Population Geography Research Group » London http://popgeog.org PGRG – Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:55:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 BSPS Day meeting – Demography of London http://popgeog.org/2010/06/bsps-day-meeting-demography-of-london/ http://popgeog.org/2010/06/bsps-day-meeting-demography-of-london/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:20:05 +0000 Dr Pablo Mateos http://popgeog.org/?p=803
British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) Day meeting on the Demography of London
7th July 2010 , City Hall, London
Agenda

10.30am             Registration and tea/coffee

11am                     Welcome and introduction to historical session

11.10am              Romola Davenport – Death and the metropolitan migrant: mortality of young adults in eighteenth and nineteenth century London

11.45am              Professor Jeremy Boulton – Saving the poor worms from starving? Traffic in corpses in Georgian Westminster, 1747-1825

12.20pm             Eileen Howes – Using historical census data: housing tenure change 1961 to 2001

1.00 pm               Lunch break (lunch not provided)

2pm                       Introduction to current issues session – Andrew Collinge, GLA

2.05pm                John Hollis – 21st Century Migration: South-east England

2.40pm                Jessica Chamberlain – Population projections for the London Plan

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3.15pm                 David Ewens – Using the National Pupil Dataset to identify children’s characteristics and mobility

4pm       Close

This day meeting is free and open to all. Please pre-register for the meeting by emailing the BSPS Secretariat: pic@lse.ac.uk (telephone 020 7955 7666).

Please note that the venue is City Hall – for travel information see:

http://www.london.gov.uk/city-hall/visitor-information/location-map

Abstracts for individual presentations will appear on the BSPS website as available at:

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy/BSPS/dayMeetings/Home.aspx

]]> http://popgeog.org/2010/06/bsps-day-meeting-demography-of-london/feed/ 0 Advances in Spatial Analysis & e-Social Science http://popgeog.org/2010/02/advances-in-spatial-analysis-e-social-science/ http://popgeog.org/2010/02/advances-in-spatial-analysis-e-social-science/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:39:39 +0000 Daniel James Lewis http://popgeog.org/?p=724

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 on GIS called GISRUK which is on the 14-16 April. The GISRUK conference is chargeable and details can be got from the CASA conference site.

If you want to come to the one day CASA meeting “Advances in Spatial Analysis & e-Social Science”, then please go to the registration site at http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/conference/ and register.

You can get to the GISRUK site from http://gisruk2010.spatial-literacy.org/registration/

If you need any more information about this meeting email christiane.morgan@ucl.ac.uk.

The programme for the CASA meeting is listed below

Session One (AM)

Online exploration of cultural regions, migration and ethnicity using the geography of personal names  – Paul Longley & Pablo Mateos

Spatial Interaction Models for Higher Education – Alex Singleton & Ollie O’Brien

The Dynamics of Skyscrapers: Scaling, Allometry, and Sustainability – Michael Batty

Development of an urban growth model using high-resolution historical data – Kiril Stanilov

Session Two (PM)

The research frontier in urban modelling: the agenda and the challenges – Alan Wilson

On-line Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Network Data and Road Developments – Tao Cheng

Twitter Tags and Real-Time Visualisation of Complex Geographic Data with MapTube – Richard Milton

Tales of Things and Electronic Memory ­ Creating and Mapping The Geography of Everything – Andrew Hudson-Smith

Panel Discussion with Mike Goodchild, Keith Clarke, David Maguire, Carl Steinitz

Coffee at convenient points is provided, but lunch is not.

Afterwards, there will be a reception in the Wilkins Building Jeremy Bentham Room.

]]> http://popgeog.org/2010/02/advances-in-spatial-analysis-e-social-science/feed/ 0 Radical Statistics Conference 2010 – February 27th London http://popgeog.org/2010/02/radical-statistics-conference-2010-february-27th-london/ http://popgeog.org/2010/02/radical-statistics-conference-2010-february-27th-london/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:04:42 +0000 Daniel James Lewis http://popgeog.org/?p=718

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/

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