Use of GIS to understand socio-demographic and economic change :

 a workshop

Friday 27 June 2003

Room 3.51, Williamson Building, University of Manchester

There is no charge for attending the meeting

This workshop will bring together researchers funded under the ESRC Research Methods Programme using GIS to analyse historical census data with researchers who are using GIS with current census data.

The aim is to exchange information on methods, for example, dealing with changing geographical boundaries and methods of analysing demographic change over time. The intention is to identify best practice in using GIS for understanding socio-demographic processes and economic change.

Programme

Each speaker will have 30 minutes for presentation and brief discussion. Longer periods for discussion have been built in during the day. All presentations will be placed on the website for the meeting.

10.00   Coffee and biscuits

10.30      Dealing with changing boundaries

Paul Ell, Queen’s University, Belfast and Ian Gregory, University of Portsmouth

Methods of areal interpolation used with historical census data

Paul Norman, University of Manchester

Using lookup tables to link geographies:

i)                    creating consistent zones over time

ii)                   converting between different geographies

11.15  Coffee

David Martin, University of Southampton

Zone design tools as an approach to matching old and new geographies

Ludi Simpson, Bradford City Council and University of Manchester

Three challenges: social applications I cannot achieve without GIS

Discussion

1.00  Buffet lunch

1.30     GIS potential for analysis

Jim Petch, University of Manchester

Advanced GIS techniques for data exploration

Ian Gregory University of Portsmouth and Paul Ell, Queen’s University, Belfast

Using geographically weighted regression to analyse spatial and temporal change

2.30  Discussion and tea

2. 45  Danny Dorling, School of Geography, University of Leeds

Analysing socio-economic change over time and space 

Using novel cartographic techniques to explain society to children.

Paul Boyle, University of St Andrews

Analysing Scottish mortality through time

Ifan Shepherd, Middlesex University Business School

Visualising nineteenth century family data

Discussion

4.15            Conclusions and future directions