The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Call for Papers – Association of American Geographers (AAG) meeting 2014 April 8th -12th, 2014: Tampa Bay, Florida, USA. SESSION: “PASSPORT GEOGRAPHIES” Sponsored by the Population Specialty Group (PSP) at AAG Download Call for Papers in PDF SESSION CONVENORS: Pablo … Continue reading →
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Well, that was good. September this year was Maptember with numerous conferences with a geographical flavour taking place in the East Midlands. The undoubted highlight for me was FOSS4G 2013, the annual conference for OSGeo which travels around the world, this year it was conveniently in Nottingham, so I was able to make it along […]
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Well, that was good. September this year was Maptember with numerous conferences with a geographical flavour taking place in the East Midlands. The undoubted highlight for me was FOSS4G 2013, the annual conference for OSGeo which travels around the world, this year it was conveniently in Nottingham, so I was able to make it along […]
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Along with Martin Zaltz Austwick, who blogs as Sociable Physics, I led a workshop session as part of CASA’s annual conference. The topic was “Tracking, Visualising and Cycling” and focused on analysing and mapping bikeshare data. I concentrated on mapping the near-real-time docking station data, while Martin graphed journey data. Both of us used Google […]
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Along with Martin Zaltz Austwick, who blogs as Sociable Physics, I led a workshop session as part of CASA’s annual conference. The topic was “Tracking, Visualising and Cycling” and focused on analysing and mapping bikeshare data. I concentrated on mapping the near-real-time docking station data, while Martin graphed journey data. Both of us used Google […]
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This is the presentation I gave at the Velo-City 2013 conference last week – I’m uploading it here as quite a few people have asked for it. The PDF contains my whole talk, except for some graphics from a couple of forthcoming papers which haven’t been published yet, and a conceptual image from a paper […]
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I was at Velo-City 2013 (a major urban cycling trade conference) in Vienna last Thursday, to present my latest work on the Bike Share Map, EUNOIA’s link to bikesharing, and a CASA research paper update. It was great to be able to attend the conference for free, thanks to winning a ticket in the raffle […]
Continue reading »TweetLAST CALL FOR PAPERS 15th March – LAST OPPORTUNITY for submitting papers to the International Conference on Rural Tourism – ORTE 2013, to be held 5th-7th of September 2013 in Aveiro, Portugal. Taking into account that we received some requests for extension of the deadline for short full papers’ submission, we inform that you […]
Continue reading »TweetConference on the Impact of Demographic Change on the Environment, Planning and Land Use, York, 14 June 2013 TWRI Policy and Research is convening a conference on the Impact of Demographic Change on the Environment, Planning and Land Use, taking place at St William’s College, York, on Friday 14 June 2013 10am-4.30pm and chaired […]
Continue reading »Tweet“Exploiting Existing Data for Health Research” 4th International Conference hosted by the Scottish Health Informatics Programme in association with the four UK Ehealth Informatics Research Centres, 28th – 30th August 2013, St Andrews, Scotland. Following on from the initial call for proposals for conference sessions, the conference organisers would like to extend a general […]
Continue reading »TweetBSPS Annual Conference 2013 Monday 9 – Wednesday 11 September 2013, University of Swansea CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE 25 MARCH. The 2013 BSPS Conference will be held at the University of Swansea, 9-11 September. All Conference sessions will be held on site, where Conference catering and accommodation will also be available at […]
Continue reading »TweetThe Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG are delighted to announce our sponsored sessions for the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers annual conference, to be held at the RGS-IBG headquarters (Kensington Gore, London) on Wednesday 28th to Friday 30th August. Sessions and abstracts are listed below. Should you […]
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I attended a one-day workshop last week, hosted by IFSTTAR’s GERI Animatic research group at École des Ponts ParisTech just east of Paris. The workshop was on Bicycle Sharing Systems, and as I have recently been working with a couple … Continue reading →
Continue reading »TweetRGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2013 New geographical frontiers 28 to 30 August 2013, at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London ========================================== Call for Sessions and Papers ========================================== The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) is pleased to announce that the Call for Sessions and Papers has opened for its Annual International Conference 2013 […]
Continue reading »Tweet17th-18th December 2012 To be held at the RGS-IBG Headquarters, London Background to the conference 20 years ago, Champion and Fielding’s (1992) two volume edited collection on migration patterns and processes was published. This provided a landmark intervention within migration studies and wider human geography, demonstrating how different types of migration in GB were undergoing […]
Continue reading »TweetCall for Abstracts now open! 7th International Conference on Population Geographies, Groningen, The Netherlands, 25-28 June 2013 The Call for Abstracts for the 7th International Conference on Population Geographies is now open! We welcome papers from all fields of population geographies. In particular, we welcome papers for the special sessions on the following topics (more […]
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I was lucky enough to be on a private tour of the British Library Map Room, as part of the Society of Cartographers conference at the beginning of the month. The tour showed some of the treasures of the Map … Continue reading →
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I presented on the Mapping London blog, at the Society of Cartographers’ 48th Annual Conference which was at UCL this year, showing a general outline of the blogs and some maps featured on it, plus some work done by James … Continue reading →
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I was in Vancouver at the end of June for the Velo-City conference – which is the cycling industry’s conference on bike sharing and urban cycling. The lead sponsors were PBSC who are behind the technology for many of the … Continue reading →
Continue reading »[Updated] I’ll be presenting at Velo-City in Vancouver later this week. Velo-City is the “world’s premier cycling planning conference”. It is likely to have a significant bike-sharing flavour – the lead sponsor being PBSC which designed the 6000-odd “Boris Bikes” (aka Barclays Cycle Hire bikes) that are a distinctive sight in central London, as well […]
Continue reading »I was at the third WhereCampEU “unconference” which took place in Amsterdam over the last weekend of April, following previous editions in London and Berlin which I was also at. The meeting was an ideal opportunity for me to feature … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The London Data Table was one of my personal favourites from the exhibition accompanying the CASA “Smart Cities” conference which took place at the University of London last Friday. The concept was thought up by Steven Gray and it consists … Continue reading →
Continue reading »TweetA conference held under the auspices of the ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC) and the RGS-IBG Population Geography Research Group (PGRG) 2nd-3rd July 2012, University of St Andrews We are pleased to announce that participant registration for this conference is now open. The meeting is timed to finish at lunchtime on Tuesday 3rd July […]
Continue reading »TweetAfter six successful and pleasant previous International Conferences on Population Geographies in St Andrews (twice), Liverpool, Hong Kong, Dartmouth and Umea, the Population Research Centre of the University of Groningen is proud to present: The 7th International Conference on Population Geographies, Groningen, 25-28 June 2013 Note the dates in your agenda! Call for abstracts expected September 2012 […]
Continue reading »TweetBSPS Annual Conference 2012 Monday 10 – Wednesday 12 September 2012, The University of Nottingham SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE 11th May 2012. The 2012 BSPS Conference will be held at the University of Nottingham from 10-12 September. All Conference sessions will be held on site, where Conference catering and accommodation will also be available […]
Continue reading »[Updated x2] Just a note to say that I will be presenting some of my work, at the CASA Smart Cities free one-day conference. Over 200 tickets have already gone, but there are, at the time of writing, a few … Continue reading →
Continue reading »TweetThe 2011 UK Census is estimated to cost in excess of £500m. This, together with concerns about timeliness, has led to the government investigating alternative approaches to acquiring information on the population. However, the census also provides a framework for considerable social analysis. It is thus vital that the impact of any replacement to the […]
Continue reading »Tweet PopFest is an annual population studies conference for postgraduate students organised by fellow postgraduates. PopFest has been organised by various universities with the support of sponsors for nineteen years. The twentieth PopFest is to be held at Loughborough University from the 21st – 23rd June and will reflect on the past 20 years of […]
Continue reading »TweetREGISTRATION DEADLINE: 28th March 2012 Population Geography: Inter-Generational Patterns and Processes Third Biennial British-Irish Population Conference, Belfast, 18-19th April 2012 Hosted by Queen’s University Belfast under the auspices of the Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG The conference programme along with further information, registration form and payment form can now be downloaded […]
Continue reading »TweetCALL FOR PAPERS Innovative Perspectives on Population Mobility: Mobility, Immobility and Well-being 2nd-3rd July 2012 Hosted by the University of St Andrews under the auspices of the Population Geography Research Group (RGS-IBG) and the ESRC Centre for Population Change The ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC) and the RGS-IBG Population Geography Research […]
Continue reading »TweetPopulation Geography Research Group-sponsored sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012 Please find below CFPs for paper sessions sponsored by the Population Geography Research Group (PopGRG) at the 2012 RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Edinburgh (3rd-5th July). The deadline for submission of abstracts to session convenors is 20th January 2012. The PopGRG will also sponsor a […]
Continue reading »TweetCalls for Papers – RGS-IBG 2012 paper sessions Dismantling diasporas: rethinking the geographies of diasporic identity, mobility and development Session convenors: Elizabeth Mavroudi, Loughborough University; and Anastasia Christou, University of Sussex This session wishes to re-energise debates on the conceptualisation of diasporas in geographical scholarship and beyond. In particular, there is a need to engage […]
Continue reading »TweetCalls for Papers – RGS-IBG 2012 paper sessions Rethinking the (In) security/ Migration Nexus Session convenors: Nir Cohen, Bar Ilan University (Israel); Ibrahim Sirkeci, Regents College London (UK). While the migration / security nexus is hardly new, as exemplified by anti-migration laws implemented in some countries during both World Wars, the last decade has witnessed […]
Continue reading »TweetCalls for Papers – RGS-IBG 2012 paper sessions The geographies of graduate migration and mobility: dealing with (in)security, uncertainty and globalisation Session convenors: Aga Szewczyk (Loughborough University); Kate Botterill (Newcastle University). There has been a growing internationalisation of higher education systems with increasing numbers of people attending university within and beyond their country of origin. […]
Continue reading »TweetCalls for Papers – RGS-IBG 2012 paper sessions The spatial and job mobility nexus ‒ Migration and securing security Session Convenors: David McCollum, University of St Andrews; Darja Reuschke, University of St Andrews. The nature of labour market trajectories in post-industrial economies has been the focus of much academic interest, as have the moves that […]
Continue reading »Tweet‘Pop’ goes Population Geography Session convenor: Darren Smith (Loughborough University). For the last few decades, reviews of the state of population geography have been provided seemingly every ten years (e.g. Findlay and Graham, 1991), often highlighting the advances within the sub-discipline and offering some fruitful ways forward. In this panel session, invited contributors will consider […]
Continue reading »TweetIGU – Cologne 2012 – 26–30 Aug. https://igc2012.org/ The aim of the session is to discuss the consequences of the current move by numerous countries from traditional decennial censuses to population register and targeted surveys. This move has many advantages but also potential drawbacks for population geographers: some variables that were collected for decades disappear […]
Continue reading »TweetIn the field of International migration, transnational migration is now widely accepted as a new form of global mobility that is accompanying globalization’ s many dynamic dimensions. As a significant social, economic and political feature of our ‘runaway world’ this ‘transnational turn’ and its associated social systems, behaviors and consequences has received considerable attention both […]
Continue reading »In May 2011 the UK Government asked the British public if they wanted to change the way they vote in election. It turns out that they didn’t but during the run up to the event we collected data from Twitter relating to the referendum. This presentation was given at Manchester University with some of our […]
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