Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis

Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis

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The Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis is a cross-disciplinary research group located in the School of Social Sciences. The centre’s mission is to be a world leading centre in the development and application of social network analysis techniques. The centre is named after J Clyde Mitchell, who pioneered this approach whilst a member of staff at Manchester. See below for extracts from an interview with Clyde Mitchell recorded by Russ Bernard in 1990.

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What is social network analysis?

The Mitchell Centre will be running a Summer School at the University of Manchester from June 17 -21, 2013.

 

We will offer two courses outlined below.  

 

Fees Students £500, Others £800.

 

The courses will be taught by Martin Everett, Elisa Bellotti, Johan Koskinen and Nick Crossley

 

1 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS USING UCINET AND NETDRAW

 

 

2 ADVANCED METHODS FOR SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS

Additional Information

The centre will be hosting a half day symposium on Animal Social Networks on May 15th.

Hanson Room, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building starting at 1.00pm.

Additional Information

 

Consultancy

We can offer bespoke training courses and consultancy, please contact us directly for further information.

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The aims of the centre are:


• To establish an international centre of excellence for social network analysis within the UK
• To establish a central resource and reference point for social network researchers and users both within the UK and internationally
• To cultivate existing interest and further stimulate interest in social network analysis in the UK and beyond
• To make important contributions to the social network analysis literature


The following topics are a selection of the interests of the centre:


• Data collection and different data types for social network analysis
• Longitudinal networks and network formation
• Descriptive methods and visualization
• Statistical modeling of social networks
• Mixed methods for social networks
• Social networks and social movements
• Social networks and health
• Social networks and consumption
• Social networks and cultural production

 

 

 

 

   Russ Bernard Interviews Clyde Mitchell in 1990.

University of Manchester