The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
I was at a talk last night organised by the Londonist – Magical Maps. It took place in the TAG Fine Arts‘ Air Gallery in Mayfair. TAG Fine Arts currently have an exhibition there – The Art of Mapping, and … Continue reading →
Continue reading »TweetRGS – IBG Annual International Conference 3 – 5 July 2012 University of Edinburgh Session Title: Modelling for Policy This session aims to bring together researchers to report on progress in diverse types of modelling that has direct impacts on a variety of policy domains. We encourage the submission of papers that present novel use […]
Continue reading »Population Geography Research Group RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012 – University of Edinburgh – 3rd to 5th July 2012 The Population Geography Research Group (PopGRG) is seeking to sponsor 12 sessions at the 2012 RGS-IBG Annual Conference. PopGRG session sponsorship was oversubscribed in 2011, and the number of sessions at the 2012 conference will be more limited. We are therefore seeking proposals for high quality sessions, with innovative […]
Continue reading »CALL FOR PAPERS Population Geography: Inter-Generational Patterns and Processes Third Biannual British-Irish Population Conference 18-19 April 2012 Hosted by Queen’s University Belfast under the auspices of the Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG Papers are invited for a British-Irish population geography conference on inter-generational patterns and processes. Whilst there is a focus on […]
Continue reading »HIGHLY SKILLED MIGRATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY Middlesex University, Hendon Campus, London, NW4 4BT. Location: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/Location/hendon/index.aspx 24th and 25th May 2012 Research in the field of migration has tended to focus on the multifarious international diasporas of the poor and the powerless. Taking important new research in the field of intra-European highly-skilled migration as its […]
Continue reading »So – I was at the State of the Map EU (SotM) conference in Vienna last weekend – a European-focused conference on the OpenStreetMap project. I travelled with my colleague Steven Gray and presented some screenshots from the GEMMA project … Continue reading →
Continue reading »University of Manchester, UK September 5th-7th 2011 Register now and find more information at http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/events/mim/. Places are limited (50 delegates) so early registration is recommended. This conference will bring together leading scholars from across Europe to present original findings on the internal migration of immigrants/ethnic minorities. We invite you to attend the event and join in discussions that […]
Continue reading »I presented a talk on web visualisation of Census data at a couple of of conferences last week – a seminar at the Market Research Society (MRS) in London on Monday, and an extended version at the Census 2011 Impact … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The ESRC’s Administrative Data Liaison Service will be holding a one day conference to highlight the power of administrative data using examples of current or completed research. The event will also provide an opportunity to explore the future for administrative data as a research resource, including new and developing mechanisms for accessing data. I am […]
Continue reading »This is a presentation I gave at the UCL Public Engagement Symposium on the QRator project, 22nd June 2011. Presentation was in the style of ‘ignite’ – 20 slides, 20 seconds each slide, and in that vain, the slides are purposely image heavy and text light.
Continue reading »Harvesting the crowd is such a large and complex process but we can learn some interesting events happening just from looking at Geo-located Tweets. This seminar concentrates on what we sense we can make from the collective tweets of a city. Slides from seminar given to Oxford DTC e-Research Center, Oxford University, Jun 2011
Continue reading »I was in Berlin last weekend for Wherecamp EU – the European neogeo unconference, which was previously in London. The unconference took place in the pleasant campus of a language school in the north-east of the city. As well as … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I was in Berlin last weekend for Wherecamp EU – the European neogeo unconference, which was previously in London. The unconference took place in the pleasant campus of a language school in the north-east of the city. As well as … Continue reading →
Continue reading »September 5th-7th 2011 Minority Internal Migration in Europe Conference University of Manchester, UK This conference will be a gathering of researchers interested in the internal migration of immigrants/ethnic minorities and will bring together leading scholars from across Europe to present original findings. We invite you to attend the event and join in discussions that aim […]
Continue reading »A two-day part-BSPS funded interdisciplinary workshop on childbearing and evolutionary theory will take place in St John’s College, Oxford between March 31st and April 1st 2011. BSPS members are cordially invited to apply to participate. There are a limited number of places available. Registration is free but participants will be expected to pay for travel, […]
Continue reading »The PopGRG is sponsoring the following sessions at the forthcoming RGS-IBG Conference 31st August – 1st September. Please follow the links below for individual CFPs and instructions for expressions of interest. (Re-)Imagining ‘Return Migration’: Language, concepts and contexts (deadline 4/2/2011) Session convenor(s): Anastasia Christou (University of Sussex), Madeleine Hatfield (Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)) This session responds to […]
Continue reading »The IGU Commission on Population Geography plans once again to sponsor and actively promote some themed sessions at the bi-annual international population conference to be held in Umeå, Sweden in 2011. The Commission proposes three themed sessions linked to the commission’s core interests in ‘Population and Difference’ and ‘Population and Vulnerability’. A. Population and Difference […]
Continue reading »RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2011 London, 31st August to 2nd September CALL FOR PAPERS Diversity in transitions to adulthood and implications for residential mobility Convenors: Nissa Finney (University of Manchester) and Naomi Tyrrell (University of Plymouth) Sponsored by the Population Geography Research Group and the Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group Migration has long […]
Continue reading »Population Footprints 25-26 May 2011, The Mermaid Conference Centre, London EC4V 3DB 1st Announcement & Call for Poster Abstracts www.populationfootprints.org We would like to bring to your attention this major UCL and Leverhulme Trust symposium on human population growth and global carrying capacity to be held in London on Wednesday 25 & Thursday 26 May 2011. The symposium will […]
Continue reading »2th – 5th September 2011 – Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Special sessions:
A. Quantitative methods in health geography
B. Networking the World: Concepts, methods, data
Deadline for abstracts – March 30th 2011
More details can be fo…