Social Networks

This session is now fully booked

Date: Wednesday 19th July

Venue: Manor Road Building

Time: 9.30-5.30

Title: Workshop on Agent Based Modelling and Social Network Analysis

This one-day workshop on agent based modelling and social network analysis is offered by the Research Methods Festival, in association with the Oxford Spring School held by the Department of Politics and International Relations and will take place in the Manor Road Building, next to St Catherine's College.

Course Details

Both agent based modelling and social network analysis are valuable for investigating dynamic processes of social phenomena of interest to social scientists. For instance works on technological or social innovations and social movements have fruitfully applied these methods. The hands-on workshop will use free software (Java, Repast and Pajek) downloadable from the web.

Participants are encouraged to bring their problems, data or questions along to be discussed during the workshop. Please bring problems or data in their original setting or format. An important issue to be discussed is how these modeling and network perspectives can be used to understand the problems and to transform data from its original setting into a format amenable to analysis.

Tutors: Dr Richard Taylor, Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University and Dr Gindo Tampubolon, University of Manchester

Location: Manor Road Building, Oxford, (next to St. Catherine's College)

Prerequisites: Any postgraduate training in social science or equivalent.

Cost: The cost of this course is covered in the £20 festival registration fee

Lunch : All course participants will be provided with lunch, coffee and tea in the Manor Road building at 1pm (NOT the St Catherine’s Dining Room).