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Advances in Spatial Analysis & e-Social Science

By Dan - Last updated: Tuesday, February 16, 2010

UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) is running a free one day conference on Tuesday 13th April which will feature the work of group on projects associated with research funded by various UK research councils. The conference is free but you have to register. It is also the day before the UK’s annual conference [...]

Radical Statistics Conference 2010 – February 27th London

By Dan - Last updated: Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The annual Radical Statistics Conference will be held this year on Saturday, February 27th 2010 at Friends House Euston, London NW1 2BJ.
The conference promises discussions regarding radical application of statistics as well as chance for socialising.
More details, booking etc can be found here: http://www.radstats.org.uk/conf2010/

Anglo-Irish Population Conference, 12-13 May, 2010

By Dan - Last updated: Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The Anglo-Irish Population Conference, under the auspices of the Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG and Population Commission of the International Geographical Union, will take place on 12-13 May, 2010. The theme this year is:  Contemporary labour migration: national and international perspectives to be held at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Papers are invited, [...]

BSPS Conference – 13-15 September 2010 – Call for Papers

By Dan - Last updated: Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The 2010 BSPS Conference will be held at the University of Exeter from 13-15 September. Preliminary abstracts of papers – which may be in the form of declarations of intent- are invited. These abstracts are to be of a maximum of 250 words in length with a provisional title. The deadline for submission is 30th [...]

Understanding ageing: Health, wealth and wellbeing at fifty and beyond

By Dan - Last updated: Thursday, January 14, 2010

The Centre for Longitudinal Studies International Conference 2010, on the topic of Understanding ageing: Health, wealth and wellbeing at fifty and beyond, is being held at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford from the 14th to 16th of April.
This is an international conference bringing together researchers working in the economic, social, psychological and health fields to present [...]

International Seminar of Medical Geography (GEOMED) Rome 2010

By Dan - Last updated: Thursday, January 7, 2010

December 2010 will see the 10th International Seminar on Medical Geography, whose main topic is “Health and Solidarity“.It is to be held in Rome, Italy.
This GEOMED 2010 1st Circular details the initial considerations for the conference.

Migrant transnationalism, integration and place – call for papers (RGS-IBG 2010)

By Dan - Last updated: Thursday, January 7, 2010

We would like to invite abstracts for papers to be presented at a panel we propose for inclusion in the 2010 conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).  The panel theme is migrant transnationalism, integration and place.
MIGRANT TRANSNATIONALISM, INTEGRATION AND PLACE
SESSION ABSTRACT:
This session aims to explore the intersections between migrants’ transnational engagements and integration [...]

HGRG call for papers – RGS-IBG 2010.

By Dan - Last updated: Thursday, December 17, 2009

The Health Geography Research Group (HGRG) of the RGS have announced a call for papers for a number of sessions due to take place in the coming year’s annual Royal Geographcial Society- Institute of British Geographers conference.
The sessions cover the following themes:

Healthy Countrysides?: exploring geographies of rural health
Healthy Places
Geographies of (dis)ability, (ill) health, emotion and [...]

Seminar on Fertility and Poverty: micro and macro linkages

By Dan - Last updated: Monday, December 14, 2009

The Centre for Global Health, Population, Poverty, and Policy at the University of Southampton School of Social Sciences, in conjunction with the ESRC are holding a Seminar on Fertility and Poverty, focusing on micro and macro linkages.
The seminar takes from on the 28th and 29th of January.
A limited number of bursaries are available to UK [...]

PopFest 2010: Call for Papers

By Dan - Last updated: Friday, December 11, 2009

The annual PopFest conference, a conference specifically open to postgraduates from all disciplines across the social
sciences studying any aspect of population, has announced a call for papers for its 2010 conference in St. Andrews.
Full details of the programme are still to be confirmed but will include: parallel sessions running over three days, poster presentations, keynote [...]