We're all set up and looking forward to meeting everyone at Northumbrian Water #InnovationFestival24 over the next 4 days. The festival opens at 12pm, come and speak to us about our research and how to get involve.

Opportunity for European university students: #EAASI has announced its Outstanding Thesis Award for masters, doctorate, or post-doc level projects from 2022, -23, and -24 that focus on bridging #geospatial science with business. Learn more: eaasi.eu/post/eaasi-lau…

We've had a good afternoon chatting to colleagues from across industry. We've also caught up with someone we met last year who seems very interested in PhD study.

It has been a really good week at #InnovationFestival24 meeting so many people. We are in to our final afternoon but still time to pop round for a chat and to pick up our last notebook.

Are you collaborating with other academic or business partners to solve a fundamental challenge? If so, you could be a winner at The Engineer Collaborate To Innovate awards. Enter here: orlo.uk/GPQip #C2I2024

Yesterday was a fantastic day for us with our first two students graduating with their PhD. Meet Dr Kristina Wolf and Dr Dr Rachael Sanderson We are really proud of your hard work and contribution to the success of the CDT and it's subsequent cohorts.

Calling all Masters and Undergraduate students with dissertations in #locationplanning. You could win up to £150 cash! Check out our website for criteria for entry and application forms etc. thesla.org/student-awards/

Fantastic to see output from our Challenge Week so widely circulated.

⭐️Funding opportunity⭐️for early-stage career researchers in all research areas. 🔴Are you a UK-based researcher, or interested in doing research in the UK? 🔴 Discover the ERC 2025 Starting Grant in our free webinars next week! 📅 29 Jul, 1 Aug ➡️ukro.ac.uk/events/erc-202… #ERC

Off on my travels again to the 8th annual meeting of the Cycling Research Board #CRBAM to present the work of David Alvarez and Geospatial Systems CDT on agent-based modelling for exploring cycling policies. By train from Newcastle to Zurich, of course... Chris presenting too!

We are welcoming students, academics and industry colleagues to our 2024 CDT Annual Assembly. We've got a great couple of days ahead including talks form our final MRes cohort and posters highlighting student outputs over the past 12 months.

Many thanks to Charlie from Extra Labs who has travelled all the way to Newcastle from Paris to deliver our Annual Assembly opeing keynote.

We've started our first session of individual research presentations from our fifth (and final) cohort of students. Hearing presentations from a diverse range of Geospatial applications. You can find the topics, plus those of our other cohorts at geospatialcdt.ac.uk/phd-researcher…

Back after lunch with a hands on dataviz sketching class led by Stefanie Posavec Starting with an important question!

Many thanks from a dizzly, chilly Newcastle for supporting both David Alvarez and Chris at #CRBAM

David Alvarez Geospatial Systems CDT The talk by Chris on his PhD work to develop an open-source approach to mapping LTNs was well-received, with some rich disucssions and suggestions for improvement. Here's an example of his outputs for Zurich if you'd like to explore! froguin99.github.io/Zurich/ 3/n

Mid-way through day 2 of our Annual Assembly and the sun has come out. Thanks to all our amazing researchers, academics and colleagues from industry for making the event a success.

Receiving the closing keynote talk of our 2024 Annual Assembly, from Professor Paul Longley from UCL Geography We really appreciate Paul taking the time to travel up to Newcastle to speak to us.

Looking forward to the start of our new academic year Planning for 2024/25 is well under way with our own CDT events, industry events, conferences and visits all in the pipeline. We may not have a new cohort starting this year but we certainly aren't slowing down!

Congratulations to cohort 1 graduate Kristina Wolf who has won the 2024 EuroSDR award for best PhD thesis for her work "Geospatial Data Infrastructure for multi-agency Incident Management". Fantastic achievement, against the best in Europe. Well done Kristina!