10th Biennial ACSPRI Social Science Methodology Conference in conjunction with the Australian Social Network Analysis Conference (ASNAC)

Aaron Lauterbach is a third-year PhD candidate at Western Sydney University. Originally from Germany, he holds degrees in psychology and political science from the University of Leipzig, Humboldt University of Berlin, and the University of Freiburg. His research examines intergroup relations in urban settings, with a particular focus on the motivational and environmental factors that shape whether people seek or avoid encounters across ethnic divides. Before beginning his PhD, Aaron worked at the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research and the Berlin Social Science Centre. His current work combines social psychological theory, survey methods, and GPS-derived mobility data, and has been recognised through a Fellowship from the Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research.

Aastha Ahuja is a PhD researcher at Western Sydney University, specialising in qualitative and arts-based health research, with a background in psychology, counselling, and art therapy. Her doctoral research explores women’s embodied experiences of pregnancy and miscarriage across cultural contexts, using body mapping. Her research interests include embodiment, visual and creative research methods, reproductive experiences, cross-cultural research, and methodological innovation in qualitative inquiry. She also teaches in counselling and psychotherapy and one of her interests is making research methods accessible, reflexive, and responsive to lived experience.

Alexandra’s PhD research explores how aspects of parenting are understood by First Nations parents in remote NT communities, and how this understanding can inform parenting program design and evaluation. Alexandra is the recipient of the 2025/26 ACSPRI Fellowship and the NT Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship 2025/26.

Amanda Vittiglia is a Research Manager (Methods) at the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS), working on Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC). Her work focuses on longitudinal survey methodology, content development, data collection and fieldwork management. Amanda has expertise in questionnaire design, mixed-methods research, and translating complex research findings into policy-relevant insights.

Prior to joining AIFS in 2022, she worked in behavioural and public health research, including the development and evaluation of health warnings for alcohol and tobacco. Her research interests include survey methodology, trauma-informed research practices, adolescent and young adult health, health behaviours, and the use of longitudinal evidence to inform policy and practice.

Amarina is a PhD Candidate and Research Officer at the Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use. Her research examines the social, structural and environmental determinants of mental health across the life course. She has a particular interest in understanding how climate-related disasters and other compounding stressors influence the mental health and wellbeing of young people.

Anna is a Director at the Social Research Centre with over 20 years' experience as a social research consultant. In 2015-16, Anna managed the initial recruitment for Australia’s first and only probability-based panel, Life in Australia™. She managed the panel during its establishment and now leads the Life in Australia™ research and panel management team.

Research Asssistant and Phd Candidate at the School of Demography, Australian National University.

Anne Lechner is a public health professional who has worked in diverse settings across Australia. She is currently working as the Project Coordinator for the CaNCaLD Women’s Project, a joint research project between the University of Sydney’s, Policy Lab, and Fair Foundations, which aims to improve community and health care navigation for migrant and refugee women experiencing mental health concerns. She is passionate about health equity and reorienting health systems to better meet community needs.

A/Prof Meredith O'Connor is a Principal Research Fellow at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and Director of the LifeCourse Cohort Explorer, working to advance longitudinal cohort science across Australia. Her work focuses on early‑life prevention and mental health, with the aim of improving child and population health across the life course. She specialises in building scientifically grounded data platforms that enable the discovery, access, and reuse of cohort data to generate new knowledge and real‑world impact. Through national collaborations with researchers, government, and data infrastructure partners, she contributes to strengthening Australia’s longitudinal capability.

A-young Choi is a master's student in the Department of Media at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. Her research focuses on group dynamics in online communities, particularly how conversational relationships form and persist among participants. She uses social network analysis and computational text analysis to trace these patterns in large-scale conversational data. She received her B.A. in Sociology and in Social Science Convergence from the same university. She is affiliated with the Digital Curation Lab at Kyung Hee University. Additional information about the lab is available at https://www.digitalcurationlab.com/

BARRY MILNE is Director of the Centre of Methods and Policy Application in the Social Sciences (COMPASS) at the University of Auckland. Barry’s research focusses on using life-course data to identify predictors for health and wellbeing outcomes, particularly in the area of mental health. His areas of expertise include linked administrative data, micro-simulation, longitudinal studies, socio-economic and ethnic inequalities, and child development.

Belinda is a Research Program Manager at Creative Australia, and her research activities cover a range of different facets of the arts in Australia. She graduated in 2025 with her PhD in population health from the University of New South Wales, focusing on burnout and wellbeing in Australian surgical trainees. Her experience working across the health and arts sectors has led to a particular interest in research that explores the intersection of these two areas.

Mengbin Ye received the B.E. degree (First Class Hons.) in mechanical engineering from the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering with the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia in 2018.

From 2018 to 2020, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. He joined Curtin University, Perth, Australia, in 2020 and held a four-year Western Australia Premier’s Early Career Fellowship from 2021 to 2025. In 2025, he joined Adelaide University, Adelaide,
Australia, where he is currently a Senior Lecturer.

Dr. Ye holds an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA). He was awarded the J.G. Crawford Prize (Interdisciplinary) in 2018, the ANU’s Premier Award recognizing graduate research excellence, and the 2018 Springer Ph.D. Thesis Prize.

Burt Hatch (PhD, Otago) is a researcher and lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka. Following postdoctoral work at the Dunedin School of Medicine and an NIH T-32 fellowship at the UC Davis MIND Institute, he held senior research roles in government before returning to academia. His research and teaching focus on child development, aiming to optimize social, emotional, and cognitive growth for children and families.

Catalina Espinosa Tovar is a PhD candidate at The University of Queensland Business School and a strategy and sustainability professional with over 15 years of experience across industry, non-profit organisations, and academia. Her research focuses on how organisations across sectors work together to address complex sustainability challenges. She is particularly interested in inter-organisational networks and sustainability transitions, and uses mixed methods including social network analysis and qualitative research.

I currently work for the Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing, as a postdoctoral research translation officer.

David is a Certified Stata Analyst with more than 30 years of experience doing data analytics. He has been using Stata for more than 10 years and enjoys the simplicity of its interface and approach to teach coding through point and click.

Dean Lusher is a Professor of Management, the Academic Director Indigenous for the School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship (SoBLE) and a a social network researcher. Dean is a member of Swinburne's Social Network Research Laboratory, a world-leading group in statistical models for social networks. His expertise is in the theory and application of statistical network models. Dean's applied research focuses on social and technological innovation, organisational culture, learning and education, and network effectiveness. Dean has conducted network research with the Australian Football League (AFL), Boeing, CSIRO, Department of Health and Human Services Victoria, Department of Premier and Cabinet Victoria, Siemens, UAP, VicHealth and a variety of schools and community groups.

Dean was a founding member of the Australian Network for Social Network Analysis (ANSNA) and is current VIce President of ANSNA. He was also Chair of the Organising Committee for Sunbelt 2022 International Social Networks Conference (Cairns, Australia), the world's premier conference on social network analysis. Dean is a co-founder of SNA Toolbox, a Swinburne start-up company focusing on social network data collection, analysis, interpretation and rapid reporting for organisations, schools, professional sporting teams, communities and researchers.

Dean is a proud Wamba Wemba man.

Dewi Amila Solikha is a Ph.D. candidate at National Centre of Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH), Australian National University (ANU), and an Australia Awards awardee. Prior to commencing her Ph.D. study, she has worked for more than ten years as a health policy planner at the Ministry of National Development Planning Indonesia, where she contributed to the national health policy formulation. Her research focuses on measuring geographic variation in PHC quality in Indonesia, with the aim of generating evidence to inform policies that improve equitable access to high quality PHC services across the country. Her several Ph.D. works have been published in Q1 journal, i.e. BMC Health Service Research and BMJ Open.

DN Joshi is a PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. At the time of abstract submission, his doctoral thesis, Being and Becoming Through Qualitative Research: Motives, Experiences, and Identity, is under examination. Drawing on narrative inquiry, his research explores how English language teacher-researchers in Nepal construct, negotiate, and sustain their professional identities through engagement in qualitative research.

Dinah Lope is a Senior Data Scientist and Statistician at The Social Research Centre. She holds a PhD in Statistics from RMIT University. Her research focuses on the development and application of Bayesian and spatiotemporal models for small-area and domain estimation. By leveraging auxiliary information from multiple data sources, her work seeks to improve the precision and relevance of population estimates in settings where traditional survey methods are constrained by declining participation, limited sample sizes, coverage issues, and growing difficulties in reaching underrepresented or hard-to-survey populations.

Djamila is a Research Analyst at Voconiq, a data and engagement science company specialising in mixed-methods social research that enables organisations to better understand and strengthen community relationships. With an interdisciplinary background in psychology and microbiome sciences, Djamila has experience across quantitative and qualitative research design, data analysis, interpretation, and public engagement.

Dr Binh Ta is a Research Fellow (0.4 FTE) at the Mitchell Institute, Victoria University, and a Lecturer (0.6 FTE) at Monash University. Her research spans higher education, educational equity, conversation analysis, and healthcare communication.

She has authored two scholarly books and published more than a dozen articles in high-impact Q1 journals. Her work has received international recognition, reflected in a Research Interest Score of 223 on ResearchGate, 238 citations, and an h-index of 8.

Dr Maria Alejandra Piñero de Plaza is a Research Fellow at the Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University, and Adjunct Fellow at the Medical School of Adelaide University. A Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA) and an MIT-certified Applied AI and Data Scientist, she works at the intersection of implementation science, data science and consumer-led research. She leads the Frail, Homebound and Bedridden People (FHBP) program and develops PROLIFERATE and PROLIFERATE_AI, co-designed frameworks for evaluating innovation in complex health systems. Her methodological interests include co-occurrence and multilayer network analysis of qualitative data, Bayesian modelling and participatory evaluation — with a consistent focus on people whose circumstances exclude them from conventional care and research.

Emily Kothe is a Senior Researcher at the Law and Justice Foundation of NSW, where she works on mixed methods analysis of legal need and legal assistance service delivery. Her current work includes a statewide project analysing service data from community legal centres in NSW. She has a particular interest in reproducible analytical workflows and in making research accessible to non-research audiences.

Fatima Iftikhar is a designer, educator and researcher whose interdisciplinary practice sits at the intersection of textile art/design, pedagogy and urban learning. She is currently pursuing her PhD at Deakin University, where her research explores the potential of places to become active learning assemblages that can foster embodied learning experiences for art and design education and beyond. Her practice brings together visual and spatial thinking, participatory approaches and creative research methods, with a particular interest in history, lived experience, storytelling, materiality, and the generative relationship between human and more-than-human. Alongside her research, she maintains an active engagement with design and creative practice across Pakistan and Australia.

Fiona Skelton lives on Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country, also known as Canberra. She is not Indigenous. She has worked on Footprints in Time since its initial funding in 2003 including Steering Committee support, community consultations, study and content design, trials in the Torres Strait, ethics, data analysis, report writing and commissioning. She has grown old with the study and is now one of the principal investigators in Longitudinal Studies area of the Department of Social Services. Fiona has three grown up children and a Master of Social Research from the Australian National University.

Professor Francis Mitrou is Senior Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Child Health Research, at The University of Western Australia, and Head of Human Development and Community Wellbeing at The Kids Research Institute Australia.
Beginning as a graduate economist at the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 1994, he has been a designer, contributor to, and user of research datasets that focus on vulnerable children and families. Transitioning to academia in the early 2000s, he holds multiple category-1 research grants and has expertise in survey development, linked data, Indigenous human development, mental health, economic evaluation, and the economics of child development.

Gabriella D’Avino is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the University of Birmingham, hosted by the University of Technology Sydney. She leads UNPACK-NET, a comparative project examining how social and institutional networks shape refugee education pathways in Australia and the United Kingdom. Her wider research focuses on refugee resettlement, sponsorship and integration, using qualitative, comparative and mixed-methods network approaches.

Haeri Min is a second-year PhD candidate in the School of Computer Science at the University of Sydney, supervised by Associate Professor Simon Poon and Dr Angus Ritchie from the Sydney Medical School. Prior to commencing her PhD, she worked as a full-time Statistical Programmer at the Westmead Applied Research Centre for 3.5 years, where she analysed clinical data, including NSW linked data and randomised controlled trials, to support research aimed at reducing the burden of cardiometabolic and other chronic conditions. Her doctoral research focuses on integrating process mining and case-based analysis to enhance evidence-based medicine. At this conference, she will present her recent work exploring whether local process models derived from clinical event logs can provide additional insights into patient outcomes beyond traditional patient-specific factors.

Ha-Linh is a PhD candidate in public health and social epidemiology at University of Sydney. She has experiences working in Vietnam, Hong Kong SAR, and Singapore in both government settings and academic universities. Ms Linh’s research interests include social gerontology, mental well-being, infectious disease modelling, and occupational health

Dr. Hannah Fair has two overlapping focuses: the role of social networks in dementia risk reduction, and understanding and improving equity in health promotion, particularly in dementia prevention. She explores the role of social networks in transmitting dementia risk information and behaviour, and is increasingly interested in the broader role of social networks in promoting dementia risk reducing behaviour. Her research methods involve both quantitative (statistical modelling, social network analysis) and qualitative (interviews, focus groups, thematic analysis) approaches. Dr. Fair also evaluates online health education programs like the ISLAND project Linking Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease, and the Preventing Dementia Massive Open Online Course, to assessing their impact and reach through mixed-methods research.

Henry is a Senior Research Associate in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences, where he works as a Social-Ecological Systems Modeler under the supervision of Associate Professor Michele Barnes. Henry's research is focused on interdisciplinary, longitudinal social-ecological network research investigating tradeoffs and co-benefits in sustainability processes and interventions in coastal fishing communities along the Kenyan coast.

Ho Jun Joo is a doctoral student in the Department of Media at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. He received his M.A. in Media from Kyung Hee University. His research focuses on political communication in digital environments, particularly selective exposure, news curation, and online political interaction. He uses digital trace data and computational methods, including network analysis and machine learning, to examine how individuals encounter information and interact in online communities. He is affiliated with the Digital Curation Lab at Kyung Hee University. Additional information about the lab is available at https://www.digitalcurationlab.com/

Consulting Technical Philosopher Issiah B. Burckhardt designs and audits decision-making systems for safety and risk. Issiah's mixed-methods approach to wicked problem solving applies out-of-the-box solutions to complex matters of concern in both commercial and academic research and diverse areas of people activity. Issiah's doctoral research explores Black educational justice activism where Technology and Philosophy converge in support of learner self-reliance and self-determination.

Born and raised in Liverpool, Jasmine Singh is a UNSW PhD candidate at CHETRE (ICFHS/SWSLHD), committed to advancing healthcare equity for people experiencing homelessness in her local community. She holds a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Advanced Studies (Honours Class I) from the University of Sydney, where she was a Dalyell Scholar. Her research uses realist methodology and linked data to inform implementation of the SWSLHD Homelessness Strategy. It examines how fragmented services can be transformed into a more integrated healthcare system, addressing the revolving-door cycle in which people experiencing homelessness repeatedly access Emergency Departments without receiving the sustained care and support needed to improve their health and wellbeing.

Dr Jee Young Lee is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra and a member of the News & Media Research Centre. Her research focuses on digital media, news audiences, young people, civic engagement and the creative industries, with particular interest in how emerging technologies and changing media environments shape news use and participation.

Jenna is a Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University. With her collaborator Zachary Neal, her research uses large scale demographic data to understand the prevalence, characteristics, and experiences of childfree adults (adults who do not have and do not want kids) in the United States and other countries. She also researches social networks in educational contexts and child peer relations. She's authored around 100 peer-reviewed papers, and her work is published in scholarly journals such as Scientific Reports, Developmental Psychology, and American Journal of Community Psychology.

Dr Jinwen Chen is the Evidence and Impact Lead at Fair Foundations, a place-based for-purpose organisation building stronger, more connected communities in South West Sydney. She is part of the team for the CaNCaLD Women’s Project, a joint research project between the Sydney Policy Lab (University of Sydney) and Fair Foundations. The project aims to improve community and health care navigation for migrant and refugee women experiencing mental health concerns across South-Western Sydney.

Jonathan Januar is a social network researcher from the University of Melbourne with an interest in developing statistical models that acknowledge the social context by which social network data are collected from. He is especially interested in the difficult data collection environments covert networks are constructed from and aims to develop pragmatic statistical tools to address observational biases in covert network analysis.

Kate is the Research Director at the Law and Justice Foundation of NSW. Kate is passionate about the power of rigorous and robust research to shape more socially just and equitable systems. She holds a PhD in sociology, Master of Public Policy and Management, and Graduate Certificate in Alcohol and Other Drugs. Her research has explored topics related to homelessness, mental health, disability, child protection and youth justice, using a range of mixed methods, participatory and creative methodologies. Kate has worked throughout the Asia Pacific region in research and community development roles. She is a member of the inaugural National Disability Research Partnership Research Committee and a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle.

Dr Kerryn Butler is Principal Researcher at the Law and Justice Foundation of NSW, where she leads applied social science research on access to justice, legal need, and program evaluation. She holds a PhD in Public Health and a Master's in Social Health and Counselling, and is a conjoint researcher with the University of Technology Sydney's Faculty of Law. Kerryn is a mixed-methods researcher and sits on the Justice Health & Forensic Mental Health Network Human Research Ethics Committee. Her work informs policy and service design aimed at improving access to justice for disadvantaged and marginalised communities.

Khoirun Nisa Darma is a PhD candidate in the School of Social Sciences at UNSW Sydney, supervised by Associate Professor Geoffrey Levey and Dr Elisabeth Kramer. Her doctoral research investigates religious diversity governance in Indonesia through the lenses of multiculturalism and interculturalism, with particular attention to the interactions between government institutions, civil society, and religious communities. Using qualitative and comparative research methods, she examines how different governance arrangements shape inclusion, participation, and social cohesion in diverse local contexts. Nisa is a lecturer in the Department of Politics at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN) Jakarta, Indonesia. Her broader research interests include religion and politics, diversity governance, multiculturalism, and interfaith relations.

Lee Seong Eun is undergraduate student in the Department of Media at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. Her research interests focuses on interpersonal communication in digital environments. She uses digital trace data and computational methods, including network analysis, to examine how individuals interact and form interpersonal relationships in online communities.

Markus is an economist and survey researcher with broad research interests spanning labour and health economics, economic inequality, social policy, gambling, and survey methodology. He is an associate editor for the Australian Journal of Social Issues (AJSI), a member of the advisory committee of the Australian Survey of Social Attitudes (AuSSA), and the Australian representative of the Asia-Pacific chapter of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR). He is also a Fellow of ANU's Tax and Transfer Policy Institute.

Mathieu O’Neil is Professor of Communication in the News and Media Research Centre at the University of Canberra and Honorary Associate Professor of Sociology at the Australian National University. He researches issue diffusion, the political economy of digital commons and information resilience. He co-founded the ANU’s Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks, a world leader in computational social science. He also founded and edited the peer-reviewed Journal of Peer Production (2011-2021) and founded an international think tank, the Digital Commons Policy Council [https://dcpc.info/]. Since 2022 he has led the co-design of media and information literacy resources for schools with ACT and NSW teachers and teacher-librarians [https://ucmethod.org/]. His research has been published in Social Networks; Information, Communication & Society; New Media and Society; Organization Studies; and the Journal of Quantitative Description: Social Media.

Dr Matthew Curry is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Science Research at The University of Queensland.

Associate Professor Michele Barnes is Director of the Social Dynamics and Environmental Change Lab in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney. A social network scientist and interdisciplinary environmental social scientist, she draws on sociology and complex systems theory to understand how social dynamics - and the relationships between people and nature - shape sustainability and resilience, particularly under climate change. Her research has earned major national and international honors, including fellowships from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Australian Research Council (DECRA), the Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research from the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and a Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research. She is currently a Lead Author on the IPBES Second Global Assessment and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Beijer Institute. She previously served on the board of both the International Network for Social Network Analysis and the Australian Network for Social Network Analysis. Committed to research impact, she works in interdisciplinary teams and engages directly with policymakers and practitioners - recently serving on the Expert Working Group behind Australia's National Strategy for Just Adaptation and as the sole Australian author on the Resilience Science Must-Knows report launched at COP30.

Michelle Carter is a lecturer, researcher and PhD candidate whose work focuses on sustainable careers in the arts. Drawing on expertise in visual arts, creative entrepreneurship and arts management, her research examines the relationships between artists, organisations and cultural institutions within the Australian visual arts ecosystem. She also delivers consultancy and professional development programs for artists and creative practitioners across Australia and internationally.

Mosaed Al-Shahrani is a PhD candidate at Victoria University, Australia. His research focuses on digital learning, educational technology, and teachers’ perceptions and use of e-learning pedagogies in Saudi primary schools. His doctoral research uses a qualitative case study approach, with particular interests in insider research, researcher positionality, reflexivity, and culturally situated educational research. He has a background in mathematics education and previously worked as a primary school teacher in Saudi Arabia.

I am an emerging researcher at Te Huinga Hāpai Tāngata/COMPASS Research Centre at Waipapa Taumata Rau/the University of Auckland. My research uses linked administrative, Census and survey data accessed through the Integrated Data Infrastructure, and spans wide areas including social stratification, migration and health. I have a particular research interest in access to health and social support services for people living with complex chronic illnesses.

I am a PhD candidate at the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education at Australian Catholic University. My thesis examines sociodemographic predictors of screen time among school-age children. This talk presents one study from my thesis, using longitudinal data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) to examine how family structure, sibling composition, and family transitions relate to children's screen time. This study is conducted under the supervision of Associate Professor Taren Sanders, PhD, and Dr. Rebecca Pagano.

Dr Krivitsky develops methods and models for collecting and analysing complex network data and processes with applications in epidemiology and the social sciences. He is particularly interested in unusual or indirectly observed or sampled network data. His work has a strong computational component, and I develop and maintain a number of popular R packages on CRAN.

Dr. Peng Wang is an Associate Professor of Innovation Studies at the Department of Managment and Marketing, School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology. His research focuses on the development and application of statistical models for social networks, particularly Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGM) for social selection processes and Auto-logistic Actor Attribute Models (ALAAM) for social influence processes. As the designer and programmer of the PNet suite of software packages, Dr. Wang has made significant contributions to the statistical modelling of complex networks, including one-mode, two-mode, multiplex, and multilevel networks, as well as the co-evolution of network structure and individual outcomes. Dr. Wang has publications in the research fields of public health, innovation management, social-ecological systems, anthropology, political networks and network intervention evaluations.

Professor Ann Dadich is a registered psychologist and an internationally recognised expert in health service management, notably knowledge translation. This encompasses scholarship on the processes through which different forms and sources of knowledge coalesce to promote brilliant care – that is, care that exceeds expectation. This is demonstrated by her publishing record; the research grants she has secured; the doctoral theses she is invited to examine; and the awards she has received. Professor Dadich is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Health Review and the Section Editor (equivalent to Editor-in-Chief) of Heliyon. She is also the Deputy Director of the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE) Knowledge Translation Platform; she co-convenes the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Health Management and Organisation (HMO) Special Interest Group; she co-chairs the ANZAM HMO Conference Stream; and she serves on the Executive Committee of ACSPRI (the Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Inc.) as Treasurer. Additionally, Professor Dadich supervises doctoral candidates and teaches undergraduate subjects on change management, innovation, creativity, and organisational behaviour.

Dr Robbie Busch is a Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Science in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle. Robbie’s current research interests include a commitment to social justice and curiosity focusing on explorations and critiques of human experience in relation to wellbeing and power. He has a strong interest in 'Big-Q' qualitative research, including the importance of theoretically reflexive qualitative research designs.

Professor Robert Ackland Robert Ackland holds a PhD in economics and is a professor in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University, specialising in social network analysis, computational social science and the social science of the Internet. Early in his career, Robert worked as an economist in the Commonwealth Department of Immigration and the World Bank. In 2005, he established the Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON) Lab under an Australian Research Council Special Research Initiative (e-Research) grant, and he has been chief investigator on six ARC grants. Robert’s recent research includes network analysis of online political communication and deliberation (funded by the Volkswagen Foundation). Robert’s book Web Social Science was published by Sage in 2013, and he is a long-term instructor and Chair for the Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Inc. (ACSPRI).

Dr Cuong Huu Hoang (Sam Hoang) is a Research Fellow at the Mitchell Institute, Victoria University.
Sam has nearly 5 years of experience conducting research projects across all sectors of education. His research areas include:
Internationalisation in higher education
Vocational education and training (VET)
Casualisation in higher education
Academic identity and professional development programs for academics
Student transitions to tertiary education, training and work
Student employment outcomes
Student equity.

Sidiq Madya is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the Australian National University. His research examines data sovereignty in datafied societies, with a particular interest in how civil society organisations frame data sovereignty issues online, using field theory and hyperlink network analysis to analyse how organisational structures and relational positions influence their framing of issues in data sovereignty debates.

Dr Sora Park is Professor of Communication and Director at the News & Media Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Design, University of Canberra, Australia. She is a Fellow at the International Communication Association. She is internationally recognised as an expert in digital media users, media industries and media policy.

Muhammad Syahmi Nor Mokles is a PhD candidate in Sports Science at La Trobe University, Melbourne. His research examines team cohesion, player interaction, and performance in team sports using social network analysis. His current work focuses on constructing and analysing player interaction networks from National Basketball League play-by-play data to understand how patterns of collaboration relate to team performance. His broader research interests include social network analysis, team dynamics, and computational approaches to sports performance.

Tanisha is an Associate Professor of medical education and professionalism at Bond University in Queensland Australia. She is a social scientist with 25 years of experience in social science research in healthcare. Tanisha has dedicated much of this time to researching the experiences of people living with chronic conditions and of healthcare providers, identity, temporality and matters of social justice. Tanisha has >130 publications 13 ethnographic and autoethnographic films. Tanisha’s works have been cited >80 times in health policies and guidelines for improved patient quality and safety. In 2025, Tanisha was recognised by ScholarGPS as a top scholar across all fields and among the top 0.2% of scholars in chronic illness research. She holds a PhD in medical anthropology and public health. Among Tanisha’s favourite research methods are ethnographic film, art/o/graphy, phenomenology, reflexive thematic analysis and grounded theory. In recent years, Tanisha has turned her attention to artificial intelligence (AI): how AI is used to support research, the environmental and the social costs of such support, what the public thinks about AI use in healthcare, opportunities and risks of AI for higher education, and how AI informs learning and cognition.

I'm Himasha Perera, a PhD researcher at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. I'm reading for my PhD in Politics and International Relations. I'm also a lecturer affiliated with the University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka.

Xiaolan Cai is a PhD candidate at the University of Canberra whose research focuses on civic technology, knowledge production, and digital participation. Using social network analysis and computational methods, she studies collaborative networks across diverse domains, including civic technology and scientific research. Her work draws on communication studies, science and technology studies (STS), and urban studies.

I am a Master of Business (Research) student at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). My research focuses on sustainability practices in peer-to-peer accommodation (P2PA), with particular interests in the intersection of sustainability, culture, design, business, and social impact. My research is informed by more than ten years of professional experience in boutique accommodation management. I am particularly interested in how sustainability practices can create value for businesses and local communities. Drawing on systematic literature review and qualitative research methods, I aim to develop theoretically meaningful and practically relevant research across different cultural and institutional contexts.

In the past, my research has examined urban networks, political polarization, and program implementation. However, my current research is focused primarily on two topics: network backbones and childfree individuals.

In some cases, networks are so dense or complex that their underlying structure is hidden. A network backbone is a simplified version that retains only the most important or statistically significant connections, and can make the network easier to visualize and analyze. My research on network backbones involves developing methods for identifying these important connections, and implementing these methods in software, like the R Backbone package.

Childfree individuals are people who do not have children, and who do not want to have children in the future. They are different from people who are undecided about having children, or from childless people who could not have children but wanted to. My research on childfree individuals has examined methods of identifying them in large-scale demographic data, tracking their prevalence in the US and globally, and understanding the stereotypes and stigmas they encounter.