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Research output per year
Personal profile
Overview
Career path outline:
PhD in Sociology from St. Petersburg University, 2009
2022 - Senior Lecturer in Network Analysis, Social Statistics, University of Manchester
2023 - 2024: Fellow of Paris Institute for Advanced Studies
2013 - 2022: Head of Science/Scientific Manager, Centre for German and European Studies, St. Petersburg University – Bielefeld University
2005 – 2022: Lead Researcher (latest post), Faculty of Sociology, St Petersburg University
Main substantial interests:
- Creation of culture/meaning/ideas/worldviews in society.
- Statistical modelling of ethnographic data.
- New theoretically plausible statistical accounts of societal levels.
- Mutual dynamics of social core and periphery.
- Co-dependencies of cognitive/mental/psychic mechanisms and social network mechanisms.
- Material embeddedness of social and symbolic structures.
Methods:
- statistical network modelling
- computational text analysis
- mixed methods
- multilayer socio-semantic and socio-material network analysis
- structural analysis of culture.
Key research projects:
- Socio-Semantic Patterning of European Intellectual Landscape, 2022 –
- Creation of knowledge on ecological hazards in Russian and European local communities, 2019 –
- Dynamic of Sociocultural Network Structures in European Creative Collectives, 2014 –
- Communication Practices of Knowledge Creation in the Contemporary Urban Social Space, 2011 – 2012
Key awards:
- 2023 French Institutes for Advanced Study (FIAS) Fellowship. European Union Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie program, National funding, France
- 2022 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award for outstanding scientific achievements by international researchers, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
- 2022 Best 5-year International Publication Record, St Petersburg University, Russia
- 2010 Erasmus Mundus Action II, European Community
Main outlets:
- Social Networks
- Poetics
- American Journal of Cultural Sociology
- Applied Network Science
Organized over a hundred of academic events, including:
- International conference Networks in the Global World (2012 –2022)
- St Petersburg Summer Schools in Network Analysis (2015 – 2021)
Current courses:
- SOST71032 Statistical Models for Social Networks, MSc. in Social Network Analysis, MSc. in Data Science, and MSc. Social Research Methods and Statistics
- SOST30022 Network Analysis, BASS Sociology and Data Analytics, University of Manchester
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, St Petersburg State University
Award Date: 14 Apr 2009
Postgraduate Diploma, Applied Information Science in Sociology, St Petersburg State University
Award Date: 21 Jun 2005
Areas of expertise
- H Social Sciences (General)
- HA Statistics
- Applications of Exponential Random Graph Models
- HM Sociology
- Social Network Analysis
- Semantic Network Analysis
- Cultural Sociology
- Mixed Methods
- Computational Social Science
- Natural Language Processing
Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms
- Cathie Marsh Institute
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Socio-Semantic Networks
Basov, N. & Roth, C., 25 Jan 2025, Handbook of Social Network and Culture. Crossley, N. & Widdop, P. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 251–270 20 p. (Research Handbooks on Social Networks series).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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The Space of Coordination: Accounting for Multiple Expert Knowledges in Environmental Communication
Antonyuk, A., Minina, V. N., Pivovarov, A., Puzyreva, K. & Basov, N., 2025, In: Environmental Communication. p. 1-18Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Professional Patios, Emotional Studios: Locating Social Ties in European Art Residences
Basov, N., Muntanyola-Saura, D., Méndez, S. & Nenko, O., 8 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Poetics. 102, p. 101869Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Analysing Networks of Networks
Koskinen, J., Jones, P., Medeuov, D., Antonyuk, A., Puzyreva, K. & Basov, N., 1 Jul 2023, In: Social Networks. 74, p. 102-117 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mixed Semantic Network Analysis to Explore Discoursive and Cultural Landscapes
Moser, C. & Basov, N., 6 Oct 2023, The Handbook of Teaching Qualitative and Mixed Research Methods: A Step-by-Step Guide for Instructors. Routledge, p. 299-302Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Projects
- 3 Active
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AInteraction: Dialogic Construction of Knowledge by Humans and Machines
Basov, N. (PI), Batista-Navarro, R. T. (PI), Lerner, J. (CoI), Hartman, T. (CoI), Lin, C. (CoI), Stewart, A. (CoI) & Leifeld, P. (CoI)
1/02/25 → …
Project: Research
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Modelling Societal Levels: An Integral Structural Framework of Nested Sets
Basov, N. (PI), Lerner, J. (CoI), Leifeld, P. (CoI), Pashazadeh, F. (Researcher), Genkin, M. (Affiliate) & Koskinen, J. (Affiliate)
1/11/24 → …
Project: Research
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Statistical Modelling of Meaning Creation in Interaction
Basov, N. (PI), Letina, S. (Researcher) & Pranevskis, K. (PGR student)
16/04/24 → 15/04/26
Project: Research
Prizes
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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research award
Basov, N. (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)