We have great pleasure in informing you that Andres Rodriguez-Pose has been granted the Degree of Doctor Honoris Causa at Utrecht University for his eminent achievements in Economic Geography.

He will get the Honorary Doctorate in a public ceremony at the 383th Dies Natalis of Utrecht University on March 26, 2019.

Call for Papers and Special Session Proposals

It is our pleasure to announce the 26th APDR Congress, to be held at the University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, from July 4 to July 5, 2019.

Theme of the Conference:

Evidence-based territorial policymaking: formulation, implementation and evaluation of policy

The call for papers and Special Session Proposals are open and your participation is very welcome!

Themes of specific interest are:

RS01 - (Big) Data for regional science

RS02 - Agglomeration, clustering, and networking

RS03 - Climate change mitigation and adaptation

RS04 - Decision Support Systems

RS05 - Education and health

RS06 - Energy and environmental economics

RS07 - Financing of economic growth

RS08 - Geographic Information Systems and location modelling

RS09 - Governance and public policy

RS10 - Housing, rehabilitation and real estate

RS11 - Information and communication technology in regional sciences

RS12 - Infrastructure, transportation and accessibility

RS13 - Innovation, entrepreneurship and regional development

RS14 - Low density regions and development

RS15 - Models and methods in regional science

RS16 - Natural environment, resources and rural development

RS17 - Population, migration and labour markets

RS18 - Qualitative analysis in regional science

RS19 - Quality of life, wellbeing and happiness

RS20 - Regional and local development policies

RS21 - Regional resilience and crisis

RS22 - Services, tourism and culture

RS23 - Social innovation, integration, poverty and exclusion

RS24 - Spatial econometrics

RS25 - Sports and regional development

RS26 - Systems and General Interest Services: education, health

RS27 - Territorial Cohesion and asymmetries

RS28 - Theory in regional science

Deadline for Special Session proposals: February 29, 2019. Proposals should be sent by email to the secretariat of the Congress (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Deadline for Abstracts submissions: April 16, 2019. Abstracts should be submitted electronically, using the platform available on the Conference website: https://events.digitalpapers.org/apdr2019  

All information at the congress website: http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2019  

Looking forward to meeting you in Aveiro!

The Organizing Committee and the Board of APDR

26th APDR Congress

Dear all,

The new RSAI Newsletter November 2018 can now be found under

https://regionalscience.org/images/PDF/RSAI%20Newsletter_November_2018.pdf

Read more at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/66427258.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

Annual conference of Bangladesh Regional Science Association (BRSA), held in Dhaka during Oct. 25-26, 2018. 

RSAI has the great pleasure to announce that Roberta Capello is the 2018 recipient of the Hirotada Kohno Award for Outstanding Service to RSAI. Congratulations!

Roberta Capello is Full professor of Regional Economics at Politecnico of Milan, Faculty of Building Engineering. Congratulations!

Context

• SADF is a think tank with 4-5 staff based in Brussels, one part-time non-resident researcher. It works in cooperation with its main member, ARCHumankind, and with a consultancy LessMeansMore.
• Management will be supervised by the SADF director.

Tasks:

• Manage internal and external communications (writing press releases and reports, and manage social media pages)
• Manage the publications outflow of the think tank
• Develop website content and coordinate graphic design activities (SADF publication series, conference and seminars posters)
• Support the organisation of events/conferences/expert roundtables (concept and logistics)
• Carrying out daily administrative tasks (agenda setting, preparations of missions, business trip bookings, etc.)
• Carry out payments and accountancy tasks (follow up of invoices, salaries, trip expenses, etc.)
• Manage day to day issues of the office
• As far as the administrative tasks allow, to participate in research and news activities of SADF.

Requirements:

• The ideal candidate will possess at least three years of relevant work experience;
• The position requires native level of fluency in English (working-level French and/or Dutch are considered an asset);
• Knowledge of or interest in South Asia affairs is a plus;
• Time management and organisational skills;
• Trustworthiness and flexibility;
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team;
• Master’s Degree in Political Science or Economics will be considered as preferential.
• Driving licence is a plus

When applying, please provide a detailed CV and a cover letter that explains 1) why you are interested in working for SADF; 2) when you would be available to start; 3) your salary expectations.

This position will start on 15 January 2019. To apply for this position please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.specifying in the subject ‘Manager Application’ before 7 December 2018 at 17:00 CET.

Call for Papers - NGM 2019 in Trondheim, Norway (June 16-19, 2019), for a paper session Regional development paths and critical junctures

Session organisers:

Dr Markus Grillitsch, Department of Human Geography & CIRLCE - Center for Innovation Research and Competence in a Learning Economy, Lund University;

Dr Nadir Kinossian, Department of Regional Geography of Europe, the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL)

This session will explore possible linkages between the current debates in (1) regional path development studies, and (2) critical junctures and window of opportunity studies. Structural factors such as industrial composition, the size of the economy, or the level of infrastructure can only partly explain regional development paths. Changes in politics, policy, and institutions can be explained by analysing the behaviour of actors. If we presuppose that the establishment of a new regional development path is an outcome of a critical juncture in economic or institutional development, we could use the critical juncture literature to explain the mechanism of such change.

This session invites contributions that i) disentangle the effects of structure and agency on regional economic change; ii) link institutional change and regional development, and iii) focus on the micro-level processes, agents and their networks.

Contributing to this line of inquiry, this session invites papers that address the following questions:

• To what extent, under which conditions, and how can agency contribute to regional growth paths beyond what could be expected due to structural preconditions?
• How can critical junctures and window of opportunity models be used to analyse regional path development?
• Which processes within and beyond firms underpin regional growth paths?
• What are the causal factors explaining new path development in (different types of) regions?
• How do different regional industrial paths interplay and shape regional growth paths?
• What is the role of policy in shaping regional growth paths?

Please send an abstract of around 300 words to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Deadline for abstract submission: December 15, 2018

Notification: January 15, 2019

More information from the conference web site: https://www.ntnu.edu/geography/ngm-2019

The Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine invites applications for an open rank faculty position, to begin fall quarter 2019. We seek a scholar with research and teaching interests in urban and/or environmental policy, especially with expertise relevant to the multifaceted challenges of housing in metropolitan regions. We are particularly interested in candidates who focus on the relationship between housing and sustainability, broadly conceived. Examples of areas of desired emphasis include, but are not limited to, housing affordability, homelessness, green building and environmentally innovative infrastructure, collaborative governance, and social equity and justice. Expertise in a variety of methodological approaches is welcome. The successful candidate will direct our growing Master of Public Policy program beginning in the 2019-20 academic year, and will teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

The department currently offers five vibrant academic programs including a Ph.D. in Planning, Policy, and Design, Master of Urban and Regional Planning (7-year PAB accreditation), a collaborative Master of Public Policy, an undergraduate program in Urban Studies and a collaborative undergraduate program in Environmental Science and Policy. The department has 19 full-time faculty members, 17 affiliated faculty, and a pool of adjunct instructors.  Full-time faculty members in the Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy are high in scholarly productivity and possess research strengths in land use and transportation, housing and community development, environmental planning and policy, inequality and economic opportunity, design, and collaborative governance.  They also are active in a range of campus-wide research, education, and outreach efforts, including the Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, the Water UCI center, and the Institute for Transportation Studies.

For full consideration, candidates should apply by December 31, 2018. We anticipate that the successful candidate will start July 1, 2019. Candidates should apply online by submitting a cover letter, curriculum vitae, the names and contact information for three academic references, 1-3 publications or writing samples, a statement of research interests, and a brief statement of teaching philosophy and interest. A separate statement that addresses past and/or potential contributions to diversity, equity and inclusion should also be included in the application materials. For more information, please contact the search committee co-chairs, Professors David Feldman and Victoria Basolo (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

UC Irvine, with over 35,000 students, is consistently ranked among the nation’s best universities, public and private. The campus is located in the heart of the diverse Southern California region, just a few miles from the Pacific Ocean and a relatively short distance to Los Angeles. The campus is approximately three miles from the John Wayne airport providing convenient domestic travel and about nine miles to the Irvine Amtrak/Metrorail station.  Many faculty members live in University Hills, an on-campus, faculty-staff residential community with affordable ownership and rental housing.

The University of California, Irvine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer advancing inclusive excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC nondiscrimination policy. A recipient of an NSF ADVANCE award for gender equity, UCI is responsive to the needs of dual career couples, supports work-life balance through an array of family-friendly policies, and is dedicated to broadening participation in higher education.

The recruit link for this position is: https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/apply/JPF05020

The Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics (ACE) seeks to fill a position for an Assistant or Associate Professor in International Trade and Food Security.

This position is part of an initiative in the College of ACES to contribute to the improvement of global human and environmental health via the food system. We intend to dramatically strengthen and expand our capacity in this arena through a seven-position cluster hire focused on Food and Agricultural Systems for Global Health. Faculty hired into these positions will lead collegewide efforts in food security and global health, and participate in related campus priorities, including the Nutrition and Food Security theme of the campus strategic plan (blogs.illinois.edu/view/7831/601847), the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, and Carle-Illinois College of Medicine, among others.

Primary Duties include:

• Develop a nationally prominent research program with publications in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals and extramural funding
• Contribute to the department’s undergraduate and graduate teaching programs through teaching (generally two courses per year) and student advising
• Collaborate with colleagues to address societal problems that require complex, multidisciplinary approaches.

All candidates must hold a Ph.D. in agricultural/applied economics, economics, finance, or related field. Candidates should show potential for a strong research and teaching program in their area of specialization, and have completed their degree before the start date of the appointment.

To ensure full consideration, candidates should apply by November 15, 2018. The search will remain open until suitable candidates are identified. Candidates may be interviewed before the closing date; however no hiring decision will be made until after that date. To apply, please create a candidate profile at jobs.illinois.edu and upload a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a sample of written work, a research statement, a teaching statement and three letters of reference. Applicants who are currently graduate students or post-doctoral fellows must also submit transcripts from graduate program(s). All requested information must be submitted for your application to be given full consideration. Please contact Melissa Warmbier at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with questions.

The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer.

The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO. To learn more about the University’s commitment to diversity, please visit http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu