Past events
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Yannan He University of Manchester. Effects of Classroom Parental Networks on Students’ Academic Performance.
Abstract: As suggested by social capital theories, parents could obtain resources from network ties...
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series, Eleanor Power London School of Economics The Dynamics of Social and Economic Inequality in Cross-Cultural Perspective: the ENDOW and Rep2SI Projects
Understanding the drivers and dynamics of social and economic inequality is of core interest to soci...
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Andrew Parker University of Durham. It’s Not Me, It’s You: The Effect of Alter’s Brokerage Orientations on an Individual’s Leader Identity
Understanding how individuals come to see themselves as leaders is critical for organizations. While...
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Pietro Casari Scuola Normale Superiore Italy. Events, Networks, and Collective Action Processes
The recent interest in events as an object of study has been accompanied by numerous attempts to dev...
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Zsofia Boda University of Essex. Upward Network Influence and Intergenerational Integration in German Schools
Social scientists consistently document ethnic segregation in social networks, demonstrating its ass...
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Shan Shi University of Manchester. Embedded Regional Origins: A Longitudinal Mapping of Collaboration Networks in China’s Music Industry (BADHEAD, 1999–2023)
Abstract: This study examines the formation of collaborative networks in China’s music industry th...
Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Bruce Cronin University of Greenwich, .THE STRUCTURE OF LOCAL FDI EMBEDDING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
This study examines how structural characteristics of countries’ local inward and outward FDI netw...
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...