We are pleased to invite 1500-word extended abstracts for the 35th Annual GISRUK Conference, to be held 13th-16th April 2027 hosted at the University of Nottingham. An early-career researcher pre-conference event will also be held on the afternoon of 13th April.
The deadline for submission is Monday, 1st February 2027.
GISRUK hosts research from across geographic information science, from fundamental research to applications of GIScience across many domains. This year, the theme is GIS Futures: Methods, Ethics and Impact. We invite researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to explore the next generation of geospatial thinking as this conference will examine how emerging methods, technologies, and perspectives are redefining the role of GIS in science and society. We welcome contributions that not only push technical boundaries but also critically reflect on the implications of geospatial innovation:
- AI & Automation in GIS
(GeoAI, LLMs + spatial data, automated mapping) - Climate, Environmental Human Futures
(adaptation, resilience, biodiversity modelling) - Urban & Digital Twin Futures
(smart cities, simulation, infrastructure planning) - Ethics, Equity & Governance
(data bias, surveillance, spatial justice) - Methods & Open Science Futures
(reproducibility, open data, new spatial methods)
Beyond this special invitation, we accept abstracts in the wider field of GIScience, for example: spatial statistics & analysis; data visualisation and communication, novel spatial analysis; reproducibility, replication, and meta-science. With application areas of: Transportation; environmental and ecological modelling; gender & society; housing and urban studies; health and public policy; and 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, Quatro.
- 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: 01 st February 2027
Paper review notifications: 25th February 2027