Invitation to submit an abstract to the 35th International Geographical Congress 2024

24-30 August 2024, Dublin, Ireland

Conference website: https://igc2024dublin.org/ Abstract submission here: https://auth.oxfordabstracts.com/?redirect=/stages/6882/submitter I wanted to take this opportunity to invite submissions to six sessions that are being organised and convened by the Applied Geography Commission of the International Geographical Union (for which I am the Chair). Applied approaches for healthy public policy - welcomes submissions... [Read More]
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Call for Papers - Future Directions for Urban Analytics and City Science

The American Association of Geographers annual meeting, Denver, 23-27 March 2023

This collection of sessions reflects on emerging challenges for post pandemic cities, takes stock of recent developments in urban analytics and city science, and explores how they have and are being deployed to support urban resilience, recovery and reconfiguration. Within these contexts, we are interested in both academic and practitioner... [Read More]
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A dynamic microsimulation model for epidemics

A New Paper in Social Science and Medicine

In this new paper, which is a collaboration between academic and private sector researchers, we build a microsimulation framework for modelling Covid-19 disease transmission within communities.we find that an earlier lockdown is estimated to result in a lower peak in COVID-19 cases and 47% fewer infections overall during the initial... [Read More]