Research & Expertise

In April, the results of the Research Initiative student project competition were announced at HSE University. Twenty-two team applications were submitted by students of 20 different fields of study at HSE University’s campuses in Moscow, Perm, and Nizhny Novgorod. Based on the results of expert assessment, the competition committee approved 17 interdisciplinary projects to be implemented by December 2022.

Topic: Crony Capitalism as an Electoral Outcome
Date & Time: April, 28; 18:00 - 19:00
Where: St. Petersburg, Shpalernaya St, 1 (EUSP) & online platform Webinar

On April 20 (Wednesday), 2022, a regular meeting of the all-Moscow scientific seminar "Mathematical Methods of Decision Analysis in Economics, Business and Politics" took place at the National Research University "Higher School of Economics".

HSE Vice Rector Maria Yudkevich speaks about the launch of Mirror Laboratories, the third open project competition held by HSE University. Teams from Russian universities, research organisations, and government research centres looking to collaborate with HSE research departments are invited to participate in the competition. Applications will be accepted until May 20.

On Wednesday, April 13, the National Research University Higher School of Economics hosted a seminar "Expert opinion and data analysis".

On April 15, 2022, Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova took part at the conference "An anxious society and the (im)possibilities of solidarity", organized by the Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the St. Petersburg Association of Sociologists SPAS, panel "Feelings, emotions and boundaries: a psychotherapeutic turn in modern Russia" with a report on the topic "'While leaving, I'm still waiting at the door, because I'm worried’. Vibrating Boundaries in the Relations between Social Workers and Clients in Caring Practices" together with Valentina Yarskaya-Smirnova.

Medical advances are causing a gradual increase in average life expectancy. However, this comes at a price, as the number of cases of dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases grows with age. Researchers from HSE University (Russia) and Northumbria University (UK) have found that bilingualism can slow down and mitigate the course of age-related changes in the human brain. The study was published in Frontiers in Psychology.

Foresight and STI Policy are among the symposium topics of the XXIII Yasin International Academic Conference. How has foresight developed in Canada? How did academic life change during the pandemic? What can early-career foresight researchers expect? The HSE News Service discussed these questions with Jonathan Calof, one of the symposium’s speakers.

Foresight and STI Policy are among the symposium topics of the XXIII Yasin International Academic Conference. How has foresight developed in Canada? How did academic life change during the pandemic? What can early-career foresight researchers expect? The HSE News Service discussed these questions with Jonathan Calof, one of the symposium’s speakers.

On March 30 Andrey Nevryuev (PhD, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences and Mass Communications, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation) took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report "What are young people in Russia proud of and ashamed of?: The role of basic individual values".