Lecturer at University of Exeter in Political and Environmental Network Analysis
I am a computational social scientist in the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter. My work focuses on the role of social networks in questions of public engagement, environmental management, and community health. In my research I explore two related themes – how the structure and dynamics of inter-organizational networks affect policy change, and how the structure and dynamics of social and belief networks affect behavioral change. Substantively, I study how people try to bring about societal change in response to political and environmental concerns. Methodologically, the need to grapple with these often complex phenomena requires the use and development of techniques for handling large, dynamic, and relational datasets.
