Past events
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Mitchell Centre Workshop: From Entities to Edges - A Practical Introduction to Knowledge Graphs
08:30 - 12:30 17 October 2025
"From Entities to Edges: A Practical Introduction to Knowledge Graphs" A workshop co-organised by The Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research and the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis. Drowning in CSVs and tangled datasets? This workshop shows you how to tidy up, connect, and query your...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Laurence Brandenberger (University of Zurich) - Chairs, Cliques, and Clout: Network Drivers in Parliamentary Collaboration
15:00 - 16:30 15 October 2025
How do members of parliament choose collaborators? Is it policy or people that tip the scales? This talk argues that the everyday social fabric of the chamber steers who works with whom. Treating parliament as a living network, I show that collaboration tends to form inside small, cohesive clusters...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Karoly Takas (Linkoping University) - Are High-Performing Ethnic Roma Students Excluded from their Minority Peer Group? Friendship, Ethnic Identification, and Labeling
15:00 - 16:30 8 October 2025
It is a puzzle whether and how social exclusion mechanisms hinder the academic performance of disadvantaged minority groups. Using unique social network panel data from elementary school students in Hungary, we test different predictions of the cultural-ecological theory among the Roma, one of the largest...
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