Past events
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series, Alessandro Lomi (University of Italian Switzerland, Lugano) Modeling Social Networks with Changeable Nodes
One of the defining features of social networks is that their nodes—social agents—are not fixed...
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Kasimir Dederichs (University of Oxford) Join to connect? Voluntary involvement, social capital, and socioeconomic inequalities.
Access to social capital is stratified by socioeconomic status and has been cross-sectionally linked...
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series Martin Everett (Manchester) Assessing eigenvector type centrality for disconnected graphs.
Eigenvector centrality (Bonacich 1972) is one of the most used centrality measures in social network...
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Scott Duxbury (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) - General Procedures for Micro-Macro Network Analysis
How do interpersonal social interactions generate novel network structures? Historically researchers...
Mitchell Centre Workshop: Agent-Based Modelling with a Focus on Network Analysis
The workshop starts with an introduction to agent-based modelling using Netlogo. It then focuses on...
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Federico Bianchi & Francesco Renzini (University of Milan) - Agent-Based Modelling for Social Network Research: Two Examples
The seminar will be centred on Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) as a strategy for modelling social networ...
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Tobias Stark (Utrecht University) - Effects of Identity Signals on the Perception of 2nd Generation Immigrants’ Integration in Social Networks
The majority of 2nd generation immigrants in Western Europe identify both with the ethnic group of t...
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Bernie Hogan (Oxford University) - Perspective Matters: Egocentric Networks and the Bundling/Grinding Problem in Sheaf Theory
Consider a whole network, such as a classroom. Each student can create an egocentric network visuall...
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Joe Labianca (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) - Affect’s Role in Organizationally-Sponsored Networking
Most organizational research on networking focuses on negative emotions toward it; but some people a...
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Lars Leszczensky (Goethe University Frankfurt) - Gendered Mechanisms of Social Segregation Among Muslim Youth
This talk will present findings from an ongoing research project on why friendships between Muslim a...