Success for GIS students

Students from the University’s MSc in Geographical Information Science have received recognition at two UK conferences.

Best paper

PhD student Catherine won the Best Paper by a Young Researcher at the Geographical Information Research UK conference in London.

Her paper was titled “Giving and receiving direction: requirements for automated pedestrian wayfinding technology”.

Catherine completed the masters in 2006 and is currently working on her doctorate.

Practical solutions

Also successful was a team of four MSc students comprising Christopher Barber, Amin Abdalla, Laura Mason and Dimitris Stratoulias.

They won the prize for “the most pragmatic means of enabling realisation of the aims of ‘One Scotland, One Geography” at the AGI Scotland conference in Glasgow.

Their project, Latyourlife, beat eight other entrants, all of whom were established GI professionals. Latyourlife is a personal planning aid that incorporates a geographic context into a traditional time-based calendar.

World first

Launched in 1985, the masters programme in GIS was the first programme of its type in the world.

It promotes strong links to industry and has to date produced 640 graduates who form a significant part of the GIS industry.

I am very pleased to see our students being rewarded for their efforts. These awards show the depth of talent and innovation developed by our GIS programme.