This page and repository represent the collection of resources for Quantitative Spatial Science. This is a research group consisting of academics and students from school of Geographical, University of Bristol, who are interested in human geography, quantitative methods and spatial sciences. Follow the university official web page and our blog for more information.
We meet for an hour once a week during academic year to discuss what's new in the world of quantitative geography and get inspired by presentations from researchers within our group, but also from the outside. This page provides you with useful information such as when do we meet, where, who is talking, but also link to form where you can provide your feedback or suggestions for sessions.
During 2024/25, the times for our seminars will vary slightly. Please be sure to check the timing for each week. We will hold seminars on:
Mondays 12.00-13.00 (Geography SR2) OR Wednesdays 13.00-14.00 (Fry G13)
Here is the Zoom link to join online if needed.
See the below table.
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Research presentations of fully or partially developed paper from internal and external speakers.
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PhD student presentations. 1st year and 2nd year PhD students are required to give a 30 min presentation on their research introduction and progress. Each student has 20-25 min presentation followed by 5-10 min for questions. Third- or fourth-year students are not required to do this, but should feel free to arrange a slot to present about their research. irst year students are strongly encouraged to present in TB1. This is a great opportunity for new students to introduce themselves and their research interests in a relaxed environment. It is also the opportunity for everyone on the research group to extend their welcome to the new studens and to help them feel ready to kick off their PhD journey.
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Discussion sessions based on readings. Before this session, we provide you with reading 1 or 2 articles related to a specific topic, a new idea or an emerging issue. On the session then we give 10 min overview on the reading and facilitate discussion.
Bellow you can find schedule for this academic year.
If you have a suggestion for a speaker (including yourself!), or a discussion topic, or you just want to give us some feedback please email Mirah, Cait or Levi.
| Week | Date | Room | Event |
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| 1 | 16/09/2024 (Monday seminar 12:00 - 13:00) | Welcome to QuSS! | |
| 2 | 23/09/2024 (Monday seminar 12:00 - 13:00) | SEMINAR POSTPONED | |
| 3 | 30/09/2024 (Monday seminar 12:00 - 13:00) | Becky Collins, Get to the Point!!! Laser scanning for understanding river bank erosion | |
| 4 | 09/10/2024 (Wednesday seminar 13:00 - 14:00) | Anya Skatova, What can your shopping basket say about your health? | |
| 5 | 16/10/2024 (Wednesday seminar 13:00 - 14:00) | Trivik Verma, Rethinking spatial governance for spatial justice | |
| 6 | 23/10/2024 (Wednesday seminar 13:00 - 14:00) | Group discussion about online Spatial Data Science Symposium led by Rui Zhu | |
| 7 | 30/10/2024 (Wednesday seminar 13:00 - 14:00) | Giulia Occhini, Title TBC | |
| 8 | 04/11/2024 (Monday seminar 12:00 - 13:00) | Binbin Lu, Title TBC | |
| 9 | 11/11/2024 (Monday seminar 12:00 - 13:00) | Yang Tianzheng Zhao (Y3 student), on Population Growth Patterns in China. | |
| 10 | 18/11/2024 (Monday seminar 12:00 - 13:00) | Joe Day, Back to the Future: How Railways Distorted Time and Space, 1851-1911 | |
| 11 | 25/11/2024 (Monday seminar 12:00 - 13:00) | Winnie Wang, Title TBC | |
| 12 | 2/12/2024 (Monday seminar 12:00 - 13:00, ONLINE) | Nicholas Szende, Title TBC | |
| TB1 AP | 9/12/2024 | ||
| EXTRA SEMINAR | 10/12/2024 | Ed Atkins and Tom Cantellow, Developing a Net Zero Vulnerability Index for England and Wales. Joint seminar with States Economies and Societies Research Group | |
| Winter holidays | 16/12/2024 | ||
| Winter holidays | 23/12/2024 | ||
| Winter holidays | 30/01/2025 | ||
| Winter holidays | 6/01/2025 | ||
| 1 | 13/01/2025 | Looking forward as a QuSS group---a roundtable discussion (Levi Wolf) | |
| 2 | 20/01/2025 | Rich Harris, Measuring the changing ethnic ‘segregation’ patterns of England and Wales: using a longitudinal and intersectional index of dissimilarity and a harmonised census geography for 2001 – 2021 (plus some hybrid cartograms for good measure) | |
| 3 | 27/01/2025 | How to peer review? A workshop for ECRs (Levi Wolf) | |
| 4 | 3/02/2025 | ||
| 5 | 10/02/2025 | ||
| 6 | 17/02/2025 | Diego Maury Romero, Where Do Pro-Environmental Attitudes Turn into Behaviour? A Multilevel Comparative Analysis of PISA Data | |
| 7 | 24/02/2025 | ||
| 8 | 3/03/2025 | ||
| 9 | 10/03/2025 | ||
| 10 | 17/03/2025 | Laurence Hawker, FuturePop - Constructing gridded population estimates until 2100 | |
| 11 | 24/03/2025 | Richard Timmerman, Fine-tuning classroom applications of normalcy tests used in the quantitative analysis of geographical datasets | |
| 12 | 31/03/2025 | ||
| Spring vacation | 7/04/2025 | no meeting | |
| Spring vacation | 14/04/2025 | no meeting | |
| Spring vacation | 21/04/2025 | no meeting | |
| TB2 AP | 28/04/2025 | ||
| TB2 AP | 05/05/2025 | ||
| TB2 AP | 12/05/2025 | Cait Robinson, Title TBC |