We were delighted that Kathleen Stokes (DCU) and Mary Lawhon (University of Edinburgh) have received the Best Paper Award for 'What counts as infrastructural labour? Community action as waste work in South Africa’ (doi.org/10.1080/2379...)

www.regionalstudies.org/news/2025-adp-best-paper-award/

New open access article "Metropolisation in the Global South: political negotiation in Lima and Bogotá" by Carlos Manuel Jiménez Aguilar, Giovanni Andrés Hernández Salazar &José Luis Niño Amézquita
doi.org/10.1080/2379...

Also, we are looking for new entries! Mail: [email protected]
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New open access article "A tale of no cities? The neglect of cities in South Africa’s post-apartheid national economic policies" by Glen Robbins
doi.org/10.1080/2379...

New open access article "China’s interdependent positioning in the semiconductor global value chain" by Seamus Grimes & Debin Du
DOI doi.org/10.1080/2379...

The @regstud.bsky.social and @rsa-adp.bsky.social teams are pleased to announce Qiong He (@uniofstandrews.bsky.social) has taken up post as the new Early Career Editor of Area Development and Policy. See the full story here www.regionalstudies.org/news/new-are...

🚨🚨New Article Online🚨🚨

"Selection of spillover channels in spatial dynamic panel models using heterogeneous shrinkage on spatial parameters" by Yong Bao & Xiaoyan Zhou.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Interested in contributing a research blog for RSA? We'd love to hear from any previous RSRS researchers wanting to showcase some of their published work!

Interested in regions and Twin Transition?
Submit you abstract to our RSA special session (SS 60), “a regions and Twin Transition”

Abstract deadline, December 19

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🌟Five days for ECR to submit their application for the Early Career Plenary Speaker call for #RSA25 🌟

For more information and to apply: bit.ly/RSAAC25

➡️Navigating Regional Transformation
⏰6-9 May 2025
🌎 Porto, Portugal

⌛Deadline: 10 December 2024

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🚨🚨New Article Online🚨🚨

"Determinants of housing rental prices in Seoul: applying explainable AI" by Tae-Young Kim, Eunil Park & Doojin Ryu.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....