portal Open Journal System (OJS) of the Spanish Repository of Science and Technology (RECYT): https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/IR/login.

https://aecr.org/es/novedad/journal-of-regional-research-investigaciones-regionales-call-for-papers-for-a-special-issue-towards-a-social-inclusion-model-territorial-experiences-and-challenges/

We welcome submissions for two special issues. The first explores the role of Institutes of Higher Education in the sustainable development of regions (contact: Rüdiger Hamm, ruediger.hamm@hs-niederrhein.de) and the second special issue will explore new forms of territorial development through collective action, commons and commoning (contact: Artur Ochojski, artur.ochojski@ue.katowice.pl). Both calls are available on REGION’s website. Also, visit the website to read REGION’s latest article about the role of spatial spill-overs in regional economic development in Europe.

Seasonal greetings from the REGION editorial team and see you in 2019!

Vassilis Tselios, Roberto Patuelli, Özge Öner, Francisco Rowe, Sierdjan Koster, Declan Jordan

Taller

Infraestructuras de América del Sur y Desarrollo Regional Sostenible

29-30 de abril de 2019

UMSS, Cochabamba, Bolivia

La propuesta de ponencias será hasta el 31 de Enero con envío de un resumen y un título para carmenledo@gmail.com" data-type="mail" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; color: inherit;">carmenledo@gmail.com.

Se seleccionarán 18 autores a enviar los textos hasta 15 de abril. Se invitará a los autores de los documentos seleccionados a la presentación de sus contribuciones y a la sumisión de los textos en la Edición Especial RSPP.

Las personas interesadas tendrán que pagar el equivalente de $ 50 USD tarifa de inscripción.

Los dos días de taller incluirán la presentación de borradores de documentos sobre el impacto de las Infraestructuras Planificadas de América del Sur en el Desarrollo Regional Sostenible Los documentos presentados se seleccionarán para un número especial de Regional Science Policy and Practice. Este taller servirá para desarrollar, aplicar y difundir nuevos métodos de evaluación sobre el impacto de las redes de infraestructura en el desarrollo regional sostenible

LINK: https://rsai64.wixsite.com/cochabamba2019

CALL FOR PAPER