***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Dear all, The Autonomous University of Barcelona organizes for the second time the summer course "The measurement of personal networks" (July 9 - 13, 2012). The course is intended for PhD students and researchers interested in designing their own personal network studies. The program includes discussions about name generators, name interpreters, reliability and validity of the measures, and respondent burden. In addition, mixed method designs in personal network research will be discussed. Participants will have hands-on sessions with various packages for the collection, visualization and analysis of personal networks, namely EgoNet, E-net and Vennmaker. An international seminar on personal networks will end the course, with contributions of Chris McCarty (University of Florida) and Markku Lonkila (University of Helsinki). Registration deadline: June 29th, 2012. Professors (this list can change): José Luis Molina, Miranda J. Lubbers, (UAB) with invited participations of Chris McCarty (University of Florida), Juergen Lerner (University of Konstanz), and Markus Gamper (University of Cologne). The summer course details can be found here: http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/egolab/content/summer-course All the best, ---------------------------------------------- José Luis Molina Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Departament d'Antropologia social i cultural Edifici B- Facultat de Lletres. Despatx B9-229 08193-Bellaterra (Spain) Tf.: + 34 93 581 11 42 Fax: + 34 93 586 83 23 [log in to unmask] http://www.uab.cat/antropologia http://pagines.uab.cat/joseluismolina http://www.egoredes.net ---------------------------------------------- _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.