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 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.
Thursday's 13.00-14.00.
See the below table.
For those we cannot physically join us, we will set up a Zoom link to log in up to 10 min before the session.
There is 3 types of session.
- Discussion - Before this session, we provide you with reading 1 or 2 articles related to some specific topic, new idea or emerging issue. On the session then we give 10 min overview on the reading and facilitate discussion.
- Students Presentations - 1st year and 2nd year PhD students are required to give 30 min presentation on their research introduction and progress. In this session, 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.
- Solo presentations - This session consists of 1 speaker presenting on their current or past research. Usually, there is 45 min presentation followed with 15 min questions, but this is not a requirement so it’s completely up to the speaker how he/she wants to use this time.
Bellow you can find schedule for this academic year.
If you have a suggestion for discussion, presentation topic you are interested in, know about someone from other university you want to hear about or just want to give us some feedback you can either use this anonymous google form or send us email directly to lenka.hasova@bristol.ac.uk or e.tranos@bristol.ac.uk.
| Week | Date | Period | Do we have QUSS seminar? | Online/In person | Link to zoom | Room | Content | QUSS Beers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 23-Sep | Welcome week | No | - | ||||
| 1 | 30-Sep | Teaching Block 1 | Yes | Blended | Zoom link | Hepple | Reading seminar- robustness in Quantitative research | Yes - 5pm |
| 2 | 07-Oct | Teaching Block 1 | Yes | Blended | Zoom link | Wills Memorial Building 3.23 | Emmanouil Tranos Using the web to predict regional trade flows: material and immaterial regional interdependencies | |
| 3 | 14-Oct | Teaching Block 1 | Yes | Blended | Zoom link | Wills Memorial Building 3.33 | Levi Wolf: Consistent urban areas for global urban polimetrics | |
| 4 | 21-Oct | Teaching Block 1 | Yes | Blended | Zoom link | Wills Memorial Building 3.23 | reading - Overview of Contributions in Geographical Analysis Waldo Tobler or download from this repo | Yes - 5pm |
| 5 | 28-Oct | Teaching Block 1 | Yes | Blended | Zoom link | Wills Memorial Building 3.33 | Introductory presentation - Mark & progress presentation - Tom Cantellow | |
| 6 | 04-Nov | Teaching Block 1 | Yes | Online | Zoom link | Online | Mary Abed Al Ahad - The effect of air pollution on general health and mental wellbeing in the UK by ethnicity: A spatial-temporal multilevel analysis | |
| 7 | 11-Nov | Teaching Block 1 | Yes | Blended | Zoom link | Wills Memorial Building 3.23 | Andrew Bell Using multilevel modelling to understand intersectionality in health: the MAIHDA model with geographical and longitudinal extensions. | Yes - 5pm |
| 8 | 18-Nov | Teaching Block 1 | Yes | Online | Zoom link | Online | Hannah Budnitz Residential Parking and Charging Preferences and EV Adoption: An exercise in Survey Design and Analysis | |
| 9 | 25-Nov | Teaching Block 1 | Yes | TBC | Zoom link | Wills Memorial Building 3.23 | Karyn Morrissey Area level Deprivation and Monthly COVID-19 cases: The impact of Government Policy in England | |
| 10 | Zoom link | Wills Memorial Building 3.33 | Caitlin Robinson | Yes - 5pm | ||||
| 11 | 09-Dec | Teaching Block 1 | Yes | Blended | Zoom link | Wills Memorial Building 3.33 | Dianna Smith | |
| 12 | 16-Dec | Teaching Block 1 | Yes | Blended | Zoom link | SR2 | Introductory presentations - Tao & Ekaterina | |
| - | 23-Dec | Winter vacation | No | - | ||||
| - | 30-Dec | Winter vacation | No | - | ||||
| - | 06-Jan | Winter vacation | No | - | ||||
| - | 13-Jan | Januay Assesment Period | No | - | ||||
| - | 20-Jan | Januay Assesment Period | No | |||||
| 13 | 27-Jan | Teaching Block 2 | No | |||||
| 14 | 03-Feb | Teaching Block 2 | Yes | Blended | Zoom link | Hepple theater | Lenka Hasova | |
| 15 | 10-Feb | Teaching Block 2 | Yes | SR2 | Isabelle Bi: Inequalities in Consumer Credit in England | |||
| 16 | 17-Feb | Teaching Block 2 | No | |||||
| 17 | 24-Feb | Teaching Block 2 | Yes | Online | Zoom link | Online | Andreas Diemer Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom | |
| 18 | 03-Mar | Teaching Block 2 | Yes | Blended | Zoom link | SR2 | Rich Harris: discussion on Ron's inaugural lecture at Sheffield | |
| 19 | 10-Mar | Teaching Block 2 | Yes | Blended | Zoom link | SR2 | Giulia Occhini NLP, websites and the industrial classification problem | |
| 20 | 17-Mar | Teaching Block 2 | Yes | Blended | Zoom link | SR2 | Lu Zhuo Increasing City Resilience to Extreme Weather Events - via Modern Sensing and Modelling Technologies | Yes - 5pm LHG |
| 21 | 24-Mar | Teaching Block 2 | Yes | Zoom link | SR2 | Tim Cole: Mapping the Holocaust | ||
| 22 | ||||||||
| - | 07-Apr | Spring vacation | No | |||||
| - | 14-Apr | Spring vacation | No | - | ||||
| - | 21-Apr | Spring vacation | No | - | ||||
| 23 | 28-Apr | Teaching Block 2 | Lunch networking | Geography Common Room | This will be networking lunch in Geography common room, instead of seminar. Take your own lunch, cake provided | |||
| 24 | 05-May | Teaching Block 2 | Yes | Online | Zoom link | Ate Poorthuis: The 15-minute countryside: shifting daily urban systems in rural Netherlands | ||
| 25 | 12-May 4pm | Summer revision week | Yes | Online | Zoom link | Taylor Oshan Some New Directions in Multiscale Modeling: From Global to Local and Back Again | Yes - after 5pm in The famous Royal Navy | |
| 26 | 18-May | Summer assessment period | Yes | In person | Peel 5pm followed by a Reception | The Johston Lecture in Geography by Elizabeth Delmelle: The dynamics of urban amenities and residential sorting: New insights from longitudinal property listing and mortgage lending data | ||
| 27 | 19-May | Summer assessment period | Yes | In Person | 10-1 room in Hepple | PhD workshop `Chit-chat' with lunch with Elizabeth Delmelle | ||
| 28 | 26-May | Summer assessment period | Yes | TBC | Zoom link | Stephen Law Applying Machine Learning methods in Geographic Data Science | ||
| 29 | 02-Jun | Summer assessment period | No | - |