Lorien Jasny

Lorien Jasny is a computational social scientist in the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter. Her work focuses on the role of social networks in questions of public engagement, environmental management, and community health. In her research she explores two related themes – how the structure and dynamics of inter-organizational networks affect policy change, and how the structure and dynamics of social and belief networks affect behavioral change. Substantively, she studies how people try to bring about societal change in response to political and environmental concerns. Methodologically, the need to grapple with these often complex phenomena requires the use and development of techniques for handling large, dynamic, and relational datasets.

Lorien is a researcher and network analysis expert on the Talking Climate Collaborative’s  landscape assessment of climate communicators across Canada and the U.S.