Special issue on "Political Networks" in Network Science! Submission open now. Deadline 13 November 2026. www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... Guest editors: Philip Leifeld, Shahryar Minhas, Monica Di Gregorio. #SNA #PoliSky #PolMeth #NetSci #NetworkScience #NetworkAnalysis #PoliticalNetworks #NWS

Special Collection Call for Papers: Political Networks

NWS and the Political Networks Conference are calling for papers for a special collection in

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Professor em. Frank Schweitzer (ETH Zurich, Chair of Systems Design @ethz.ch), giving the keynote speech on #resilience (through a #ComplexSystems lens) at the Political #Networks Conference 2026 @socialstats.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk. Participants' minds were blown!

Jungbae An (Ohio State University) receiving the Best Poster Prize at the Political Networks Conference 2026 @manchester.ac.uk, announced with a laudatio by Professor Jennifer Victor (George Mason University) during the mentoring lunch. Big congratulations, Jungbae! And thanks to the committee.

Political Networks Conference 2026 @manchester.ac.uk. My welcome address to the 114 participants, showing some key figures about the conference before introducing the keynote speaker. Check out the fantastic programme with abstracts for the 96 (!) presentations: sites.google.com/view/confpol...

Political Networks Conference 2026 at the University of Manchester @uomsoss.bsky.social. Professor Adam D. Henry (University of Arizona) leading a featured session on "Network Analysis as a Measurement Tool for Policy Process Research". Learning from leaders in the field! #publicpolicy #policy #SNA

19th Political Networks Conference 2026 at Manchester @manchester.ac.uk, 4-7 August. Packed featured session on "Publishing on political networks" with Aisha Bradshaw (Nature Human Behaviour) and Martin Everett (Network Science) in the beautiful Boardroom of Oddfellows Hall. Audience on fire 🔥

Political Networks Conference 2026 @uomsoss.bsky.social. Dr. Laurence Brandenberger (U Zurich) teaching participants how to store complex political data in a graph DB and query the data effectively -- with everyone in the room actively contemplating doing the same with their own data. #POLNET2026

📢 Online Social Network Analysis Course by Manchester's Mitchell Centre! 🗓️ Starts Oct 4 | 10 weeks online 🌐 Learn SNA at a comfortable pace 💡 Includes expert project mentoring ⏳ Early bird rate ends 15 Sept 👉 www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/mitchell-cen...

Political Networks Conference 2026 @manchester.ac.uk @socialstats.bsky.social. Professor Joris Mulder introducing relational event models and Bayes factors for nested and ordered hypotheses in network models in his workshops. Showcasing marvellous software implementations and polisci examples. #sna

Political Networks Conference 2026 @manchester.ac.uk. Dr. Silviya Nitsova @uompols.bsky.social discussing the promises and pitfalls of designing different ways of collecting network data. The workshop audience is buzzing with questions. #sna #networkanalysis #politicalnetworks #PoliSky #polisci

Political Networks Conference 2026 at Manchester @uomsoss.bsky.social. Dr. Lorien Jasny (University of Exeter) giving a workshop on Exponential Random Graph Models #ergm using R to our audience. #PoliSky #statnet #SNA #NetworkScience. So many good questions and happy faces all around!

Political Networks Conference 2026 @manchester.ac.uk. Professor Ingo Scholtes showing animated simulations of random walk diffusion on time-preserving vs temporally shuffled networks in his workshop on Causality-Aware Temporal Networks, in a packed room #NetworkScience #SNA #NetworkAnalysis #PoliSky

Check out the full programme with abstracts for the Political Networks Conference at Manchester in a couple of weeks: sites.google.com/view/confpol.... Exciting line-up with 90 presentations across 28 panel sessions in 4 parallel tracks! Registration has closed, but perhaps of interest.

Discourse Network Analyzer 3.1.2 released: github.com/leifeld-lab/.... New functions: CSV importer, keyboard shortcuts. Lots of bug fixes, including statement type editor and using document-level variables in network export.

Political Networks Conference 2026, University of Manchester (4–7 Aug), open for registrations until 6 Jul 2026 midnight: sites.google.com/view/confpol.... First come, first served. Subsidised workshops and registration. #sna #networkanalysis #polisky #publicpolicy #netsci #polisci @manchester.ac.uk

Submission deadline for the Political Networks Conference 2026 extended to 22 April following requests and to accommodate Easter breaks. Submission and full scope details: sites.google.com/view/confpol.... Please RT. #NetworkAnalysis #Polisky #publicpolicy #netsci #NetworkScience #SNA

Philip Leifeld@leifeld.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Call for papers: 19th Annual Political Networks Conference, University of Manchester, 4–7 Aug 2026. sites.google.com/view/confpol... Paper and poster submissions now open (deadline: 12 April). First time in Europe. Training workshops. #NetworkAnalysis #Polisky #publicpolicy #netsci #NetworkScience

Submission deadline approaching on 12 April! Political Networks Conference at the University of Manchester. Join us for this great event!

Philip Leifeld@leifeld.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨 Deadline approaching at the end of this week. Political Networks Conference 2026 at Manchester. sites.google.com/view/confpol... Connecting research communities -- North America + Europe, different disciplines, methods, theories. #NetworkAnalysis #Polisky #publicpolicy #netsci #NetworkScience #SNA

Join us here at @uomsoss.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk for the 2026 Political Networks Conference, co-organised by the Mitchell Centre. Paper and poster submissions now open: sites.google.com/view/confpol... #NetworkAnalyis #CompSocSci #polinetworks #SocialStatistics #connections @insna.bsky.social

Philip Leifeld@leifeld.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Call for papers: 19th Annual Political Networks Conference, University of Manchester, 4–7 Aug 2026. sites.google.com/view/confpol... Paper and poster submissions now open (deadline: 12 April). First time in Europe. Training workshops. #NetworkAnalysis #Polisky #publicpolicy #netsci #NetworkScience

2026 Political Networks Conference: 4-7 August 2026 at the University of Manchester. Save the date! More info will be released in early spring. #SNA #polinetworks #polnet #polisky #networkanalysis #politicalnetworks #politicalnets #policynetworks #complexsystems #netsci #polmeth #polisci

For those based in or close to Manchester, check this upcoming free of charge, in-person workshop at University of Manchester. "From Entities to Edges: A Practical Introduction to Knowledge Graphs" by Dr L. Brandenberger, 17/10/25 from 9:30 to 13:00. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-entit...

Mitchell Centre M Summer School on Network Analysis for Social Sciences here at Manchester in September 2025. Register until 14 July here: www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/mitchell-cen.... We have introductory, R-based, and statistical network analysis courses. #sna #NetworkAnalysis #socsky

New paper by Mitchell Centre member Philip Leifeld in the Policy Studies Journal, using social network analysis to theorise how political actors start forming advocacy coalitions in the early stages of new policy settings (here: dealing with Covid-19 back in 2020). doi.org/10.1111/psj....

<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library

Policy subsystems are comprised of competing advocacy coalitions, in which public and private political actors with shared belief systems learn from each other and coordinate their strategies in the ...

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Do you want to train in SNA with a bunch of stellar experts? Join the in-person 'M Summer. School on Network Analysis for Social Sciences' by the Mitchell Centre in September in Manchester. 3 courses on Ucinet, SNA in R, and Statistical network models. Deadline June 30, details @ lnkd.in/dGFSXZMq

Please apply or spread the word! The PhD candidate will be co-supervised by a member of the Mitchell Centre.

Philip Leifeld@leifeld.bsky.social · last yr.

Deadline for fully funded PhD at Manchester extended to 14/4. Start date 1 Sep 2025. Pls repost. The degree can be in any relevant discipline incl soc sci, soc stats, law, comp sci. The project can focus more on discourse #NetworkAnalysis or more on #TextAnalysis, tbd. #datascience #NetworkScience

New paper out by Tomas Diviak and Jürgen Lerner. How do British corporate corruption networks evolve over time? Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Understanding the Mechanisms that Drive Relational Events Dynamics and Structure in Corruption Networks - Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Objectives Relational hyperevent data, i.e., time-stamped events comprising two or more actors, provide the most granular picture of network dynamics. Using hyperevent data on communication related to...

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The Mitchell Centre endorses the new Recommendations for Sharing Network Data and Materials. There is significant and valuable diversity in how social network research is conducted we encourage researchers to consider benefits and concerns to data sharing. doi.org/10.1017/nws.2024.16

Jürgen Lerner (University of Konstanz) presenting on relational hyperevent models applied to citation and co-authorship networks in our Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis at the University of Manchester. Great stuff! @mitchellsna.bsky.social #networks #SNA #NetworkScience #NetworkAnalysis

New paper out co-authored by Tomas Diviak together with Casper van Nassau, Frank Weerman, and Christianne de Poot. What social relationships and network positions make Dutch Jihadi radicals more inclined to perpetrate terrorist actions? #SNA #criminology #terrorism Link: doi.org/10.1080/1744...

Radical networks and terrorist action: the importance of social relationships and network positions

In most models on terrorism, interaction with other radicals is a key factor. However, systematic empirical evidence that radical ties affect behaviour is scarce. Our access to detailed police info...

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New paper out by Sjoukje van Deuren, Tomas Diviak, and Arjan Blokland. How does social and geographical proximity affect co-offending among outlaw motorcycle gang members in the Netherlands? Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

Last week on Friday, our member Tomas Diviak hosted a small conference called 'Data on Crime and Networks' in Manchester. Researchers from all over the UK participated and all the presentations were very interesting. Let's make this a tradition!