Colleagues and I at NUS have been awarded S$4.95 million to start a Global Production Networks Centre at NUS (GPN@NUS). This is funded by the NUS Office of Deputy President (Research & Technology) Strategic Research Proposals 2014. GPN@NUS will be co-directed by Henry Yeung and Neil Coe (from Geography). Team members consists of Karen Lai... Continue Reading →
FASS Writing Fellowship (July to December 2014)
I will be on a FASS Writing Fellowship from 1 July 2014 to 31 December 2014. This means I will not be teaching in Semester 1, 2014/2015. GE3201 The Service Economy will not be offered in Semester 1, 2014/2015. Instead, it will be offered in Semester 2, 2014/2015, and co-taught by myself and Neil Coe.
Research Impact Workshop at RGS-IBG
Generating Research Impact: Ethics, Politics and Practices Date: Tuesday 26th August 2014 Venue: Education Centre, Royal Geographical Society (RGS), 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR Organised by RGS Research Groups: EGRG, DARG, SCGRG and PolGRG This workshop will take place on the day before the annual international conference of the RGS (with IBG). It brings... Continue Reading →
Launch of official website for the Fourth Global Conference on Economic Geography
The official website for the Fourth Global Conference on Economic Geography is now live. The conference will be held in Oxford, UK, on 19-22 August 2015 under the title 'Mapping Economies in Transformation'. For more details, please visit http://www.gceg2015.org/, and do pass this information to interested colleagues.
EGSG Student Awards Competition 2014
Student Award Competitions The AAG Economic Geography Specialty Group (EGSG) makes three annual awards in economic geography, with the results announced each year at the AAG Annual Meeting (which is in Tampa, Florida, 8-12 April 2014, this year). Graduate Student Research Award (deadline: 15 March 2014) These competitive awards ($750 each) are designed to support innovative and original graduate... Continue Reading →
Launch of new EGRG website
We are very pleased to announce the launch of the new Economic Geography Research Group (RGS-IBG) website at: http://www.egrg.rgs.org/ Lots of updated features, plus an expansive archive of EGRG activities over the years. This site replaces the previous site (built and maintained for over 10 years by Graham Bowden at the University of Manchester), as... Continue Reading →
Call For Papers: International Financial Centres and Regional Development (RGS-IBG 2014)
Call for Papers: RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2014, London, 26 to 29 August 2014 International Financial Centres and Regional Development Convenors: Sabine Dörry (University of Oxford) and Karen Lai (National University of Singapore) Financial activities form a global economic network that is distinctive in terms of its operation and impact, particularly in terms... Continue Reading →
Happy 2014 and changes for later half of the year
Happy new year to all and hope you are having a good start to 2014. Just a quick announcement: I will be on a FASS Writing Fellowship from 1 July 2014 to 31 December 2014. This means I will not be teaching in Semester 1, 2014/2015. GE3201 The Service Economy will not be offered in... Continue Reading →
EGRG sponsorship for RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2014
The RGS-IBG Economic Geography Research Group (EGRG) will be sponsoring sessions at the conference and a call for sessions will be circulated shortly. Please note the deadline for proposing a session is 21st February 2014 and that conference booking will open in March 2014. To propose a session to be sponsored by the EGRG, please... Continue Reading →
7th Summer Institute in Economic Geography
Announcing the 7th Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Frankfurt, 20-26 July 2014 Details at: http://www.econgeog.net/index.html For early career researchers in economic geography, broadly defined. Local costs are covered; travel assistance available. This year's featured speakers: Brett Christophers (Uppsala), Susan Christopherson (Cornell), Mark Lorenzen (Copenhagen), Katharine Rankin (Toronto), and Marion Werner (Buffalo) Organizers: Marc Boeckler (Frankfurt) and... Continue Reading →
Karen P.Y. Lai 