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A/PROF GARRY ROBINS



Contact Details

Organization: Behavioural Science
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
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Homepage: http://www.psych.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/RobinsG.html
Work: 8344 4454
Building: Redmond Barry Building
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1998

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Prize Psychometric Society Dissertation Prize 01-Mar-1999
Prize American Psychological Association Distinguished Dissertation Award, Division 5 (Evaluation, Measurement & Statistics), 01-Aug-2000
Prize International network for social network analysis Freeman Research Award for significant contributions to the scientific study of social structure 01-May-2006

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
The Formation and Maintenance of Stereotypes through Communication Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2002
Modelling dynamic interactive social processes Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
Maculine behaviour and social networks in team structures Chief Investigator AFL RESEARCH BOARD Research & Development Program (AUST FOOTBALL LEAGUE) 10/03/2005
"Statistical models for social networks, network-based social processes and complex social systems" Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
MODELLING CROSS-LEVEL INTERACTIONS IN COMPLEX NETWORKED SOCIAL SYSTEMS Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage International Awards 01/01/2007
The structure and dynamics of social contact for human disease transmission models Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009
DETAILED DESIGN FOR A STUDY OF THE MAJOR SOCIAL PROCESSES THAT DRIVE BEHAVIOURAL ADAPTATION Chief Investigator CSIRO FLAGSHIP COLLABORATIVE FUND Research Project 01/07/2009

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
SOCIAL AND ORGANISATIONAL NETWORK ANALYSIS Chief Investigator DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION 01/11/2005
RESEARCH AGREEMENT - SIMULATION MODELLING OF URBAN PANDEMIC INFLUENZA IN AUSTRALIA Chief Investigator AUST BIOSECURITY CRC 01/05/2007
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AGREEMENT - ADVANCED SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES Chief Investigator DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION 05/12/2007

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Probabilistic network analysis
    Year: 2008
    Book: Handbook of probability: Theory and applications
    Publisher: Sage Publications(California)
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  • Probabilistic network theory
    Year: 2008
    Book: Handbook of probability
    Publisher: Sage Publications(Thousand Oaks)
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Journal Articles

  • Big boys don't cry: an investigation of stoicism and its mental health outcomes
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Personality and Individual Differences
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1369-1381
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  • Social psychology and social networks
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Asian Journal of Social Psychology
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-12
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Statistical models for networks: a brief review of some recent research
    Year: 2007
    Book: Social network analysis: Models, issues and new directions
    Publisher: Springer(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Advances in exponential random graph (p*) models
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Social Networks
    Volume: 29
    Page numbers: 169-172
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  • An introduction to exponential random graph (p*) models for social networks
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Social Networks
    Volume: 29
    Page numbers: 173-191
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  • Ceremonies of the whole: does social participation moderate the mood consequences of neuroticism?
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 173-180
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  • Mental health problems in rural contexts: what are the barriers to seeking help from professional providers?
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Psychologist
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 147-160
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  • Recent developments in exponential random graph (p*) models for social networks
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Social Networks
    Volume: 29
    Page numbers: 192-215
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • A spatial model for social networks
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Physica A - Statistical and Theoretical Physics
    Volume: 360
    Page numbers: 99-120
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  • Comparing the validity of multiple social effectiveness constructs in the prediction of managerial job performance
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Organizational Behavior
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 443-461
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  • New specifications for exponential random graph models
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Sociological Methodology
    Volume: 36
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 99-153
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  • Psychological predispositions and network structure: The relationship between individual predispositions, structural holes and network closure
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Social Networks
    Volume: 28
    Page numbers: 56-84
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  • Understanding suicide in Australian farmers
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
    Volume: 41
    Page numbers: 1-10
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • An introduction to random graphs, dependence graphs, and p*
    Year: 2005
    Book: Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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  • Interdependencies and social processes: Dependence graphs and generalized dependence structures
    Year: 2005
    Book: Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Changing places: the impact of rural restructuring on mental health in Australia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Health and Place
    Volume: 11
    Page numbers: 157-171
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  • Small and other worlds: global network structures from local processes
    Year: 2005
    Journal: American Journal of Sociology
    Volume: 110
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 894-936
    Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Journals Division(Chicago)
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  • The Five Factor Model and Accessibility/Remoteness: Novel evidence for person-environment interaction
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Personality and Individual Differences
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 715-725
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Building models for social space: Neighbourhood-based models for social networks and affiliation structures
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Mathematiques et Sciences Humaines
    Volume: 168
    Page numbers: 11-30
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  • Missing data in networks: exponential random graph (p*) models for networks with non-respondents
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Social Networks
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 257-283
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Rurality and mental health: the role of accessibility
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: 629-634
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  • Small worlds among interlocking directors: network structure and distance in bipartite graphs
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
    Volume: 10
    Page numbers: 69-94
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Relational Discrepancy Theory: The Implications of Self-Discrepancy Theory for Dyadic Relationships and for the Emergence of Social Structure
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Personality and Social Psychology Review
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 56-74
    Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates(New Jersey)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Neighbourhood-based models for social networks
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Sociological Methodology
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 301-337
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Network models for social influence processes
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Psychometrika
    Volume: 66
    Page numbers: 161-190
    Publisher: Psychometric Society(Virginia)
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  • Network models for social selection processes
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Social Networks
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 1-30
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Random graph models for temporal processes in social networks
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Mathematical Sociology
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 5-41
    Publisher: Gordon Breach Publishing(Pennsylvania)
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