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Defining the Region Seminar

Posted on Monday 21 March 2011 by Jon Reades

On the 9th September CASA hosted a seminar discussing relationships between London and the South East region with a view to developing the most appropriate framework for land use transport modelling. Mike Batty introduced the SCALE and ARCADIA projects; Duncan …

Conference, Events, Front

BSPS sponsored workshops

Posted on Monday 14 February 2011 by Adam Dennett

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, […]

Announcements/ News, bsps, Conference, Conferences, Events, workshop, Workshops / Training

Population Footprints – UCL & Leverhulme Trust Symposia

Posted on Friday 7 January 2011 by Dr Pablo Mateos

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 […]

ageing, carrying capacity, climate change, Conference, Conferences, development, energy, Environment, Events, footprints, gender inequalities, global warming, overpopulation, policy, population, population dynamics, population growth, population size, University College London

RGS Session: Early Careers Research in Quantitative Geography and Geographic Information Science

Posted on Tuesday 4 January 2011 by Daniel Lewis

The QMRG is pleased to be co-sponsoring a session at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2011 with the GIScRG on: Early Careers Research in Quantitative Geography and Geographic Information Science. It is convened by James Cheshire (GIScRG) and Alex Singleton (QMRG). The abstract is as follows: The data and tools that are used for analysing, visualising […]

Early Careers, Events, GIS, IBG, Postgraduate, Quantitative, RGS

Prof. Douglas Massey Symposium at UCL Global Migration Network

Posted on Wednesday 22 December 2010 by Dr Pablo Mateos

UCL GLOBAL MIGRATION NETWORK SYMPOSIUM Prof. Douglas Massey (Princeton University) Post-Modern Segregation in the United States: Patterns, Causes, and Consequences in the 21st Century Discussant: Prof. Ceri Peach (University of Oxford / University of Manchester) 13 January 2011 – 17:30-19:00 (followed by reception) Venue: Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL Darwin Building, Malet Place, London, WC1E 7JG [Map] Book […]

Asians, Blacks, ethnicity, Events, Hispanics, Housing, inequalities, Princeton University, race, Residential Segregation, segregation, U.S.

Workshop: geo-referencing, geo-demographics, postcodes and classifications

Posted on Monday 6 December 2010 by Dr Pablo Mateos

Workshop on geo-referencing, geo-demographics, postcodes and classifications University of Cardiff, 18 February 2011 Census.ac.uk are hosting a free workshop at the University of Cardiff for anyone working or studying in UK academia. This workshop will introduce participants to the use of postcodes and other area classifications, including the commercially-used Mosaic data and the ONS Output […]

classifications, Events, geo-referencing, geodemographics, GIS, postcodes, University of Cardiff

PLACE BASED BUDGETING: MAKING EFFICIENCY SAVING WITH OAC IN AN AGE OF AUSTERITY

Posted on Tuesday 7 September 2010 by Alex

Many thanks to all those who attended our OAC User Group Annual Conference, and additional thanks to all of our speakers. The slides from the talks have all been uploaded to slideshare: Introduction. Alex Singleton: University of Liverpool OAC in an age of austerity. John Fisher: Local Futures Using geo-demographic classifications for customer insight. Miranda […]

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Call for Papers – RGS-IBG Session on ‘The Spatial Dimensions of Health’

Posted on Thursday 17 December 2009 by Daniel Lewis

Abstracts are invited for a session at the annual conference of the the Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers in 2010 on the spatial dimensions of health. The session is jointly sponsored by the QMRG as well as the Health geography research group (HGRG) of the RGS. Details are as follows: The Spatial […]

call for papers, Events, GIS, health, inequalities, place, Quantitative, RGS IBG, spatial methods

WUN e-seminar series: Dynamic Modeling in a GIS Environment

Posted on Monday 28 September 2009 by Alex

The QMRG are glad to be involved with another WUN online e-seminar series. This new series is titled “Dynamic Modeling in a GIS Environment“. Full details can be found in the following PDF. Information on access and using the online system (with details of the previous seminars) can be found on the WUN website. The […]

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