Previous events and projects

Social Network Analysis Project (SNAP)

Funded by the College of Humanities and Social Science (CHSS) through the 2014-2015 Challenge Investment Fund, SNAP aimed to establish SNAS as a leading research and training unit in the development and application of cross-disciplinary SNA in Scotland and beyond. Find out more about the project.

Workshop on online social networks and big data, and lecture on privacy of online social networks

This workshop, delivered by Dr. Jordi Herrera and Cristina Prez-Sol (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain), provided hands-on training on extracting and analysing data from Online Social Networks, like Twitter and Facebook. Online Social Networks (OSNs) have gained an important space in peoples lives. Their popularity and the fact that OSNs provide a breadth of data about human interaction have made them an increasingly popular research topic.This workshop covered the following topics:

How to interact with OSN providers in order to obtain data from OSN sites (e.g. via Application Programming Interfaces, Representational State Transfer and Oauth);
How to collect data from social networking sites such as Twitter or Facebook; How toconvert OSN data to standard network formats;
How to acquire OSN data in real time, and visualise results.

Public lecture on privacy of online social networks

Dr. Jordi Herrerawill gave a public lecture on Privacy of Online Social Networks on Monday 27th April 2015 from 16:00 - 18:00. The lecture took place in G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre - Doorway 4 (Medical School, Teviot), University of Edinburgh, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD

Workshop on qualitative and quantitative network analysis using R., focusing on ego networks

The Social Network Analysis in Scotland Group (SNAS) and Project (SNAP) in collaboration with the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU) ran a full-day workshop on qualitative and quantitative network analysis using R, with a specific focus on ego networks.

Public lecture on transnational social support and migration: conflicts in personal networks

Tuesday 31st March 2015 - 12:00-14:00
Seminar Room 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, University of Edinburgh
Speaker: Dr. Andreas Herz, University Hildesheim, Germany

Public lecture by Ichiro Kawachi: Social capital and health

The Social Network Analysis in Scotland Group (SNAS) in collaboration with the CRESH and OpenSpace at ECA ran a public lecture on: “Social Capital and Health”, with focus on the resources accessed through social networks. The event was delivered by Professor Ichiro Kawachi from the Harvard School of Public Health, USA. Kawachis’ research interested in the in the social determinants of population health and health disparities, he has made seminal contributions to the link between health and social capital; the resources accessed through social networks.

Advanced SNA theories and methods with Prof. Nick Crossley: half-day workshop and public lecture

A half-day workshop on advanced SNA theories and methods with Professor Nick Crossley from the University of Manchester. Nick Crossley is a Professor at the University of Manchester and one of the UK's most eminent social network analysts. He co-founded the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis and has contributed to the theory, methods and applications of social network analysis, in various areas such as social movement and protest, and (popular) music scenes The workshop topics included:

Mixed methods: How to combine qualitative and quantitative SNA?
Two-mode networks: How to analyse simultaneously micro (people, households) and macro social structures (groups, boards of directors, social events) in which people are embedded?
Comparing networks: How to compare networks of different structure and nature? How to analyse change in networks?.