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What are the SLA Student Awards 2017 and who should enter?

The SLA Student Awards are designed to reward final year Undergraduate and Masters students who have achieved excellence in the broad field of location analysis. The award scheme is open to students registered at UK Universities in the 2016/17 academic year and undertaking dissertations or extended projects involving location analysis.

New for 2017, the society will award prizes in two categories:

  1. Undergraduate Award
  2. The Masters Award
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Training needs survey 2016

We have created this short survey to help us understand the training needs of professionals at all levels of the site location research community.

There are six questions and we estimate that it should only take you 10 minutes to complete. We will be sharing the results once we’ve analysed them.

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Peter Sleight – Long service award!

The SLA's Jonathan Reynolds hands over the engraved Tankard to outgoing Chair Peter Sleight
Jonathan Reynolds hands over the engraved Tankard to outgoing Chair Peter Sleight

We wanted to take this opportunity to thank the outgoing Chair of the Society for Location Analysis, Peter Sleight who, as many of you will know, retired last year. I’d like to express my appreciation to Peter for his tremendous work for SLA; we were able to thank him in person late last year with a tankard which, I understand, he is already putting to good use!

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