Call for papers

We are pleased to invite 1500-word extended abstracts for the 33rd Annual GISRUK Conference, to be held 23rd-25th April 2025 hosted at the University of Bristol. An Early-Career Pre-conference event will also be held on the afternoon of April 22nd.

The deadline for submission is Friday, 9th January 2025.

Please follow the submission link below: 

Submitted abstracts will be assessed by at least two members from the GISRUK 2025 Scientific Committee.

GISRUK hosts research from across geographic information science, from fundamental research to applications of GIScience across many domains. This year, we are particularly excited to invite submissions that investigate Process in Geographic Information Science, including innovations in causal inference, graphical modelling, or re-thinking the link between the patterns we see and what we represent on our computer screens. Beyond this special invitation, we accept abstracts in the following topics, and beyond:

• Spatial statistics & analysis
• Data visualisation and communication
• Data generation using AI or novel spatial data synthesis
• Reproducibility, replication, and meta-science
• Statistical/Machine Learning and GeoAI

• Transportation
• Environmental and ecological modelling
• Gender & society
• Housing and urban economics
• Health and public policy
• Labor and production in economic geography

• Submit abstracts through Oxford Abstracts ( submission link).
• Submissions should be extended abstracts of no more than 1500 words.
• Abstracts must be prepared using one of these templates ( MS Word, LaTeX, Quarto).
• Authors should make efforts towards enabling reproducibility of their work, where possible. GISRUK do not produce specific guidance, but we encourage authors to include pre-registered hypotheses in their initial abstract submissions (if appropriate) and host replication code and data using  FigShare,  Zenodo, or the  Open Science Framework.
• Any queries can be directed to: .

• Paper submission deadline:    9th January 2025
• Paper review notifications:    10th February 2025
• Registration Opens:                10th February 2025
• ECR Preconference Events:   22nd April 2025
• Conference:                    23rd-25th April 2025