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Elena Berdysheva

  • Elena Berdysheva has been at HSE University since 2006.

Education and Degrees

  • 2010

    Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in Economic Sociology and Demography
    HSE University
    Thesis Title: Pricing in medicine as a social process (the case of Moscow commercial dentistry)

  • 2009

    Doctoral programme
    HSE University

  • 2006

    Master's
    HSE University

  • 2006

    Master's in MA in Sociology
    HSE University

  • 2004

    Bachelor's
    HSE University

* Candidate of Sciences
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.

Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience

"New Generation Insights. Qualitative research methods for solving modern business problems", HSE in cooperation with GfK Rus, Ipsos, November 2020.

Completion of Teach for HSE professional development course on "Assessment and Feedback", December 2019.

Awards and Accomplishments

Best Teacher – 2020, 2018

Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Researchers" (2010-2011)
Category "Future Lecturers" (2009)

Courses (2022/2023)

Courses (2021/2022)

Courses (2020/2021)

Courses (2019/2020)

Conferences

  • 2021
    Mid-Term Conference Health and Healthcare in Europe: between inequalities and new opportunities (Краков). Presentation: Unworthy Self: Deficits of Agency in Health Keeping Practices among Russians Back to the Institutionalised Discounting of Human Life
  • IX Международный интердисциплинарный научно-практический симпозиум «Медицинская антропология перед новыми вызовами: мир, люди, знания и культуры в эпоху пандемии» (Москва). Presentation: Субъективная ценность здоровья в современном российском обществе: поиск энергии для выживания, повышение конкурентоспособности или контакт с самим собой?
  • XXII Апрельская международная научная конференция НИУ ВШЭ по проблемам развития экономики и общества (Москва). Presentation: «Достаточно одной таблетки»: фармацевтические гиганты как производители метафор рака в России
  • 2020
    The Varieties of Power in the Economy (Москва). Presentation: Definitional Power in the Economy of Hope. The Case of Breast Cancer Drug in Russia
  • 2019

    Economy & Possible: Alternative, Missed and Reified Futures in Contemporary Society (Варшава). Presentation: Social Lessons of Oncology Pandemics. What Do Stories of Cancer Survivors’ Transformations Tell About Contemporary Society as the Environment of Human Life?

  • Тревожное общество и сенситивная социология (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: «Найти себя настоящего пока я еще здесь с вместе с вами»: переосмысление жизненных ориентиров онковыжившими в России.
  • 2018

    «Университет, открытый городу: Лекции молодых ученых Вышки в Культурном центре ЗИЛ». (Москва). Presentation: Рак как социальная смерть: экономические и социальные потери от онкологических заболеваний

  • 2015
    XVI Апрельская международная научная конференция «Модернизация экономики и общества» (Москва). Presentation: Социальная архитектоника рыночной цены
  • Международная конференция "Пересматривая профессионализм: вызовы и реформы социального государства" (Москва). Presentation: Государство? Клан? Профессия? Какому богу служить? Неформальная экономическая деятельность российских полицейских на перекрестке институциональных логик
  • 2010
    XXII Апрельская международная научная конференция по проблемам развития экономики и общества (Москва). Presentation: «Достаточно одной таблетки»: фармацевтические гиганты как производители метафор рака в Росси

Conferences

2021

Mid-Term Conference Health and Healthcare in Europe: between inequalities and new opportunities (Krakow). Topic of the report: Unworthy Self: Deficits of Agency in Health Keeping Practices among Russians Back to the Institutionalised Discounting of Human Life

IX International Interdisciplinary Scientific and Practical Symposium "Medical Anthropology in the Face of New Challenges: World, People, Knowledge, and Cultures in an Epoch of Pandemic" (Moscow). Topic of the report: Subjective Value of Health in Contemporary Russian Society: Energy Search for Survival, Competitiveness Enhancement or Self-Contact?

XXII April International Academic Conference at National Research University Higher School of Economics on the problems of development of economy and society (Moscow). Topic of the report: "One Pill Is Enough": Pharmaceutical Giants as Producers of Cancer Metaphors in Russia

 

2020

Medical anthropology on the threshold of the third decade of the XXI century: main results, new ideas and perspectives (Moscow). Topic of the report: self-preservation bin Russia: low value of human life and deficits of agency.

Workshop “The Varieties of Power in the Economy,” (Moscow). Topic of the report: Definitional Power in the Economy of Hope. The Case of Breast Cancer Drug in Russia.

2019

Anxious society and sensitive sociology (St. Petersburg). Topic of the report: "Finding the real self while I'm still here with you": Rethinking life orientations by cancer survivors from Russia.

Economy & Possible: Alternative, Missed and Reified Futures in Contemporary Society (Warsaw). Topic of the report: Social Lessons of Oncology Pandemics. What Do Stories of Cancer Survivors’ Transformations Tell About Contemporary Society as the Environment of Human Life?

Medical Forum "Competition in medicine. Meanings and trends, tools, and cases", (Moscow) "Russians' expenditures on medicine depending on values".

Publications42

Projects

Research experience

Early intervention for saving human capital in Russia, 2022

Oncology and deficit of agency: autonomous self-care practices of Russian citizens amidst crisis of biomedicine, 2020–2022

Home accounting management in practice of Russian citizens: gender cross-section, 2019

Household saving practices among Russian citizens, 2017–2019

Informal police economic activities in transforming countries, 2010-2016

Study of socio-economic aspects of reforming the system of internal affairs agencies of the Russian Federation in 2010–2012,

"Social factors of pricing in medicine" (on the example of private dentistry in Moscow), 2009–2014

Experiences of empirical consulting research

Early intervention for saving human capital in Russia, 2022

Demand for professional consulting in Russian healthcare industry, 2020

Socioeconomic contribution of McDonald's to Russian economy, 2019

Main forms of illicit product trafficking in Russian consumer markets and countermeasures, 2017

Cancer care system in Russia: monitoring of patients in Moscow, 2016

Internet commerce market: types of supply chains and tax optimization schemes, 2010


Employment history

Manager of the Laboratory of Studies in Economic Sociology at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (2006–2011).

Incompatible Alternatives: HSE Researchers on the Ambivalence of Power in the Twenty-first Century Economy

Ambivalence and a combination of contradictory principles are vividly manifested in the actions of government, its individual agents and institutions, as well as the everyday practices of economic subjects and citizens. The participants of the HSE Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology seminar discussed the book The Ambivalence of Power in the Twenty-First Century Economy: Cases from Russia and Beyond, recently published in the UK. Prepared by researchers from HSE University and foreign universities, the book focuses on the study of ambivalence in Russia and beyond.

HSE University Researchers Investigate Why Many Russians Oppose Vaccination

Despite the risks associated with COVID-19 infection, many Russians either refuse to get vaccinated or are uncertain and hesitant about the practice. The factors behind these views are the subject of research by Yana Roshchina, Leading Research Fellow of the HSE University Centre for Longitudinal Studies and Senior Research Fellow of the Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology (LSES); Sergey Roshchin, Head of the Laboratory for Labour Market Studies (LLMS) and HSE University Vice Rector; and Ksenia Rozhkova, Junior Research Fellow at LLMS. The results of the study were presented at an LSES seminar.

The Keepers of the Ruble

Post-Soviet life and the economic ups and downs of recent years have changed the attitude of Russians towards saving. Now, it is not the less fortunate who save, but the more intelligent, according to Elena Berdysheva and Regina Romanova. Or, more to the point, it’s the more intelligent women: domestic finances are usually dealt with by females. At HSE’s recent XIX April international scientific conference, researchers explained how Russians adjusted and optimized family budgets following the crisis of 2014-2017 and how this relates to gender issues.

‘Nothing Inspires and Moves Like HSE’

A Harry Potter-themed university graduation party has been held at HSE. This year, the party was completely organized by HSE students, they selected everything – from the location to the entertainment, and not only graduates, but also their friends and family were invited.

'Normal Is Not Ridiculous': Most Interesting Reports Presented at the HSE's XVII April International Academic Conference

A total of 900 papers were presented at the HSE's XVII April Conference in Moscow. We consider the following selection to be must-reads.