Social Network Analysis in Scotland Group (SNAS)

Research group

Overview

The Social Network Analysis in Scotland group (SNAS) provides a forum to discuss projects, issues and ideas related to Social Network Analysis (SNA).

It aims to:

Promote and facilitate knowledge exchange and collaboration with regard to SNA;
Bring together academic staff, postgraduate students and practitioners engaging with SNA across Scotland and beyond;
Produce high quality and collaborative research using SNA.

We welcome anyone with an interest in or experience of applying SNA to research projects and real-life problems. Previous SNAS activities include SNA seminars and lectures, basic and advanced training on SNA theory, methods and databases, presentations of group members work-in-progress and journal club events.

The group is currently convened by:

Cristina Chueca Del Cerro (Sociology, University of Durham)
Srebrenka Letina (University of Glasgow, MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit)
Katharina Pruente (University of Stirling, History)
Yasaman Sarabi (Centre for Networks and Enterprise Excellence, Edinburgh Business School, Heriot Watt University)
Matthew Smith (Social Research Methods, Heriot Watt University)
Matjaz Vidmar (School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh)
Gil Viry (Sociology, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh)

If you would like to join our mailing list and receive regular updates of SNAS and SNA-related events and information, please visit our Jiscmail webpage to subscribe.

SNAS has recently developed an Open Moodle page (open to the public) called the Social Network Analysis (SNA) Hub. The SNA Hub aims to act as a resource hub for anyone starting out with SNA. It provides an overview of some methods and metrics, along with short introduction/taster videos to relevant software packages for SNA and Network Science. It should be a particularly useful resource for PhD students and early-career researchers interested in SNA. To access the resources of the SNA Hub, you just need to sign up for an Edinburgh Napier University Open Moodle account.

To access the Open Moodle platform: https://open.napier.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=40

Details and instructions on how to enrol on the SNA Hub page: https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/rie/thinking-about-using-social-network-analysis-try-the-sna-hub/

SNAS also organises monthly seminar series, which consist of a range of presentations from SNAS members and external speakers on their SNAS work. Individuals from all backgrounds and levels are welcomed to attend.

The monthly seminar is scheduled on the second or third Tuesday of the month, from September to June, 16:00-17:00 UK time (unless stated otherwise, see below for the programme). The seminar will be delivered hybrid (in person and on Zoom) if the speaker presents in person. The seminar will be delivered fully online on Zoom if the speaker presents online.

All are welcome to attend, and no registration will be needed. Further details for each talk, along with the Zoom link to join, will be circulated closer to each talk’s date through the SNAS mailing list.

SNAS Monthly Seminar Series 2024-25

Past seminars

20 October 2020 - You’ll never move alone’: Rethinking teacher turnover as inter-school mobility networks
Marc Sarazin, UCLouvain
Recording of the seminar is available here.
24 November 2020 - Evolution of Guanxi within Chinese Large-scale Exhibition Service Market
Yehui Hu, University of Greenwich
15 December 2020 - Analysing disease transmission in networks
Trystan Leng, University of Warwick
2 February 2020 - SNAS PhD Surgery (round table)
23 February 2020 - On Multilayer Networks in the Netherlands
Tom Emery, ODISSEI, Netherlands
A recording of this seminar is available here.
23 March 2020 - Old People's Personal Networks in Europe: The importance of sibling ties
Jingyi Wang, University of Edinburgh
27 April 2020 - Oliver Westerwinter on Modelling Networks of International Organizations in So-called Regime Complexes
Benhard Reinsberg, University of Glagsow
12 October 2021 - Tracing the displacement of Edinburgh's Cowgate: using social networks to identify the hidden legacies of Little Ireland
Donagh Horgan, University of Strathclyde
Recording of the seminar is available here
9 November 2021 - Use of network maps in the characterization and improvement of vulnerable communities in the global south
Aisha Abubakar, University of Strathclyde
Recording of the seminar is available here
14 December 2021 - Hidden inequalities: using position generators to capture gender gaps on micro-tasking platforms
Paola Tubaro, National Centre for Scientific Research, CNRS
Recording of the seminar is available here
8 February 2022 - Multilevel networks in transnational institution building: The case of the European Unified Patent Court
Emmanuel Lazega, Centre for the Sociology of Organisations, Sciences Po
Recording of the seminar is available here
8 March 2022 - Twitter networks, bridging nodes, and issue-mapping on rare diseases
Matthew Hanchard, University of Sheffield, UK
Recording of the seminar is available here
12 April 2022 - Understanding scientific disagreement
Dakota Murray, The Center for Complex Network Research (CCNR), Northeastern University, USA
Recording of the seminar is available here
10 May 2022 - Citizenship Regimes: dynamics of scientific polarisation or consensus in the field
Eva Fernández G. G., University of Geneva, Switzerland
20th September 2022 - A three-dimensional approach to studying brokerage in networks: Brokerage activity, exclusivity and role diversity
Per Becker, Lund University, Sweden, preceded by a Welcome Event with short presentations by the SNAS committee
Tuesday 18th October 2022 - Scientific cooperation dynamics in Svalbard: a core-periphery analysis
Marion Maisonobe, Géographie‐cités, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France

Tuesday 18th October 2022 - Measures and stakes about the betweenness centrality of romantic partners in personal networks
Claire Bidart LEST, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Aix Marseille Univ, France
Recording of both seminars is available here
Tuesday 15th November 2022 - Loneliness, Mental Health, and Social Networks – UK evidence and future recommendations
Emily Long, University of Glasgow, UK
Tuesday 6th December 2022 - Retweets as endorsements: identifying advocacy coalitions with retweet network data
Paul Wagner, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Recording of the seminar is available here
Tuesday 17th January 2023 - Mapping communication networks of retrofitting supply chains
Yujia Han and Faye Wade, University of Edinburgh, UK
Tuesday 28th March 2023 - Net4Health: Social networks and adolescent health
Mark McCann, University of Glasgow, UK
Recording of the seminar is available here (password: p9hsb7S*)
Tuesday 18th April 2023 - In search of network efficiency: hybrid workplace and its impact on knowledge network churn
Paola Zappa, UCL, UK
Recording of the seminar is available here
Tuesday 16th May 2023 - Optimising cooperation in the industrial decarbonisation research landscape
Matthew Smith, Edinburgh Napier, UK
Tuesday 19th September 2023 - NodeXL to analyse social media networks: an overview of research case studies
Wasim Ahmed, University of Stirling, UK & Dennis O'Keeffe, Loughborough University, UK
Following a Welcome Event with short presentations by the SNAS committee
Tuesday 24th October 2023 - Keep your leader close: A multilevel investigation of advice networks, identification, and change responses
Francesca Pallotti, University of Greenwich, UK
Tuesday 14th November 2023 - Making sense of teachers’ communities of practice (CoP) with social (SNA) and epistemic (ENA) network analysis
Barbara Dzieciatko- Szendrei, University of Edinburgh, UK
Tuesday 12th December 2023 - Bursts of communication increase opinion diversity in the temporal Deffuant model
Luis Rocha, Ghent University, Belgium
Tuesday 16th January 2024 - Mapping and analysing networks in community projects
Drew Mackie (Industry)
Recording of the seminar is available here
Presentation slides and additional NetMapping examples are available here
Tuesday 20th February 2024 - Trust Networks as Data. The Journey Ahead
Silvia Fierăscu, West University of Timișoara, Romania
Recording of the seminar is available here
Tuesday 19th March 2024 - That's What Friends Are For: Anxious and Avoidant Attachment, Workplace Friendship and Job Performance
Zexi (Flavia) Li, University of Exeter, UK
Recording of the seminar is available here
Tuesday 16th April 2024 - Theorizing and mapping media ownership networks in authoritarian-populist contexts: a comparative analysis of Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Turkey
Gerhard Schnyder, Loughborough University London, UK
Recording of the seminar is available here
Tuesday 14th May 2024 - Symbolic interactionism as a theoretical perspective for qualitative network analysis
Laura Behrmann, University of Wuppertal, Germany
Recording of the seminar is available here

Last seminar

Tuesday 17th September 2024 - Global Value Chain Disruption from Container Logistics and Economic Growth: Evidence from the United States
Eric Neuyou, University of Arkansas (USA)
Recording of the seminar is available here

Upcoming seminars

Tuesday 8th October 2024 - 16:00-17:00 UK time
Charlie Joyez, Université Côte d'Azur (France)
Tuesday 12th November 2024 - 16:00-17:00 UK time
Andrea Ancona, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
Tuesday 10th December 2024 - 16:00-17:00 UK time
Agathe Bouis, University of Strathclyde (UK)
Tuesday 14th January 2025 - 16:00-17:00 UK time
Robert Panitz, Koblenz University (Germany)
Tuesday 28th January 2025 - 16:00-17:00 UK time
Tomas Diviak, University of Manchester (UK)
Tuesday 11th February 2025 - 16:00-17:00 UK time
Zsofia Baruwa, University of Kent (UK)
Tuesday 11th March 2025 - 16:00-17:00 UK time
Zhen Zhu, University of Kent (UK)
Tuesday 15th April 2025 - 16:00-17:00 UK time
Jeffrey Kantor, Wayne State University (USA)
Tuesday 13th May 2025 - 16:00-17:00 UK time
To be confirmed.
Tuesday 10th June 2025 - 16:00-17:00 UK time
To be confirmed.

Please check back for details of upcoming events.