From June 17 to June 25, 2013, the University of Greenwich held a Summer School on Social Network Analysis which I attended (for an overview of alternatives, see here). The University is home to the Centre for Business Network Analysis, which is headed by Bruce Cronin. The way the center is positioned is rather unique and, to my knowledge, the only comparable entity is the LINKS Center for Social Network Analysis in Kentucky, which is run by Dan Brass. Several courses were offered at the summer school, some for beginners, others for more advanced students. I took the course on models of longitudinal network analysis which was organized and lead by Guido Conaldi. Continue reading Greenwich Summer School on Social Network Analysis
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SNA Courses and Summer Schools in 2013
I’ve been closely following the offerings for courses with a focus on social network analysis over the past couple of years. Roughly two years ago, I compiled a list of events taking place in Europe. Back then, I decided for an introductory course taking place in Trier, Germany, which I really enjoyed. Recently, I’ve repeated my search and here is a selection of a few, slightly more international, courses that are of particular interest to me:
- SUNBELT workshops on SNA, Hamburg, Germany, May 20-21, 2013
- LINKS Center Summer Workshop on SNA, University of Kentucky, USA, June 3-7, 2013
- EDEN Doctoral Seminar on SNA, Santorini, Greece, June 10-14, 2013
- Greenwich Summer School in SNA, University of Greenwich, UK, June 17-25, 2013
- Social Media Analysis, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, July 1-5, 2013
Although the Sunbelt conference is conveniently close this year, the courses offered are fairly short. Therefore, I’m likely to attend the Greenwich course which is spread out over a week. Interestingly, Christopher Tunnard has also converted the spreadsheet I linked to earlier into a website listing all SNA courses with a business focus around the world.
List of Social Network Courses in Europe
One particularly useful source of information that I draw on frequently is the SOCNET mailing list. Sometime towards the end of last year Christopher Tunnard collected information on the different types of social network courses being offered internationally. He consequently collected the data in a spreadsheet and you can now browse all courses by institution, instructor, category and name. I think this is pretty helpful when you’re trying to locate a course near you in a particular academic field. So, if you’re based in Europe and you’re interested in organization studies, psychology and communications – just like myself – you may find the following courses insightful:
Aarhus University: Introductory Social Network Analysis & Organizational Network Analysis
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: Theory, Methods and Applications of Social Networks (Summer School)
University of Essex: Introduction & Advanced Social Network Analysis (Summer School)
University of Glasgow: Assessing the Impact of Social Networks on Organizational Performance
University of Greenwich: Business Networks
Universität Trier: Summer School on Social Network Analysis
Tilburg University: Interorganizational Relationships