Mark Tranmer, University of Glasgow [Population & Spatial Analysis] - Modelling approaches for understanding social networks
12:00pm - 1:00pm /
Tuesday 7th March 2017
/ Venue: Lecture Theatre 1 Gordon Stephenson Building
Type: Seminar /
Category: Department
- 0151 795 0619
- Jamie Hughes
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Mark is interested in developing multilevel approaches for assessing the way in which the attributes of a network node (e.g. educational, health, and well-being measures for a person) co-vary with the attributes of other nodes to which they are connected (e.g. through friendship). He has further extended these approaches to assess changes over time in these variations. Understanding social interactions is key to for understanding inequalities in health, well-being, education and civic/political engagement. The talk will present newly developed approaches for analysing social networks data, within an applied framework