RSA Membership

Our membership runs from January to December and when you join during the year, you get all the back copies of the publications sent to the contact person provided by organisation.

New £250k investment in research, collaboration and knowledge transfer.

Membership Benefits

Publications - receive:

• Ten issues of Regional Studies per membership
• Four issues of our new journal Spatial Economic Analysis (both print and online) per membership
• Four issues of Regions, the Association's magazine (both print and online) per membership
• Two issues of Regional Insights per membership
• 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)

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 £400 towards travel costs
• Apply for one or more of our annual Awards for a chance to win some of prizes;
• Two Bill Ogden memorial prizes are available covering a free conference place and limited travel support to the winter conference.
• Apply for up to £1000 to support your regional studies event via our Event Support Scheme
• Early career members can apply for the RSA Early Career Award. Awards are provided to support a discrete piece of regional studies and/or regional science research. The value of the award is up to £10,000 and has a maximum time span of 18 months, reporting conditions apply.

Open Networking

• International Territorial Networks - International Sections and UK-Sub National Branches;
• Search our Expert Register, available through our Members' Lounge;
• Join the E-bulletin network - all entries are moderated;
• Attend our many conferences - such as the annual international conference - Pécs (Hungary) 2010, Newcastle, UK (2011) etc...
• Annual President's Parties - open to all members (2010: The Ritz Hotel, London, UK)

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
  Contemporary Social Science
  

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