Professor Bruce Cronin - Director of the Centre for Business Network Analysis
International production networks, business-governmental relationships; managerial career networks; epistemic communities.
Dr Guido Conaldi - Deputy Director, CBNA. Senior Lecturer in Economic Sociology
Interpersonal and organisational social networks.
Associate Professor Francesca Pallotti - Deputy Director, CBNA. Associate Professor in Economic Sociology
Organizational change, routines and inter- and intra-organizational networks.
Dr Sprios Batas - MBA International Business Programme Director
Networks and social capital in firm internationalisation.
Dr Kim Bui - Lecturer in International Business
Dr Pi-Chi Chen - Senior Lecturer in International Business
Parent-subsidiary relationships in multinational enterprises.
Associate Professor Riccardo De Vita - Head of the Department of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour
Industrial clusters, proximity, innovation.
Associate Professor Nicky Garsten - Associate Professor in Public Relations
Public relations; NGO communications
Dr Stefano Ghinoi - Lecturer in Economic Sociology
Associate Professor Sara Gorgoni - Associate Professor in Economic Sociology
Foreign direct investments from emerging countries; innovation networks; clusters of SMEs; global
value chains.
Dr Emanuele Lobina - Principal Lecturer
Water service reform; governance and sustainable water development.
Associate Professor Nicola Perra - Associate Professor in Network Science
Human dynamics, big-data analytics, network science and mathematical/digital epidemiology: the characterization and modelling
of dynamical processes unfolding on time-varying and multiplex networks, human adaptive behaviours, data-driven modelling of infectious diseases, the study of online/offline social networks, and centrality measures in complex networks.
Dr Anna Piazza - Research Assistant
Multi-level networks, intra- and inter-organisational networks
Dr Athina Piterou - Lecturer in Sustainability
Relationship between innovation and environmental sustainability; socio-technical transitions area using
insights from science and technology studies; application of social network methodology.
Mr Mark Phillimore - Senior Lecturer in Public Relations
Social media; social capital and financial public relations.
Dr Vladimir Popov - Research Fellow
Social network analysis; Russian multinationals and privatisation; corruption and organised crime.
Dr Franziska Sohns - Senior Lecturer in International Business
Economic geography; retail networks; fintech networks
Dr Ji-Win Song - Lecturer in International Business
Dr Naveet Walia - Lecturer in International Business
Dr Zhen Zhu - Senior Lecturer in Network Science
International trade and production networks; social media marketing
Visiting Faculty
Professor Rob Cross -Visiting Professor in Organisational Network Analysis
Leads a consortium of 200 Blue-Chip Global Companies applying network analysis to business problems at the University of Virginia.
Professor Alessandro Lomi - Visiting Professor in Network Science
Director of the Centre of Organisational Research, University of Lugano
Dr Paola Tubaro - Visiting Fellow in Social Network Analysis
Senior Research Scientist, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Dr David Dekker - Visiting Scholar
Multivariate statistical models using network data.
Dr Matthew Smith - Visiting Scholar
Lecturer in Strategy, Napier Edinborough University
Dr Julia Schoenbrunn - Visiting Scholar
Tourism, Regional development policy networks
Dr Srinidhi Vasudevan - Visiting Scholar
Financial effects of interlocking directorships.
Research students
Aya Awad - Sustainable Development Strategy for Informal Settlement in Egypt, Cairo.
Terry Brett - Understanding Contagion Spreading Processes of Cyber-Security Threats Through Social Networks.
Ali Al Busaidi - Socialisation During Organisational On-boarding.
Silvana Croft - Heterogeneity in the Transition from Analog to Digital within the British Film Industry.
Nicolo Gozzi - Modelling Behavioural Changes Induced by Infectious Disease via Physical Activity Trackers.
Yehui Hu - Evolution of Guanxi within Chinese Large-scale Exhibition Service Market.
Bertha Okpara - The Role of Collaboration and Social Networks In Achievement of Change Management and Project Success in the Pharmaceutical Sector.
Mohammed Sadek - Toward Sustainable Desert Settlements in Egypt, in light of past experiences and future prospects.
Mohamed Shedid - The Interplay of Online and Offline Networks in the Development of High-tech Clusters and Technology Incubators.
Christy Smith - Networks of Oligopoly: An Exploration of how Social Structure and Individual Perception
Impact Collaboration in the UK Construction Industry
Timo Van Der Linden - Traders' Behaviour and Social Networks.
Feng Zhang - Chinese Corporate Overseas Direct Investment in the UK.
Alumni
Dr Christos Bassayannis - SAP, Shanghai
Ann Braithwaite - Managing Director, TurquoiseNZ
Dr Emmanuel Igwe
Dr Dawn Foster - Pivotal
Dr Cornell Jackson - University of Leeds
Dr Hoang Luong - Goldsmiths University
Dr Stefanos Michiotis - Tetras Consulting
Bankole Olagibaye - Centrica
Dr Anna Piazza - University of Greenwich
Dr Yasaman Sarabi - Herriot Watt University
Dr Julia Schoenbrunn - Koester & Partner
Dr Matthew Smith - Napier Edinborough University
Dr Sergey Sosnovskikh - De Montfort University
Dr Srinidhi Vasudevan - University College London