In case anyone is interested, you can look up average salaries for those living in different parts of the UK on the website of the Office for National Statistics. ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…

We welcome paper proposals for our special session on 'Place-based development and alternative futures for left behind places’ at the 2024 RSA Annual Conference in Florence. Abstract submission by 30 Jan via lounge.regionalstudies.org/Meetings/Meeti… Lesa Reynolds Regional Studies Association Beyond "Left Behind Places"

Attending the Regional Studies Association annual conference in Florence and working on 'left behind places'? Call for abstracts to our special session on 'Place-based development and alternative futures for ‘left behind places’' now open! lounge.regionalstudies.org/Meetings/Meeti… #RSA24

Considering a PhD in urban & regional development / economic geography? CURDS welcomes enquiries from prosepctive students.
Applications are open for Economic and Social Research Council #PhD funding via
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Come work at CURDS Newcastle EconGeog@Newcastle
Newcastle University Geography

Submission deadline 22 Jan 2024

For anyone attending #EURegionsWeek next month, please join us for a stimulating session on 'left behind' places!

Who created the NUTS3 boundaries for Scotland, and why WHY did they do it like this?!? Why put part of Argyll & Bute in one NUTS3 region and another part in another NUTS3 region? And the same with North Ayrshire?? 😫😫😫

Seems a good day to highlight our research into politicians’ climate messaging, particularly on “green jobs”. With Ben Cooper

In short, it’s complicated and nuanced. Sorry about that.

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Very pleased to publish new OECD blog Where Next for Europe's 'left-behind places'? It identifies different policy directions for different kinds of 'left-behind places'. oecdcogito.blog/2023/07/04/whe… Beyond "Left Behind Places"

We wrote a blog!

Where next for Europe's 'left behind places'? oecdcogito.blog/2023/07/04/whe…

📢 Hot off the presses: new policy briefing from the Beyond "Left Behind Places" team on 'The Characteristics and Trajectories of 'Left Behind Places' in the EU15'

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If you're going to #AAG2023 come along to our sessions on geographies of inequality and 'left behind' places! Co-organised with Rachel Franklin 🦚 rsfrankl.bsky.social, Nora Nafaa, Max Rousseau and @RoyerJeroen.

New paper on the etymology of #LeftBehindPlaces , written by #IfL -researchers Nadir Kinossian, Thilo Lang, Tim Leibert & @RoyerJeroen together with Andy Pike, Vincent Béal, Nicolas Cauchi-Duval, Rachel Franklin 🦚 rsfrankl.bsky.social, Danny MacKinnon, Max Rousseau, Loris Servillo, John Tomaney, Sanne Velthuis

'The argument [in this paper] is that the term ‘left behind places’ modifies the ways in which geographical inequalities have been interpreted and responded to since the 2008 crash.' New and in #OpenAccess by Andy Pike et al.
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CFP #AAG2023 —Headed to American Association of Geographers annual meeting & looking for a home for your paper? If you're doing work on the geographies of inequality + 'Left Behind' Places, we have you covered ⬇️⬇️

Organisers: Sanne Velthuis Max Rousseau Tim Leibert + me (@CURDSNewcastle Beyond "Left Behind Places")

New Special Needs Jungle post!

Οur PI Stella Chatzitheochari, discusses results from our recent British Journal of Sociology research note with Sanne Velthuis Roxanne Connelly.

The Leverhulme Trust Warwick Sociology

We have a new permanent Research Fellow post CRESR SHU for someone interested in quantitative methods, applied policy research and evaluation. Especially suit people interested in research on disadvantaged people & places, housing, regeneration.
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Good analysis/summary by Faisal Islam. bbc.co.uk/news/business-…