UpdatesFamily names go ‘Inside DNA’
May 9, 2008
An interactive museum exhibit , based upon recent research conducted by Paul Longley, Pablo Mateos and Alex Singleton, has gone on display as part of the ‘Inside DNA’ exhibition currently featured in the ‘At Bristol’ science museum‘. The exhibit allows users to profile the GB geography of their family names over a 100 year period, and to profile the cultural, ethnic and linguistic composition of their home neighbourhoods. The exhibit will be on display ‘At Bristol’ until August, when it moves to the Centre for Life museum in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Thereafter there are plans for it to feature in exhibitions in four other UK museums, which will include Liverpool and Glasgow. The picture shows Paul Longley at the exhibition in Bristol
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Two PhD Studentships are available at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
May 9, 2008
Professor Paul Longley, Professor Mike Batty, Dr Pablo Mateos and Dr Alex Singleton of University College London and the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis have been awarded two ESRC CASE awards. One is in collaboration with ESRI(UK) Ltd. on the topic ‘Measuring and monitoring population diversity and spatial concentration: GeoWeb2.0 solutions’. The second is with the Metropolitan Police Service on the topic ‘Real time geodemographics for reassurance policing and crime prevention’. To be eligible for these fully funded PhD opportunities, potential applicants must be residents of the UK and possess a ESRC accredited masters qualification. For further information on the recognised Masters courses please see the ESRC website:
Click here for details on recognised Masters courses
Application Procedure
To apply for either of these two positions, please send a covering letter and CV by Friday 20 June to the following academics:
Metropolitan Police Service – Dr Alex Singleton (a.singleton@ucl.ac.uk)
ESRI (UK) Ltd – Dr Pablo Mateos (p.mateos@ucl.ac.uk)
For more details see the following PDF:
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Suburban Profiler Launched
May 1, 2008
The EPSRC funded Towards Successful Suburban Town Centres project is a collaborative venture between the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies and the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering here at UCL. The project is setting out to explore the social and economic activities of these suburban centres at street level using GIS and Space Syntax methodologies.
If you would like to read more see:
http://www.spatial-literacy.org/?page_id=117
Or, if you would like to simply view their profiling application, then see:
http://www.sstc.ucl.ac.uk/profiler/
SPLINT in GIS Professional
May 1, 2008
The current (April - 2008) GIS Professional magazine has an article written about our recent SPLINT sponsored conference at the Barbican. The article is not online, but is called “Digital Geography in a Web 2.0 World” and can be found on page 20-21.
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UCL Teaching & Learning Conference
May 1, 2008
SPLINT delivered a presentation at UCL’s sixth biennial Teaching & Learning Conference & Exhibition (TILT) on 15 and 16 April 2008. This covered many aspects of recent interdisciplinary work focusing on how Google Map type technology can be integrated into the curriculum from school aged children to those in post graduate studies. You can download a PDF of the presentation here.
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