The overall goal of this workshop is to provide early-stage researchers and more advanced researchers with hands-on tools to design social network studies, collect social network data and analyze the data. The workshop addresses a variety of topics including ego vs. full social network analysis, longitudinal social network, data collection in large surveys, data collection involving difficult to reach populations, dealing with missing values in the social network and using qualitative social network research or mixed-methods research to examine the social network.
This workshop is important to stress the move from researching the Individual stakeholder to researching the entire community, whether it is a long term care setting, a city or a club. By the end of this workshop, participants will:
- Know the difference between ego networks and full social networks
- Become familiar with various measures of centrality and disperity
- Become knowledgeable of challenges associated with data collection at the ego level and the whole network level
- Learn methods to address missing values at the network level
Recommended reading:
- Christakis, N. A., & Fowler, J. H. (2009). Connected: The surprising power of our social networks and how they shape our lives. Little, Brown.
- Scott, J. (1988). Social network analysis. Sociology, 22(1), 109-127.
- Stephen P. Borgatti et al. (2009). Network Analysis in the Social Sciences, Science 323, (no. 5916), 892–895.
- Wasserman, S. (1994). Advances in social network analysis: Research in the social and behavioral sciences. Sage.
Date: 3 – 5 February 2020.
Theme: social network analysis.
