Scientific Collaboration Network Evaluation & Strategy Using Graph Analysis

Learning objectives: Participants will learn about commonly available data for assessing scientific collaboration networks and how they can curate and collect that data for their own team. Using the examples of GLASSNET and MultiNet, we will show how scientific publication data, survey data, and other observational data can be used to both evaluate change efforts and to guide decision making for future activity. February 17, 2023, Noon to 4pm EST.
Learning objectives: Participants will learn about three major approaches to using their network collaboration data to assess their collaborations: (1) visualizing network data, (2) finding important actors (centrality), and (3) assessing cohesiveness and finding potential opportunities (such as structural holes) to increase cohesiveness. March 17, 2023, Noon to 4pm EST.
Learning objectives: Participants will learn (1) what kinds of questions related to their AccelNets can be answered through network graph analysis; (2) how to establish a baseline scientific collaboration network graph using GLASSNET & MultiNet as examples; (3) practical considerations for quantifying network analyses into measurable units; and (4) how to utilize the assessment template for annual reporting to NSF and for informing strategic decision-making to guide the growth and development of their AccelNets. May 12, 2023, Noon to 4pm EST.
These three half-day, hands-on workshops will take place online between February and May 2023. They are meant to be taken together as a series by a cohort of ten participants who will be selected from those who apply from awarded AccelNets. No programming experience is needed but each participant will need the support of their AccelNet's leadership in order to gather and analyze data about their network and to apply what has been learned from the workshops to the assessment and future strategies for their network. Time will be required outside of the workshops in order to build and analyze your network graphs with weekly, virtual office hours offered for consultation.
Applications are no longer being accepted.
Materials from the workshops will be made publicly available in August 2023 for those who are not able to participate.
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This workshop series has been made possible by the support of the National Science Foundation's Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet), Award #2233430.
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