The call for papers has now closed. If you have submitted an abstract the outcome will be communicated shortly.
If you have missed the deadline for this year,look out for updates for GISRUK 2027, and consider joining the mailing list so you don’t miss out next time!
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We are pleased to invite 1500-word extended abstracts for the 34th Annual GISRUK Conference, to be held 15th-17th April 2026 hosted at the University of Birmingham. An early-career researcher pre-conference event will also be held on the afternoon of 14th April.
The deadline for submission is Friday, 30th January 2026.
GISRUK hosts research from across geographic information science, from fundamental research to applications of GIScience across many domains. This year, the theme is People, Planet, and Progress: GIS for Real-World Impact, and we are particularly excited to invite submissions that describe practical applications of GIS that align to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, from both academia and practice. Beyond this special invitation, we accept abstracts in the following topics, and beyond:
Data/Methods
- 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
Application areas
- Transportation
- Environmental and ecological modelling
- Gender & society
- Housing and urban economics
- Health and public policy
- Labour and production in economic geography
Guidelines
- Submission is via 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.
- Identify whether you would like your submission to be considered for the GISRUK+OSGeo:UK GoFundGeo Award, with details for this year to be confirmed shortly (for information last year’s details can be found here).
- 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.
If you have any queries, please feel free to contact us via email.
Key dates
Paper submission deadline: 30th January 2026
Paper review notifications: 20th February 2026