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** Extended paper deadline: GIS Research UK (GISRUK) 2015. **
School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK
15-17 April, 2015
http://leeds.gisruk.org/
*** Important Dates ***
Extended abstract submission deadline: Friday 9th January 2015
Notification of acceptance: February 2015
Conference: 15th - 17th April 2015
*** Early-Career Bursaries ***
The Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) is sponsoring up to 5 bursaries, covering registration and accommodation. These are for early-career researchers (Masters or PhD students) submitting papers relating to ‘Innovations in Geographical Consumer Data’.
*** Conference Aims ***
We welcome colleagues to the 23rd GIS Research UK (GISRUK) conference. The GISRUK conference series is the UK's national GIS research conference, established in 1993. GISRUK conferences attract delegates from all parts of the UK, together with the European Union and North America and from disciplines including Geography, Computer Science, Planning, Archaeology, Geology, Geomatics and Engineering.
#GISRUK2015 will be hosted by the University of Leeds' esteemed School of Geography in the Faculty of Environment. The conference will take place on the 15th - 17th April 2015.
*** Conference Themes ***
In recognition of the recently funded £6M+ ESRC Consumer Data Research Centre, we are especially interested in abstracts on our main conference theme:
Big Data and the future of GIS.
We also welcome submissions on all aspects of methodological, applied or theoretical GIS and, in particular, our other conference topics:
Health and Wellbeing
Crime and Policing
Retail Geography
Transport Systems
Environmental GIS and Hazards
Uncertainty and Error
Energy and Sustainability
Spatial Analysis and Visualisation
Geodemographics and Populations
Historical applications of GIS
*** Abstract Submission***
We invite submission of extended abstracts (up to 1500 words). All abstracts will be peer reviewed; accepted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings and some will have the opportunity to be written up as full papers and submitted to a special issue of Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy.
For full details, see: http://leeds.gisruk.org/submit.html
For further information, please contact the conference chair ([log in to unmask])
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