MSc Program in Computational Social Science
The Master’s Program in Computational Social Science (CSS) at the Institute for Analytical Sociology at Linköping University is the first Master of Science program in Computational Social Science in Europe that has run since 2017. During the program, students train to apply computational methods to analyze large, complex datasets related to human social behavior, and to arrive at theoretically and empirically grounded explanations of social outcomes such as ethnic segregation in schools, income inequality, firm growth and survival, political change and cultural diffusion. In the process, students are inducted into multidisciplinary domains of research in the social sciences that connect sociology, political science, economics, management science, and related disciplines with technical innovations in mathematics, statistics, and computer science. I served as program director in 2022. The current director of the Master program is Benjamin Jarvis.
Social Network Analysis
Social Network Analysis is a 7.5 ECTS course in the second semester of the Master’s Program in Computational Social Science (CSS) at the Institute for Analytical Sociology at Linköping University with the participation of Christian Steglich, Carl Nordlund, and Alexandra Rottenkolber. The course typically runs from January till the end of March. The course intends to provide a simultaneous introduction to the theoretical and methodological aspects of social network analysis. After successfully completing the course, the students should be able to think in terms of networks and grasp elementary social network concepts; address social science questions considering social network embeddedness; store, read, describe, and visualize network data using the statistical environment R; detect communities and identify role patterns in networks; run exponential random graph models (ERGMs) on cross-sectional network data; and analyze longitudinal social network data, including selection and influence mechanisms using Stochastic Actor Oriented Models (SAOMs).
PhD students supervised or co-supervised
(with date of defense)
- Eszter Balogh, Corvinus University of Budapest, Doctoral School of Sociology, 2007.
- Michael Mäs, University of Groningen / ICS, 2010.
- Attila Gulyás, Corvinus University of Budapest, Doctoral School of Sociology, 2012.
- Judit Pál, Corvinus University of Budapest, Doctoral School of Sociology, 2016.
- Dorottya Kisfalusi, Corvinus University of Budapest, Doctoral School of Sociology, 2016.
- Bálint Néray, Corvinus University of Budapest, Doctoral School of Sociology, 2017.
- Boróka Tímea Pápay, Corvinus University of Budapest, Doctoral School of Sociology, 2021.
- Ákos Bocskor, Corvinus University of Budapest, Doctoral School of Sociology, 2021.
- José Luis Estévez Navarro, Linköping University, Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS), 2021.
- Flóra Samu, Corvinus University of Budapest, Doctoral School of Sociology, 2023.
- Eszter Vit, Corvinus University of Budapest, Doctoral School of Sociology, 2024.
PhD students currently supervised or co-supervised
- Jesper Lindmarker, Institute for Analytical Sociology at Linköping University. 1st supervisor: Carl Nordlund, 2nd supervisor: Benjamin Jarvis.
- Alexandra Rottenkolber, Institute for Analytical Sociology at Linköping University. 2nd supervisor: Martin Arvidsson.
- Tangbin Chen, Institute for Analytical Sociology at Linköping University. 1st supervisor: Márta Radó, 3rd supervisor: Paul Lichtenstein.
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