ANR-Lab at Sunbelt 2024 – the premier network analysis conference in the world

ANR-Lab team gave presentations on the laboratory's ongoing research at the Sunbelt conference's online panel.

At the end of June, the next session of the annual Sunbelt conference was held, which brings together network researchers from a variety of fields from around the world. The conference is organized under the auspices of the INSNA association, the most authoritative association of network scientists, which also publishes the main scientific journals on network analysis: Connections and Social Networks. This year the event took place at Heriot-Watt University (Scotland), headquarters of the Center for Networking and Entrepreneurship Excellence (CNEE).

ANR-Lab team made presentations on the laboratory’s current research at the conference’s online panel. Daria Maltseva spoke about a study of collaboration structures in the Russian sociological community.



Irina Pavlova spoke about the results of work devoted to analyzing the structure of international collaborations of Russian economists from a global perspective. This study represents only part of a larger project in which ANR-Lab analyzes the history of international scientific cooperation between Russian scientists using data from the Web of Science library.



Natalia Matveeva, together with Professor Vladimir Batagelj, gave a presentation on her own research into collaborations of leading young universities.



Aryuna Kim, a junior research fellow at the laboratory, also shared the results of her work. Her report was held as part of the Qualitative Social Network Research section chaired by Andreas Herz. Participants in this session discussed how qualitative methodological procedures relate to methodological and theoretical positions and how they can be integrated for social network analysis; what different areas of qualitative research offer for social network analysis; what are the comparative advantages/disadvantages of different qualitative perspectives (such as narrative inquiry or ethnography) for social network analysis; and how qualitative research strategies can be theoretically and methodologically coherently integrated with perspectives drawn from (quantitative) structural analysis.



We congratulate our colleagues on their successful performances and hope that ANR-Lab's contribution to network analysis is visible in the international scientific community!