Society of Cartographers Summer School

The 2010 Summer School will be held at the University of Manchester from Weds 8th to Fri 10th September.

For more information visit the conference website.

The Annual Summer School is open to members and non-members and is usually held over four days in September at a different location each year. It creates an ideal opportunity to attend lectures, exhibitions, seminars and workshops, as well as to visit a broad spectrum of cartographic establishments.

The friendly and relaxed atmosphere is also ideal for informal discussions with fellow cartographers and is a pleasant and stimulating way to keep up to date with new technology. It is especially beneficial for those cartographers working within small cartographic units who can perhaps remain isolated from new developments and trends within cartographic circles.

The 2009 Summer School was held at Southampton University, and some of the papers presented at the conference can be found via this link. One of the themes running through the conference was Google mash-ups, so it seemed appropriate to quickly put a couple together (courtesy of Mike Shand, Glasgow University), one to show the location of delegates at this years conference, the other to show the history of Summer School conference locations.

Each year at the Summer School the Wallis Award is presented. Bursaries are available to help student and overseas members to attend the Summer School (Bursary application form)

To give you a flavour of what a summer school is all about, the links below lead sometimes to pages created to advertise each event, others give brief summaries of the programme and some are a collection of photographic memories (some of the links lead off-site). If you would like to read about the more recent Summer Schools in greater detail, visit our Newsletter page and look for the Newsletter immediately succeeding the event or follow the links below.

2008 at University of Aberdeen (Newsletter Nov 2008 for details)
2007 at University of Portsmouth (Newsletter Nov 2007 for details)
2006 at Keele University (Newsletter Nov 2006 for details)
2005 at University of Cambridge (Newsletter Oct 2005 for details)
2004 at University of Bristol (Newsletter Nov 2004 for details)
2003 at University of Reading (Newsletter Nov 2003 for details)
2002 at Liverpool JMU
2001 A Cartographic Space Odyssey at University of Leicester
2000 at Oxford Brookes University

Complete listing of Summer Schools ...