Current Project

• The structure and dynamics of social contact for human disease transmission models

Research Interests

• Theory and application of statistical models for social networks
• Social networks and disease transmission
• Social influence
• Geography and social networks

Conferences and invited presentations

• G. Daraganova, P. Pattison. Models for network-mediated social influence processes. The Psychometrics Institute Seminar Series. ACER, (2009).
• G. Daraganova, “Statistical Models for social networks”. School of Communication and Information, BSU, Minsk, Belarus, (2009)
• G. Daraganova, P. Pattison, J. Koskinen, B. Mitchell, A. Bill, M. Watts, S. Baum. Models for networks embedded in space. XXVIVInternational Sunbelt Social Network Conference, San Diego, USA, (2009)
• G. Daraganova, P. Pattison, B. Mitchell, A. Bill, M. Watts, S. Baum. Model for network – mediated social influence processes and its application. Australian Mathematical Psychology Conference, Newcastle, Australia, (2009)
•  G. Daraganova, P. Pattison, B. Mitchell, A. Bill, M. Watts, S. Baum. Social networks and unemployment. TASA Conference, Melbourne, Australia, (2008)
• P. Pattison, G. Daraganova, B. Mitchell, A. Bill, S. Baum, M. Watts, Networks and Space. ARCRNSISS Workshop ”Methodology, Tools and Techniques”,  Newcastle, (2008)
• G. Robins, K. Haye, S. Buckley, G. Daraganova, P. Pattison, Selection and influence: Models for individual attributes and social network structures. Meeting on Methodology for Empirical Research on Social Interactions, Social Networks, and Health, Harvard University, (2008)
• B. Mitchell, A. Bill, P. Pattison, G. Daraganova, S. Baum, Social networks and labour market participation in Melbourne. Australian Social Policy Conference, (2007).
• G. Daraganova, P. Pattison, G. Robins, and P. Wang, Social influence models, The 8th Asia-Pacific Complex Systems Conference, Queensland, Australia, (2007)
• G. Daraganova and P. Pattison, Social networks and space, International Workshop on Social Space and Geographical Space, Eight International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, Mt Eliza, Victoria, Australia, (2007)
• G. Daraganova, P. Pattison, G. Robins, and P. Wang, Social influence models, XXVIIInternational Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Corfu, Greece, (2007)
• G. Daraganova, P. Pattison, Social networks and epidemiology, Network – based epidemiology Workshop, CSIRO, Melbourne, (2007)
• G. Daraganova, P. Pattison, B. Mitchell, S. Baum, M. Watts, A. Bill, Social influence and labour market outcomes, ARCRNSISS Workshop ” Methodology, Tools and Techniques”,  Newcastle , (2007)
• G. Daraganova, P. Pattison, B. Mitchell, S. Baum, M. Watts, A. Bill, Social networks, job search and labour market outcomes, ARCRNSISS Workshop ”Methodology, Tools and Techniques”,  Newcastle, (2006)

Publications

• G. Daraganova, P. Pattison (in preparation). Networks and geography. Social networks (special issue).
• G. Daraganova, P. Pattison (in preparation). Models for network embedded in space In Lusher, D., Koskinen, J., & Robins, G. (eds), (contract signed, 23 February 2009). Exponential Random Graph Models for Social Networks: Theories, Methods and Applications. New York: Cambridge University Press. Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences Series.
• G. Daraganova, P. Pattison (in preparation). Unemployment and social networks. In Lusher, D., Koskinen, J., & Robins, G. (eds), (contract signed, 23 February 2009). Exponential Random Graph Models for Social Networks: Theories, Methods and Applications. New York: Cambridge University Press. Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences Series.
• J. Koskinen, G. Daraganova & P. Pattison (in preparation). General introduction to the ERGM framework. In Lusher, D., Koskinen, J., & Robins, G. (eds), (contract signed, 23 February 2009). Exponential Random Graph Models for Social Networks: Theories, Methods and Applications. New York: Cambridge University Press. Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences Series.
• G. Robins & G. Daraganova (in preparation). Social influence. In Lusher, D., Koskinen, J., & Robins, G. (eds), (contract signed, 23 February 2009). Exponential Random Graph Models for Social Networks: Theories, Methods and Applications. New York: Cambridge University Press. Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences Series.
• G. Daraganova, P. Pattison, G. Robins, A. Bill, B. Mitchell, M. Watts, S. Baum, “Statistical models for network- and spatially-mediated social influence processes”. Journal of Mathematical Sociology (under review).
• G. Daraganova, P. Pattison, “Social networks and space”, Working paper, (2008)
• G. Daraganova, “The relation of mental diseases and abnormalities of interpersonal attitudes”. Psychology XXI century: Thesis of International Interuniversity Scientific – Research Conference, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, (2001)