Research & Expertise

A workshop dedicated to the inclusion of children and youth in post-socialist countries was held at the Research-Educational Group «Inclusive Society: Comparative Analysis of Structural Conditions and Insiders' Opinions in Russia and Post-socialist Countries» аnd International Laboratory for Social Integration Research on May 3, 2022. It discussed a draft of a research article being prepared for a special issue of the journal «Children and Youth Services Review».

On February 29, the Museum of Moscow hosted a lesson in the Deaf Teens laboratory of the Kaskad project school. The lesson was dedicated to the researches and was conducted by Nikita Bolshakov, IL SIR senior researcher.

Expeditions to the Eastern Arctic and Kara Seas investigated the thermal properties of bottom sediments. Numerous zones of bubbling methane flux were discovered in the shelf of the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea, which researchers believe is affecting climate warming in the Arctic. The study has been published inMarine and Petroleum Geology.

On Wednesday, April 27, the National Research University Higher School of Economics hosted a seminar "Expert opinion and data analysis".

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.