miranda_lubbers<p><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>introduction</span></a> (sorry, a bit late…): Hi everyone, I investigate how <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/personal_networks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>personal_networks</span></a> are formed, what they look like, how they change, how they function, what flows through them, &amp; particularly how they can both mitigate &amp; reproduce <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/social_exclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>social_exclusion</span></a>, <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/polarization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>polarization</span></a> and <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/segregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>segregation</span></a>. I love <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/mixing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mixing</span></a> methods (<a href="https://sciences.social/tags/qual" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>qual</span></a>, <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/quan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quan</span></a>, <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/CSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CSS</span></a>, <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/ABMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ABMS</span></a>…). I am Dutch but work in <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Barcelona" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Barcelona</span></a> since 16 years. I am also a mother of a teenage son who loves <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/basketball" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>basketball</span></a> (so I watch it a lot!)</p>