[OSGeo-UK] CfP: GISRUK 2018 - University of Leicester

[De Sabbata, Stefano (Dr.)]

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1st Call for Papers

 GISRUK 2018
26th annual GIScience Research UK conference

 University of Leicester
17-20 April 2018

 http://leicester.gisruk.org/
https://twitter.com/GISRUK
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We are pleased to invite you to submit 1500 word extended abstracts for the 26th Annual Geographical Information Science Research UK Conference, which will be held at the University of Leicester on 17 - 20 April 2018. The closing date for *submissions* is Friday 15 December 2017 using the templates accessible via the conference website. All papers will be subject to a peer review. Conference proceedings including all papers accepted for oral and poster presentations will be made available online. Competitive *bursaries for students* aiming to present accepted papers/posters will open for application after acceptance notification.

== Conference topics ==
We welcome papers covering all aspects of theoretical and applied Geographical Information Science, *including (but not limited to)* the following themes:

- Data Science                    - Spatial Statistics             - Uncertainty in GIS
- Cartography                    - GeoVisualisation           - Remote Sensing
- GIScience Pedagogy

- Volunteered Geographic Information                  - Public Participation GIS
- Location-Based Services                                             - Web and Open-source GIS
- Critical GIS                        - Digital Geographies      - Qualitative GIS

- Urban GIS                         - GeoDemographics        - Transport Systems
- Archaeology and GIS   - Criminology and GIS     - Environmental GIS
- Sustainability and GIS

== Equal opportunity ==
We welcome diversity and are striving to offer equal opportunities to all participants and interested parties. We are dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of age, disability, ethnic or national origin, family circumstances, gender, political beliefs, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation, and socio economic background.

== Conference series ==
The GISRUK conference series is an international conference which has grown out of the UK's national GIS research conference, established in 1993. We have held the conference at venues in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. GISRUK conferences are primarily aimed at the academic community, but welcomes delegates from government, commercial and other sectors. The conferences attract those interested in Geographical Information Science (GIS) and its applications from all parts of the UK, together with the European Union and beyond. The disciplinary range is broad including, but not limited to, Geography, Environmental Science, Ecology, Computer Science, Planning, Archaeology, Geology, Geomatics and Engineering.

The GISRUK conferences have the following aims:
- to act as a focus for GIS research in the UK, while welcoming researchers from Europe and beyond
- to provide a mechanism for the announcement and publication of GIS research
- to act as an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of research ideas
- to promote active collaboration amongst researchers from diverse parent disciplines
- to provide a framework in which young researchers (including students) can see their work in a national and international context

== Organization ==
Dr Stefano De Sabbata (local chair)
Prof Heiko Balzter
Dr Kirsten Barrett (workshops chair)
Dr Sue Easton (special events chair)
Dr Claire Jarvis (finance chair)
Dr Jörg Kaduk
Prof Kevin Tansey
Pengyuan Liu
Dr Nick Tate (program chair)
Dr James Wheeler (social events chair)


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Dr Stefano De Sabbata
Lecturer in Quantitative Geography
Department of Geography,
University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
t: +44 (0)116 252 3812
e: s.desabbata at le.ac.uk
w: le.ac.uk/departments/geography/people/stefano-de-sabbata
twitter: @maps4thought

Research Associate
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford oii.ox.ac.uk/people/desabbata Information Geographies Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality