Dr András Vörös

School of Social Policy
Associate Professor in Quantitative Methods

Contact details

Email: a.voros@bham.ac.uk

Address: School of Social Policy
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Andras's research focuses on the measurement and statistical analysis of social networks (both offline and online) in various settings. He interested in how social relations evolve over time and how they affect individual and group outcomes. He has experience collecting empirical data and modelling such phenomena in educational and professional contexts. In line with these interests, Andras's teaching and supervision mainly focuses on quantitative analyses of social processes with the use of simple and complex statistical and computational tools.

Biography

I joined the School of Social Policy as an Associate Professor in September 2022. Before that, I was a lecturer at the Department for Social Statistics at University of Manchester between 2019-2022. I spent my postdoctoral years at the Social Networks Lab of ETH Zürich in 2016-2019. I got my Sociology DPhil from Oxford in 2016, and earlier my MA in Sociology and Economics from the Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary) in 2010. Throughout these career stages, I have been in involved in exciting research projects linking sociology, social psychology, education research, statistics, and quantitative social network analysis.

Teaching

Programmes:

BA Sociology
BA Criminology
BA Social Policy
MA Social Research

Postgraduate supervision

I am interested in supervising PhD research projects which involve the use of social network analysis to understand social processes, individual and group outcomes, or policy effectiveness. I am especially keen on getting involved in projects in the field of education (at any level).

Research

My research focuses on understanding the dynamics of social relations and their effects on individual and group-level behaviour. I examine the evolution of social networks using cutting-edge statistical and simulation models developed for relational data in the past years. I am excited to develop new measures of social ties and extend existing methods to analyse these novel data. I have experience in such projects in educational and professional settings from a number of countries.

Publications

Highlight publications

Stadtfeld, C, Vörös, A, Elmer, T, Boda, Z & Raabe, IJ 2019, 'Integration in emerging social networks explains academic failure and success', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1811388115

Vörös, A, Boda, Z, Elmer, T, Hoffman, M, Mepham, K, Raabe, IJ & Stadtfeld, C 2021, 'The Swiss Student Life Study: investigating the emergence of an undergraduate student community through dynamic, multidimensional social network data', Social Networks, vol. 65, pp. 71-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2020.11.006

Boda, Z, Elmer, T, Vörös, A & Stadtfeld, C 2020, 'Short-term and long-term effects of a social network intervention on friendships among university students', Scientific Reports.

Stadtfeld, C, Takács, K & Vörös, A 2019, 'The emergence and stability of groups in social networks', Social Networks. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2019.10.008

Vörös, A, Block, P & Boda, Z 2019, 'Limits to inferring status from friendship relations', Social Networks. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2019.05.007

Recent publications

Article

Wullschleger, A, Vörös, A, Rechsteiner, B, Rickenbacher, A & Merki, KM 2023, 'Improving teaching, teamwork, and school organization: collaboration networks in school teams', Teaching and Teacher Education, vol. 121, 103909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2022.103909

Vörös, A, Boda, Z, Elmer, T, Hoffman, M, Mepham, K, Raabe, IJ & Stadtfeld, C 2022, 'Reprint of: The Swiss StudentLife Study: investigating the emergence of an undergraduate community through dynamic, multidimensional social network data', Social Networks, vol. 69, pp. 180-193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2022.01.012

Boda, Z, Elmer, T, Vörös, A & Stadtfeld, C 2020, 'Short-term and long-term effects of a social network intervention on friendships among university students', Scientific Reports, vol. 10, no. 1, 2889. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59594-z

Vörös, A & Snijders, TAB 2017, 'Cluster analysis of multiplex networks: Defining composite network measures', Social Networks. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2017.01.002

Conference contribution

Wachs, J, Hannák, A, Vörös, A & Daróczy, B 2017, Why do men get more attention? Exploring factors behind success in an online design community. in Eleventh International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).

Wachs, J, Hannak, A, Voros, A & Daroczy, B 2017, Why do men get more attention? Exploring factors behind success in an online design community. in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2017. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2017, AAAI Press, pp. 299-308, 11th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2017, Montreal, Canada, 15/05/17.

Doctoral Thesis

Vörös, A 2015, 'The Emergence of Multiple Status Systems in Adolescent Communities: a multiplex network theory of group formation'.

Other contribution

Elmer, T, Mepham, K, Hoffman, M, Boda, Z, Raabe, IJ, Vörös, A & Stadtfeld, C 2022, The Swiss StudentLife Study: Codebook. ETH Zurich. <https://www.sn2.ethz.ch/studentlife/00_Codebook_Document.html>

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