MelNet News:
Announcement: 13 October 2008 One-day Workshop
The Interdependence of Networks and Behaviour
Psychological, Sociological, Political and Economic Perspectives
University of Melbourne, Australia, 10 November 2008
Workshop Program now available (download here)
The MelNet group at the University of Melbourne is holding one-day workshop on the interdependence of social networks and behaviour. The workshop aims to bring together scholars from different disciplines to explore the complex associations of social networks and human social behaviour from a variety of social science perspectives.
The Keynote Speaker is Professor Patrick Doreian, currently co-editor of Social Networks, previously editor of Journal of Mathematical Sociology, and Emeritus Professor in Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. http://patrickdoreian.com
Those interested in presenting their own research at the workshop are asked to submit a 200-word abstract by no latter than 1 October 2008.
Please, see flyer for more details.
CSIRO Top-Up PhD Scholarship
The CSIRO is offering a PhD top-up scholarship (value: $7000 per annum) for a student interested in doing a PhD in the School of Behavioural Science at the University of Melbourne in the area of "behavioural and economic factors that influence and motivate people in adapting to climate change". There would be a joint University of Melbourne - CSIRO supervision team. Interested students should see http://www.csiro.au/partnerships/CAFPostgradScholarships.html and contact Prof Pip Pattison (pepatt@unimelb.edu.au) or A/Prof Garry Robins (garrylr@unimelb.edu.au) for further details.
Note: CSIRO closing date is 30 November 2008
APA/MRS closing date in 31 October 2008
