Thanks very much i shall look into those at least it looks like it is possible to do the thought of having to do it by hand with coloured pens and bits of paper to start with scared me. The data collection / entry / analysis has been slow enough, interesting but slow. Only 18 months to go!

thanks just looked that up by i think its still more flow charts than social network analysis - my house mate has just suggested inflow or netminer not sure whether anyone has heard of those?

Yes its a sort of web network that i want to create but word would not be able to handle it as there are 63 projects each with numerous lead and collaborating institutions and i know you can get network generating software that you just put the data in and it creates the network but have no idea what it is called or where to look for it.

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I have just finished some data analysis looking at the development of biosafety capacity-development projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. Capacity-development in this issue involves a large number of different organisations who all work with each other in different ways in different projects. I want to create a network of these collaborations but i don't want to have to sit there with pen and paper drawing out all the linkages so does anyone know of any software that i can use to do this?

thanks