Head of Department
prof. UAM dr hab. Paweł Churski
Employees
Research topics in the Department of Regional Analysis
- theory of a socio-economic region and geographical regionalisation
- methods in spatial and regional analysis
- mathematical and statistical models in geography and spatial management
- regional structure and regional differences in Poland
- problem areas in Poland
- regional development and regional policy and their present-day challenges
- regional development factors, their changes, and global determinants of the diffusion of development processes in less developed regions
- European funds in Poland – regional centres and regions
- regional specialisation
- regional aspects of a knowledge-based economy
- structure and spatial organisation of modern services and their role in socio-economic development
- position of small towns in the regional settlement system
- socio-economic development of the Polish-German borderland
- spatial structure of unemployment and the population’s level of living in the period of the systemic transformation
- sustainable development.
Offer in the field of research and cooperation with other entities
- preparation of development strategies and programmes
- analysis of the state, changes in and diffusion of socio-economic development
- analysis of differences in development and their determinants
- evaluation studies
- training courses and workshops on:
- use of mathematical and statistical tools in the monitoring and evaluation of territorially oriented spatial policies
- use of cartographic visualisation tools in the monitoring and evaluation of territorially oriented spatial policies
- use of geostatistical tools in the monitoring and evaluation of territorially oriented spatial policies
- project management and financing from European means.