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SUMMARY:Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dominika Czerniawska\n\nTitle: Structural holes and 
 tie redundancy in scientific exchange networks\n\nOn some fundamental le
 vel\, we can think of scholars as actors possessing\, or controlling\, v
 arious types of resources. Engaging in scientific collaboration requires
  a lot of time and energy to provide resources needed to reach desired o
 utcome. In principle we should assume that in scientific collaborations 
 scholars combine resources they control and share the outcomes according
  to agreed terms in contrary to passing resources from one to another. T
 he more diverse resources a scholar is engaging into a collaboration\, t
 he more time- and energy-consuming a collaboration becomes. In order to 
 reduce the engagement a scholar may decide to invite an additional colla
 borator to delegate the responsibility for providing some of the resourc
 es directly to herself and to other common collaborators. We argue that 
 such process should lead to higher specialization levels in densely conn
 ected subgroups (more redundant ties\, less opportunities to bridge stru
 ctural holes).\nThe study is based on 40 individual in-depth interviews.
  Data contains information about collaboration ego networks and resource
 s engaged in collaboration by egos and alters. Resources are coded into 
 several large categories like knowledge and skills\, funding\, connectio
 ns. Every ego-alter relation is described with sets of resources engaged
  by each party. We explain the diversity of resources engaged in differe
 nt collaborations with the extent of structural redundancy between corre
 sponding collaboration ties. The measure of redundancy is based on the c
 onnectivity and embeddedness of alters being compared (geodesic distance
  and number of shared partners after removing ego-alter ties).
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LOCATION:4.8\, Roscoe Building\, Manchester
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