Best Paper on Spatial Analysis awarded by CASA at GISRUK 2015
Alekos Alexiou won the "Prize for the Best Paper on Spatial Analysis" for his research The Role of Geographical Context in Building Geodemographic Classifications, presented in the Annual GISRUK Conference held at the University of Leeds, 15th - 17th April 2015.
This is the first part of a wider research project regarding the geographic sensitivity of socio-spatial patterns, by examining the case studies of Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds, along with some preliminary findings of a more generalised approach of socio-spatial pattern homogeneity. This was extended in a talk given at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Chicago, April 2015, and examined the degree of homogeneity within neighbourhood typology created over a range of scales across England.
The aim of this wider research is to produce geographic extents that maximise local socio-spatial variation. It is essentially a MAUP approach which could be used in various studies regarding population dynamics.