The University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UHM) invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor (position 84643), a tenure track appointment with the University of Hawai'i Economic Research Organization (UHERO, 0.75 FTE) and the Department of Economics (0.25 FTE), with locus of tenure in UHERO, College of Social Sciences, UHM, permanent, tenure track, full-time, 9-month, to begin August 1, 2019, subject to position clearance and availability of funds.

Duties: Conduct applied research in one or more of the following areas: economic forecasting, state and local public finance, labor economics, health economics, environmental/energy economics, urban/regional economics, or data science. Publish in peer-reviewed academic journals, and serve as principal investigator on extramurally funded projects. Lead UHERO Analytics— a group of staff programmers, graduate research assistants, and undergraduate interns that develop and maintain all of UHERO’s custom database systems; design, build and maintain custom data and web applications; and develop and deploy best-in-class visualizations, dashboards and other innovative methods to produce high-impact research outreach. Teach undergraduate or graduate courses on Data Analysis and Visualization, and other areas as needed. Mentor and advise students. Conduct service and outreach in congruence with UHERO’s mission. Other duties as assigned by the director.

We will conduct interviews at the Annual meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association in Atlanta, January 3-5, 2019.

To apply: Visit https://www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=111461766 for the full job advertisement and application instructions.

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