Past events
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
16:00 - 17:30 28 October 2026
Laura Koehly National Human Genome Research Institute Communal Coping and Social Networks in Families Affected by Rare Genetic Conditions. Families caring for children with rare genetic conditions experience substantial and chronic stress as they navigate complex medical demands, uncertainty, and...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
15:00 - 16:30 21 October 2026
Chris McCarty University of Florida Foundations of Personal Network Analysis and Recent Applications Personal network analysis, sometimes called egocentric network analysis, is a subfield of social network analysis focusing on a respondent (ego) and their network members (alters). With this approach...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
15:00 - 16:30 14 October 2026
Neha Gondal Boston University Mapping Meaning Structures using Directed Network Graphs on Association Rules John Mohr (1998) persuasively argued that formal or structural meaning analysis involves three steps: (1) identifying elements of the cultural system, (2) conceptualizing and measuring relationships...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
15:00 - 16:30 7 October 2026
Jana Diesner Technical University of Munich What we know and wrongly assume about the how and why of link formation in collaboration networks Large-scale bibliometric analyses allow us to validate classic theories of link formation in contemporary settings. I show how measurement choices can lead to...
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Online Course in Social Network Analysis (Mitchell Centre)
2 October - 11 December 2026
The Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis at the University of Manchester is excited to introduce a new semester-long online course called the Mitchell Autumn School on Social Network Analysis, taught by the centre’s 8 academic members. Unlike short workshops, this semester-long format provides...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
15:00 - 16:30 30 September 2026
Balazs Vedres Central European University Network tension and collaborative creativity
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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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