Regional Studies Association, 25 Clinton Place, Seaford, East Sussex, BN25 1NP, UK Tel: + 44 (0)1323 899 698, Fax: + 44 (0)1323 899 798 Email: [email protected]Web: www.regionalstudies.org Regional Studies Association Annual President’s Event 2014 The Doyle Bloomsbury Hotel Thursday, 27th November 2014 Ceremony marking the opening of the Regional Studies Association China Division, September 2014
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Welcome, We are delighted to offer you a very warm welcome to this year’s President’s Event. This year of course we are without our President. Professor Sir Peter Hall, our inaugural President and a founder member of the Association sadly passed away in the Summer but we will be remembering him tonight when our guest speaker, Professor Nick Phelps presents a tribute to him and to his contribution. Tonight we will also be running our annual awards ceremony recognising excellence in our field. We pass our congratulations to all those who have been honoured this year and especially to those who will receive their award this evening. The Association has had a busy year.
We have opened an RSA Chinese Division with a project office in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. There was the auspicious number of 66 new members at the opening ceremony which was attended by the Chair and Chief Executive in September
In 2015, the Association will launch two new grant schemes aimed at its individual and fellowship members to complement its Early Career Grant scheme which has awarded over £240,000 to 24 emerging scholars
The new gold open access journal Regional Studies, Regional Science was successfully launched and its 27 articles will have attracted more than 17,000 downloads in 12 months
Territory, Politics, Governance has been accepted by Thomson Reuters for early consideration for inclusion in the Web of Science. Inclusion gives an impact factor
At our largest DG Regio/Committee of the Regions/DG Emploi Open Days European Week for Regions and Cities organized for European policy makers and practitioners, more than 1000 people attended the four RSA hosted University sessions plus the Early Career
Master Class on Cohesion Policy
In December 2013, the Association’s inaugural USA conference in UCLA, Los Angeles was hailed a great success and the Winter conference 2014, is the biggest in our history
Membership has risen to its highest ever level and is more international and more evenly spread across career stage than in the past
As ever, we remind you that any Association can only be as good as its members are active. Do continue to engage with us. Tell us what you would like to do and challenge us to offer more. All best wishes, Andrew Beer Sally Hardy Chair Chief Executive
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Regional Studies Association
Annual President’s Event The Doyle Bloomsbury Hotel
Thursday 27th November 2014
Guest Speaker Professor Nick Phelps, University College London, UK
Nick will present a tribute to the late Professor Sir Peter Hall, formerly President and founder member of the
Regional Studies Association
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Evening Programme
19:00 Arrival drinks 19:30 Awards ceremony hosted by Professor Andrew Beer, University of Adelaide, Australia, Chair of the Regional Studies Association 19:45 Dinner 22:00 Close Prof. Nick Phelps will make his speech during dinner
Dinner Menu
Starter Terrine of two salmons lightly smoked wrapped in black forest
ham, asparagus vinaigrette
Vegetarian
Tian of fresh and smoked mozzarella, avocado mousseline, roast pepper oil
Main Course Poached fillet of lamb wrapped in leek,
Dessert Red berry gratin, champagne sabayon basil ice cream
Coffee
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Awards
Awards to be presented at this evening’s dinner
Routledge Award for Early Career Excellence 2014 Dr Gianpiero Torrisi, Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth, UK
‘Regional Resilience in Italy: A Very Long-Run Analysis’
Nathaniel Lichfield Award 2014 Alan Zarychta, NSF Graduate Research Fellow, University of Colorado Boulder, USA ‘The Effects of Decentralized Health Service Delivery Models on Women’s Health’
Best Book Award 2014
Voted for by the Regional Studies Association membership from a list of titles published in 2013
Tassilo Herrschel, University of Westminster, UK
‘Cities, States and Globalisation’ Regions and Cities Book Series, Routledge, UK
Institutional Award Routledge Publishing
To be received by Dr. David Green, Global Publishing Director
Best Paper Regional Studies 2014 Voted for by the editors of Regional Studies