MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS

Funding Opportunities

• Apply for up to £3000 of renewable Research Network funding to bring people together to discuss key questions in your area of interest (open to all individual categories of membership).
• Everyone is eligible to apply for conference bursaries taking the form of a free conference place at our annual international conference (precedence may be given to young/new researchers or those from countries with recognised funding difficulties)
• Ask for a Travel Award, which offers up to £200 towards travel costs
• Two Bill Ogden memorial prizes are available covering a free conference place and limited travel support to the winter conference.

Open Networking

• International Territorial Networks - International Sections and UK-Sub National Branches
• Coming soon - Directory of Regional Researchers - this will be available with the launch of our new membership portal
• Join the E-bulletin network - all entries are moderated
• Conferences - such as the annual international conference - Leuven (Belgium) in 2009, Pécs (Hungary) 2010.
• Annual President's Luncheon - open to all members
• From 1st January 2009 all current (paid) individual, early career, student and associate members may use the post-nominal MeRSA following their family name.

Opportunities

• Present your work at our open and friendly conferences and events - our events welcome papers from all types of members and offer advice that comes from the paper referees
• Get actively involved with your Association - we welcome pro-active membership - join with us in using the Association to shape the field and to support innovation
• Win one of a number of prizes awarded each year by the Association and take part in some of the judging
• From 1st January 2009 all current (paid) individual, early career, student and associate members may use the post-nominal MeRSA following their family name.

Discounts

• Obtain discounted rates to all RSA conferences
• 30% discount on books in the Association's Regions and Cities Series - order by telephone and declare your RSA membership
• 30% discount on all Taylor and Francis Books including Routledge - order by telephone and declare your RSA membership
• Free e-subscriptions to all the following 8 journals for all individual categories of membership - sign up easily via the RSA website.
  
  Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
  City
  Regional and Federal Studies
  Policy Studies
  International Planning Studies
  Planning Practice and Research
  Space and Polity
  21st Century Society
  

Publications - receive:

• Ten issues of Regional Studies (both print and online except to University Libraries)
• Four issues of our new journal Spatial Economic Analysis (as above)
• Four issues of Regions, the Association's magazine (as above)
• A fully searchable recent issues CD containing Regional Studies and Spatial Economic Analysis
• Access the fully searchable Regional Studies archive (from Vol 1 No 1) (except to University Libraries)

Regional Studies
"Regional Studies is arguably the world's most creative forum for debate on regional development and its analysis. It is the place where the innovative, creative, learning and social regions meet. And it is the space in which local perspectives on endogenous development genuinely articulate with interscalar relational geography."
Professor Frank Moulaert, University of Newcastle, UK

Conferences
"The Regional Studies Association conferences are exciting and lively events where presentations, open discussion, and the interaction among delegates significantly push the boundaries of our knowledge about regions and the challenges they face. They are also excellent fora for the exchange of ideas between academics, on the one hand, and policy-makers and practitioners, on the other".
Professor Andres Rodriguez-Pose, London School of Economics, UK

Membership
Think Global, Act local? Read Regional Studies (join the RSA). Geographers make the world go around ... Wherever you are, become connected to RSA. Even in the most remote place, you need to connect to RSA.
Ron Boschma, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

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