Randall Jackson, Regional Research Institute director, has been selected to receive the prestigious Regional Science Association International Fellows Award. This award honors members of the Association who have made important scholarly and research contributions in the field of regional science.
Jackson and three others were elected in this year from an international membership of roughly 4,500. This year’s honorees join only 90 others elected since the Association began naming Fellows in 2002.
According to the RSAI website, the RSAI fellowship is “a world-wide sign of scientific recognition that is bestowed on a regional scientist with outstanding research credentials in his/her field. RSAI fellows are distinguished scholars with a proven and recognized research record in the field of regional science during a considerable part of their scientific career.” RSAI Fellows “are appointed after a careful nomination and selection procedure, based on a broad consultation of the RSAI membership.”
Jackson’s research interests have ranged from regional economic development strategies through the extension, refinement and reformulation of economic modeling frameworks to interregional trade and macroeconomic energy and environmental modeling. He has published more than 80 refereed research publications, two books and more than 100 working papers, technical reports, book chapters and research documents.
He has also been involved in a wide variety of funded research projects with support from the National Science Foundation, the US Departments of Commerce, Energy and Agriculture, the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Arthur P. Sloan Foundation, among others.
He has published in a wide range of academic journals and is a past member of the editorial boards of Review of Regional Studies, The Professional Geographer, Geographical Analysis, Journal of Regional Science, Australasian Journal of Regional Studies and Papers in Regional Science and is a current member of the editorial boards of the International Regional Science Review, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Regional Statistics, and Economic Systems Research.
For more information, contact Jackson at Randall.Jackson@mail.wvu.edu or 304-293-8734