We are a state-of-the-art research centre specialising in spatial and place-based scholarship and teaching.
Mention of our research in a podcast by The Banker on basic banking services
A recent podcast by The Banker (a Financial Times publication) featured our research into basic banking services in Wales.
New review paper on conceptualising 'new mobility services'
'New mobility services' is a term used to summarise e-scooters and similar novel forms of mobility. We have analysed whether this is justified.
Quotation in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ)
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung asked René Westerholt for an assessment of a critiqued study on the geographic origin of the COVID-19 pandemic
Successful DFG grant application: a new project on the meanings of spatial weights will be funded
We have successfully secured a three-year project to research the implicit and explicit attributions of meanings to spatial weights.
René Westerholt joins the editorial board of IJGIS
Our member René Westerholt has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Geographical Information Science.
Full proceedings of PLATIAL'23 are published
The full proceedings of the PLATIAL'23 symposium (hosted by us in September) have now been published – including a workshop report from our team.
Photography as a means of approaching space and place
Liudmila Slivinskaya has published a full conference paper on using photography to approach space and place in mass housing estates.
Invited talk at University of Liverpool
René Westerholt gave a talk at the University of Liverpool on more-than-geometric spatial analysis
RAM Colloquium with Simon Scheider
We are looking forward to host Simon Scheider (Utrecht University) for a talk on 'validity of spatio-temporal models'!
RAM Colloquium with Thomas van Dijk
We are looking forward to host Thomas van Dijk (Ruhr University Bochum) for a talk on 'improved geovisualisation through mathematical optimisation'!