The Doctoral School of Sociology, Corvinus University of Budapest calls for applications for full-time PhD positions for a period of three years commencing 1, September, 2013.

The deadline of applications is June 10, 2013.

The MTA TK "Lendület" Research Center for Educational and Network Studies (RECENS) is able to host and its director, Károly Takács is able to supervise two PhD students,who select one of the proposed research topics and become members of the research project “Competition and Negative Networks: The Origin, Dynamics, and Harmful Consequences of Negative Relations”. Preferences will be given for the first two topics that also appear at the website of the Doctoral School.

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May 14, 2013, 15:30

Balázs Lengyel (International Business School)

The Controversial Role of Distance in Online Social Networks

The conference takes place at the Centre of Social Sciences, Budapest, Országház utca 30, Jakobinus room. Some of our members will participate at the event.
Date: 26th April 2013.

Schedule

Abstracts

Tamás Ribárszki and Kinga Varga finished second at the XXXI. OTDK competition at Kaposvár with their work about dinamics of positive and negative ties. Congratulations! 

Two scholars are going to be our guests in the coming weeks. Marcel van Assen from the Tilburg University will hold a lecture on the 30th April and Flaminio Squazzoni, ESSA President, University of Brescia will do so on the 7th of May. For more information check the seminars page!
 

Some of our members (Bálint Néray, Judit Pál) took part in the "Applied Network Analysis" Workshop at the University of Mannheim. The full program and the abstracts can be read here.

Elias Carroni from the University of Namur is going to visit our center in the end of this February. During his stay he is going to hold a lecture: Eliciting Local Network Externalities through Price Discrimination on March 12, 2013 as a part of our seminar series. His webpage: click here.

Jan Kratzer from TU Berlin visiting Budapest as a guest of the MTA TK "Lendület" Research Center for Educational and Network Studies and will stay here until this September. During this time he is going to hold a lecture: The Social Network Positions of Lead Users and Opinion Leaders on March 19, 2013. More information are at his webpage.

Date: 28 February, 2013, 13:00-17:10

Location: Room 31, 1st floor, Institute for Sociology of MTA Centre for Social Sciences H-1014 Budapest, Országház utca 30.

Presentations will be in English!

For more information click here

Nikita Krugljakov from Maastricht University visited our group this January and held a lecture on January 8th about Social Closure and Social norms. Please, find more info about him here.