Call: 4th St. Petersburg Summer School on Network Analysis

The Centre for German and European Studies of St Petersburg University invites applications to the 4th St. Petersburg Summer School on Network Analysis, July 12-17, 2021. 

Submission deadline: May 17, 2021.

The school will be in person for participants who are currently in Russia and online - for international participants.

The School is designed for BA, MA, PhD students and early-career researchers in social sciences who would like to get a hands-on introduction to the state-of-the-art techniques of network analysis based on European social and cultural network data.

This year, after a course introducing students to network analysis, the school will primarily focus on statistical network modelling techniques aimed at finding the fundamental principles and mechanisms underlying network structure formation.

No prior knowledge of network analysis is mandatory. Basic knowledge of statistics and related software is recommended.

Teachers:

Wouter de Nooy, University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam School of Communication Research ASCoR
Johan Koskinen, University of Melbourne
Adina Nerghes, Wageningen University & Research
Ju-Sung (Jay) Lee, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
 

Application should contain a CV, a motivation letter, and a short description of one's own research project that involves analysis of relational structures connecting some social or cultural nodes. 

Applications are collected at info@zdes.spbu.ru. 

More details can be found in the call for papers: https://zdes.spbu.ru/images/20210421_SummerSchool_02.pdf.