Past events
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
16:00 - 17:30 12 March 2025
Michael Genkin. University of Manchester. Understanding Self-Starter Terrorism: A Network Mobilization Perspective Despite a steady increase of self-starter terrorist plots in the last 10 years, there is little understanding of what explains their incidence or affects their distribution. It is also not clear why plots are sometimes carried...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series with CMI
16:00 - 17:30 19 March 2025
Juergen Lerner. University of Konstanz Relational hyperevent models for the coevolution of coauthoring and citation networks. The development of appropriate statistical models has lagged behind the ambitions of empirical studies analysing large scientific networks—systems of publications connected by citations and authorship. Extant research...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
16:00 - 17:30 26 March 2025
Giulia Berlusconi. University of Surrey Understanding risk in commercial sex markets: Exploring sex buyers’ sexual networks to understand their purchasing patterns and perception of risk. Despite ongoing policy discussions regarding further criminalising the purchase of sex in England and Wales, we know very little about how sex buyers understand...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
16:00 - 17:30 2 April 2025
Dorottya Hoor UCL A network typological approach to sexual and mental health in rural South-Africa. While there has been substantial research examining the impact of social relationships on health, most studies tend to focus on isolated aspects of individuals’ social networks, such as their size, contact frequency, composition or perceived support....
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Social Statistics Seminar Series - Jackie Wong Siaw Tze
14:00 - 15:30 8 April 2025
Fully Bayesian Estimation of Temporal Decay in Ordinal Relational Event Models Relational event models (REMs) can infer the generative properties of longitudinally observed social networks with instantaneous edges. They assume conditional independence of edges given sufficient network statistics formed over the past event sequence. A popular specification...
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Social Statistics Seminar Series - Prof Michael Elliott
15:00 - 16:00 7 May 2025
Please join us for the last Social Statistics seminar of the semester. We have coffee and cake! Michael Elliott Professor of Biostatistics University of Michigan Title: The Role of Probability Samples in the 21st Century In this talk I will review the rise, fall, and rise(?) of probability sampling for human populations in the 20th and 21st...
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