About ANSNA
The Australian Network for Social Network Analysis (ANSNA) aims to build greater coordination and collaboration among social network researchers and practitioners in Australia and overseas, and raise the profile of Australian social network research nationally and internationally. It is the national focal point for SNA in Australia, providing information about resources, connections, training in SNA, conferences, and more. ANSNA is endorsed by the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA).
Please contact the following ANSNA Committee Members for any information regarding the SNA community in Australia:
ANSNA President
Professor Robert Ackland works at the intersection of empirical social science and computer science, developing new approaches (involving information retrieval, data visualisation and social network analysis) for studying networks on the World Wide Web. He has been a chief investigator on five Australian Research Council grants and under a 2005 ARC Special Research Initiative (e-Research Support) grant, he established the Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks project. Robert has co-organised symposia focusing on e-Social Science (2004) and the social impact of nanotechnology (2006) and in 2007, he spent six months at the Oxford Internet Institute under a UK National Centre for e-Social Science Visiting Fellowship and a University of Oxford James Martin Visiting Fellowship.
Email: robert.ackland@anu.edu.au
Vice-President
Professor Dean Lusher is a Social Network Researcher and Professor of Managament at Swinburne University of Technology. His applied research focuses on social innovation, organisational culture, learning and wellbeing, and network effectiveness. Dean has conducted network research with the AFL, Boeing, CSIRO, Department of Human Services, Siemens, VicHealth, numerous schools and community groups. Dean is a co-founder of SNA Toolbox, a Swinburne start-up company focusing on social network data collection, analysis, interpretation and rapid reporting. Dean is a proud Wamba Wemba man and the Academic Director Indigenous in Swinburne’s School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship.
Email: dlusher@swin.edu.au