Elisa Bellotti is a part of the department of sociology at the University of Manchester, as well as being a member of the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis, where she organises the weekly seminar series. She also teaches introductory and advance workshops in social network analysis and egonetworks, and on mixed methods in SNA. Before arriving in Manchester in 2008, Elisa worked as a research fellow at the University of Turin and the University of Bozen, Italy.