Invitation of Young Researchers (PhD students)

For Participation in the Nurturing Talent Workshop

Essaouira, Morocco, February 28-March 1, 2019

I am pleased to invite you to participate in our international Workshop on “Innovation and Creativity in Regions in the Developing World”, to be held in Essaouira (Morocco) from February 28 to March 1 2019. This workshop is part of the Nurturing Talent programme of the Regional Science Association International. The aim is to stimulate young researchers to present and discuss their work and to be connected with other promising and talented researchers in a dedicated field of regional science. We expect some 5 senior scholars from outside Morocco (Peter Nijkamp, Mark Partridge, Tomaz Dentinho, Karima Kourtit and Andrea Caragliu) and other scholars from the country to guide the two-day workshop, to act as a sounding board for your research, and to introduce you to international research networks or publication outlets.

Essaouira is one of the most beautiful coastal cities in Morocco and can easily be reached easily by ground transportation in less than two hours from the city of Marrakech (which has many international connections). We will be able to cover the local costs (accommodation, food and local transportation costs) during your stay at the workshop. So, only your international travel costs have to be covered by your home institution.

I would like to add that the workshop is organized back-to-back with an international conference on “From Creativity in the City to the Creative City” which will be held from February 26 to March 1, 2019 in the same place. You are of course also cordially invited to participate (optionally) in this international conference.

If you are interested in joining the above mentioned workshop, you are requested to send an expression of interest to my e-mail address (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), accompanied by a title and short abstract (in english) of your planned presentation, before February 3, 2019. You will receive more information after acceptance by the committee of evaluation of your letter of interest and abstract. Notification of acceptances will be communicated by February 10th, 2019.

I am really looking forward to welcoming you in Essaouira soon.

Cordially yours,

Abdellatif Khattabi

Workshop organizer

Dear NECTAR friends, 

The deadline for abstract submission to the NECTAR conference in Helsinki, June 5-7 2019, will be extended until January 31, 2019. This extension is for regular paper sessions and special sessions.  Further information and submissions can be found here:https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/towards-human-scale-cities-open-and-happy  

Moreover, I would like to let you know that 13th Aalto University Summer School on Transportation – Mobility Systems for Open and Happy Cities is open for submissions. The Summer School is organised before the conference (May 29 – June 4, 2019) at Otaniemi campus of Aalto University, Helsinki. The theme of the Summer School is Mobility Systems for Open and Happy Cities, in synergy with the 15th NECTAR conference theme, and underlying Nordic values of transparency and citizen well-being. The activities will include lectures, site visit and envisioning workshops, all focused on various aspects of planning and policy, including technological trends and variety of quantitative and qualitative methods. The lecturers will include NECTAR cluster chairs and other renowned experts. The summer school will involve a close collaboration with planners from the City of Helsinki. Graduate students (MSc and PhD) are eligible for 3 ECTS from the Summer School. 

Registration is due May 15. Spaces are limited and assigned in order of application. Graduate students and post-docs who are NECTAR members can get a scholarship covering their fee. In the online registration form, under Additional information field, the applicant needs to write “NECTAR Member” to be considered for scholarship. In the application you also need to by provide your CV.

Further info:   https://www.aalto.fi/events/aalto-university-summer-school-on-transportation

I hope to see you in Helsinki!

Karst Geurs, NECTAR chair

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Performance of water supply services and multi-objective asset management: contribution of the cost-benefit analysis

Under the project “Gestion patrimoniale des réseaux d’eau potable pour préserver la qualité de l’eau et réduire les pertes – Renouvellement Orienté des Canalisations (ROC)” funded by the Région Nouvelle Aquitaine, the Agence de l’eau Loire-Bretagne and the Agence de l’eau Adour- Garonne, Irstea offers a renewable 12-month postdoctoral position in economics from April 1, 2019.

Drinking water networks are a high value asset with a long service life; their management must hus adopt a long-term approach and adapting to changes in their environment, mainly connected to global change and new technologies. The key challenge of this “asset management” is the annual renewal of a small portion of pipelines, in order to mitigate the effects of ageing on their performances, and to prevent the deterioration of the quality of service. It thus concerns technical, organisational (service), economic and financial (costs and benefits), environmental (resources) and societal (territorial governance, users) issues, which call for interdisciplinary answers enlisting engineering, mathematics and social sciences.

In this context, the ROC project aims to develop tools and methods allowing potable water distribution system authorities to build asset management strategies oriented towards limiting water loss and safeguarding water quality. The study sites are located in the Région Nouvelle- Aquitaine.

Today, health risks (in particular linked to the presence of Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM) in PVC pipes) and the limitation of water loss are usually driving the decision regarding water pipes renewal. However, the methodological reflection remains focused on risks of service interruptions and impacts of malfunctions on the urban environment. And it is mainly based on multi-criteria decision-making. A major challenge for research thus lies in taking into account the other dimensions of the performance of water supply service, namely integrity of the network (resource protection) and water quality (among which the issue of CVM). This is especially true since, in most cases, actions undertaken to satisfy one axis of performance are sub-optimal for the others. It appears that technical sciences are able to generate new knowledge on each axis taken separately. However, their integration, which is an operational necessity, requires a more complete picture on the issue and the resort of economics. To achieve this goal, we propose to use a Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), which seems to allow taking into account the multi-objectives character of asset management.

The postdoctoral student will lead the CBA in order to compare three asset management strategies leading to the same amount of work but each focussing on one specific dimension of service performance (water quality; service continuity and protection of the urban environment, that is to say prevention against breakages; limitation of water loss), while considering the water price. More precisely, the postdoctoral student will have to:

• Convey the state of the art and best practices in the economic analysis of the performance of drinking water supply services;
• Contribute to building the research question, in link with the scientific objectives of the project;
• Define the data collection protocol, taking into account the existing literature and recent methodological developments in the area;
• Conduct the CBA and analyse the results;
• Contribute to the dissemination of those results.

Profile for the ideal candidate

• Ph.D. in economics
• Mastery of the quantitative techniques (statistics and econometrics) and of dedicated software
• Experience in fields surveys
• Familiarity with monetary valuation methods
• Interest in the issues of water management
• Autonomy
• Oral and drafting skills in French and English
• Aptitude for team work and interdisciplinarity

Practical information

• Duration of the contract: renewable 12 months. Expected starting period: May 1, 2019
• Salary: around €2,850 bruts per month (according to the EPST salary scheme)
• The position is based in Cestas, France (Irstea, UR ETBX). Travels are expected in France and abroad (associated expenses will be covered)

Conditions and application procedure

Your pre-selection application should include a CV and an up-to-two-page cover letter describing your interest in the subject and a post-doctoral research project on the basis of the information provided above. An initial selection from the applications received will be made; a hearing will then be organised.

Applications should be submitted by email to Bénédicte Rulleau (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) before 24 February 2019.

Call for Applications

2019 The Stan Czamanski Prize 

Deadline:  March 31, 2019 (contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

The Stan Czamanski Prize is awarded by the Regional Science Association International in memory of Professor Stan Czamanski, an early recipient of a Ph.D. in regional science (1963), a member of the University of Pennsylvania regional science faculty (1963-1966), a member of the regional science faculty of Cornell University (1966-1988), and a past-president of the Regional Science Association (1975-1976).

 The annual prize is awarded to author of the best Ph.D. dissertation proposal judged to exemplify the philosophy and approach of Professor Czamanski, as described below.

1. The US$1,000 prize is awarded to the student and a plaque to the student’s advisor.

2. The selection will be made by a panel of three persons: a senior and long-standing member of the regional science community, a representative of the field of Regional Science at Cornell and a member of the RSAI Council. 

3. Students writing dissertations on problems in regional science from around the world are invited to enter the competition, in the spirit of Stan’s all-embracing philosophy.

To be eligible, the dissertation proposal must have been defended and approved during the past 12 months.

Each applicant will submit the following:

1. A statement in six pages or less that clearly sets out the research question(s) and issues to be addressed, approach to be used, and product expected from the dissertation research. The six-page limit is exclusive of references, tables and figures. This text and references should be in 12 point or larger font and single-spaced. In addition, a summary (maximum one page) describing the intellectual merit of the proposed research and why the proposed approach may be regarded as implementing Professor Czamanski’s philosophy and approach, as described below.

2. A curriculum vita of no more than two pages.

3. Copies of the candidate’s transcripts for all graduate study. Unofficial copies are acceptable.

4. A separate, confidential letter from the dissertation supervisor assessing the quality and significance of the proposed dissertation research.

Philosophy and Research Approach of Professor Stan Czamanski

In his Introduction to Regional Science (Prentice-Hall, 1975, p. 2), Walter Isard wrote:

“In brief, regional science as a discipline concerns the careful and patient study of social problems with regional or spatial dimensions, employing diverse combinations of analytical and empirical research.”

Professor Czamanski’s research exemplified the analysis of social and economic problems with regional and spatial dimensions. In doing so, he chose judiciously the right combination of analytical and empirical research methods from his tool box to address the specific issue at hand.  

Dissertation proposals submitted for the Stan Czamanski Prize will be judged with regard to how the student proposes to bring an appropriate combination of analytical and empirical methods to bear on a social and economic problem with spatial or regional dimensions, and how this combination of methods is expected to deliver greater insights into the problem in question.

2019 Southern Regional Science Association Meeting – Arlington, VA
(Washington, DC Metro)

Call for Papers

Join us for the 58th Annual Southern Regional Science Association Meetings at the Key Bridge Marriott Hotel, April 4 – 6, 2019

For more information on submitting organized sessions, individual abstracts, undergraduate poster abstracts, and Moriarty and Miernyk award applications can be found by clicking on the conference link at www.srsa.org.

2019 Deadlines
Organized Sessions/Individual Abstracts: January 18th
Moriarty Graduate Student Paper Award: February 15th
William H. Miernyk Research Excellence Medal: February 15th
Undergraduate Poster Abstracts: February 15th

Senior Lecturer (closing: 18 February 2019), School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol

The School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol wishes to appoint a talented and motivated scholar to the position of Senior Lecturer or Reader in Quantitative Human Geography. The successful candidate will join the Quantitative Spatial Science Research Group, bringing expertise in the development, application and teaching of geographical data analysis and/or the statistical modelling of large and complex datasets ...in substantive areas of quantitative social science.

These will include areas of urban, social, medical, political and/or economic geography, all broadly defined.

Applicants will have an international reputation for research commensurate with the level of appointment, a background in geography or a cognate discipline, and be driven by a curiosity to develop, to apply and to teach innovative methods of spatial and statistical analysis to understand the causes and outcomes of spatial processes and their impacts on society.

For further information please contact Professor Richard Harris (Spatial Modelling Group lead), E-mail:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The closing date for applications is 11:59pm on 18th February 2019. To apply, consult the application website: https://goo.gl/3iP7BF

We appreciate and value difference, seeking to attract, develop and retain a diverse mix of talented people that will contribute to the overall success of Bristol and help maintain our position as one of the world’s leading universities.

Job title: Professor In Economics

Reference: AC03305

Link: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/details.php?nPostingId=34358&nPostingTargetId=49593&id=QHUFK026203F3VBQB7VLO8NXD&LG=UK&mask=suext

Job title: Associate Professor in Economics

Reference: AC03306

Link: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/details.php?nPostingId=34378&nPostingTargetId=49633&id=QHUFK026203F3VBQB7VLO8NXD&LG=UK&mask=suext

Job title: Senior Lecturer in Economics

Reference: AC03307

Link: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/details.php?nPostingId=34398&nPostingTargetId=49752&id=QHUFK026203F3VBQB7VLO8NXD&LG=UK&mask=suext

Job title: Lecturer In Economics

Reference: AC03308

Link: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/details.php?nPostingId=34458&nPostingTargetId=49692&id=QHUFK026203F3VBQB7VLO8NXD&LG=UK&mask=suext

Call for Papers

Workshop RED in Mexico: Challenges of a New Era

Universidad Panamericana & CIDE-RC

Aguascalientes, AGS, Mexico, June 14-16, 2019

The Universidad Panamericana and CIDE-RC invite research paper submissions for the “Regional Economic Development (RED) in Mexico: Challenges of a New Era”.

The deadline for submissions is April 14, 2019.

The workshop will be held on June 14-16, 2019, at the Universidad Panamericana, Campus Aguascalientes.

This workshop seeks to gather a group of researchers, academics, and students working in regional economy development topics to discuss research done in the field. It will also contribute to build a network of Latin American economists interested in regional economic development.

Scholarly articles focus on policy issues in Latin America are especially encourage, but any work with focus on RED is welcome. Papers can present the results of research, discuss conceptual approaches to policy implications, describe work in progress or raise issues for debate.

Structure of the sessions:

The Workshop includes four invited speakers who will open and close the sessions of each day.

Presenters of selected papers will have 30 minutes to discuss their work and take questions. Presentations are intended to identify pressing public policy issues and emerging research themes in regional economic development.

At the Young Researchers Session (YRS) new entrants in the field will have their papers discussed by senior colleagues.  The papers in the YRS will be assigned extra time (45 minutes including discussion). PhD students or recent PhD holding their degree for at most 3 years may qualify as Young Researchers. Full Papers should be submitted via the conference’s website, choosing the Young Researchers’ option.

The workshop will also provide networking and professional development opportunities for faculty and graduate students who are interested in pursuing research in Latin America´s regional economic issues.

Keynote Speakers:

In addition to selected paper presentations there will be four keynote speeches by:

Antonio Álvarez Pinilla (confirmed)          Universidad de Oviedo       

Patricio Aroca                                           Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

Sandy Dall'Erba (confirmed)                     University of Illinois

Geoffrey J.D. Hewings (confirmed)           University of Illinois         

Costs:

There is no fee, but registration to the workshop is required by May 10, 2019.

Language:

All Workshop sessions will be held in English.

Submissions:

Prospective participants should submit a full version of the paper in English NLT April 15^th, 2019 to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Authors will be notified of the final decision by April 30, 2019.

Please feel free to make any inquiries about the event at the above email address or visit our website https://realmexico.com.mx/

Tentative Program:

1^st Day

Opening Ceremony – Keynote Speaker Keynote speaker Patricio Aroca

Coffee Break

Young Researchers Session I

Lunch

Paper Session I

Closing day session: Keynote Speaker Sandy Dall'Erba: "Regional science and the economic impact of climate change"

Dinner

2^nd Day

Opening Session Keynote Speaker: Antonio Álvarez-Pinilla: The Contribution of Efficiency to Regional Growth.

Coffee Break

Young Researchers Session II

Lunch

Paper Session II

Opening ceremony of the Regional Economic Analysis Laboratory (REAL-Mexico)

Closing Keynote Speaker Geoff Hewings: Regional Economics Going Forward.

3^rd Day

Guided Visit to Vineyard “Casa Leal”

Workshop RED in Mexico: Challenges of a New Era

Universidad Panamericana & CIDE-RC

Aguascalientes, AGS, Mexico, June 14-16, 2019

The Universidad Panamericana and CIDE-RC invite research paper submissions for the “Regional Economic Development (RED) in Mexico: Challenges of a New Era”.

The deadline for submissions is April 14, 2019.

The workshop will be held on June 14-16, 2019, at the Universidad Panamericana, Campus Aguascalientes.

This workshop seeks to gather a group of researchers, academics, and students working in regional economy development topics to discuss research done in the field. It will also contribute to build a network of Latin American economists interested in regional economic development.

Scholarly articles focus on policy issues in Latin America are especially encourage, but any work with focus on RED is welcome. Papers can present the results of research, discuss conceptual approaches to policy implications, describe work in progress or raise issues for debate.

Structure of the sessions:

The Workshop includes four invited speakers who will open and close the sessions of each day.

Presenters of selected papers will have 30 minutes to discuss their work and take questions. Presentations are intended to identify pressing public policy issues and emerging research themes in regional economic development.

At the Young Researchers Session (YRS) new entrants in the field will have their papers discussed by senior colleagues.  The papers in the YRS will be assigned extra time (45 minutes including discussion). PhD students or recent PhD holding their degree for at most 3 years may qualify as Young Researchers. Full Papers should be submitted via the conference’s website, choosing the Young Researchers’ option.

The workshop will also provide networking and professional development opportunities for faculty and graduate students who are interested in pursuing research in Latin America´s regional economic issues.

Keynote Speakers:

In addition to selected paper presentations there will be four keynote speeches by:

Antonio Álvarez Pinilla (confirmed)          Universidad de Oviedo       

Patricio Aroca                                           Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

Sandy Dall'Erba (confirmed)                     University of Illinois

Geoffrey J.D. Hewings (confirmed)           University of Illinois         

Costs:

There is no fee, but registration to the workshop is required by May 10, 2019.

Language:

All Workshop sessions will be held in English.

Submissions:

Prospective participants should submit a full version of the paper in English NLT April 15^th, 2019 to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Authors will be notified of the final decision by April 30, 2019.

Please feel free to make any inquiries about the event at the above email address or visit our website https://realmexico.com.mx/

Tentative Program:

1^st Day

Opening Ceremony – Keynote Speaker Keynote speaker Patricio Aroca

Coffee Break

Young Researchers Session I

Lunch

Paper Session I

Closing day session: Keynote Speaker Sandy Dall'Erba: "Regional science and the economic impact of climate change"

Dinner

2^nd Day

Opening Session Keynote Speaker: Antonio Álvarez-Pinilla: The Contribution of Efficiency to Regional Growth.

Coffee Break

Young Researchers Session II

Lunch

Paper Session II

Opening ceremony of the Regional Economic Analysis Laboratory (REAL-Mexico)

Closing Keynote Speaker Geoff Hewings: Regional Economics Going Forward.

3^rd Day

Guided Visit to Vineyard “Casa Leal”

We would like to remind you that the second edition of our Workshop Series on Migration, Globalization and the Knowledge Economy is soon approaching (May 16-17, 2019). This is part of our series of 4 workshop  we launched in 2018 on the topic of migration and its relationship with knowledge creation, diffusion, entrepreneurship, international business, innovation, and more. The 4 workshops are commonly organized by CEPII, EPFL, PSE, Utrecht, ICRIOS-Bocconi, and GREThA-Université de Bordeaux.

This second edition of the workshop si organized by Utrecht University, and the call for papers is now open (until March 31) and available here.

The workshop will consist of a 2-day plenary session with presentations and discussions, and two keynote speakers. The keynote speakers of the Utrecht workshop will be Ina Ganguli, from University of Massachusetts, and Ufuk Akcigit, from the University of Chicago.

We aim to attract both senior and junior scholars dealing with research topics such as the role of high-skilled migration in fostering innovation in receiving countries, the relationship between diversity and innovation, the role of skilled diasporas and return migrants in diffusing knowledge back to their home countries, the emerging role of MNC in shaping scientists’ and engineers’ migration flows as well as temporary migration and knowledge sharing, migration and innovation-based start-ups formation, regions and mobility, and so forth.

We'll be delighted if you can join us in Utrecht this May, as well as in the forthcoming cities.