UpdatesUCL Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Award
May 15, 2009
Paul Longley was awarded the 2009 ‘UCL Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Award’ at the UCL Awards for Enterprise event in the Bloomsbury Theatre on 14 May, on behalf of the UCL KTP with Camden Primary Care Trust. The project looked at many geographical aspects of public health care provision, and funded Ph.D.s for Kate Jones (now o postdoctoral research fellow) and Pablo Mateos (now a lecturer in geography). David Ashby (now of Dr Foster Research Ltd.) also worked on the project. A video of the award is now online [here]
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Miller Lecture at Penn State University
May 5, 2009
Paul Longley recently gave the Annual Miller Lecture at Penn State University, on 24 April. You can see the talk at: http://www.tinyurl.com/sp09millerlecture
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SPLINT in Japan: Student Presentations
April 13, 2009
Paul Longley and Alex Singleton were invited to Ritsumeikan University by Professor Keiji Yano to give a week long introduction to GIS course. As part of this teaching activity the students were set a group project to examine the geographic distribution and origins of five Japanese names. These presentations are shown below:
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Taking Japan by Storm
April 11, 2009
We are currently out of the UK running an introductory GIS course at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto – Japan. We will provide a detailed summary of these activities and the results of the student projects over the coming days. However, today we simply provide a photograph of our most recent encounter with the administrative staff at the university (the costume was apparently purchased in the UK!).
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Ordnance Survey Geospatial Mashup Challenge
April 4, 2009
The UCL Spint team won the Ordnance Survey Geospatial Mashup Challenge at GISRUK 2009. There were some really good entries and we were quite surprised with the result. One site which really impressed us was: “User Adaptive Trip Planner -Ramya Venkateswaran, Pia Bereuter, University of Zurich - hopefully this will be online soon”.
Our winning site is was titled “Contextualising Educational Careers for Widening Participation in Higher Education”, however is really a nice educational atlas. This should be online soon with luck, but here are a few slides to view for now:
And a short youtube:
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