Conference Programme

Event information posted here is subject to change depending on the requirements of the conference. If changes do occur, we will email all attendees, and disruption to talk times will be minimized.

At a Glance

Unless otherwise stated, all rooms are in the Priory Road Complex. Posters will be displayed in the Foyer throughout the conference.

Event Time Room
Tuesday
Welcome & Networking  Noon – 12:30  Humanities Building GH.01 
Orientation  12:30 - 12:50  Humanities Building GH.01 
Icebreaker & Networking 13:00 - 14:00 Humanities Building GH.01 
Break 14:00 - 14:30  Humanities Building GH.01 
Intro to Funding for Early Career Researchers 14:30 - 15:00  Humanities Building GH.01 
Panel: Navigating the Funding Landscape 15:00 – 16:00  Humanities Building GH.01 
Q&A with Panellists  16:00 – 16:30  Humanities Building GH.01 
Closing 16:30 - 17:00  Humanities Building GH.01 
Social  18:30 - late The Famous Royal Navy Volunteer (BS1 4EF)
Wednesday
Welcome & Networking  9:00-10:00  Foyer 
Urban Morphology with Python 10:00-12:00  2D1 (ECR Workshop w/ Martin Fleischmann)
Main Conference Registration + Lunch  11:00 – 13:00  Foyer
Convening   12:45-13:00  LT 
Keynote: Urska Demsar 13:00-14:00  LT 
Break  14:00 – 14:30  Foyer 
Sessions (1) 14:30 – 15:30  2D1 + 2D3, LT, A01 
Break  15:30-15:45  Foyer 
Sessions (2) 15:45 – 16:45  2D1 + 2D3, LT, A01 
Break  16:45 – 17:00  Foyer 
Closing 17:00 – 17:30  LT 
Peter Haggett Memorial Reception 17:30 - late Zerodegrees Microbrewery (BS1 5BA)
Thursday
Welcome & Networking  9:00 - 9:30  Foyer 
Sessions (3) 9:30 - 10:30  2D1 + 2D3, LT, A01 
Break  10:30 – 11:00  Foyer 
Sessions (4) 11:00 – 12:00  2D1 + 2D3, LT, A01 
Lunch + Posters  12:00 – 13:00  Foyer 
Keynote: Michele Acuto  13:00 – 14:00  LT 
Break  14:00 – 14:30  Foyer (GISRUK Mentorship Scheme in LT) 
Sessions (5) 14:30 – 15:30  2D1 + 2D3, LT, A01 
Break  15:30-15:45  Foyer 
Sessions (6) 15:45 – 16:45  2D1 + 2D3, LT, A01 
Closing  16:45 – 17:00   LT 
Conference Dinner   19:00 - late Browns Brasserie (BS8 1RE)
Friday
Sessions (7) 9:00 - 10:00  2D1 + 2D3, LT, A01 
Break  10:00 – 10:30  Foyer 
David Rhind Memorial Plenary 10:30 – 12:00  LT
Break  12:00 – 12:30  Foyer 
Keynote: Stef de Sabbata 12:30 – 13:30  LT 
Awards & Close  13:30 – 14:00  LT 
Takeaway Lunch  14:00  Foyer 

Speakers for the David Rhind Plenary are:

All Sessions

Session Room Chair
Group 1 - Wednesday, April 23 - 14:30 - 15:30
Innovations in Urban Analytics: Movement A01 Qiujie Shi
Rethinking Geographic Equity: Transport LT Kathryn Adams
Biogeography I: Methods & Modelling SS2D1 Duncan Whyatt
New Directions in Spatial Analysis I: Statistics SS2D3 Rene Westerholt
Group 2 - Wednesday, April 23 - 15:45 - 16:45
Innovations in Urban Analytics: Remote Sensing A01 Ce Zhang
Rethinking Geographic Equity: Mobility LT Anastassia Vybornova
Biogeography II: Data & Representation SS2D1 Paul Holloway
New Directions in Spatial Analysis II: Visualization SS2D3 Roger Beecham
Group 3 - Thursday, April 24 - 09:30 - 10:30
Rethinking Geographic Equity: Public Space A01 Qingya Cheng
Rethinking Geographic Equity: Environment LT Fran Pontin
Shaping Cities I: Buildings SS2D1 Ruth Nelson
New Directions in Spatial Analysis III: Knowing SS2D3 Nick Malleson
Group 4 - Thursday, April 24 - 11:00 - 12:00
Rethinking Geographic Equity: Health A01 Jessica Hepburn
Rethinking Geographic Equity: Class & Time LT Joe Day
Shaping Cities II: Settlements SS2D1 Martin Fleischmann
New Directions in Spatial Analysis IV: Being SS2D3 Cecile de Benezac
Group 5 - Thursday, April 24 - 14:30 - 15:30
New Directions in Spatial Analysis V: Scale A01 Chris Brunsdon
Rethinking Geographic Equity: Food I LT Chiara Gericke
Shaping Cities III: Streets SS2D1 Clara Peiret-Garcia
GeoAI for Geodemographics SS2D3 Guy Solomon
Group 6 - Thursday, April 24 - 15:45 - 16:45
New Directions in Spatial Analysis VII: Space & Place A01 Taylor Oshan
Rethinking Geographic Equity: Food II LT Caitlin Robinson
Shaping Cities IV: Outcomes SS2D1 Heather Chamberlain
GeoAI & Large Language Models SS2D3 Meiliu Wu
Group 7 - Friday, April 25 - 09:00 - 10:00
New Directions in Spatial Analysis VI: Tools & Data A01 Bruce Gittings
Rethinking Geographic Equity: Safety LT Trivik Verma
Innovations in Urban Analytics: Cities in Motion SS2D1 Richard Timmerman
GeoAI in Practice SS2D3 Milad Malekzadeh

All Talks

Date Room Time
Session Group 1 - Innovations in Urban Analytics: Movement (Chaired by Qiujie Shi)
Nick Bearman Location-allocation and public transit: An update on UCL student teacher placements Wednesday, April 23 A01 14:30
Meixuan Liu Using Machine Learning Methods to Estimate Sea Surface DMS Concentration for Studying Seabird Movements Wednesday, April 23 A01 14:50
Thomas Knights Community Powered Geospatial Data for Active Travel Planning Wednesday, April 23 A01 15:10
Session Group 1 - Rethinking Geographic Equity: Transport (Chaired by Kathryn Adams)
Ruth Nelson Incorporating equity into accessibility evaluations of transport policy scenarios in Cape Town, South Africa Wednesday, April 23 LT 14:30
Lee Vivian Connecting London: The Impact of the Elizabeth Line on Accessibility and Spatial Equity Wednesday, April 23 LT 14:50
Maria Wood Equity implications of car dependence in the UK Wednesday, April 23 LT 15:10
Session Group 1 - Biogeography I: Methods & Modelling (Chaired by Duncan Whyatt)
Paul Holloway Incorporating Spatially Explicit Landscape & Connectivity Metrics Improves the Predictive Ability of Species Distribution Models Wednesday, April 23 SS2D1 14:30
Emma Underwood Modelling the Role of Multiple Global Change Drivers on Future Range Shifts in a Tropical Biodiversity Hotspot Wednesday, April 23 SS2D1 14:50
Yinqiao Zhou Impact of 2D/3D Landscape Pattern on Urban Ecological Environment Quality: Explainable Machine Learning Methods Wednesday, April 23 SS2D1 15:10
Session Group 1 - New Directions in Spatial Analysis I: Statistics (Chaired by Rene Westerholt)
Levi Wolf Robust estimation for Local Moran's I Wednesday, April 23 SS2D3 14:30
Chris Brunsdon Rethinking Composite Indicators: A Geographical Perspective Wednesday, April 23 SS2D3 14:50
Sui Zhang SKATER Additive Learner (STAKERAL): A Data-driven Method for Delineating Covariate-specific Endogenous Spatial Regimes Wednesday, April 23 SS2D3 15:10
Session Group 2 - Innovations in Urban Analytics: Remote Sensing (Chaired by Ce Zhang)
Ian Turton The Use of Neural Networks to Detect Archaeological Sites in LiDAR Data Wednesday, April 23 A01 15:45
Dan Abudu Geospatial and Structural Equation Modeling of Energy Demand and Deforestation Risk in Uganda using Google Earth Engine Wednesday, April 23 A01 16:05
Alexander Skinner A Spatio-Temporal Mapping of Solar Photovoltaic Diffusion in Southern Luxembourg (2019-2023). Wednesday, April 23 A01 16:25
Session Group 2 - Rethinking Geographic Equity: Mobility (Chaired by Anastassia Vybornova)
Liam Webb The impacts of real-time versus scheduled public transport service data when analysing patterns of accessibility Wednesday, April 23 LT 15:45
Ye Tian Evaluating urban ventilation corridor: A lens from hyperlocal air pollution distribution through mobile monitoring Wednesday, April 23 LT 16:05
Fulvio Lopane Charging Ahead or Falling Behind? Equity in London's Electric Mobility Transition Wednesday, April 23 LT 16:25
Session Group 2 - Biogeography II: Data & Representation (Chaired by Paul Holloway)
George Offer Ecology Informed Innovation: Leveraging GIS, Digital Data Capture, and Data-Driven Solutions for Biodiversity Net Gain Wednesday, April 23 SS2D1 15:45
Ali M Navigation between stopovers by migratory geese: Comparing geomagnetic and geographic loxodromes, great circle routes and real trajectories Wednesday, April 23 SS2D1 16:05
WITHDRAWN NA NA Wednesday, April 23 SS2D1 16:25
Session Group 2 - New Directions in Spatial Analysis II: Visualization (Chaired by Roger Beecham)
Rob Davidson Integrating Concrete Examples into Thematic Maps of Social Inequalities: Assessing Public Perceptions Wednesday, April 23 SS2D3 15:45
Richard Harris Visualising small area data with hybrid cartograms and hexograms Wednesday, April 23 SS2D3 16:05
Jacob Macdonald Map Enhancers or Map Monsters: Do cartographic embellishment choices matter for teaching in higher education? Wednesday, April 23 SS2D3 16:25
Session Group 3 - Rethinking Geographic Equity: Public Space (Chaired by Qingya Cheng)
Melissa Barrientos Triñanes Utilising open data to enhance park safety for women and girls in Bradford: A spatial analysis approach. Thursday, April 24 A01 09:30
Jessica Hepburn Parks, Place, and Equity: Mapping access to different park typology in Britain's 20-minute neighbourhoods Thursday, April 24 A01 09:50
Nicholas Cork Shared spaces: transport networks to link ecological communities in the UK – a regional perspective Thursday, April 24 A01 10:10
Session Group 3 - Rethinking Geographic Equity: Environment (Chaired by Fran Pontin)
Lenka Hašová Mapping Indoor air quality vulnerability across England and Wales: A neighbourhood classification Thursday, April 24 LT 09:30
Susan Ruinaard From Individual Action to Collective Hives: Identifying Gains in Community-oriented Urban Heating Transitions Thursday, April 24 LT 09:50
Kevin Credit Exploring the transport-health-environment nexus through a new ‘Health Rating Index’ for Dublin, Ireland Thursday, April 24 LT 10:10
Session Group 3 - Shaping Cities I: Buildings (Chaired by Ruth Nelson)
René Westerholt Geometric place footprints and the modifiable areal unit problem Thursday, April 24 SS2D1 09:30
Léandre Fabri About the PA ratio for Urban Footprint Thursday, April 24 SS2D1 09:50
Krasen Samardzhiev Understanding Urban Form - Hierarchical Morphotope Classification based on Gradually Loosening Spatial Restrictions Thursday, April 24 SS2D1 10:10
Session Group 3 - New Directions in Spatial Analysis III: Knowing (Chaired by Nick Malleson)
Cécile De Bezenac Emergent Causal Effects of Segregation: an ABM Illustration Thursday, April 24 SS2D3 09:30
Anastassia Vybornova You Don't Have to Live Next to Me: Towards Demobilizing Individualistic Bias in Computational Approaches to Urban Segregation Thursday, April 24 SS2D3 09:50
Jonny Huck Embracing Uncertainty in Participatory GIS: Perceptions of tree planting in the English Lake District Thursday, April 24 SS2D3 10:10
Session Group 4 - Rethinking Geographic Equity: Health (Chaired by Jessica Hepburn)
Parna Mandal Modelling the Role of Mobility in Cholera Transmission Dynamics Thursday, April 24 A01 11:00
Musa Chirikeni Seeing the source: Using Computer Vision to locate and map Cooling Towers to enhance preparedness for Legionella. Thursday, April 24 A01 11:20
Kathryn Adams Associations between residential exposures to road traffic noise, deprivation and its impact on sleep disturbance across Greater Manchester. Thursday, April 24 A01 11:40
Session Group 4 - Rethinking Geographic Equity: Class & Time (Chaired by Joe Day)
Luc Wilson Real-time Anatomy of the Cost-of-living Crisis Thursday, April 24 LT 11:00
Giada Garofani The Urban Promise: Diverging Economic Perceptions of Opportunity around the world Thursday, April 24 LT 11:20
Humphrey Southall Updating the Great Britain Historical GIS, and the Vision of Britain web site Thursday, April 24 LT 11:40
Session Group 4 - Shaping Cities II: Settlements (Chaired by Martin Fleischmann)
Heather Chamberlain Stratifying settlement by building type: assessing the accuracy of the GHS-BUILT-S dataset Thursday, April 24 SS2D1 11:00
Guy Solomon Estimating urban areas using historical census data and the H3 grid Thursday, April 24 SS2D1 11:20
Gianluca Boo Bayesian building count estimation using ground surveys and satellite-derived data Thursday, April 24 SS2D1 11:40
Session Group 4 - New Directions in Spatial Analysis IV: Being (Chaired by Cecile de Benezac)
Taylor Matthew Oshan Towards a decentralized geospatial web — risks and opportunities for GIScience Thursday, April 24 SS2D3 11:00
Adam Dennett GIS vs The City Council - Data Analytics, Collective Intelligence and Policy Dust-ups Thursday, April 24 SS2D3 11:20
Gale Chris Geospatial Data & Homes England: Insights and Innovations in understanding housing data Thursday, April 24 SS2D3 11:40
Session Group 5 - New Directions in Spatial Analysis V: Scale (Chaired by Chris Brunsdon)
Tom Cunningham Multivariate Bayesian spatial modelling of child labour and out of school children in Nigeria: mapping areas of excess risk Thursday, April 24 A01 14:30
Victor Irekponor Local Generalized Additive Spatial Smoothing (Local-GASS): A New Approach to Mitigating the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem in Local Regression Modeling Thursday, April 24 A01 14:50
Lex Comber Using GAMs to understand whether and how processes vary over space and time Thursday, April 24 A01 15:10
Session Group 5 - Rethinking Geographic Equity: Food I (Chaired by Chiara Gericke)
Fran Pontin Identifying Food Insecurity and Childhood Obesity Interventions - A Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression Approach Thursday, April 24 LT 14:30
Andy Newing Access to healthy and affordable food in rural areas – the role of online groceries and branded convenience stores Thursday, April 24 LT 14:50
Laura Sheppard Centering the importance of spatial accessibility in food bank use in England and Wales Thursday, April 24 LT 15:10
Session Group 5 - Shaping Cities III: Streets (Chaired by Clara Peiret)
Robin Lovelace Mapping, classifying, and integrating diverse street network datasets: new methods and open source tools for active travel planning Thursday, April 24 SS2D1 14:30
Martin Fleischmann Adaptive continuity-preserving simplification of street networks Thursday, April 24 SS2D1 14:50
Céline Van Migerode Flexurba 2.0: delineating urban boundaries with different types of data and thresholding approaches Thursday, April 24 SS2D1 15:10
Session Group 5 - GeoAI for Geodemographics (Chaired by Guy Solomon)
YUE WANG The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Cultural Events on Eventbrite Thursday, April 24 SS2D3 14:30
Shunya Kimura Smart Data Insights into Online Gambling: A Geodemographic Analysis of Behavioural Clusters in Great Britain Thursday, April 24 SS2D3 14:50
Mikaella Mavrogeni The Geodemographic Classification of Interactivity for Greater London Thursday, April 24 SS2D3 15:10
Session Group 6 - New Directions in Spatial Analysis VII: Space & Place (Chaired by Taylor Oshan)
Kevin Horan Incorporating varying degrees of spatial cohesion in models of voter behaviour in the UK General Election 2024 Thursday, April 24 A01 15:45
Roger Beecham Should we use Multilevel Regression and Post-stratification when simulating area-level population outcomes? Thursday, April 24 A01 16:05
Sheng Zhou RADIG: A Resolution-adaptive Grid Reference Framework for Persistent Spatial Index Thursday, April 24 A01 16:25
Session Group 6 - Rethinking Geographic Equity: Food II (Chaired by Caitlin Robinson)
Daniel Milner Measuring Smallholder Resilience in an Agro-Ecologically Diverse Landscape: A Comparative Analysis of Selected Resilience Assessments Thursday, April 24 LT 15:45
Chiara Gericke A Spatial Analysis of Fast-Food Outlet Density Around London Schools: Implications for Policy and Planning Thursday, April 24 LT 16:05
Michal Iliev Mapping Nighttime Food Deserts in London Thursday, April 24 LT 16:25
Session Group 6 - Shaping Cities IV: Outcomes (Chaired by Heather Chamberlain)
Milad Malekzadeh Quantifying Urban Attractiveness: The Role of Spatial Configuration and Visual Metrics in Perceived Attractiveness Thursday, April 24 SS2D1 15:45
Luisa Lo Presti Road network simplification to support air quality analysis Thursday, April 24 SS2D1 16:05
Anna Brázdová Spatial modelling of the relationship between the urban form and population data Thursday, April 24 SS2D1 16:25
Session Group 6 - GeoAI & Large Language Models (Chaired by Meiliu Wu)
Qingya Cheng How Does ChatGPT Measure City Similarities? Thursday, April 24 SS2D3 15:45
Pablo Löw Right and Wrong: Harnessing Visual geodata mining methods to find patterns in LLM generated geodata Thursday, April 24 SS2D3 16:05
Nick Malleson Using Large Language Models to Predict Neighbourhood Change Thursday, April 24 SS2D3 16:25
Session Group 7 - New Directions in Spatial Analysis VI: Tools & Data (Chaired by Bruce Gittings)
Luning Li Mobile Phone App Data for Understanding Urban Public Park Usage: Opportunities and Challenges Friday, April 25 A01 09:00
Yitong Xia Building sustainable and impactful tools: best practices and future directions for geo-dashboards Friday, April 25 A01 09:20
Lex Comber Using house sales transactions data to identify potentially gentrifying neighbourhoods Friday, April 25 A01 09:40
Session Group 7 - Rethinking Geographic Equity: Safety (Chaired by Trivik Verma)
Nick Addis What makes a place unsafe? Using participatory mapping to explore student perceptions of unsafe spaces. Friday, April 25 LT 09:00
Mingyu Zhu Urban Gendered Spaces: A Spatial Perspective to Sexual Crimes Friday, April 25 LT 09:20
Tobias Willem Shinyemba The geography of sexual, physical, and emotional violence against children and young people in Namibia Friday, April 25 LT 09:40
Session Group 7 - Innovations in Urban Analytics: Cities in Motion (Chaired by Richard Timmerman)
Chris Larkin Integrating Low Traffic Neighbourhoods into UK Cycle Network Planning Friday, April 25 SS2D1 09:00
Juan Pablo Fonseca Zamora A Network Analysis Approach to Identifying Rat-Running Hotspots in Bogotá, Colombia. Friday, April 25 SS2D1 09:20
Clara Peiret-Garcia From Behaviours to Constraints: An adaptive Bayesian approach to understand how social and spatial environments shape mobility Friday, April 25 SS2D1 09:40
Session Group 7 - GeoAI in Practice (Chaired by Milad Malekzadeh)
Meiliu Wu Towards GeoAI Multimodal Foundation Models: Unlocking Spatial Knowledge through Vision-Language Models Friday, April 25 SS2D3 09:00
Kirsty Watkinson From Archives to AI: Using Old Maps and Gazetteers to Improve the Geoparsing Capabilities of Large Language Models Friday, April 25 SS2D3 09:20
Sitong Guo How well do street view images predict crime rates in London? A comparison with using social features Friday, April 25 SS2D3 09:40

All Posters

Posters are exhibited in the foyer throughout the conference, where attendees can see them and vote for their favorite poster.

Christopher Lloyd GeoLink R package
Claude Lynch In Execution: the use and influence of transport planning support systems in a regional context
Sayed Ishaq Deliry Advancing Water Budget Estimations in River Basins through Machine Learning-Based Spatial Downscaling of GRACE and GRACE-FO Satellite Terrestrial Water Storage Data
Matti Hästbacka The importance of nature for tourists: evidence from multiple perspectives using social media data
Ji-Ping Lin How Scientific Computing, Spatial Data Science, Open Science, and Open Data Help Revitalizing Hard-to-reach Population: Evidence from a Decade Research on Taiwan Indigenous Peoples
Huan Chen Optimizing Litter Bin Locations in North Lanarkshire, Scottland
Philyoung Jeong Improving Accessibility Analysis for Cycling: Developing a Network Weighting Scheme using Detailed Cycle Infrastructure Data and Level of Traffic Stress
dongyi ma Hyperlocal Thermal Modeling with IoT Sensors and UMEP inLondon’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Shitian Zhang Open-Source Web-Based Planning Support Application for Wind Farm Layout
Kate Booth Investigating the Impact of Airstrips on Deforestation in Indigenous Territories of the Brazilian Amazon
Howard Wong Individualised stop aggregation: a combined service-supply and demand-usage driven approach
Sam Denny School-level factors influencing NEET outcomes in England
Dominick Sutton Analysing survey nonresponse: how objectivity and geography affect response rate
Chuang Liu The Socio-Economic Landscape of Walking: Longitudinal Insights from the UK National Travel Survey (2007-2023)
Malcolm Morgan A synthetic population for small area household consumption and emissions in England and Wales
Vitalii Kriukov Habitat connectivity trends: calculation, modelling and assessment
Yuxin Zhao Modelling Fire Service Response Times in West Midlands, UK
Zhiqiang Feng Inequalities in spatial access to general practices in England: analysis of patient registration data
Abhinav Galodha Assessing wildfire impacts in Los Angeles using VIIRS and Landsat-9 TIRS imagery
Tom Komar Hierarchical Forecasting of Urban Footfall Integrating Temporal and Spatial Dimensions
Anastasia Bauch Remodelling Historic Maps
Naya Desai Urban Vegetation Drought Detection from Space: An Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach
Hoda Bakhshi Sidewalk width measurement using street view images and spatial data analysis
Fahad Khan Exploring land use land cover changes and their effect on urban heat island and land surface temperature: The case of Lahore, Pakistan
Ushree Banerjee Study on the Impact of Urbanisation on Surface Temperature using GIS
Ying Na Unveiling Core-Periphery Patterns and Drivers of Inter-City Scientific Mobility in China
Seb Jones Mapping the trajectory of London office leasing