Doug Specht has recently spoken to the Royal Geographical Society’s Ask the Geographer podcast about the responsible and ethical use of location data. In the wide ranging discussion on […]
Last week Doug Specht was invited to speak at the OpenData.ch/2021 Forum. The Forum brought together experts and the curious to learn and exchange the newest findings around Open […]
Over the last month senior lecturer and chartered geographer, Doug Specht, has been taking part in the Cartographies of the Imagination exhibition and forum. Cartographies of the Imagination was […]
Doug Specht recently spoke to Alexandra Ortolja-Baird of the New Books Network about his recently published, edited volume, Mapping Crisis. During the conversation they discussed how the digital age […]
Doug Specht, Senior Lecturer and chartered geographer of the Royal Geographical Society has contributed his views to the latest United Nations report on future trends in geospatial information management. […]
Doug Specht was this week elected to the role of Prize Coordinator on the managing committee for the Royal Geographical Society’s Digital Geographies Research Group. In this new role […]
This year has seen unprecedented numbers of fires raging across the Amazon forest. Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research detected 74,000 separate fires by mid-August, an increase of 83% […]
This week Doug Specht presented his work on the Cartographic Gaze at the Geospatial World Forum, held this year in Amsterdam. Based on his recent work published in Westminster […]
Doug Specht has been appointed as a Chartered Geographer by the Royal Geographical Society in recognition of his past and continuing contribution to the field of geography. Chartered Geographer (CGeog) […]
On Friday 21st September the University of Westminster welcomed the ‘Geographic Standard for the UK: Priorities’ roundtable to our Regent Street campus. The event, which was organised by members […]