The new collaboration, Social Science and Humanities Open Cloud for the Netherlands (SSHOC-NL), will enable researchers to securely and ethically connect and analyse a large amount of data. This will help them address most pressing social issues, such as polarisation, social inequalities and the changing environment.
Below you will find all the speakers that have given a lecture during one of the POPNET Connects seminars. Speakers of seminars that still have to take place are not listed below. Interested in giving a lecture for our community …
In this seminar of the POPNET Connects series, Ana Macanoivc, Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence, will present a newly curated and fine-grained dataset, the Dutch Professors in Media database (DPM), to better understand the complex landscape of gender differences in media representation.
On October 18, Yuliia Kazmina will present her work on “The Closing Window? Network Determinants of Economic Prosperity in a Longitudinal Population-scale Social Network” at the Dutch NetSci Symposium, which will take place at Eindhoven University of Technology.
In this seminar of the POPNET Connects series, Jolien Cremers, Senior Advisor at the Data Science Lab at Statistics Denmark, will discuss the creation of a registry-based, multi-layer, and temporal network of the entire Danish population from 2008-2021, covering approximately 7.2 million individuals. The network maps relationships formed through family, households, workplaces, and schools, providing insights into how social connections influence various aspects of life, such as career trajectories and health. Cremers will also explore how connections reappear across different life stages, reflect one’s position in the income distribution, and reveal patterns in shortest path lengths between individuals, offering a novel approach to understanding societal dynamics.
On October 18, Eszter Bokányi will present her work on “Increasing mobility is linked to decreasing cohesion of personal networks over the lifecourse of an entire population” at the Dutch NetSci Symposium, which will take place at Eindhoven University of Technology.
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Veni funding for the project of POPNET Fellow Vera de Bel “The more the merrier? The role of step-grandparents in complex family networks”. The project will utilize register data, also used in the …
Leiden University’s computer science department (LIACS) is seeking an enthusiastic and well-qualified PhD candidate in network science, a field also referred to as complex networks or social network analysis. The position is for 4 years and is fully funded. The …
POPNET proudly joins the 44th edition of the Sunbelt Conference in Edinburgh from 24th June to June 30th 2024. The Sunbelt Conference is part of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), providing an interdisciplinary venue for social scientists, …
On June 27, Vera de Bel, Alyona Artamonova, Takayuki Hiraoka, Mirkka Danielsbacka, Antti Tanskanen, Marijtje van Duijn will present their work on “Parenthood status of siblings, half-siblings and cousins and entry into parenthood. A horizontal kinship network approach” at Sunbelt …
On June 28, Nicolás Soler, PhD Candidate (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and POPNET Fellow, will give a lecture about a new approach that investigates social context in intergroup social ties across multiple contexts. Abstract Close intergroup social ties provide fertile ground …
On Thursday 26 October, POPNET PI Frank Takes will present his work online for the IAS lecture series of the Institute for Analytical Sociology in Norrköping, Sweden. Abstract A relatively recently emerged line of research is dedicated to harnessing large-scale …