The workshop focuses on the use of mixed methods research designs when studying whole and ego-

centered social networks. The workshop will be conducted in two parts. The first part introduces

social network qualitative research and the principles of mixed methods research designs and its

contributions to the study of social networks, pointing out advantages and challenges of this

approach. Illustrations of the theoretical and methodological aspects are given by bringing examples

from a variety of fields of research. The second part is devoted to the presentation of concrete

procedures to apply mixed methods in network research both at the level of data collection and

analysis. This part includes an introduction of different approaches to the collection of whole and

ego-centered network data, i.e. interviews, ethnographic methods, archival data, together with

visual instruments. It then moves to the analysis of the quantitative and qualitative dimensions of

network relationships and structures in a mixed method perspective.