Paola Tubaro
Job title
Senior Lecturer, Economic Sociology
Department
International Business and Economics
Qualifications
BSc, MSc, PhD
Biography:
Dr Paola Tubaro has an educational background in both economics and social science, complemented by a PhD in economics and substantial research experience in sociology. Dr Tubaro’s current research activities are at the crossroads of these disciplines, in the fields of economic sociology, social network analysis and social science data and methodology. Dr Tubaro conducts research within the Centre for Business Network Analysis at the Business School of the University of Greenwich, and is an associate researcher at Centre Maurice Halbwachs of CNRS in Paris.
Responsibilities within the university:
Teaching and administrative activities
o Course leader for Business Economics: Markets and Strategies;
o Responsible of several short courses, workshops, and seminars on social network analysis;
o Tutor for social science methods courses.
MPhil/PhD supervision
o First supervisor of a PhD dissertation.
Current research:
o “Ana-mia” sociability: An online/offline social networks approach to eating disorders.
o Internet censorship and civil unrest.
o Testing the “End of Privacy” hypothesis in computer-mediated communication: an agent-based modelling approach.
o Opinion leadership in online communication: a business networks perspective.
o Enhancing Customer Relationship Management using social media.
o Network effects and hospital performance.
o Data without Boundaries: improving access to, and sharing of, official statistical data across Europe.
External activities:
o Co-convenor of the Social Network Analysis Group of the British Sociological Association.
o Former member of the Executive Board of UK Social Networks Association.
Awards and prizes:
Best PhD Dissertation, awareded by STOREP, 2006.
Recent publications:
http://gala.gre.ac.uk/view/creators/Tubaro=3APaola=3A=3A.html
