Research & Expertise

Technological and cultural transformations that contribute to the development of trusting relationships with customers and increase their loyalty were themes of the second Bank of Russia conference «Focus on the customer». The plenary session was attended by Elvira Nabiullina (Chairman of the Bank of Russia), German Gref (Sberbank PJSC), Stanislav Bliznyuk (TBank JSC), Vladimir Verkhoshinsky (Alfa-Bank JSC) and Alexander Krainov (Yandex LLC).

On November 15, 2024, at the scientific seminar of the International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy (IDLab) at HSE University, Andrey Smirnov, a research assistant at theLaboratory of Sports Studies, presented his report on the topic "How Home Advantage Affects Coaches' Strategic Decisions in Football."

On November 13, 2024, the III inter-faculty student scientific and practical conference named after L.L. Lyubimov took place at HSE – Perm. The International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy (IDLab) actively participated in the conference. Laboratory staff served on the jury, while assistants presented their research findings and received valuable feedback.

A team of scientists at HSE University, in collaboration with the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, studied how people respond to deception when under stress and cognitive load. The study revealed that smoking habits interfere with performance on cognitive tasks involving memory and attention and impairs a person’s ability to detect deception. The study findings have been published in Frontiers in Neuroscience.

Can human life expectancy be more than 100 years? How do heat and cold waves affect mortality? Do the elderly experience isolation from society? Does alcohol-related mortality differ by region of Russia? These and other issues were discussed on November 8 at the international conference "Current issues of Russian Demography" organized by International Laboratory for Population and Health.

Ivan Kotlov, a researcher at the laboratory, presented the report "Modeling the suitability of the habitats of the Central Asian leopard (Panthera pardus ciscaucasica) in the Chechen Republic."

Dr. Mbandlwa Zamokule, ICSID Visiting Researcher, Senior Lecturer in the  Department of Public Administration and Economics, Durban University of Technology, presented his report on "Global Economies in the Global South and Russia's Economy."

On November 4-6, as part of Inventing the Future International Symposium hosted by the National Centre RUSSIA, the HSE Centre for Language and Brain facilitated a discussion titled 'Evolution of the Brain: How Does the World Change Us?' Researchers from the country's leading universities, along with health professionals and neuroscience popularisers, discussed specific aspects of human brain function.

On November 1, an online research seminar organized by the international laboratory IDLab took place, during which research assistant Nikita Matkin presented a study on the popularity and content of videos on the topic of "happiness" among Russian psychologists. The seminar gathered students and scholars not only from Perm but also from Moscow, attracting the interest of a wide audience.

On November 14, 2024, the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University) hosted the international scientific conference “Development of Russian-Italian Cooperation in Biomedicine”