AQMeN - Applied Quantitative Methods Network

Please note that, despite adverse weather conditions across Scotland this evening, the lecture will go ahead as planned for the participants of the GWR course who are already in situ, but note there is an amendment to the room allocation.

Anyone brave enough to venture out should proceed to Lecture Room 2G12 on the ground level of the Dalhousie Building. behind the Reception area, rather than the previously advertised lecture theatre

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An evening lecture presented by A. Stewart Fotheringham, Professor of Human Geography, and Director, Centre for GeoInformatics, University of St. Andrews.

Abstract
The Irish Famine was not only a pivotal period in Irish history but also had a major effect on the demographics and economies of countries such as the US, Canada, Australia and the UK.  During a period between 1865 and 1869 approximately 1 million people died of famine-related deaths and 1 million people emigrated.  This had an immediate impact on an island where the population was just over 8 million but it has had a long-term impact on population within Ireland where today the population is still about 1.5 million lower than it was in 1841.  Because of its importance and impact, much has been written about the effects of the Irish famine but the geographical impacts have been dealt with fairly crudely. 

In this presentation, Professor Fotheringham will present a new, more detailed spatial view of the impacts of the famine and analyse why some places lost population at a much more devastating rate than others.  The presentation provides a good example of the use of geographical information science to inform on spatial processes and to demonstrate how quantitative and qualitative investigations can be symbiotic.

Biography

Professor Fotheringham has recently taken up post at the University of St. Andrews, having previously been a Science Foundation Ireland Research Professor and Director of NCG at NUIM. He has also held positions at the University of Newcastle, the State University of New York at Buffalo, the University of Florida and Indiana University. He obtained his PhD and MA at McMaster University in Canada and his BSc. at Aberdeen University. He has previously been actively involved in large GIS-based initiatives in the US, Canada, and the UK.

Professor Fotheringham's research interests include: the integration of spatial analysis and GIS; spatial statistics; exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial modelling. His recent publications include Quantitative Geography: Perspectives on Spatial Data Analysis (2000), Geographically Weighted Regression (2002) and A Handbook of Geographical Information Science (2005). He has published six books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters

General information
This lecture is open to all AQMeN members to attend and will take place at the University of Dundee, Dalhousie Building, 3G05 Lecture Theatre 2. 

Registration: 6pm
Lecture: 6:30 - 7:30pm
Reception 7:30 - 8:30pm

Places at the event are limited and you must register to attend.