REGIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION — grant history
Latest income
£1.4m
Grants listed (FY2025)
8
Listed grants total
£94k
Accounts grants total
£117k
listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts
Application guidance — from the funder’s own website
- How to apply: The opportunities below provide members with the chance to apply for financial help to support their work, run networking events, receive awards for excellence, receive help towards the costs of travel to attend both RSA and non-RSA events, and present their work to international audiences.
- Deadlines: Application Deadline (Expression of Interest): 3rd March 2027
What changed: FY2024 → FY2025
| Change | Grantee | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| new | Research Networks | — | £38k |
| new | Various | — | £9k |
| not listed | Peripheries and Peripherality (EdgeNet) | £38k | — |
| not listed | Financial Geographies (FinGeo) | £38k | — |
| not listed | Transformative Knowledge Regions | £38k | — |
| not listed | Knowledge, Innovation and Regional Development in South America (KIRDSA) | £38k | — |
| not listed | Putting the ‘ust’ into Just Transitions for Cities | £38k | — |
| not listed | Regions | £38k | — |
| not listed | EU Cohesion Policy #CPnet | £38k | — |
| not listed | Citizen Entrepreneurship (RSARNCE) | £38k | — |
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research Networks | FY2025 | £38k | Funding for active Research Networks (FinGeo, TKR, KIRDSA, Just Transitions for Cities, EdgeNet, NOIR, SPRINT, ESPPRIT, T2R, MuniFisc, Bridging Governance Gaps, GGVC4SRD) |
| Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico | FY2025 | £10k | Mapping Remittance Resilience: A Regional Analysis of US-Mexico Flows During and After the Covid-19 Crisis |
| Sheffield University Management School, UK | FY2025 | £10k | Entrepreneurs in Emerging Entrepreneurial Ecosystems |
| University College Dublin, Ireland | FY2025 | £10k | Leaving No One Behind? Navigating Regional Socio-Economic and Employment Impacts in the Context of Just Transition |
| Various | FY2025 | £9k | Start up grants |
| Bucknell University, USA | FY2025 | £8k | Women’s Entrepreneurship and Rural Regional Revitalisation - Comparative Study |
| Utrecht University, The Netherlands | FY2025 | £8k | Lonely Teleworkers |
| Various | FY2025 | £3k | Event support schemes and travel grants |
| Peripheries and Peripherality (EdgeNet) | FY2024 | £38k | Research Network |
| Financial Geographies (FinGeo) | FY2024 | £38k | Research Network |
| Transformative Knowledge Regions | FY2024 | £38k | Research Network |
| Knowledge, Innovation and Regional Development in South America (KIRDSA) | FY2024 | £38k | Research Network |
| Putting the ‘ust’ into Just Transitions for Cities | FY2024 | £38k | Research Network |
| Regions | FY2024 | £38k | Research Network |
| EU Cohesion Policy #CPnet | FY2024 | £38k | Research Network |
| Citizen Entrepreneurship (RSARNCE) | FY2024 | £38k | Research Network |
| Infrastructural Regionalisms (NOIR) | FY2024 | £38k | Research Network |
| Regional Studies European Foundation | FY2024 | £20k | Grant made to related party |
| Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico | FY2024 | £8k | MeRSA Grant |
| University College Dublin, Ireland | FY2024 | £8k | Early Career Grant |
| Sheffield University Management School, UK | FY2024 | £8k | Early Career Grant |
| Utrecht University, The Netherlands | FY2024 | £8k | FeRSA Grant |
| Bucknell University, USA | FY2024 | £8k | MeRSA Grant |
| CURDS, Newcastle University, United Kingdom | FY2022 | £10k | Early Career Grant - (Re)setting the Agenda: Investigating the Gendered Power-relations in the Leadership of Regional Development and Policy-making |
| University of Greifswald, Germany | FY2022 | £10k | Early Career Grant - Staying in or Moving Out? — Quality of Life, Interregional Migration Decisions and Covid-19 |
| Northeastern University, United States | FY2022 | £8k | FeRSA Grant - Policy Solutions to Emerging Renewable Energy Development Conflicts |
| Politecnico di Milano, Italy | FY2022 | £5k | MeRSA Grant - Logistics City-Regions in Transitions. New Spatial Imaginary? |
| University Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile | FY2022 | £5k | MeRSA Grant - International Migration, Climate Change and Network Effects: A Worldwide Study |
| University of La Verne, USA | FY2022 | £4k | Small Grant Scheme on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry - Racial Disparities of the Paycheck Protection Program: Focusing on Structural Differences in Banking Infrastructure |
| University of Virginia, USA | FY2022 | £4k | Small Grant Scheme on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry - Lessons learned from the community-engaged exploration of how the Maré community, a favela or nominal informal community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has responded to prevailing health and governance conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic |
| Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain | FY2022 | £4k | Small Grant Scheme on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry - Effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on green patents in the Eurozone |
| University of Colorado Boulder, USA | FY2022 | £4k | Small Grant Scheme on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry - Managing Covid-19 across Ukraine’s Regions during Wartime |
| Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia | FY2022 | £4k | Small Grant Scheme on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry - Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the implementation of digital public policy in six local administrations in the Colombian Meta Department |
| Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia | FY2022 | £4k | Small Grant Scheme on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry - Understanding urban differences in the spread of COVID-19 and socio-economic inequalities: Bogota, Colombia vs Chenai, India |
| Newcastle University | FY2022 | £1k | Commissioned research grant on the impact of the pandemic on gender and publishing |