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.
Tuesdays 13.00-14.00 during the 2023-24 academic year.
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.
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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 Emmanouil.
| Week | Date | Room | Speaker | QUSS Social event |
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| 2 | 3/10 | SR2 | Welcome to QuSS! Coffee, tea and biscuits. | |
| 3 | 10/10 | SR2 | Rui Zhu: Knowledge Graphs and GeoAI: Uniting Symbolic and Subsymbolic Traditions | |
| 4 | 17/10 | SR2 | Levi Wolf: SuperQT: a new family of algorithms for local (clustering) regression | |
| 5 | 24/10 | SR2 | Yanos Zylberberg: Cool cities: The value of urban trees | |
| 6 | 31/10 | SR2 | Elisabetta Pietrostefani: The Spatial Dynamics of Trust: the rally-round-the-flag effect in post-blast Beirut | |
| 7 | 7/11 | SR2 | Lin Zhang: TBC + Additional speaker: TBC | |
| 8 | 14/11 | SR2 | Huanfa Chen: Exploring multi-objective spatial optimisation: model formulations and solution approaches | |
| 9 | 21/11 | SR2 | Dan Milner: TBC | |
| 10 | 28/11 | SR2 | Emmanouil Tranos: A multi-scalar story of the diffusion of a new technology: the web | |
| 11 | 5/12 | SR2 | Yiyang Gao: Geographical variation in multi-group, multi-scale ethnic school segregation in England | |
| 12 | 12/12 | SR2 | Joe Day: What Women Want: Explaining Female Migration Choices between 1851 and 1911 | Christmas social |
| JA1 | 9/1 | SR2 | ||
| JA2 | 16/1 | SR2 | ||
| 13 | 23/1 | SR2 | Sabrina Li: Race, Place, and Pandemic: A Spatial Analysis of COVID-19 Health Inequalities in Brazil | |
| 14 | 30/1 | SR2 | (Postponed due to strikes) Maria Abreu: Defining left behind places: an internationally comparative poset analysis | Dr. Giulia Occhini's viva celebration |
| 15 | 6/2 | SR2 | Federico Botta: Studying cities and people using digital footprints | |
| 16 | 13/2 | SR2 | Y3 PhD student: Emerald Dilworth: (1) What can CommonCrawl data tell us about the Twin Transition (2) Detecting Node-wise Changes in Networks | |
| 17 | 20/2 | SR2 | Ed Atkins: Green jobs research idea pitch | Chinese New Year and Lunar New Year social |
| 18 | 27/2 | SR2 | Y2 PhD student: Jing (Mirah) Zhang: Estimating dynamic hedonic house price model with spatial matching,Y3 PhD student: Yigong Hu | |
| 19 | 6/3 | SR2 | Shunya Kimura: Exploring the use of consumer data to understand onling gambling behaviour. Joint seminar with Gambling Hub. Note this is on Wednesday not Tuesday! | |
| 20 | 12/3 | SR2 | Levi Wolf: GISRUK Keynote talk (dry run) | QUSS pub trip |
| 14 | 19/3 | SR2 | Monika Kuffer: Combining Citizen Science and Earth Observation to Capture Environmental Inequalities – Example of Thermal Inequalities | |
| 15 | 9/4 | SR2 | Qiujie Shi: Are adaptation challenges relevant to the location choices of internal migrants? Evidence from China | |
| 16 | 16/4 | Peel | Y2 PhD student: |
QUSS pub trip |
| 17 | 23/4 | Peel | Y2 PhD students: Jiao (Jade) Zhou, Genghao Zhang | |
| 18 | 30/4 | Peel | Y2 PhD students: Qingya Cheng, Sitong Guo |