Education

On October 9 Stephen G. Wheatcroft who is professor of the School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne gave a lecture for the students from Population and Development programme. His research interests include Russian pre-revolutionary and Soviet social, economic and demographic history, as well as famine and food supply problems in modern world history.

 An international conference involving renowned academics, researchers, social scientists and development researchers who were representatives of 18 countries (Russia – from 50 cities of the Russian federation, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Great Britain, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Brazil, Algeria, Nigeria ), from 85 universities, 39 research centers, social institutions and NGOsand a huge number of audience. Our student, Ola Bamidele Emmanual, shares his experience of participating this conference.

During the first week of September the VI International Summer School "Measurement of volunteer activities: economic efficiency, social effects, and its impact into development of a country, regions, and municipalities" took place in Moscow . The event was organized by the Centre for Studies of Civil Society and Non-Profit Sector . Evgenia Fedorova, the student of the 2nd year 'Population and Development', shares her experience.

The Young Leaders for Health (YLH) is an interdisciplinary platform with the aim to stimulate exchange of knowledge and opportunity as well as network with people across the globe involved in Global Health. With support from the World Health Summit and Charité University of Medicine, the YLH Conference 2017 was organized at the Charité University Campus in Berlin, Germany from 17th-20th August 2017. Our student, Kofi Aduo-Adjei, shares his experiences of participating this conference which was held in Berlin

The VII International Russian-Chinese Summer School on International Relations ‘Economic Instruments of Foreign Policy in the Modern World’ was held on July 6-13 at the HSE Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs (Moscow) in full cooperation with the East China Normal University (Shanghai) and with the support of the Gorchakov Fund.

It was a party like no other when the second years Master Population and Development class took to the Moscow river to unwind, celebrate and bond as they end their academic journey. After partying the party ended with a mock graduation where each person received a "certificate". The two-year program brought together students from different continents and backgrounds from America, Canada, Europe to China, from Africa, Russia, former soviet countries to Pakistan. From pilots, doctors and teachers to pastors and lawyers! We congratulate these scholars for setting the bar so high by their intelligence, academic discipline and high level of scholarship. As our pioneers, you have made us proud and worthy of emulation. We all join hands in saying - Congratulations!

Demographic department and the Public Policy Department (Faculty of Social Sciences) organized series of seminars within the HSE Teaching Excellence Initiative with prof Joost Herman  (University of Groningen)

"I thoroughly enjoyed my time doing an internship at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (University of Naples Federico II), the oldest state university in the world, located in Naples, Italy. As my research topic is Nigerian Sex Trafficking, and it is facilitated by organized crime, I went to Naples to work with the “Mafia, Camorra and Criminal Networks Research Group” in the university’s Department of Social Sciences." by Patrick Whelan, 2nd year master student of "Population and Development" programme