Call for papers

The deadline for paper submissions has passed, but you can register for the conference until 23rd March 2015.

If you have had a paper accepted, the deadline for changes is also 23rd March.

If you are presenting a paper, please prepare a presentation that is no longer than 15 minutes. This will allow a few minutes for questions. If you have electronic slides, these can be uploaded on the day. The presentation computers will have internet access (barring any unexpected failures).

If you are preparing a poster, it will need to fit on a poster board that is A0 size portrait. So your poster can either be A0 portrait size, or A1 landscape (or smaller of course).

We welcome colleagues to the 23rd GIS Research UK (GISRUK) conference. The GISRUK conference series is the UK’s national GIS research conference, established in 1993. GISRUK conferences attract delegates from all parts of the UK, together with the European Union and North America and from disciplines including Geography, Computer Science, Planning, Archaeology, Geology, Geomatics and Engineering.

#GISRUK2015 will be hosted by the University of Leeds’ esteemed School of Geography in the Faculty of Environment. The conference will take place on the 15th - 17th April 2015.

Abstract Submission

We invite submission of extended abstracts (up to 1500 words). All abstracts will be peer reviewed; accepted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings and some will have the opportunity to be written up as full papers and submitted to a special issue of Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy.

We also invite the submission of posters. These will be displayed during the conference and there will be a special poster session for authors to briefly present their poster.

Important Dates

~~Abstract submission deadline: Friday 7th November 2014.~~ ~~Abstract deadline extended until 9th Jan 2015.~~

Notification of acceptance: February 2015.

Conference Themes

In recognition of the recently created Consumer Data Research Centre, with over £6 million of grant funding from the ESRC, we are especially interested in abstracts on our main conference theme:

Big Data and the Future of GIS.

We also welcome submissions on all aspects of methodological, applied or theoretical GIS and, in particular, our other conference topics:

Crime and Policing
Retail Geography
Health and Wellbeing
Transport Systems
Environmental GIS and Hazards
Uncertainty and Error
Energy and Sustainability
Spatial Analysis and Visualisation
Geodemographics and Populations
Historical Applications of GIS

If you are unsure about the relevance of your paper, please contact one of the local committee (details below).

Bursaries

The Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) is sponsoring up to 5 bursaries, covering registration and accommodation. These are for early-career researchers (Masters or PhD students) submitting papers relating to ‘Innovations in Geographical Consumer Data’.

If the paper has multiple authors, the early-career researcher must be the first author in order to be eligible. If you are eligible and would like to be considered for a bursary, please select the appropriate Group when you submit your paper on EasyChair. Notification of winners will be announced at the end of November.

How To Submit - EasyChair Instructions

Papers and posters must be submitted through EasyChair:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gisruk2015

Submissions must be pdf files (without restrictions) and follow the GISRUK style guidelines. Please use one of the following templates to produce your paper:

There are no style guidelines for posters.

Submissions must include a short abstract (up to 100 words) and upto 5 keywords or phrases. These must be copied into the ‘Abstract’ and ‘Keywords’ boxes in EasyChair.

If appropriate, also select one of the following Groups for your submission:

Early-career author - indicate that you are a masters or PhD student.
CDRC bursary - indicate that you are a masters or PhD student with a paper linked to ‘Innovations in Geographical Consumer Data’ and would like to be entered for the CDRC bursary competition.

Notification of success or otherwise will be made available during February 2015. Bursary winners will be announced at the end of November 2015.

Local Programme Committee

The local programme committee is made up of the following people:

Please see their web pages for contact details.

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