Social relationships afford a range of sociopsychological benefits, from a sense of meaning to support during stressful times. Social exclusion has, however, been reported to be increasing in the United Kingdom, alongside levels of partisan and intergroup polarisation. Fran’s PhD research investigates the ways in which social attitudes, political narratives and the experience of ostracism might affect relationships between individuals from diverse social and cultural backgrounds. She uses computational social science methodologies to explore these questions, including supervised and unsupervised machine learning on large attitudinal datasets.
