Four crossing cutting themes funded by internal and external sources.
- Distributed and overlapping production systems (e.g. IT clusters, health);
- Healthy and high-quality urban ecosystems;
- Business models for technologically transformed social systems;
- Global value chains
Evolution of the CONNECTED network
Prof Bruce Cronin. A social network analysis of the development of a community network for African vector-borne plant viruses,
Fostering informal interaction in hybrid/online work
Prof Bruce Cronin, Assoc Prof Riccardo De Vita, Assoc Prof Sara Gorgoni, Dr Guido Conaldi, Dr Anna Piazza, Dr Antoinette Saint Hilaire. A University-funded study of how informal social networks can be effectively fostered in hybrid online/offline situations, mapping the social networks underpinning formal work tasks and informal social relationships and gathering qualitative evaluations of those aspects of the adopted work practices in aiding or hindering the formal and informal relationships.
FACET
Dr Jin Chan leads Greenwich’s £300k contribution to the €3 million Interreg FACET project. The project aims to help entrepreneurs in the tourism and leisure sector gain practical knowledge and experience in the transition from linear to "circular practices".
GO TRADE
This four-year project supports markets and town centres in Great Yarmouth, Gravesend, Castle Point and Basildon as well as some in northern France. Dr Andres Coca-Stefaniak, from the Tourism Research Centre , is working with a cross-disciplinary team of researchers led by Prof Petros Ieromonachou, Networks and Urban Systems Co-Director.
Modelling the structure, temporal evolution and performance of teams
Assoc Prof Nicola Perra. A US Army Labs-funded project to provide a novel methodological framework to predict team performance leveraging representational learning on temporal graphs.
Thamesmead regeneration project evaluation
Dr Zhen Zhu and Dr Menna Jones (MET). A Peabody Trust-funded development of an evaluation programme for the Thamesmead Regeneration project in partnership with ARUP and TSIP. Funding includes a three-year PhD scholarship in data mining and sentiment analysis of social media postings.
Modeling and characterizing complex contagion processes on time-varying networks
Assoc Prof Nicola Perra. A US Army Labs-funded project in partnership with City University exploring the efficiency of different mechanisms aimed at promoting interactions across otherwise separated groups clustered around different opinions, norms, and beliefs. The project aims to advance understanding of social contagion processes unfolding on social networks both from a theoretical and a practical standpoint, addressing pressing societal issues such as the polarization and the emergence of filter bubbles in modern interactions.
LinkedIn economic graph: Micro and macro teams composition and performance
Assoc Prof Nicola Perra. In partnership with the Universities of Turin and Indiana the project uses using de-identified or aggregate data provided by LinkedIn to consider questions such as the impact of having diverse skills and roles on businesses, from startups to larger and more well-established firms. The team plans to adopt a blending of network science and machine learning to model team intelligence at a global scale.
The hidden story: Mapping knowledge exchange partnerships for the creative economy
Prof Bruce Cronin and Dr Matthew Smith. An AHRC-funded study in partnership with the University Alliance developing new methods for understanding knowledge exchanges underpinning the Creative Economy ecosystem.