In 2018 the Department of Science and Technology of the Republic of South Africa commissioned a national Foresight study to the ISSEK Foresight Centre. Preliminary findings will be discussed at a workshop in Pretoria on October, 18–19. Ozcan Saritas, Leading Researcher at the Foresight Centre and Deputy Head of the Research Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies, will take part in this event.
Article "Testing the Efforts Model of Simultaneous Interpreting: An ERP Study" by Roman Koshkin, Yurii Shtyrov, Andrey Myachikov and Alexei Ossadtchi is accepted to the Q1 journal PLoS ONE with impact factor 2.8
HSE International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID) and NES Center for the Study of Diversity and Social Interactions held another session of their joint Research Seminar on Diversity and Development on October 9, 2018.
Megamrant № 14.0641.31.0003, leading researcher Mikhail Lebedev.
On 8-12 October, 2018 an international science and technology conference "Neuroinformatics-2018" was held in Moscow. Alexei Ossadtchi and Mikhail Lebedev took part in a round table discussion on the topic of "Neurointerface technology: on the path to combining with the elements of artificial intelligence" as well as gave talks about their research.
The Higher School of Economics has entered the top 5 of Russian universities most popular with foreigners, according to Rossotrudnichestvo (in terms of the number of applications for quotas submitted in the 2018/19 academic year). Gathered facts about international student mobility in the world, the country, HSE and the ISSEK 'Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation' Master’s programme.
The paper of researcher fellows of the International Laboratory for Sociocultural Research and teachers of the master's program "Applied Social Psychology" Anastasia Batkhina, Dmitry Grigoryev, Dmitrii Dubov and Тomas Jurcik (associate professor of the Department of Psychology HSE) was recognized as the best paper of the special issue of the Russian Psychological Journal by the decision of the Competition Commission. The Russian Psychological Journal is a leading Russian peer-reviewed journal of psychology and an open-access journal established by the Russian Psychological Society.
On October 9 Svetlana Komissarouk (PhD, postdoc, teacher, department of psychology, Columbia University, USA) took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report "Theory of Attachment to the Motherland".
