ICSID Research Fellow Israel Marques successfully defended his doctoral dissertation "Political institutions and preferences for social policy in the post-communist world" at Columbia University on September 10, 2015.
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of full-time students at Russian universities studied free of charge in 2014. This figure grew in comparison with 2006, when free education was received by only 57% of students. These data were obtained in a survey of students of institutions of higher education that was carried out as part of a Monitoring of Education Markets and Organizations study conducted by HSE in collaboration with the Levada Centre in 2014.
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On September 8 Julia A. Logashenko (senior lecturer of Psychology & Social Work Department, Baltic Federal University by I. Kant, Kaliningrad) took part in the «Culture matters» research seminar with the report on "Model of intercultural sensitivity: the results of a study of student samples".
Victoria Zavyalova, the employee of the Neurolinguistics laboratory visited the scientific school on a method for fMRI studies of the human brain at rest, which was held in Berlin, September 2-4 (Resting state fMRI - basic concepts, methods and applications).
"BRICS Business Magazine" interviewed prof. Ronald Inglehart, the scientific supervisor of LCSS. Professor shared his views on the way values have been developing throughout the world, and commented on the situation in individual countries.
On September 3 Eugene Tartakovsky (PhD, Professor of Tel Aviv University, Israel) took part in the «Culture matters» research seminar with the report on "Contemporary Russian Jewry: a Psychological Portrait".
25th annual conference of the European Second Language Association was devoted to the problem of language acquisition "Second Language Acquisition : Implications for language sciences"
Research on game theory has a strong history in Russia, and this year’s opening of the new HSE International Laboratory for Game Theory and Decision-Making in St. Petersburg will only help it grow stronger. Leading the laboratory, which will include researchers from the St. Petersburg Institute for Economics and Mathematics, will be Herve Moulin, Donald J. Robertson Chair of Economics at the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow. Prof. Moulin is a scholar who is known for his research contributions in mathematical economics, in particular in the fields of mechanism design, social choice, game theory and fair division.
International summer school has been organized from 27 July to 10 August by the University of Applied Sciences «Hochschule Bremerhaven». Over 30 students from 12 countries took part in the event.