CV
John McLevey
he/him
You can download a PDF version of my CV here.
Contact Information
Appointments
2022, 2023, 2024
Associate Chair (Undergraduate)
Vanessa Schweizer was ACUG during my sabbatical and parental leave
Knowledge Integration, Faculty of Environment
University of Waterloo
2019–Present
Associate Professor (with tenure)
ADDS Status - Approved Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor
Knowledge Integration, Faculty of Environment
Sociology & Legal Studies, Faculty of Arts
University of Waterloo
2013–2019
Assistant Professor (tenure track)
ADDS Status - Approved Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor
Knowledge Integration, Faculty of Environment
Sociology & Legal Studies, Faculty of Arts
University of Waterloo
Affiliations
2023
Visiting Scholar
Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2019
Visiting Scholar
Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
2014–Present
WICI Affiliate Researcher
Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
2014–Present
Policy Fellow
Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA), Waterloo, ON, Canada
2018–Present
Co-Organizer and Instructor for Science Outside the Lab, North
Forum on Science, Policy, and Society, Ottawa, Montréal, Vancouver, and Victoria (Canada)
2019–2020
Leadership Team Member
Knowledge Development and Exchange Hub: Child and Youth Mental Health Promotion, Funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada
2014–2017
Board Member
University of Waterloo Survey Research Centre, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Education
2013
PhD, Sociology
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
2009
MA, Sociology
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
2008
BA(H), Sociology & Political Science
Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, Canada
Research Areas
Computational Social Science, Networks, Cognitive Social Science, Public Opinion, Political Sociology, Sociology of Science and Technology, Environmental Politics, Quantitative Methodology and Scientific Computing, Generative Modelling, Bayesian Statistics, Natural Language Processing and Text Analysis
Publications
Books
2023
John McLevey, John Scott, and Peter J. Carrington (Eds). The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis, Volume 2. London, UK: Sage.
2022
Harry Collins, Rob Evans, Martin Innes, Will Mason-Wilkes, Eric Kennedy, and John McLevey. The Face to Face Principle and the Internet: Science, Trust, Truth and Democracy. Cardiff, UK: Cardfiff University Press.
2020
Mark Stoddart, Alice Mattoni, and John McLevey. Industrial Development and Eco-Tourisms: Is Co-existence Possible Between Oil Exploration and Nature Conservation?. London, UK: Palgrave MacMillan.
Journal Articles
Italicized authors were students at time of publication.
2023
David Tindall, Nina Kolleck, and John McLevey. “Social Networks and Anthropogenic Climate Change (Special Issue Introduction).” Social Networks.
2022
Alexander Graham, John McLevey, Tyler Crick, and Pierson Browne. “Structural Diversity is a Poor Proxy for Information Diversity: Evidence from 25 Scientific Fields.” Social Networks. 70: 55-63.
2022
John McLevey, Tyler Crick, Pierson Browne, and Darrin Durant. “A New Method for Computational Cultural Cartography: From Neural Word Embeddings to Transformers and Bayesian Mixture Models.” Canadian Review of Sociology / Revue canadienne de sociologie. 59(2): 228-250.
2022
David Tindall, John McLevey, Yasmin Koop-Monteiro, and Alexander Graham. “Big Data, Computational Social Science, and Other Recent Innovations in Social Network Analysis.” Canadian Review of Sociology / Revue canadienne de sociologie. 59(2): 271-288.
2022
Allyson Stokes, Janice Aurini, Jessica Rizk, Rob Gorbet, and John McLevey. “Using Robotics to Support the Acquisition of 21st Century Competencies: Promising (and Practical) Directions.” Canadian Journal of Education / Revue Canadienne De l’éducation. 45(4): 1141–1170.
2022
Jessica Rizk, Janice Aurini, Allyson Stokes, Rob Gorbet, and John McLevey. “Leading through the COVID-19 Pandemic: Research with Canadian Education Leaders.” Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy.
2021
Igor Grossman, Oliver Twardus, Michael E. W. Varnum, Eranda Jayawickreme, and John McLevey. “Expert Predictions of Societal Change: Insights from the World after COVID Project.” American Psychologist. 77(2): 276–290.
2021
Kathryn S. Plaisance, Janet Michaud, and John McLevey. “Pathways of Influence: Understanding the Impacts of Philosophy of Science in Scientific Domains.” Synthese. 199: 4865–4896.
2020
Mark Stoddart, John McLevey, Vanessa Schweizer, and Catherine Wong. “Climate Change and Energy Futures: Theoretical Frameworks, Epistemological Issues, and Methodological Perspectives.” Society & Natural Resources. 33(11): 1331-1338.
2019
Kathryn S. Plaisance, Alexander V. Graham, John McLevey, and Janet Michaud. “Show Me the Numbers: A Quantitative Portrait of the Attitudes, Experiences, and Values of Philosophers of Science.” Synthese. 198: 4603-4633.
2018
Owen Gallupe, John McLevey, and Sarah Brown. “Selection or Influence? A Meta-Analysis of the Association between Peer and Personal Offending.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 35: 313-335.
2018
John McLevey, Alexander Graham, Reid McIlroy-Young, Pierson Browne, and Kathryn S. Plaisance. “Interdisciplinarity and Insularity in the Diffusion of Knowledge: An Analysis of Disciplinary Boundaries Between Philosophy of Science and the Sciences.” Scientometrics. 117(1): 331-349.
2017
John McLevey and Reid McIlroy-Young. “Introducing metaknowledge: Software for Computational Research in Information Science, Network Analysis, and Science of Science.” The Journal of Informetrics. 11: 176-197.
2016
Allyson Stokes and John McLevey. “From Porter to Bourdieu: The Evolving Specialty Structure of English Canadian Sociology, 1966- 2014.” Canadian Review of Sociology / Revue canadienne de sociologie. 53(2): 176-202.
2015
John McLevey. “Understanding Policy Research in Liminal Spaces: Think Tank Responses to Diverging Principles of Legitimacy.” Social Studies of Science. 45(2): 270-293.
2014
John McLevey. “Think Tanks, Funding, and the Politics of Policy Knowledge in Canada.” Canadian Review of Sociology / Revue canadienne de sociologie. 51(1): 54-75.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
Italicized authors were students at time of publication.
2023
Pierson Browne, Tyler Crick, and John McLevey. “Inferential Network Clustering with Hierarchical Bayesian Stochastic Blockmodels.” In John McLevey, John Scott, and Peter J. Carrington (Eds) The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis, Volume 2. London, UK: Sage. Open Access Link
2023
Pierson Browne, Adam Howe, Yasmin Koop-Monteiro, Yixi Yang, and John McLevey. “Scientific Software for Network Analysis.” In John McLevey, John Scott, and Peter J. Carrington (Eds) The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis, Volume 2. London, UK: Sage.
2023
John Scott, John McLevey, and Peter J. Carrington. “Introduction.” In John McLevey, John Scott, and Peter J. Carrington (Eds) The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis, Volume 2. London, UK: Sage. Open Access Link
2023
John McLevey, Allyson Stokes, and Amelia Howard. “L’influence inégale de Bourdieu sur la sociologie canadienne anglophone (French translation of ‘Pierre Bourdieu’s Uneven Influence on Anglophone Canadian Sociology’).” In Amín Pérez and Franck Poupeau (Eds) Bourdieu dans les Amériques. Genèses et usage d’une internationale scientifique. Aubervilliers, France: l’IHEAL.
2021
John McLevey and Tyler Crick. “Machine Learning and Neural Network Language Modelling for Sentiment Analysis.” In Luke Sloan and Anabel Quan-Haase (Eds) The Sage Handbook of Social Media Research. London, UK: Sage.
2021
John McLevey, Pierson Browne, and Tyler Crick. “Reproducibility, Transparency, and Principled Data Processing.” In Uwe Engel and Anabel Quan-Haase (Eds) Handbook of Computational Social Science. New York, US: Routledge.
2021
David Tindall, Mark Stoddart, John McLevey, Lorien Jasny, Dana R. Fisher, Jennifer Earl, and Mario Diani. “The Challenges and Opportunities of Ego-Network Analysis of Social Movements and Collective Action.” In Mario Small, Brea Perry, Bernice Pescosolido, and Edward Smith (Eds) Personal Networks: Classic Readings and New Directions in Ego-centric Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2018
John McLevey, Allyson Stokes, and Amelia Howard. “Pierre Bourdieu’s Uneven Influence on Anglophone Canadian Sociology.” In Thomas Medvetz and Jeff Sallaz (Eds) The Oxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2018
John McLevey and Ryan Deschamps. “The Sociology of Public Policy Formation and Implementation.” In William Outhwaite and Stephen Turner (Eds) The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology. London, UK: Sage.
Edited Special Issues
2023
David Tindall, Nina Kolleck, and John McLevey (Guest Journal Editors) “Social Networks and Anthropogenic Climate Change.” Special issue of Social Networks.
2020
Mark Stoddart, John McLevey, Vanessa Schweizer, and Catherine Wong (Guest Journal Editors) “Climate Change and Energy Futures.” Special issue of Society & Natural Resources.
Article Manuscripts in Progress
In Progress
Owen Gallupe, Noam Gidron, John McLevey, and Annika Hillebrandt. “Unpacking the crime-generating effect of exclusionary political rhetoric.” In Progress.
In Progress
John McLevey, Tyler Crick, Darrin Durant, and Karmvir Padda. “How Political Beliefs Form and Evolve in Interaction Networks: A Generative Stance Model.” In Progress.
In Progress
John McLevey. “A Generative Method for Constructing and Analyzing Belief Networks from Survey and Text Data.” In Progress.
Book Manuscripts in Progress
In Progress
John McLevey. “Reproducible Research and Generative Modelling for Social and Cognitive Scientists.” In Progress.
Research & Policy Reports
2020
John McLevey, Pierson Browne, Tyler Crick, and Jillian Anderson. “Applied Computer Vision for Disinformation Research: An Analysis of Twitter’s Elections Integrity Data on Russian and Chinese Information Operations.” Prepared for the Crime & Security Research Institute, Cardiff University
2020
John McLevey, Pierson Browne, and Tyler Crick. “Online Deception & Dynamic Narrative Networks.” Prepared for the Crime & Security Research Institute, Cardiff University
2020
Rob Gorbet, Janice Aurini, Jessica Risk, Allyson Stokes, John McLevey, and Nicole Figueiredo. “The COVID-19 Pandemic and Canadian Schooling.” Prepared for Education Onward Council in consultation with Fair-Chance Learning
2019
Janice Aurini, Rob Gorbet, John McLevey, Jessica Rizk, and Allyson Stokes (Alphabetical). “White Paper on Ed-Tech Connect: An Intersectoral Workshop on Education, Technology, and 21st Century Labour.” Funded by SSHRC Connections Grant
2017
Janice Aurini, John McLevey, Allyson Stokes, and Rob Gorbet. “Classroom Robotics and Acquisition of 21st Century Competencies: An Action Research Study of Nine Ontario School Boards.” Prepared for the Council of Ontario Directors of Education (CODE) and the Ministry of Education, Ontario
Reviews and Other Short Non-Refereed Publications
2021
John McLevey. “Probabilistic Topic Models.” In Janice Aurini, Melanie Heath, and Stephanie Howells. 2021. The How To of Qualitative Research. London, UK: Sage
2019
John McLevey. “Epistemic and Evidential Cultures.” In Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Richard Williams, and Alex Cernat (Eds). Sage Research Methods Foundations Online
2019
John McLevey. “Review of David Johnson (2017) A Fractured Profession: Commercialization and Conflict in Academic Science.” Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Review published in American Journal of Sociology. 125(1)
Research Grants
2020–2025
Modern Man-ifestations: An Interdisciplinary Mixed-Methods Investigation of Misogyny and Gender-Based Violence
$0 – SSHRC Insight Development Grant
James Kim (Principal Investigator), Toni Serafini (Co-investigators), John McLevey (Collaborators).
2020–2025
Disinformation, Democracy, and Online Political Deliberation
$219,003 – SSHRC Insight Grant
John McLevey (Principal Investigator), Anabel Quan-Haase, David Tindall (Co-investigators), Darrin Durant, Deena Abul-Fottouh, Owen Gallupe, and Martin Innes (Collaborators).
2020–2021
Disinformation, Democracy, and Online Political Deliberation
$20,000 – Digital Citizenship Initiative, Department of Canadian Heritage
John McLevey (Principal Investigator), Anabel Quan-Haase, David Tindall (Co-investigators), Darrin Durant, Deena Abul-Fottouh, Owen Gallupe, and Martin Innes (Collaborators).
2020–2025
Engaging Science with Philosophy: Best Practices for Fostering Effective Collaboration
$154,406 – SSHRC Insight Grant
Kathryn S. Plaisance (Principal Investigator), Kevin Elliott, Michael O’Rourke, Lisbeth Berbary, and John McLevey (Collaborators).
2019
An Intersectoral Workshop on Education, Technology, and 21st Century Labour
$16,400 + matching funds – SSHRC Connection Grant with Contributions from the University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs
Janice Aurini (Principal Investigator), Allyson Stokes, John McLevey, Jessica Rizk, and Rob Gorbet (Co-investigators).
2018-2019
Climate Change and Energy Futures Workshop: Challenges and Opportunities for Global and Interdisciplinary Research
$24,373 + $14,399 in matching funds – SSHRC Connection Grant with Contributions from the University of Waterloo and Memorial University
Mark Stoddart (Principal Investigator), John McLevey, John Sandlos, Vanessa Schweizer, and Catherine Wong (Co-investigators).
2016–2022
Making Sense of Climate Action: Understanding Social Mobilization to Curb Anthropogenic Climate Change Through Advances in Social Network Analysis
$282,672 – SSHRC Insight Grant
David Tindall (Principal Investigator), John McLevey, Mark Stoddart (Co-investigators), Mario Diani, Jennifer Earl, Dana R Fisher, Philip Leifeld, Andrew Jorgenson, Philippe Le Billon, Don Grant, and Moses Boudourides (Collaborators).
2016–2020
Information and Idea Diffusion in an Open Source Collaboration Network
$150,000 – Early Researcher Award (ERA), Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation
John McLevey (Principal Investigator).
2016–2018
Remaking the Boundaries of Open and Proprietary Science: A Longitudinal Study of Biomedical Research and Development Networks in Canada
$67,790 – SSHRC Insight Development Grant
John McLevey (Principal Investigator), Owen Gallupe, Martin Cooke (Collaborators).
2016–2918
Increasing the Impact of Philosophy of Science in Scientific Domains
$59,302 – SSHRC Insight Development Grant
Kathryn S. Plaisance (Principal Investigator), John McLevey (Co-investigators).
2015–2016
Challenges and Opportunities for Governance of Socio-Ecological Systems in Comparative Perspective
$8,400 – BSIA Major Workshops Grant
John McLevey (Principal Investigator), Vanessa Schweizer (Co-investigators).
2015–2020
The Oil-Tourism Interface and Social-Ecological Change in the North Atlantic
$188,432 – SSHRC Insight Grant
Mark Stoddart (Principal Investigator), John McLevey (Co-investigators).
2014–2016
Collaborative Design in Online Networks
$78,814 – SSHRC Insight Development Grant
John McLevey (Principal Investigator).
2013
Faculty Research Startup Grant
$15,000 – University of Waterloo
John McLevey (Principal Investigator).
Teaching Grants
2015–2016
A Data-Driven and Interactive Approach to Enhancing Student Learning about Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Knowledge Production
$4,765.20 – LITE Seed Grant, Centre for Teaching Excellence, University of Waterloo
John McLevey (Principal Investigator).
Awards and Selected Scholarships
2017
Outstanding Performance Award
University of Waterloo
2010–2013
Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship
$105,000 – SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship (Category A)
2010–2011
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
$15,000 (declined) – Province of Ontario
2009–2013
PhD Graduate Scholarship
$52,000 (declined) – McMaster University
2009–2010
Ontario Graduate Fellowship
$12,000 + $3,000 Sociology Department Top Up – McMaster University
2009
University Gold Medal for Excellence in Sociology
Memorial University
Research Contracts
2020
Applied Computer Vision and Ensemble Machine Learning for Disinformation Research
John McLevey. Project for the Crime & Security Research Institute, Cardiff University.
2020
Automated Detection of ‘Bursty’ Concepts, Claims, and Narratives in Social Media Data
John McLevey. Project for the Crime & Security Research Institute, Cardiff University.
2016–2017
Assessing the Impact of Classroom-Integrated Robotics on the Cultivation of 21st Century Competencies
Janice Aurini, John McLevey, and Rob Gorbet. Contract with Council of Ontario Directors of Education (CODE) for the Ontario Ministry of Education.
(Selected) Scientific Software, Designed and Developed
dcss
dcss is a Python package accompanying John McLevey (2022) Doing Computational Social Science. It includes curated datasets and a large collection of utility functions for data processing and working with statistical and machine learning models. It is designed, developed, and maintained by John McLevey, Tyler Crick, Pierson Browne.
License: GNU General Public License 2
mk
metaknowledge (or mk) is a Python package for quantitative and social networks research in the sociology of science and information science. First released in 2015. Under active development. Website and documentation: http://networkslab.org/metaknowledge/. It is designed, developed, and maintained by Reid McIlroy-Young and John McLevey.
License: GNU General Public License 2
Nate
Nate (network analysis with text) is a Python package for network-based text analysis. It is designed, developed, and maintained by John McLevey, Pierson Browne, and Tyler Crick.
License: MIT License
pdpp
pdpp is a Python package for principled data processing with Python. It was first released in 2015 and is under active development. It is designed, developed, and maintained by Pierson Browne, Tyler Crick, Rachel Wood, and John McLevey.
License: MIT License
simkit
simkit is a Python package for probabilistic and agent-based computational models of opinion dynamics, diffusion, learning, and influence. It is currently in beta and under active development. It is designed, developed, and maintained by John McLevey.
License: MIT License
tidyext
tidyextractors is a Python package for extracting quantitative datasets from source code repositories, email mbox files, and social media APIs. It is designed, developed, and maintained by Joel Becker (NETLAB).
License: MIT License
gitnet
gitnet is a Python package for mining source code repository and mailing list data and generating network datasets. First released in 2016. gitnet is still publicly available and functional, but development and maintenance efforts have shifted to other Python packages. It is designed, developed, and maintained by Joel Becker, Jillian Anderson, Steve McColl, and John McLevey.
License: MIT License
Other Contributions to Scientific Software
recordlinkage
Contributions to Jonathan de Bruin’s Python package recordlinkage: A Python package for linking records across multiple data sources when there is no unique ID available. NetLab contributions were focused on implementing new comparison and fusion algorithms for my research on the structure and evolution of cross-sectoral collaboration networks in science and technology. Most NetLab contributions to recordlinkage were implemented by Joel Becker (RA) and occasionally Jillian Anderson (RA), and then submitted to Jonathan de Bruin as pull requests.
Conference Presentations
2022-07
John McLevey. “Political Polarization and Probabilistic Belief Network Analysis” Sunbelt, Annual meetings of the International Network for Social Network Analysis. Melbourne, Australia.
2019-10
John McLevey. “Disinformation, Democracy, and Influence in Online Political Discussion Networks.” Disinformation Symposium, hosted by the Cardiff University Crime & Security Research Institute. Hensol Castle, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales UK.
2019-07
John McLevey. “What do open online communities of specialists need tacit knowledge for anyway?” SEESHOP. Helsinki, Finland.
2019-06
John McLevey, Alexander Graham, Tyler Crick, and Pierson Browne. “Measuring Social and Cognitive Distance in Collaboration Networks Constructed From Observational Data.” Sunbelt, Annual meetings of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (Session: Advances in Socio-Semantic Network Analysis). Montréal, QC, Canada.
2019-06
Janice Aurini, Allyson Stokes, Jessica Rizk, John McLevey, and Rob Gorbet. “How Do Educational Innovations Diffuse and Persist?” Sunbelt, Annual meetings of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (Session: Networked Innovation). Montréal, QC, Canada.
2019-06
Pierson Browne, Tyler Crick, Alexander Graham, and John McLevey. “Cognitive Diversity and the Production of High Impact Science” Sunbelt, Annual meetings of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (Session: Networked Innovation). Montréal, QC, Canada.
2019-06
Janice Aurini, Allyson Stokes, Jessica Rizk, John McLevey, and Rob Gorbet. “How Do Educational Innovations Diffuse and Persist?” Canadian Sociological Association Meetings (Session: Sociology of Education). University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada.
2019-04
John McLevey. “Measuring Belief Homophily and Cognitive Similarity in Social and Political Networks to Advance the Advocacy Coalition Framework (and Other Policy Theories).” Climate Change and Social Networks Workshop. Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
2019-10
Mark Stoddart, Alice Mattoni, and John McLevey. “Industrial Development and Eco-Tourisms: Is Co-existence Possible between Oil Exploration and Nature Conservation.” Department of Geography Blue Box Seminar Series. Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.
2018-10
Mark Stoddart, Alice Mattoni, and John McLevey. “Climate Change and Contact Points between Offshore Oil and Nature-based Tourism in Northern Coastal Societies.” Arctic Circle Assembly. Reykjavik, Iceland.
2018-06
John McLevey, Alexander Graham, and Pierson Browne. “Remaking the boundaries of open and proprietary science: A multiple networks analysis of patenting and publishing in biomedical science” Sunbelt, Annual meetings of the International Network for Social Network Analysis. Utrecht, Netherlands.
2018-06
Alexander V. Graham, Pierson Browne, Jeffery M. Barrett, and John McLevey. “RankDir: A New ERGM Term for Improving Goodness of Fit in Exponential Random Graph Models of Directed Acyclic Graphs.” Sunbelt, Annual meetings of the International Network for Social Network Analysis. Utrecht, Netherlands.
2018-04
John McLevey and Alexander V. Graham. “Smart Collaboration & Boundary Spanning for High Impact Climate Science” 3rd Spring Campus, University Alliance for Sustainability. Freie Universität Berlin. Berlin, Germany.
2017-08
John McLevey. “Environmental crises, policy, and scientific change: Insights from a computational model.” American Sociological Association (ASA) annual meeting. Montréal, QC, Canada.
2017-06
John McLevey and Reid McIlroy-Young. “metaknowledge: open source software for networks research on science.” Sunbelt, Annual meetings of the International Network for Social Network Analysis. Beijing, China.
2017-05
John McLevey. “Panelist, Assessing Pierre Bourdieu’s Legacy” Panel organized by the joint culture/theory research cluster at the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) annual meeting. Ryerson University. Toronto, ON, Canada.
2017-05
John McLevey, Mark Stoddart, and Yixi Yang. “The Oil-Tourism Interface in International Media: A Systematic Comparison of Norway, Scotland, and Newfoundland and Labrador.” Canadian Sociological Association annual meeting. Ryerson University. Toronto, ON, Canada..
2017-05
John McLevey. “How do face-to-face and virtual networks shape the development of specialist expertise?” SEESHOP. Geneva, Switzerland.
2016-08
Vanina Leschziner, John McLevey, and Neil McLaughlin. “The American Fame Game: Academic Status and Public Renown in Post-War Social Sciences.” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology Session. Seattle, WA, USA.
2016-05
John McLevey. “Expertise and Experience in Dynamic Social Networks: Developing A Co-evolution Model for SEE.” SEESHOP. Cardiff, Wales, UK.
2016-04
John McLevey, Katie Plaisance, Reid McIlroy-Young, and Alexander Graham. “Is there a citation penalty for scientifically relevant philosophy of science?” Sunbelt, annual meetings of the International Network for Social Network Analysis. Newport Beach, CA.
2015-11
Owen Gallupe, Sarah Brown, and John McLevey. “Selection or Influence? A Meta-Analysis of the Association between Peer and Personal Offending” Annual Meetings of the American Society of Criminology. Washington, DC, USA.
2015-08
John McLevey. “Conflict and Cooperation in Large Collaboration Networks: An Analysis of Linux Kernel Development.” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Sociology of Technology session. Chicago, IL.
2015-06
John McLevey. “Conflict and Cooperation in Large Collaboration Networks: An Analysis of Linux Kernel Development” Sunbelt, annual meetings of the International Network for Social Network Analysis. Brighton, UK.
2015-05
John McLevey. “Conflict and Cooperation in Large Collaboration Networks: An Analysis of Linux Kernel Development.” Annual Meetings of the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA), Session: Innovation in Social Research: New Data, New Questions, New Analytics. Ottawa, ON, Canada.
2015-05
John McLevey, Amelia Howard, Alexander Graham, and Tiffany Lin. “Expertise, Stratification, and the Uncertain Democracy of Large Free / Open Source Developer Communities.” SEESHOP. Cardiff, Wales, UK.
2014-08
John McLevey. “Think Tanks in the Space of Opinion: Tactics for Creating Uncertainty about the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change.” Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association (ASA). San Francisco, CA, USA.
2014-06
John McLevey. “Struggling Over Climate Expertise: ‘Consensus’ and ‘Skepticism’ in the Space of Opinion.” SEESHOP / Communities of Integration. Waterloo, ON, Canada.
2014-05
Allyson Stokes and John McLevey. “The Invisible Colleges of Sociology in Canada: A Network Analysis, 1995-2014” Annual meetings of the Canadian Sociology Association (CSA). Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada.
2014-04
John McLevey. “Funding, Fame, and Politics in the Think Tank World.” The Science Policy Interface: International Comparisons. Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
2014-04
Vanina Leschziner, Neil McLaughlin, and John McLevey. “The American Fame Game: Public Renown and Academic Status in the Social Sciences.” Public Intellectuals and Power. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
2014-08
John McLevey. “Think Tanks in the Space of Opinion: Tactics for Creating Uncertainty about the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change.” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association (ASA). San Francisco, CA, USA.
2013-10
John McLevey. “Comments on papers in the session ‘Chastened Dreams and New Departures: American Scientific Culture(s) in Ferment from the 1960s to 1980s’” Canadian Association of American Studies (CAAS), Total Money Makeover: Culture and the Economization of Everything. Waterloo, ON, Canada.
2013-08
John McLevey. “How do Think Tanks Produce and Promote Policy Ideas?” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Section: Sociology of Knowledge, Session: Knowledge and the State. New York, New York, US.
2013-06
John McLevey. “Think Tanks on Climate Change: Moral Views, Scientific Credibility, and Political Contexts” Annual meetings of the Canadian Sociology Association (CSA), Session: The Sociology of Climate Change. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.
2013-06
Vanina Leschziner, Neil McLaughlin, and John McLevey. “The American Fame Game: Academic Status and Public Renown in the Social Sciences.” Annual meetings of the Canadian Sociology Association (CSA), Session: The Role of Public Intellectualism in Academe. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.
2012-05
John McLevey. “Epistemic Cultures in the Production of Policy Expertise” Qualitative Analysis Conference. Memorial University, St John’s, NL, Canada.
2012-05
John McLevey. “Translation Work and the Marketing of Policy Expertise: Leads from Research on Canadian Think Tanks.” Annual meetings of the Canadian Sociology Association (CSA), Session: Sociology of Science. University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
2011-08
John McLevey. “Rhythms and Reason Giving: Understanding Academic Involvement in Canadian Think Tanks.” Annual meetings of the American Sociology Association (ASA). Las Vegas, NV, USA.
2011-04
John McLevey. “Rhythms and Reason Giving: Understanding Academic Involvement in Canadian Think Tanks.” Invited Participant, NYLON workshop on “Cultures of Circulation”. Ottawa, ON, Canada.
2011-02
John McLevey. “Rhythms and Reason Giving: Understanding Academic Involvement in Canadian Think Tanks.” Annual meetings of the Eastern Sociology Society (ESS), Session: Constructing Workplaces and Professional Domains. Philadelphia, PA, US..
2010-05
John McLevey. “How and Why Do Academics Get Involved with Think Tanks?” Qualitative Analysis Conference. Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford, ON, Canada.
2010-06
John McLevey. “Contesting Education: A Comparative Frame Analysis of Opinion Pieces by The Fraser Institute and The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.” Annual meetings of the Canadian Sociology Association (CSA). Concordia University, Montreal QC, Canada.
2010-06
Lisa Kowalchuk, Neil McLaughlin, John McLevey. “Public Intellectual Work: Uses of the Canadian Op-Ed Column” Annual meetings of the Canadian Sociology Association (CSA). Concordia University, Montreal QC, Canada.
2010-05
John McLevey. “Contesting Education: A Comparative Frame Analysis of Opinion Pieces by The Fraser Institute and The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.” Annual Qualitative Analysis Conference. Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford, ON, Canada.
2009-05
John McLevey. “Understanding Marginality, Ambiguous Outcomes, and Failure in Social Movements Research and the Sociology of Ideas.” Annual meetings of the Canadian Sociology Association (CSA). Carleton University, Ottawa ON, Canada.
Invited Talks
2024-04
John McLevey. “What makes you say that? Rethinking causal connections in cultural cognition and political belief network analysis” Department of Sociology. Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, Canada.
2022-03
John McLevey. “Do liberals drink lattes across the multiverse? Cultural learning, social influence, and mass opinion polarization.” Knowledge Integration Seminar Series. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
2022-01
John McLevey. “Reproducibility and Principled Data Processing for Computational Science.” Toronto Data Workshop on Reproducibility. Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2021-11
John McLevey. “Modelling Meaning: Recent Advances in Computational Text Analysis and Why They Matter for Sociology.” Department of Sociology Speaker Series. Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, Canada.
2019-12
John McLevey. “Democracies in Crisis? Online Deception, Disinformation, and Political Polarization.” Science and Technology Studies Seminar Series. York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2017-11
John McLevey. “Gender discrimination in open source software development: findings from a large-scale audit study.” Guest speaker in course “Gender Equity”. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
2017-11
John McLevey. “A Primer on Computational Sociology.” Guest speaker in Sociology Theory grad seminar, Department of Sociology & Legal Studies. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
2017-05
John McLevey. “Panelist on SSHRC’s new data management policies: what do they mean for your knowledge making practices?” Annual meetings of the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA). Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2016-03
John McLevey. “Network Structure and the ‘Chain of Trust’ in Linux Development: Lessons for Working with Data Scraped from the Web.” Guest speaker in Research Methods class, Department of Sociology. Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
2016-10
John McLevey. “Open Science and the Uncertain Future of University-Industry Partnerships in Biomedical Research and Development.” Environment Seminar Series: Open Data, Open Science. Faculty of Environment. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
2016-03
John McLevey and Patrick Famaran (UG student). “Using Technology to Facilitate Collaboration” Centre for Teaching Excellence Educational Technology Week. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
2016-03
John McLevey. “Enhancing Student Learning by Bringing Data into the Classroom.” GREEN TEA speaker series, Faculty of Environment. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
2014-12
John McLevey. “Collaborating On-Line: An Analysis of Communication Networks for Linux Kernel Developers.” Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI) Speaker Series. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
2014
John McLevey. “Where do good ideas come from? A social network perspective on creativity and innovation.” Waterloo Unlimited. .
2013-09
John McLevey. “Think Tanks, Funding, and Politics of Policy Knowledge.” Knowledge Integration Seminar Series, Faculty of Environment. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Teaching
Assigned Courses
Winter 2024
FCIT 607 – Data, Methods, and Models for Future Cities.
Seminar, (N) Students
Winter 2024
INTEG 440 – Computational Social Science.
Seminar, (N) Students
Fall 2023
INTEG 120 – The Art and Science of Learning.
Lecture, (47) Students
Fall 2022
INTEG 120 – The Art and Science of Learning.
Lecture, 91 Students
Winter 2022
INTEG 240 – Bullshit, Bias, and Bad Arguments.
Lecture, 77 Students
Fall 2021
INTEG 440 – Computational Social Science.
Seminar, 21 Students
Fall 2021
INTEG 120 – The Art and Science of Learning.
Lecture, 73 Students
Fall 2021
INTEG 640 / SOC 712 – Computational Social Science.
Seminar, 20 Students
Spring 2021
INTEG 640 / SOC 712 – Computational Social Science.
Seminar, 14 Students
Winter 2021
INTEG 440 / SOC 440 – Computational Social Science.
Seminar, 25 Students
Winter 2021
INTEG 240 / SOC 230 – Bullshit, Bias, and Bad Arguments.
Lecture, 39 Students
Fall 2020
INTEG 340 – Research Methods and Design.
Lecture, 20 Students
Fall 2020
INTEG 120 – The Art and Science of Learning.
Lecture, 87 Students
Winter 2020
INTEG 420 (B) – Senior Honours Project (B).
Project, 20 Students
Winter 2020
INTEG 440 / 640 – Computational Social Science.
Seminar, 19 Students
Fall 2019
INTEG 340 – Research Methods and Design.
Seminar, 20 Students
Fall 2019
INTEG 120 – The Art and Science of Learning.
Lecture, 89 Students
Winter 2019
INTEG 420 (B) – Senior Honours Project.
Project, 20 Students
Winter 2019
INTEG 440 / 640 – Computational Social Science.
Seminar, 21 Students
Fall 2018
INTEG 420 (A) – Senior Honours Project (A).
Project, 27 Students
Fall 2018
INTEG 340 – Research Methods and Design.
Lecture, 18 Students
Fall 2018
INTEG 120 – The Art and Science of Learning.
Lecture, 53 Students
Winter 2018
INTEG 420 (B) – Senior Honours Project (B).
Project, 27 Students
Winter 2018
INTEG 340 – Research Methods and Design.
Seminar, 19 Students
Winter 2018
INTEG 475 – Big Data and Society.
Seminar, 30 Students
Fall 2017
INTEG 420 (A) – Senior Honours Project (A).
Project, 28 Students
Winter 2017
INTEG 120 – The Art and Science of Learning.
Lecture, 47 Students
Fall 2016
INTEG 375 – Research Methods and Design.
Seminar, 17 Students
Fall 2016
INTEG 120 – Disciplines and Integrative Practices.
Lecture, 49 Students
Winter 2016
INTEG 375 – Data Visualization.
Seminar, 12 Students
Winter 2016
INTEG 275 – Research Methods and Design.
Lecture, 16 Students
Fall 2015
INTEG 475 – Open Science.
Seminar, 11 Students
Fall 2015
INTEG 120 – Disciplines and Integrative Practices.
Lecture, 43 Students
Winter 2015
INTEG 275 – Creativity and Innovation.
Lecture, 26 Students
Winter 2015
INTEG 375 / SOC 312 – Science and Technology in Society.
Seminar, 20 Students
Fall 2014
INTEG 120 – Disciplines and Integrative Practices.
Lecture, 46 Students
Winter 2014
INTEG 375 / SOC 312 – Science and Technology in Society.
Seminar, 15 Students
Fall 2013
INTEG 120 – Disciplines and Integrative Practices.
Lecture, 55 Students
Reading Courses (Not Assigned)
Spring 2022
Political Cognition and Polarization
Graduate
Winter 2020
Network Science
Graduate
Fall 2020
Political Disinformation and Influence Operations
Undergraduate
Spring 2018
Reproducibility and Replication in the Sciences
Undergraduate
Spring 2018
Social Network Analysis with Python
Graduate
Winter 2016
Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization
Graduate
Winter 2014
Organizational Theory
Undergraduate
Spring 2014
Democracy, Science, and the Politics of Expertise
Undergraduate
Spring 2014
Sociology of Science
Undergraduate
Spring 2014
Social Network Analysis with R
Undergraduate
Spring 2014
Data Visualization
Undergraduate
Spring 2014
Organizational Theory
Undergraduate
Spring 2014
Sociology of Organizations: Case Studies
Undergraduate
Spring 2014
Sociology of Organizations
Undergraduate
Spring 2014
Applied Network Science
Undergraduate
Student Supervision
PhD Student Supervision and Dissertation Committee Membership
In Progress
Karmvir Padda – ABD (Sociology & Legal Studies)
John McLevey (Supervisor) + Owen Gallupe and Veronica Kitchen
Expected defence in 2025
In Progress
Tyler Crick – ABD (Sociology & Legal Studies)
John McLevey (Supervisor) + Owen Gallupe and Peter Carrington
Expected defence in 2024
In Progress
Alexander (Sasha) Graham – ABD (Sociology & Legal Studies)
John McLevey (Supervisor) + Owen Gallupe and Peter Carrington
Expected defence in 2024
In Progress
Jessica Gill – ABD (Sociology & Legal Studies)
Rashmee Singh (Supervisor) + Andrea Quinlan and John McLevey
Expected defence in 2025
In Progress
Geisha Sanchez – ABD (Geography & Environmental Management)
Sarah Burch (Supervisor) + Olaf Weber and John McLevey
Expected defence in 2024
In Progress
Mark Shakespear (Sociology, University of British Columbia)
David Tindall (Supervisor) + K Harrison, A Jorgenson, M Stoddart, and J McLevey
In Progress
Yasmin Koop-Monteiro – ABD (Sociology, University of British Columbia)
David Tindall (Supervisor) + Mark Stoddart and John McLevey
In Progress
Yixi Yang – ABD (Sociology, Memorial University)
Mark Stoddart (Supervisor) + John McLevey and David Tindall
In Progress
Keegan Aaron Fernandes (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Dan Davison (Supervisor) + David Wang, Rob Gorbet, and John McLevey
2024
Emerson LaCroix (Sociology & Legal Studies)
Janice Aurini (Supervisor) + John McLevey and Stephanie Howells
Defended 2024-06
2023
Pierson Browne (Sociology & Legal Studies)
John McLevey (Supervisor) + Owen Gallupe and Peter Carrington
Defended 2023-12
2023
Peter Duggins (Systems Design Engineering)
Chris Eliasmith (Supervisor) + Bryan Tripp, Kerstin Dautenhahn, and John McLevey
2022
Adam Howe (Sociology, University of British Columbia)
David Tindall (Supervisor) + Catherine Corrigall-Brown, Rima Wilkes, and John McLevey
Defended 2022-03
2022
François Lapachelle (Sociology, University of British Columbia)
Beth Hirsh (Supervisor) + David Tindall and John McLevey
Defended 2022-02
2022
Julie Cooke (School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development)
Jennifer Lynes (Supervisor) + Steve Quilley and John McLevey
Defended 2022-08
2020
Rod Missaghian (Sociology & Legal Studies)
Janice Aurini (Supervisor) + Linda Quirke and John McLevey
Defended 2020-10
2019
Brittany Etmanski (Sociology and Legal Studies)
Janice Aurini (Supervisor) + Owen Gallupe and John McLevey
Defended 2019-09
2019
Moutasem Zakkar (Applied Health Sciences)
Craig Janes, Samantha Meyer (Supervisor) + Plinio Morita, Daniel Lizotte, John McLevey
Defended 2019-11
2018
Noorin Manji (Sociology & Legal Studies)
Lorne Dawson (Supervisor) + Janice Aurini and John McLevey
Defended 2018-08
2016
Michael Clarke (Sociology & Legal Studies)
Kieran Bonner (Supervisor) + David Goodwin and John McLevey
Defended 2016-06
Master of Arts (MA) and Master of Science (MSc) Student Theses
2024
Nermeen Zia Islam (Balsillie School of International Affairs)
Advisory Role: Supervisor
2022
Svetlana Kopan (Sociology and Legal Studies)
Advisory Role: Committee Member
2018
Nicholas Brendan, MD (School of Public Health Sciences)
Advisory Role: Reader
2018
Sarah Tang (School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development)
Advisory Role: Committee Member
2018
Emerson LaCroix (Sociology and Legal Studies)
Advisory Role: Committee Member
2017
Alexander V. Graham (Sociology and Legal Studies)
Advisory Role: Supervisor
2017
Junyi (Jill) Wang (Geography and Environmental Management)
Advisory Role: Reader
2017
Stuart Anderson (Anthropology)
Advisory Role: Reader
2016
Chen Chen (Geography and Environmental Management)
Advisory Role: Reader
Supervised Undergraduate Honours Theses & Design Projects
2019-2020
Harrison Lobb (Knowledge Integration) “Rogan to Spencer: Using Discourse Analysis to Diagnose Pathways of Radicalization From the Mainstream to the Reactionary Right”
2019-2020
Jessica Clark (Knowledge Integration) “Degree Planning Website for University of Waterloo Students”
2019-2020
Aidan Power (Knowledge Integration) “An Analysis of Integrating Ethics Into Computer Science Curricula: Implications for the Cheriton School of Computer Science”
2018-2019
Jessilyn Wolfe (Knowledge Integration) “Escaping the Office: Developing Escape Room Experiences to Improve Corporate Small Group Teambuilding”
2018-2019
Jason Kurian (Knowledge Integration) “Pocket Blues”
2017-2018
Rachel Wood (Knowledge Integration) “Designing and developing mkd3, software for learning about academic literature”
2016-2017
Jillian Anderson (Knowledge Integration) “cydr: An R Package for Cleaning Agricultural Yield Data”
2015-2016
Julia Yaroshinsky (Sociology & Legal Studies) “Top Contributors of the Linux Kernel: Similarities and Differences”
2014-2015
Tiffany Lin (Knowledge Integration) “Framing Controversial Internet Technologies: An Exploratory Network Analysis of TOR”
2014-2015
Ben Carr (Knowledge Integration) “Paradigms, Learning, and Change in Organizations”
2013-2014
Christina Minji Chung (Sociology & Legal Studies) “Organizational Dynamics of Tech Startups in the Kitchener-Waterloo Region”
2013-2014
Chelsea Mills (Knowledge Integration) “Keep the Ideas Coming: How startups encourage creativity and what other organizations can learn from their example”
Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP) Training
(Paid Research Positions)
2023
Graduate HQP
Karmvir Padda (1 semester), Tyler Crick (3 semesters), Pierson Browne (3 semesters), Alexander Graham (3 semesters)
2022
Graduate HQP
Tyler Crick (3 semesters), Pierson Browne (3 semesters), Alexander Graham (3 semesters)
2021
Graduate HQP
Tyler Crick (3 semesters), Pierson Browne (3 semesters), Alexander Graham (3 semesters)
2020
Graduate HQP
Tyler Crick (3 semesters), Pierson Browne (3 semesters), Alexander Graham (3 semesters)
Undergraduate HQP
Alex de Witt (3 semesters), Alexis Foss Hill (3 semesters), Harrison Lobb (1 semester)
2019
Graduate HQP
Tyler Crick (3 semesters), Pierson Browne (3 semesters), Alexander Graham (3 semesters)
Undergraduate HQP
Alex de Witt (1 semester), Alexis Foss Hill (1 semester), Jason Kurian (1 semester)
2018
Graduate HQP
Tyler Crick (3 semesters), Pierson Browne (3 semesters), Alexander Graham (3 semesters), Yixi Yang (3 semesters), Brittany Etmanski (1 semester), Janet Michaud (1 semester)
Undergraduate HQP
Mumtahin Monzoor (1 semester), Rachel Wood (2 semesters)
2017
Graduate HQP
Tyler Crick (3 semesters), Pierson Browne (3 semesters), Alexander Graham (3 semesters), Yixi Yang (3 semesters), Cathlene Hillier (2 semesters), Janet Michaud (1 semester)
Undergraduate HQP
Mumtahin Monzoor (1 semester), Jillian Anderson (2 semesters), Joel Becker (2 semesters), Steve McColl (2 semesters)
2016
Graduate HQP
Brittany Etmanski (3 semesters), Pierson Browne (3 semesters), Yixi Yang (3 semesters), Cathlene Hillier (3 semesters), Amelia Howard (2 semesters), Alexander Graham (3 semesters)
Undergraduate HQP
Tahnee Prior (2 semesters), Jillian Anderson (2 semesters), Steve McColl (2 semesters), Joel Becker (2 semesters), Reid McIlroy-Young (3 semesters)
2015
Graduate HQP
Amelia Howard (1 semester), Tahnee Prior (1 semester)
Undergraduate HQP
Alexander Graham (3 semesters), Tiffany Lin (1 semester), Reid McIlroy-Young (2 semesters)
2014
Graduate HQP
Janet Michaud (1 semester), Amelia Howard (3 semesters), Benjamin Nelson (1 semester)
Undergraduate HQP
Tiffany Lin (1 semester), Evaleen Hellinga (2 semesters), Alexander V. Graham (3 semesters), 46 KI students (1 day)
2013
Graduate HQP
Skaidra Puodziunas (1 semester), Alexander V. Graham (1 semester), Evaleen Hellinga (1 semester)
Other Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP) Training
(Workshops, Short Courses)
2024
Instructor for Introduction to Computational Social Science with Python (5 days), GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne Germany. Course materials co-designed with Johannes Gruber (University of Amsterdam), who teaches the R course.
2018-Present
Co-Instructor (with Eric Kennedy) for Science Outside the Lab (SOtL) North: a week long intensive course in science policy held annually in Ottawa and Montréal or Vancouver and Victoria. Each course cohort is ~ 14 graduate students from science and engineering disciplines across Canada.
2020
Research Methods Workshop (5 days), GESIS Spring Seminar, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne Germany. Working with Digital Behavioural Data. Co-designed and instructed with Jillian Anderson.
2019
Research Methods Workshop (1 day), Transylvania Summer School in Research Methods. Using Network Analysis to (Partially) Automate Literature Reviews
2019
Research Methods Workshop (2 days) instructed at University of British Columbia, Department of Sociology. Introduction to Big Data and Automated Text Analysis for Social Scientists
2019
Research Methods Workshop (2 days) instructed at University of Waterloo. (Partially) Automating Literature Reviews for Knowledge Synthesis and Discovery
2019
Research Methods Workshop (2 days) instructed at University of Waterloo. How to Analyze Networks with R
2019
Research Methods Workshop (1 day) instructed at University of Waterloo. Automated Content Analysis for Social Scientists
Service to the Profession
2019-2023
Co-organizer (with Rochelle Côté) and liaison with the Canadian Sociological Association for the Social Networks Research Cluster
2016-2019
Communications Officer, Executive Council Member, Canadian Sociological Association
2019
Member of the Scientific Committee for Sunbelt XXXIX Conference in Montréal, International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA)
2014-2019
Organizer and liaison with the Canadian Sociological Association for the Sociology of Science, Technology, and Knowledge Research Cluster
Peer Reviewing - Academic Journals
- Nature Communications
- American Journal of Sociology
- American Sociological Review
- Social Networks
- Canadian Review of Sociology
- Science and Public Policy
- Scientometrics
- Sociological Theory
- Social Studies of Science
- Canadian Journal of Sociology
- Methodological Innovations
- Acta Sociologica
- Society & Natural Resources
Peer Reviewing - Books
- 1 book manuscript for Sage, UK. Quantitative research methods series.
- 1 book manuscript for Sage, UK. Quantitative research methods series.
Peer Reviewing / Evaluation - Grants
2022
Peer Reviewer for the 2022 SSHRC Insight Grant Awards Competition (Multi-disciplinary).
2019
Peer Reviewer for the 2019 SSHRC Insight Grant Awards Competition (Multi-disciplinary).
2018
Evaluator for 2017 SSHRC Insight Development Grants Competition.
2017
Observer for the 2018 SSHRC Postdoctoral Awards Competition.
Peer Reviewing / Evaluation - Other
2020
Chapter for Luke Sloan and Anabel Quan-Haase (eds). The SAGE Handbook for Social Media Research Methods, 2nd edition. London: Sage.
2020
Sage Campus Course. (Online research design classes)
2018
Sage Campus Course. (Online research design classes)
Conference Sessions Organized
2024
Sessions on Network Approaches to Attitudes and Beliefs at the 2024 Sunbelt meetings in Edinburgh, Scotland. Co-organized with Claudia Zucca, Mario Diani, and Lorien Jasny
2022
Sessions on Social Networks and Climate Change at the 2022 Sunbelt meetings in Melbourne, Australia. Co-organized with David Tindall and Mark Stoddart
2020
Sessions on Disinformation, Computational Methods, Climate Change, and Social Movements at the 2020 Sunbelt meetings in Paris, France (held remotely)
2019
Social Networks and Sociology panel (with Dr. Rochelle Côté), CSA
2019
Sessions for Social Networks Research Cluster, CSA
2019
Sessions for Sociology of Science, Technology, and Knowledge Research Cluster, CSA
2017
Practical Advice on Communicating Sociological Research panel, CSA
2017
Sociology of Science and Knowledge, CSA
2016
Sociology of Science and Knowledge, CSA
2015
Political Sociology of Science, CSA
2015
Sociology of Science, CSA
2014
Sociology of Technology, CSA
2014
Sociology of Culture (with Dr. Allyson Stokes), CSA
Service to the University
University of Waterloo
2022-2023
Knowledge Integration Department Chair Search and Selection Committee
2023-Present
Associate Chair (Undergraduate), Department of Knowledge Integration. (Vanessa Schweizer is interim Associate Chair while I am on parental leave.)
2022 (07-12)
Associate Chair (Undergraduate), Department of Knowledge Integration.
2021-2022
Member of the Administrative Committee, Faculty of Environment.
2021-2022
Chair of the Environment Faculty Council, Faculty of Environment.
2019-Present
Liaison between the Faculty of Environment and the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, University of Waterloo.
2020-2022
Faculty Association University of Waterloo (FAUW), Member of Council of Representatives, Department of Knowledge Integration.
2019
Committee member, Tenure and Promotions Committee, Department of Knowledge Integration.
2018
Search and selection committee member for two Canada Research Chairs in Environment and Sustainability, Faculty of Environment.
2018
Panelist on the SSHRC Insight Development Grants Panel, organized by Ruth Knechtel from the University of Waterloo Office of Research.
2017-2018
Committee member for university-level ‘Research excellence and crossing disciplinary lines’ committee, which developed a white paper to inform the development of the next University of Waterloo strategic plan. Part of my contribution included a network analysis of inter- and intra-faculty collaboration networks on campus.
2016
Informal committee designing a Master’s in Data Science at the University of Waterloo, joint initiative of the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Environment.
2016-2019
Member of Communications Outcomes Committee in the Faculty of Environment.
2016
Internal External Examiner for PhD Dissertation in the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo. John Lang, ‘Mathematical Modelling of Social Factors in Decision Making Processes at the Individual and Population Levels.’ Dissertation Supervisors: Drs. Hans De Sterck and Daniel M. Abrams.
2016
Internal External Examiner for PhD Dissertation in the Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo. Benjamin Nelson, ‘The Depictions of Unwritten Law.’ Committee Members: Brian Orend, Heather Douglas, and Matt Doucet.
2016-Present
Member of the University of Waterloo Task Force on Bibliometrics.
2016-2017
Committee Member on the Faculty of Environment Committee on the University of Waterloo HeForShe Campaign to make gender equality a top institutional priority.
2016
Co-organized (with Ian Milligan) a Software Carpentry workshop at the University of Waterloo focusing on shell scripting, git, and Python for social scientific and historical research.
2016-2021
Faculty Advisor, University of Waterloo iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) Team, Policy & Practices Subgroup, Mathematical Modeling Subgroup (occasionally). 2016 Gold Medal Winners.
2014-Present
Board Member, University of Waterloo Survey Research Centre
2014-2015
Faculty of Environment representative on the Arts Faculty Council
2014-2017
Department of Knowledge Integration representative on the Environment Faculty Council
2014-2015
Member of the English Language Competency Committee in the Faculty of Environment
2014
Faculty of Environment Teaching and Learning Committee
2014
Internal External Examiner for PhD Dissertation in the Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo. Nathaniel Barr, ‘Reasoned connections: Complex creativity and dual-process theories of cognition.’ Dissertation Advisor: Jonathon Fugelsang.
McMaster University
2011-2012
Selection Committee member for two tenure-track hires in Sociology
2010-2012
Chair of Graduate Student Caucus
2011-2012
PhD (ABD) Representative on the Graduate Committee
2009-2010
PhD Representative on the Graduate Committee
2009-2010
Co-Organizer, Culture and Politics workshop
2009-2012
Co-Organizer of Jane Synge Memorial Conferences
2009-2012
Peer Mentor in Sociology Peer Mentoring Program
2008-2009
Union Steward, Sociology (CUPE 3906)
Additional Training and Professional Development
2023-2024
Academic Leadership for New Department Chairs and Associate Chairs, Academic Leadership Program, University of Waterloo. Sessions include: Planning and Prioritizing for Change; Performance Conversations; Marketing, Recruitment, and Admissions; Governance and Policy at UW; Decreasing Unhealthy Conflict and Increasing Healthy Conflict; etc.
2016
Technical / methods workshops attended at Sunbelt 2016, Newport Beach, USA: (1) Understanding Diffusion with netdiffuseR, (2) Moving beyond Descriptives: Basic Network Statistics with statnet, (3) Exponential Family Random Graph Modeling (ERGMs) Using statnet, (4) Introduction to Egocentric Network Data Analysis with ERGMs and TERGMs Using statnet
2015
Technical / methods workshops attended at Sunbelt 2015, Brighton, UK: (1) Networks in Python: The networkx Package, Parts 1 & 2, (2) Mining of large social networks from Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn using Python, (3) Social Network Approaches for Behavior Change, (4) Visualizing Social Networks. How to Create Meaningful and Compelling Network Drawings.
2012
Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Fuzzy Sets. Arizona Methods Workshops, held at University of Arizona.
2011
Hierarchical Linear Models. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), held at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Research and Teaching Assistantships (Graduate School, 2008-2013)
2010-2013
Research Assistant for Neil McLaughlin, Sociology, McMaster University. ‘Shaping Opinion in the Public Sphere: Public Intellectual Authority in the Journalistic Field,’ Funded by SSHRC Standard Research Grant.
2009-2010
Teaching Assistant for Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory. Neil McLaughlin, Sociology, McMaster University.
2008-2009
Research Assistant for Neil McLaughlin, Sociology, McMaster University. ‘Professors as Public Intellectuals,’ Funded by SSHRC Standard Research Grant.
Professional Memberships
Canadian Sociological Association (CSA), American Sociological Association (ASA), International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), Network Science Society (NetSci), International Sociological Association (ISA), European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)