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.
Wednesdays 13.00-14.00 during the 2022-23 academic year.
Please note that in Weeks 4 (19/10) and 13 (25/1) we will meet at 12.00-13.00.
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 jing.zhang.2021@bristol.ac.uk or Emmanouil e.tranos@bristol.ac.uk.
| Week | Date | Room | Speaker | QUSS Social event |
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| 1 | 28/9 | Hepple | Welocme to QuSS! Coffee, tea and biscuits. | |
| 2 | 5/10 | Hepple | ||
| 3 | 12/10 | Hepple | Kevin Credit: A structured comparison of causal machine learning methods to assess heterogeneous treatment effects in spatial data | The Ostrich |
| 4 | 19/10 | Hepple 12-1 | George Willis: Understanding the effects of polycentricity within the shrinking city paradigm in China: A Multi-level approach | Eldon House |
| 5 | 26/10 | Hepple | Laura Sheppard: Gendering the research pipeline: a quantitative feminist geographical approach | |
| 6 | 2/11 | WMB 3.23 | Alessia Calafiore: Towards equitable and inclusive 20 minute cities | The White Harte (Park Row) |
| 7 | 9/11 | Cancelled | ||
| 8 | 16/11 | Cancelled | ||
| 9 | 23/11 | Cancelled | Robin Hood on St Michaels | |
| 10 | 30/11 | Cancelled | ||
| 11 | 7/12 | WMB 1.5 | AQM Y2 PhD presentations: Ekaterina Melianova and Giulia Occhini | |
| 12 | 14/12 | Hepple | AQM Y2 PhD presentations: Tao Zhou and Yigong Hu | |
| 13 | 25/1 | Wills 1.5 12-1 | Carmen Cabrera-Arnau: A Journey Through the Complexity of Cities at Different Spatial Scales | The Hope and Anchor |
| 14 | 1/2 | Hepple | cancelled due to strike | |
| 15 | 8/2 | Hepple | Nicholas Dorward: Urbanization, modernization, and women's participation in African politics | |
| 16 | 15/2 | Hepple | ||
| 17 | 22/2 | Online only | Y1 PhD presentations: Mirah Zhang: Connecting a Few Concepts in Spatial Causal Inference | |
| 18 | 1/3 | SR2 | Y2 PhD presentations: Emerald Dilworth and Sultan Alotaibi | |
| 19 | 8/3 | SR2 | Qunshan Zhao: Understand human behaviours by using mobile phone app data during the pandemic in Glasgow | |
| 20 | 15/3 | SR2 | ||
| 21 | 22/3 | SR2 | ||
| 22 | 19/4 | 35 BSQ HWB 2.25 | ||
| 23 | 26/4 | 35 BSQ HWB 2.25 | Y1 PhD presentations: Genghao Zhang and Jiao Zhou | |
| 24 | 3/5 | 35 BSQ HWB 2.25 | Patrick Ballantyne: Mobility data: does it live up to the hype? | |
| 10/5 | PEEL | The Johnston Lecture in Geography, Ed Manley: TBC | ||
| 20 | 17/5 | SR2 | Y1 PhD presentations: Qingya Cheng and Sitong Guo |