Month: February 2010

Lost in Translation: Cross-Cultural Experiences in Teaching Geo-Genealogy

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This paper reports on a cross-cultural outreach activity of the current UK ‘Spatial Literacy in Teaching’ (SPLINT) Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), a past UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) grant, and shared interests in family names between Japanese and UK academics. It describes a pedagogic programme developed for Japanese postgraduates and advanced undergraduates that entailed quantitative and qualitative analysis of the spatial distributions of Japanese family names. The authors describe some specific semantic, procedural and theoretical issues and, more generally, suggest how names analysis provides a common framework for engaging student interest in GIS.

Paul A. Longley; Alex D. Singleton; Keiji Yano; Tomoki Nakaya

Longley, Paul A., A.D. Singleton, Keiji Yano, and Tomoki Nakaya. 2010. “Lost in Translation: Cross-Cultural Experiences in Teaching Geo-Genealogy.” Journal of Geography in Higher Education 34 (1): 21–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03098260902982476.

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ENFOLD: Explaining, modelliNg, and FOrecasting gLobal Dynamics

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ENFOLD: Explaining, modelliNg, and FOrecasting gLobal Dynamics Pablo Mateos participates in a successful CASA-led £2.9 million bid to EPSRC involving seven UCL departments and ten academics. ENFOLD is a multidisplinary five year modelling project funded by EPSRC (£2.9 million FEC) … Continue reading →

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complexity, development, dynamics, emergence, flows, global, migration, modelling, News, Research projects, security, UK

New UCL collaboration with Mexico National University (UNAM)

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A research collaboration in urban and population geography has recently being set up between Dr. Pablo Mateos (UCL) and Dr. Adrian Guillermo Aguilar, at the Mexico National University (UNAM), one of the the most prestigious university in Latin America and … Continue reading →

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Latin America, Mexico, News, Research Networks, segregation, SPLINTgeodemographics, UNAM

Locating the Latino community in Britain

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Dr Pablo Mateos gave a seminar on October 7th, at the Bolivar Hall of the Venezuelan Consulate, organised by the Alianza Iberoamericana. He presented a first attempt to measure the size and geographical distribution of the Latin or Iberian-American community … Continue reading →

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ethnicity, Iberian-American, Latin America, london, mapping, migration, Spanish speakers, statistics, Talks and presentations, UK