MelNet News:

New MelNet node at Swinburne

MelNet has undergone a restructure, and now has two nodes - one at the University of Melbourne and a new node estabilished at Swinburne University of Technology. Between the two nodes, MelNet currently has three joint ARC projects as well as many other collaborations. For those who may want to know more about the Swinburne node of MelNet, please contact Dr Dean Lusher dlusher [at] swin.edu.au

 

Dr Colin Gallagher joints Beyond Bushfires project

We welcome Dr Colin Gallagher to the Beyond Bushfires ARC linkage project. Colin joins the Beyond Bushfires project, an Australian Research Council project focusing on social network analysis in investigating the role of social connectedness on mental health functioning and trajectories of recovery within communities affected by the 2009 Victorian bushfires. He recently completed a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, where his doctoral work focused on using network analysis to investigate both the social context in which second-language (L2) use and learning take place, and its relationship to the individual L2 learner/user. He is generally interested in the application of social network analysis in addressing substantive issues within social psychology, applied linguistics, intercultural communication and adaptation, and mental health.

 

The 2012 "i2" citation award

The following paper received the "i2" citation award for the most cited paper in the last five year for INSNA sponsored journal publications.
Robins, G.L., Snijders, T.A.B., Wang, P., Handcock, M., & Pattison, P. (2007). Recent developments in exponential random graph (p*) models for social networks.  Social Networks, 29, 192-215.
click here for a preprint.