ARC Complex Open Systems Research Network

Prof Philippa Pattison

 

Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne Address: Professor Philippa Pattison Department of Psychology University of Melbourne Phone: +61 3 8344 6378 Fax: +61 3 8344 9780 Email: pepatt@unimelb.edu.au Webpage: http://www.psych.unimelb.edu.au/staff/pattison.html Research Node: VIC-1/MASCOS

 

Role in Network

Champion Complex Socio-Economic Systems
Academic - Researcher

COSNet Research Themes

1. Irreversibility and Emergence in Nonequilibrium Systems
2. Turbulence and Coherent Structures, Control and Computation
3. Dynamics and Statistics of Multi-Scale Systems
4. Network Theory
5. Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation

COSNet Application Areas

1. Complex Physical Systems
2. Complex Biological Systems
3. Complex Computational Systems
4. Complex Socio-Economic Systems

 

Research Topics

Current research is focussed on the developmental of dynamic network-based models for social processes, and on applications of these models to a diverse range of phenomena, including mental health, organizational design, the emergence of markets, and the spread of communicable diseases.  

Publications

1. Lazega, E., & Pattison, P. E. (1999). Social capital, multiplex generalized exchange and cooperation in organisations: A case study. Social Networks, 21, 67-90
2. Pattison, P., Wasserman, S., Robins, G., & Kanfer, A. (2000) Statistical evaluation of algebraic constraints for social networks. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 44, 536-568.
3. Robins, G., Pattison, P., & Elliott, P. (2001). Network models for social influence processes. Psychometrika, 66, 161-190.
4. Pattison, P. E., & Robins, G. L. (2002). Neighbourhood-based models for social networks. Sociological Methodology, 32, 300-337.
5. Robins, G.L., Woolcock, J., & Pattison, P. (in press). Small and other worlds: Global network structures from local processes. American Journal of Sociology.  

Grants

Year Short Title Funding
1997-1999 Australian Research Council Large Grant, "Structural Models for Discrete Data" (Principal Investigators: P. E. Pattison & R. C. Bell;) $75k
1998-1999 Australian Research Council Large Grant, "Modelling group processes" (Principal Investigator: P. E. Pattison;) $87k
2000-2002 Australian Research Council Large Grant A10020918 “Statistical models for interactive social processes” (Principal Investigators: P. E. Pattison & G. L. Robins;) $114k
2001 Australian Research Council International Researcher Exchange Program “Dynamic models for interactive processes in social settings” (Principal Investigators: P. E. Pattison & G. L. Robins, University of Melbourne, H. C. White, Columbia University, A. Mische, Rutgers University; ). $10,345
2003-2005 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant DP0343567 “Modelling dynamic interactive social processes” (Principal Investigators: P. E. Pattison, G. L. Robins & T.A.B.Snijders; ). $246,250
1999-2000 National Science Foundation Grant SBR-9820146 “Social settings and dynamics: representations of interpenetrating social forms” (Principal Investigator: H. C. White, Columbia University), Australian Collaborator.
1999-2000 National Science Foundation Grant SES-9909168 “Dynamics from social settings: representations of interdependent social forms” (Principal Investigator: A. Mische, Rutgers University), Australian Collaborator.
2001-2005 Consultant, NIH grant “Modelling HIV and STDs in Drug User and Sexual Networks” (Principal Investigators: Martina Morris, Mark Handcock et al.).
2002-2003 Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Organisational network study. (Investigators: P. E. Pattison & G. L. Robins). $76,634
2003-2006 Canadian Institute for Health Research, Collaborative Center for the Study of Physical Environments and Health (Principal Investigators: Penny Hawe et al).
2001 Beyondblue Rural Health Promotion Project: measuring anxiety and depressive symptoms in rural Australia (Investigators: F Judd, H Jackson, P Pattison, G Robins, G Murray, G Hodgins, C Fraser, J Humphreys). $100k
2004-2006 University of Melbourne/CSIRO Collaborative Research Support Scheme “Spatially embedded social networks” (Principal Investigators: P.Pattison, G.Robins, University of Melbourne, & P. Walker, CSIRO) $30k  

Membership/Fellowship of Key Organisations

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.  

Awards and Distinctions

University of Melbourne Special Thesis Award
Australian Psychological Society, Early Career Award
Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Simmel Award, International Network for Social Network Analysis