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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">TL;DR – abstract submission deadline: <b><u>March 18<sup>th</sup></u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The <a href="https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/call/">RGS-IBG Annual International Conference</a> regularly attracts over 2,000 geographers from around the world. This year, the
conference is taking place at <a href="https://www.ncl.ac.uk/">Newcastle University</a>, with in-person, online, and hybrid ways to participate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This year the <a href="https://geoinfo.science/">
Geographic Information Science Research Group</a> (GIScRG) of the <a href="https://www.rgs.org/">Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)</a> is pleased to sponsor paper presentation sessions on the following topics that focus on geographic information science
and tools, cartography, spatial analysis, critical GIS and related disciplines:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Session 1: <a href="https://geoinfo.science/rgs-2022-session-aic-1-safety-and-emergency-services/" target="_blank">Innovative GI methods in safety and emergency services research</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Session 2: <a href="https://geoinfo.science/rgs-2022-session-aic-2-deep-learning/" target="_blank">Deep learning applications in geography</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Session 3: <a href="https://geoinfo.science/rgs-2022-session-aic-3-big-data-quality/" target="_blank">Dealing with uncertainty: Quality and Representation in the context of
Big Data</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Session 4: <a href="https://geoinfo.science/rgs-2022-aic-session-4-ethics/" target="_blank">Ethics within GIScience, including (but not limited to) the Locus Charter</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Session 5: <a href="https://geoinfo.science/rgs-2022-session-5-healthy-learning/" target="_blank">Building healthy learning spaces. What is next as we move from Emergency Education?</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The deadline for abstract submission to each of these sessions is <b><u>March 18th, 2022</u>.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Further to the paper sessions we also sponsor a <a href="https://geoinfo.science/rgs-2022-aic-session-5-world-cafe/" target="_blank">World Café</a> session:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Session 6: <a href="https://geoinfo.science/rgs-2022-aic-session-6-world-cafe/" target="_blank">Beyond the systems of geography information</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Click on the link to access the details of each sessions and to find out how to contribute to the session. Please note that the RGS has strict limits to the contributions of each delegate (see <a href="https://www.rgs.org/research/annual-international-conference/call/guidance-for-presenters/#Contribution%20limits">Contribution
limits</a>). There is no formal limit to the number of sessions chaired or the number of co-authorships. However, sessions are normally understood as open to submission of papers. A session only composed by members of your own team is unlikely to be approved
by the RGS.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Stef – Secretary of the GIScRG.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">“It’s </span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">all going to be alright in the end, and if it's not alright, it's not the
end</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">”</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">(by Ol Parker, via Wittertainment)</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></b><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr Stefano De Sabbata (they/them)</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Lecturer in Quantitative Geography</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Geography, Geology and the Environment,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford</span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#730F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#730F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">t: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">+44 (0)116 252 3812<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#730F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">e:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> <a href="mailto:s.desabbata@le.ac.uk" title="mailto:s.desabbata@le.ac.uk"><span style="color:#000051">s.desabbata@le.ac.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#730F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">w: </span></b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#00004D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://sdesabbata.github.io/" target="_blank" title="https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/stefano-de-sabbata/"><span style="color:#000051">sdesabbata.github.io</span></a></span></u><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#730F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#730F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">w: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/geography/people/stefano-de-sabbata" title="http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/geography/people/stefano-de-sabbata"><span style="color:#000051;background:white">le.ac.uk/departments/geography/people/stefano-de-sabbata</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#730F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">w: </span></b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#00004D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/stefano-de-sabbata/" target="_blank" title="https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/stefano-de-sabbata/"><span style="color:#000051">oii.ox.ac.uk/people/stefano-de-sabbata</span></a></span></u><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#730F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#730F00;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">twitter: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://twitter.com/maps4thought" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000051">@maps4thought</span></a>
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