2026 Regional Studies Association (RSA) Winter Conference

Key Topics

• Governance, Institutions & Civil Society
• New Direction in Regional Studies, Community, Local & Regional Development
• Financial Geographies & Globalisation
• Financial Crisis, Resilience, Recession, Austerity & Recovery
• FDI, Global Value Chains & Production Networks
• Entrepreneurship, Investment, Start-ups & Spin-offs
• Networks, Knowledge Spaces & Evolutionary Trajectories
• Agglomeration, Clusters & Externalities
• Smart Cities & Sustainable Cities, Smart Specialisation
• Innovation, Technological Change & Economic Growth
• Urban & Regional Theory, Methodology & Data
• Inequality, Social Justice & Cohesion
• Environment, Landscape, Sustainability & Climate Change
• Planning: Theory & Practice & the Pace/Space Nexus
• Labour Markets, Health, Wellbeing & Quality of Life
• Housing, Infrastructure, Energy & Security
• Mobility, Migration, Demographics & Rural Development
• Megaregions, Trade, Commerce & Economic & Industrial Policy
• Geopolitics, Territorial Power, Federalism
• Developing Area Studies & the Global South
• Tourism, Events & Temporary Clusters of Innovations