Our projects span social networks across industries such as biotechnology, health, Education, polymer technologies, sport and the public sector.
We have current and past SNA projects with Boeing, CSIRO, Ausbiotech, US Department of Defence, Vichealth, Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania, Chemistry Australia, the Australian Football League (AFL), and more...
COVID-19 SPREAD - MELBOURNE 2020
This project with the Department of Health & Human Services, Victoria visualises the spread of COVID-19 in Melbourne, Australia in 2020.
Research Team: Peng Wang, Dean Lusher and Giovanni Sadewo.
Global Doctoral Research Network (GOLDEN) Dual award between The University of Manchester and The University of Melbourne
We will explore the application of longitudinal network models to larger and complex datasets (description)
Project timeframe: 2020-2023
Research team: Klara Valentova (PhD student); Johan Koskinen, Termeh Shafie, András Vörös, David Schoch, Yoshihisa Kashima, Colin Hugh Gallagher (supervisors).
Russian science foundation
In ‘Creation of knowledge on ecological hazards in Russian and European local communities‘ we use multilevel sociosemantic networks to study local response to flooding.
Project timeframe: 2019-2021
Research team: Nikita Basov, Artem Antonyuk, Kseniia Puzyreva, Johan Koskinen, Pete Jones, Darkhan Medeuov, and Camille Roth
The State of Victoria through the Department of Justice and Community Safety
In the project ‘Pathways to radicalisation: using social network analysis to detect harmful and protective influences within social networks’ we study the selection and influence mechanisms of Violent Extremism. A visualisation of the dataset is found here.
Project timeframe: 2019-2020
Research team: Johan Koskinen, David Bright, Chad Whelan, and member of the Defence Science and Technology Group
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL, Industrial Transformation Training Centre for the Chemical Industries. (IC170100020)
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We are helping to shape how the next generation of industrial chemists are trained.
Project timeframe: 2018-2022
Research team: Dean Lusher, Peng Wang, Colin Gallagher
Australian Research Council, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. (DE160100471)
We are advancing network statistical models for social and economic behaviour.
Project timeframe: 2016-2018
Research team: Peng Wang
Australian Research Council, Discovery Project
We research collective self-regulation in complex social-ecological systems.
Project timeframe: 2016-2018
Research team: Yoshihisa Kashima, Garry Robins, David Sewell and Orjan Boding
Swiss Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) grant
We undertake snowball sampling and conditional estimation for exponential random graph models for large networks in high performance computing.
Project timeframe: 2015-2017
Research team: Rolf Krause, Alessandro Lomi, Garry Robins, Alex Stivala
US Department of Defence AOARD grant
We are investigating the dissemination of opinions and ideas via complex contagion on social networks.
Project timeframe: 2015-2016
Research team: Alex Stivala, Yoshi Kashima, Garry Robins, Michael Kirley
Australian Research Council, Future Fellowship FT130101201 – Complex Ties: The Role of Networks in the Commercialisation of Public Research
Project timeframe: 2014-2017
Research team: Dean Lusher
ARC LIEF Grant (LE140100148): TrISMA - Tracking Infrastructure for Social Media Analysis
Project timeframe: 2014-2015
Research team: A. Bruns, J. Burgess, J. Banks, D. Tjondronegoro, A. Dreiling, J. Hartley, T. Leaver, A. Aly, T. Highfield, R. Wilken, E. Rennie, D. Lusher, M. Allen, P Marshall, and K. Demetrious
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant – Network structure and social processes
Project timeframe: 2013-2015
Research team: Garry Robins, Philippa Pattison
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant – Co-evolutionary dynamics of culture and social structure
Project timeframe: 2013-2015
Research team: Yoshi Kashima, Garry Robins, Michael Kirley, Emi Kashima, Kim Peters
Australian Research Council, Linkage Project (LP130100366) – Participation versus performance: managing (dis)ability, gender and cultural diversity in junior sport
Project timeframe: 2013-2016
Research team: Ramon Spaaij, Karen Farquharson, Ruth Jeanes, Sean Gorman, Dean Lusher, Sue Clark, Sue McGill, Carmel Guerra
Australian Research Council, Discovery Project DP130101573 – Network structure and social processes in empirical social systems
Project timeframe: 2013-2015
Research team: Garry Robins, Philippa Pattison
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant – Co-evolutionary dynamics of culture and social structure
Project timeframe: 2013-2015
Research team: Kashima, Y., Robins G.
Australian Research Council, Discovery Grant, DP120100573 – Business Collective Action, Networks and Discourse: A Fiscal Sociology of Mining Tax Reform in Australia
Project timeframe: 2012-2014
Research team: Michael Gilding and Shirley Leitch, Research Fellow: Liz Merlot, Research Support Officer: Vikki Bunton
Australian Research Council, Linkage Project LP100200164 – Bushfires, Social Connectedness and Mental Health
Project timeframe: 2010-2015
Research team: E. Waters, R. Bryant, P.E. Pattison, L. Gibbs, D. Forbes, L. Harms, D. Lusher, C. MacDougall
Australian Research Council, Linkage Project LP0990478 – Network dynamics and field evolution: hubs, clusters and inter-organisational ties in biotechnology
Project timeframe: 2009 – 2012
Research team: Michael Gilding, Pip Pattison, Alessandro Lomi and Anna Lavelle; Research Support Officer: Vikki Bunton; Research Assistants: Farinoush Farhadieh and Janine Pickering