TRANSIT summer scholarship

Posted on 12 September 2011

A 9-week project on "Using Social Network Analysis to Explore Narrative Structure", supervised in collaboration with members of YCCSA, was the topic pursued by two students on the TRANSIT summer scholarship programme.

The TRANSIT programme is a project led by Leo Caves of the York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis, with the goal of facililtating "the transition from interdisciplinarity to transdisciplinarity." Each year, the programme awards a number of scholarships to students across the UK and Europe, enabling them to participate in one of the projects proposed for the TRANSIT summer school.

This year, one of the projects offered was "Using Social Network Analysis to Explore Narrative Structure," bringing together issues from narrative theory and complexity science in a collaboration between Elva Robinson (Biology), Richard Walsh (English), Dan Franks (Computer Science) and John Forrester (SEI). Two scholarships were awarded, to Stephanie Bowland and Andrzej Jarynowski, who developed a project focussed upon Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, which evaluated readers' mental models the social network of characters represented in the stories.

For more information on the TRANSIT programme, go to the YCCSA TRANSIT page.