Past events
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Yannan He University of Manchester. Effects of Classroom Parental Networks on Students’ Academic Performance.
15:00 - 16:30 29 April 2026
Abstract: As suggested by social capital theories, parents could obtain resources from network ties that benefit themselves and their children. Parental networks are of particular importance. Coleman’s influential conjecture of intergenerational closure suggests that students whose parents know parents...
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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
15:00 - 16:30 22 April 2026
Understanding the drivers and dynamics of social and economic inequality is of core interest to social scientists, policy makers, and the public. I will introduce two projects that are part of an effort to bring new empirical data to facilitate that understanding. The ENDOW project (for Economic Networks...
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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
16:00 - 17:30 25 March 2026
Understanding how individuals come to see themselves as leaders is critical for organizations. While prior research has primarily focused on individual characteristics and experiences as drivers of leader identity construction, the relational antecedents through which leader identity is shaped remain...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Pietro Casari Scuola Normale Superiore Italy. Events, Networks, and Collective Action Processes
16:00 - 17:30 18 March 2026
The recent interest in events as an object of study has been accompanied by numerous attempts to develop a conceptual framework for their interpretation. I argue that adopting a processual-relational approach, both ontologically and epistemologically, can better frame the constitutive role of events...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Zsofia Boda University of Essex. Upward Network Influence and Intergenerational Integration in German Schools
16:00 - 17:30 11 March 2026
Social scientists consistently document ethnic segregation in social networks, demonstrating its association with inequalities in social capital, or the ability to activate relationships to facilitate actions and achieve desired ends. Existing research finds ethnic social network segregation among pupils...
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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)
16:00 - 17:30 4 March 2026
Abstract: This study examines the formation of collaborative networks in China’s music industry through BADHEAD, a sub-label of Modern Sky, one of the leading music companies headquartered in Beijing. The analysis focuses on two periods, 1999–2008 and 2015–2023. It investigates how participants’...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Bruce Cronin University of Greenwich, .THE STRUCTURE OF LOCAL FDI EMBEDDING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
16:00 - 17:30 25 February 2026
This study examines how structural characteristics of countries’ local inward and outward FDI networks influence economic development across different stages of development. Drawing from IMF Counterparty Direct Investment Statistics data 2009-2024, I apply an MRQAP time-fixed effects model to a set...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series, Alessandro Lomi (University of Italian Switzerland, Lugano) Modeling Social Networks with Changeable Nodes
16:00 - 17:30 18 February 2026
One of the defining features of social networks is that their nodes—social agents—are not fixed entities but actively reconfigure their internal structure in response to changes in their environment. When such reconfiguration occurs, widely held assumptions about mechanisms of network formation,...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Kasimir Dederichs (University of Oxford) Join to connect? Voluntary involvement, social capital, and socioeconomic inequalities.
16:00 - 17:30 11 February 2026
Access to social capital is stratified by socioeconomic status and has been cross-sectionally linked to involvement in voluntary organizations. Yet, we know little about the origin and interplay of these empirical regularities. Regression analyses on German panel data (SC6-NEPS) reveal that people...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series Martin Everett (Manchester) Assessing eigenvector type centrality for disconnected graphs.
16:00 - 17:30 4 February 2026
Eigenvector centrality (Bonacich 1972) is one of the most used centrality measures in social network analysis. When applied to disconnected graphs, it typically assigns non-zero values only to nodes in the component with the largest eigenvalue, with all other nodes receiving zero. The usual solution...
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