Coady Webinar - An Introduction to Social Network Analysis
Channel: Coady Institute
Date: 2018-12-11

Presenter:
Eric Smith, Manager, Monitoring Evaluation, and Learning 
Coady International Institute, St. Francis Xavier University

How can relationships between people and groups be visualized and measured? Who are the influencers, connectors and brokers? How can does knowledge and innovation spread?
 
Social network analysis (SNA) is a method that models and measures relationships between people and groups, and it can help answer these questions. In this webinar, Eric will provide an introduction to SNA—including how to collect data and interpret a basic social network map— based on a recent study of Coady’s South African alumni.
 
He will also explore graduates’ recommendations on how to bring alumni together for greater impact—and hopes that webinar participants will share their insights into this important topic and that viewers will comment here.

Eric Smith leads Coady's monitoring, evaluation, and learning. As a “data-nerd” he enjoys exploring how participatory quantitative and qualitative MEL methods can transform power and agency to empower people, organizations and partners.  Eric joined Coady in 2016. Prior to his work at Coady, he was with Genuine Progress Index Atlantic and Canada's International Development Research Centre.