News & Events of DEVELOP

DEVELOP is participating at the Earli Sig 27 conference in Oulu, Finland, 29th November - 1st December. Mirjam Neelen will present a poster on "Supporting Career Development Through Transversal Competency Assessment".

Soft Skills like Communication, Negotiation and Time Management are important both for private and business life. They are prime examples of transversal competencies that aid career development and can be applied across the job roles employees face during their career.

With the growth of enterprise social networking services, social dimensions of work are getting more attention within the organisations. Beyond the use of the tools for collaboration, these services provide many other indirect benefits such as the possibility to determine the “Social Capital” of each employee.

The DEVELOP team recently hosted a consultation workshop on legal (privacy and data protection), ethical and social considerations for the DEVELOP system in London, September 2016.

In DEVELOP, we aim to study how computational social network analysis (SNA) can be used to evaluate and measure an individual’s social capital through evidence from virtual social network data.