Research & Expertise

Third International Summer School of ILSCR "Designing, performing and presenting social psychology and sociology research: From initial questions to publication" was held in hotel “Olympiets” in Moscow region on 20-25 of June, 2013.
Participants of Summer School were students, graduate students, researchers and teachers of Higher School of Economics. All participants had to have results of conducted study that could be presented for forthcoming publication. Therefore, each participant had an opportunity to work on improving his/her own materials with the help of teachers of the School – well-known foreign specialists Shalom Schwartz, Ronald Fischer and Peter Schmidt, as well as invited expert on academic writing Rachel Schwartz.

On 19th of June has been held seminar from series "Culture Matters" with new Dean of Psychology department Vasily Klucharev. He presented a report on following topic: "A Big Brother in the brain: neuroeconomics of social influence on our decision-making". Neuroeconomics  is a new field that combines economics, psychology and neuroscience.

The INSNA congress (International Network for Social Network Analysis) took place in Hamburg (Germany) on 21-26 of May. XXXIII Sunbelt Social Networks Conference   of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA). More information about this event can be found on the conference website.

Lusine Grigoryan, junior researcher of ILSCR, participated in 16^th congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, organized in University of Munster, Germany.

By results of competition for participation in the Summer School "Designing, performing and presenting social psychology and sociology research: From initial questions to publication", 22 participants were selected.

On May 16 has been held a seminar in series "Culture Matters". During this seminar Elena Omelchenko, PhD, Associate Professor of the UNESCO Moscow Institute of Open Education, General Director of the "Ethnosphere", made a presentation on following topic "Language and socio-cultural adaptation of international migrants through education."

In May 2013 personnel of ILSCR – Lusine Grigoryan, Maria Efremova and Ekaterina Bushina – took part in advanced training program organized by Social Research Association in Edinburgh, Scotland.

On April 18 Victoria N. Galyapina, senior researcher of our laboratory, PhD in psychology, took part in the «Culture matters» research seminar with the report on "The results of the analysis of the views of ordinary residents of the North Caucasus Federal District on the problems of mutual adaptation of migrants and host population". Read more...

Short-term advanced training program “Social Identity, Values and Migration” took place from 25th of March till 5th of April. Program included three thematic parts.

On 4th of April, professors of  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) Lilach Sagiv and Sonia Roccas made a report "Social Identity Complexity and Inferences Regarding the Motivations of Ingroup Members" on scientific seminar "Culture matters".