Honorary Awards
![UU](images/uu.png)
2019
- Doctor Honoris Causa in Geosciences, Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
![Utrecht](images/Utrecht.png)
![JU](images/ju.png)
2019
- Doctor Honoris Causa in Economics, Jönköping University (Sweden)
![Jönköping](images/Jonkoping.jpg)
![ERSA](images/Ersa.png)
2018
- Winner of the 2018 ERSA Prize in Regional Science
![Cork](images/ERSA_prize.png)
![European Research Council](images/european_research_council.jpg)
2011-2016
![Philip Leverhulme Research Prize](images/Leverhulme.png)
2001-2003
- Philip Leverhulme Research Prize for work on Economic Geography.
![Royal Geographical Society's Gill Memorial Award](images/rgs.png)
2001
- Winner of the Royal Geographical Society's Gill Memorial Award in recognition of research contributions to understanding regional disparities and regional policies.
![Spanish National Award](images/spanish_national_award.gif)
1990
- 1st Spanish National Award to the best overall undergraduate performance in Geography, History and History of the Arts.
![Complutense University of Madrid](images/complutense_university-of-madrid.png)
1990
- 1st Prize of the Complutense University of Madrid to the best overall undergraduate performance in Humanities.
Awards to books, articles and research service
![Regional Studies](images/RegStud.png)
2021
- 2021 Regional Studies Best Paper Award for The geography of EU discontent (witten with Lewis Dijkstra and Hugo Poelman)
![pirs](images/pirs.png)
2019
![Environment and Planning A](images/env_and_plan_a.gif)
2014
- Environment and Planning A Referee of the Year Award 2014.
![Regional Studies Association](images/RSA_new.png)
2012
- 2012 Regional Studies Association Best Book Award for the Handbook of Local and Regional Development (Routledge, 2012, co-written with Andy Pike and John Tomaney). The prize is voted for by the RSA membership.
![Environment and Planning A](images/env_and_plan_a.gif)
2005
- Ashby Prize to the most innovative paper published in
- Environment and Planning A in 2004 for Is there a global link between regional disparities and devolution? (written with Nicholas Gill).
Prestigious personal fellowships
![RSAI](images/RSAI.png)
2018
- Elected Fellow of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI)
![Academy of Social Sciences](images/academy_of_social_sciences.png)
2011
- Elected Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK)
![Centre for Economic Policy Research](images/cepr.png)
2010
- Elected Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
![RGS](images/rgs.png)
1996
- Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society(RGS)