Monday, February 16, 2015

Network Analysis for Social and Community Interventions (CFP)

[Announcement from SCRA-L]

Dear Colleagues,

Call for Papers

Special Issue of Psychosocial Intervention

Network Analysis for Social and Community Interventions

Guest Editors: Isidro Maya Jariego & Daniel Holgado Ramos

Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

Psychosocial Intervention
will publish a special issue on network analysis for social and community interventions. In recent years network analysis is increasing its presence in community psychology research and action. The network approach allows multilevel analysis and contributes to a relational interpretation of psychological sense of community, empowerment and other classical concepts of community psychology. Meanwhile, network analysis techniques are beginning to be used in needs assessment, program evaluation, and participatory action-research strategies. There are also applications in the study and improvement of community coalitions, neighborhoods and community mediation. This special issue welcomes submissions that use network analysis in understanding or improving the implementation of social and community interventions.

Psychosocial Intervention will provide a Spanish translation (available online) of papers originally written in English. That way authors have their papers published both in English and Spanish, reaching a wider audience.

Below is a sample list of topics common within the scope of this special issue:

•    Uses of social network analysis in program evaluation.
•    Combination of network analysis with stakeholder analysis and participatory forms of governance.
•    Mediators, key players and network interventions.
•    Selection of health agents and community mediators through social network indicators.
•    NetMap, participatory sociograms and networks in the context of action-research.
•    The network approach in the study of empowerment and sense of community.
•    Surveys of personal networks in relational description of communities.
•    Analysis of interorganizational networks of community coalitions.
•    Relational assessment of neighbourhoods, spaces and behaviour settings.
•    The models of diffusion of innovation in prevention campaigns and health promotion.

The special issue will include papers that offer theoretical and/or practical insights. We welcome contributions relying on a broad range of methodological approaches; however, priority will be given to the submissions making original empirical contributions. All manuscripts should be submitted to the guest editors through comunitaria@us.es or electronically via the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) http://ees.elsevier.com/psi. In that second case you must select Network Analysis for Social and Community Interventions to make sure that your paper will be considered for the special issue. The submission deadline is July 12, 2015. The plan is to publish the special issue by the end of 2015 or in early 2016. Contact the guest editor Isidro Maya-Jariego isidromj@us.es for inquiries on this special issue.

Journal Psychosocial Intervention: http://www.psychosocial-intervention.org/

Call for Papers: http://personal.us.es/isidromj/php/noticias/sna-sci/

Kind regards,
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Isidro Maya Jariego
Departamento de PsicologĂ­a Social
Universidad de Sevilla
Calle Camilo José Cela s/n
41.018-Sevilla (Spain)
Tf.: + 34 95 455 73 44
Fax: + 34 95 455 77 11 
isidromj@us.es
http://personal.us.es/isidromj
http://evoluntas.wordpress.com
http://revista-redes.rediris.es
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