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Pre-public release access to Patchwork data and final conference
Over on our project website, we have published the call for proposals for pre-public release access to the cross-national PATCHWORK data. Selected participants will obtain early access to the survey data, and their travel and accommodation for presenting their analysis at our final conference will...
New handbook out!
The Handbook on International Migration and Social Networks, edited by Basak Bilecen and Miranda Lubbers, has been published. This book explores the impact of social networks on migration, encompassing relationships between families, friends, communities, and institutions. It shows how these...
PhD defense Dr. Alexi Quintana
Our dear colleague Alexi Quintana Mathé has successfully defended his PhD Thesis at Northeastern University, "From Followers to Close Ties: Homophily in Population-Level Social Networks" on April 3rd, 2026. Congratulations Alexi!
Seminar "The ties we see: Measuring and analyzing perceived social networks," by Evangelos Dimosiaris
Evangelos Dimosiaros, PhD student at the Department of Sociology at Utrecht University and researcher at a fellow ERC project, visited the lab and presented the seminar "The ties we see: Measuring and analyzing perceived social networks," a very interesting talk linking social cognition to social...
Open Seminar "Innovating Ego-Network Research with Interactive Visual Tools", Núria Targarona Rifa, Louise Ryan and Alejandro Ciordia
Nuria Targarona Rifa, Louise Ryan and Alejandro Ciordia will present at a seminar co-hosted by the Early and Middle Career Researchers (EMCRs) of Social Networks and the Social Network Analysis Study Group (SNAG) of the British Sociological Association (BSA) on March 20th, 2026.
