Colloquia

External colloquium with Dr. Javier Garcia Bernardo from the Utrecht University. The colloquium will take place on Thursday, March 27, 2025 from 15:30 - 17:00, in the Gadourek room of the Bouman building, Grote Rozenstraat 31, 2025.

Title: Using Prediction Methods to Understand Intersecting Social Contexts on Educational Outcomes

Abstract: Decades of sociological research have extensively examined factors impacting socioeconomic outcomes, often emphasizing social contexts such as families, schools, or neighborhoods. However, understanding their relative importance is challenging because individuals are embedded in complex networks of these social contexts, which interact with each other and with individual characteristics to constrain or facilitate opportunities.

Here, we study how the social contexts of children at age 12--before tracking into secondary schools--are linked to educational attainment at age 25. We treat individuals as part of a multiplex network of social contexts (family, school, and neighborhoods), and use statistical models of increasing complexity--from linear models to graph neural networks--to investigate how these different social contexts interact and contribute to educational outcomes.

External colloquium with Prof. Dr. Eva Jaspers from the Utrecht University. The colloquium will take place on Thursday, June 12, 2025 from 15:30 - 17:00, in the Gadourek room of the Bouman building, Grote Rozenstraat 31, 9712 TG Groningen.

External colloquium with Prof. Dr. Katja Möhring from the University of Bamberg. The colloquium will take place on Thursday, July 10, 2025 from 15:30 - 17:00, in the Gadourek room of the Bouman building, Grote Rozenstraat 31, 9712 TG Groningen.

Internal and external colloquia 2024 - 2025

During each Internal Colloquium one of our research clusters will present its current research and future plans.

The External Colloquia are held by invited external scientists.

Internal colloquia 2024 - 2025

During each colloquium, one of the research clusters will give an update on current research and present plans for future research.

The colloquia are planed on: