8th UKSNA Conference, Bristol, 28th-30th June 2012

The next UKSNA conference will be held in Bristol between Thursday the 28th and Saturday the 30th of June 2012. 

We are honoured to have two world-class keynote speakers:

Tom W. Valente, University of Southern California

Anuška Ferligoj, University of Ljubljana: "Measuring networks: reliability and validity".

We invite social networks scholars from the UK and other countries to submit extended abstracts of proposed presentations, sessions, and posters. Submissions are accepted until 4th May 2012 here.

We will endeavor to notify of reviewer decisions soon after submissions to facilitate participants travel arrangements. A draft programme will be available on 14th May 2012.

Panels thus far:

Social Media (conference stream)
Political Networks
Policy
Modelling and Simulation
Mixed Methods
Geography
Economics
Management
Leadership
Social Movements
Diffusion of Innovations
Health Care
Social Capital

We encourage submissions on all areas of networks analysis, and we are particularly keen to elicit papers from underrepresented areas such as:
SNA in Business Consulting
Teaching SNA
Intelligence and Counterterrorism
Dark Networks & Negative Social Capital
SNA in Protest, Mobilisation, Riots

The venue is a restored building of the historic Bristol docks on the floating harbor. Bristol is a vibrant University city, easy to reach from other parts of the UK, 90 miles west of London, with an international airport and frequent connections to the rest of Europe.  It is fetted for its association with creative industries, home of BBC nature programmes and a significant concentration of the European aerospace industry.   

A programme of workshops in social network analysis techniques, theories and software applications will precede the conference. Details can be found here.

Venue and accommodation information is available here.