Dr Andr谩s V枚r枚s

Dr Andr谩s V枚r枚s

School of Social Policy and Society
Associate Professor in Quantitative Methods

Contact details

Email
a.voros@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Social Policy and Society
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Andras's research focuses on the measurement and statistical analysis of social networks (both offline and online) in various settings. He interested in how social relations evolve over time and how they affect individual and group outcomes. He has experience collecting empirical data and modelling such phenomena in educational and professional contexts. In line with these interests, Andras's teaching and supervision mainly focuses on quantitative analyses of social processes with the use of simple and complex statistical and computational tools.

Biography

I joined the School of Social Policy as an Associate Professor in September 2022. Before that, I was a lecturer at the Department for Social Statistics at University of Manchester between 2019-2022. I spent my postdoctoral years at the Social Networks Lab of ETH Z眉rich in 2016-2019. I got my Sociology DPhil from Oxford in 2016, and earlier my MA in Sociology and Economics from the Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary) in 2010. Throughout these career stages, I have been in involved in exciting research projects linking sociology, social psychology, education research, statistics, and quantitative social network analysis.

Teaching

Programmes:

  • BA Sociology
  • BA Criminology
  • BA Social Policy
  • MA Social Research

Postgraduate supervision

I am interested in supervising PhD research projects which involve the use of social network analysis to understand social processes, individual and group outcomes, or policy effectiveness. I am especially keen on getting involved in projects in the field of education (at any level).

Research

My research focuses on understanding the dynamics of social relations and their effects on individual and group-level behaviour. I examine the evolution of social networks using cutting-edge statistical and simulation models developed for relational data in the past years. I am excited to develop new measures of social ties and extend existing methods to analyse these novel data. I have experience in such projects in educational and professional settings from a number of countries.

Publications

Highlight publications

Stadtfeld, C, V枚r枚s, A, Elmer, T, Boda, Z & Raabe, IJ 2019, '', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

V枚r枚s, A, Boda, Z, Elmer, T, Hoffman, M, Mepham, K, Raabe, IJ & Stadtfeld, C 2021, '', Social Networks, vol. 65, pp. 71-84.

Boda, Z, Elmer, T, V枚r枚s, A & Stadtfeld, C 2020, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 10, no. 1, 2889.

Stadtfeld, C, Tak谩cs, K & V枚r枚s, A 2019, '', Social Networks.

V枚r枚s, A, Block, P & Boda, Z 2019, '', Social Networks.

Recent publications

Article

V枚r枚s, A, Bellotti, E, Nengnong, CB, Passah, M, Nongrum, QD, Khongwir, C, van Eijk, AM, Kessler, A, Sarkar, R, Carlton, JM & Albert, S 2025, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 15, no. 1, 1718.

Wullschleger, A, Maag Merki, K, Grob, U, Rechsteiner, B, Compagnoni, M & V枚r枚s, A 2025, '', Learning and Instruction, vol. 97, 102104.

Wullschleger, A, V枚r枚s, A, Rechsteiner, B, Rickenbacher, A & Merki, KM 2023, '', Teaching and Teacher Education, vol. 121, 103909.

V枚r枚s, A, Boda, Z, Elmer, T, Hoffman, M, Mepham, K, Raabe, IJ & Stadtfeld, C 2022, '', Social Networks, vol. 69, pp. 180-193.

V枚r枚s, A & Snijders, TAB 2017, '', Social Networks.

Conference contribution

Wachs, J, Hann谩k, A, V枚r枚s, A & Dar贸czy, B 2017, . in Eleventh International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2017, no. 1, vol. 11, AAAI Press, pp. 299-308, 11th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2017, Montreal, Canada, 15/05/17.

Doctoral Thesis

V枚r枚s, A 2015, ''.

Other contribution

Elmer, T, Mepham, K, Hoffman, M, Boda, Z, Raabe, IJ, V枚r枚s, A & Stadtfeld, C 2022, . ETH Zurich. <>