Program

Tuesday, June 28th 2022

9:30       Welcome and Coffee
10:00     Introduction to research design in environmental policy and climate change: what are interesting research questions, and the state of the art? (Marlene Kammerer)
10:30     Introduction to Social Network Analysis: what are social networks, what tools do exist, what research questions? How to identify the relevant actors/network boundaries? (Karin Ingold)
11:15     Case study 1: US Climate Policy – climate actvists and how to survey them (Dana Fisher)

  • presenting the case
  • presenting the survey
  • presenting SNA results

12:30     Lunch
13:30     Case study 2: US and Swiss Climate Change Mitigation (Dana Fisher and Karin Ingold)

  • exercise about centralities in networks
  • presenting the case and selected research questions
  • presenting SNA results

15:00     Coffee break
15:30     Case study 3: Swiss and German Climate Policy Discourse (Marlene Kammerer)

  • presenting the case
  • text as data
  • presenting SNA results

16:30     end