On February 26, Akhmet Yarlykapov (PhD, senior research fellow at the Center for the regional security and Caucasus studies, senior research fellow at the Institute for International Research, MGIMO) took part in the “Culture matters” research seminar.
Why do people become researchers and pursue careers in science? What is more important for them – self-fulfillment or financial incentives? On the day before Russia celebrated Science Day on Feb 8, HSE’s news service talked to researchers working at HSE about what motivated them to become scientists.
Why do people become researchers and pursue careers in science? What is more important for them – self-fulfillment or financial incentives? On the day before Russia celebrated Science Day on Feb 8, HSE’s news service talked to researchers working at HSE about what motivated them to become scientists.
Giorgio Sirilli, Associate Research Director at Italy’s Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth of National Research Council (IRCrES), an active participant and former chair of the OECD Working Party of National Experts on Science and Technology Indicators (NESTI), and author of over 200 academic publications, gave an open lecture at HSE on January 21, 2015
In the year that marks the 70 th anniversary of victory in the Second World War, we talk to Kristy Ironside, who received her BA and MA from the University of Toronto before going on to complete her PhD at the University of Chicago, and who is currently researching life in the Soviet Union in the post-war years. Kristy Ironside’s work examines what the War meant to ordinary people, how their lives changed — and how Soviet society coped with the aftermath.
On January 25, Yekaterina Kazarceva (researcher at the Laboratory of Sociology of Education and Science, HSE, Saint Petersburg) took part in the “Culture matters” research seminar. Yekaterina presented a talk on applications of acculturation theory in studying Russian-speaking migrants in Germany.
On January 22 Filippov, Vladimir S. (Ph. D., associate Professor of REU n. a. G. V. Plekhanov) and Misurova, Xenia M. (Ph. D., associate Professor of REU n. a. G. V. Plekhanov) took part in the «Culture Matters» research seminar with the report on "National character and technological process".
An instructor at the University of Missouri – Columbia, recently offered a lecture course at the HSE Winter School 2015 on the psychology of motivation.
On December 18, Mahama Tawat (Ph.D., Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Policy, Higher School of Economics) took part in the “Culture matters” seminar.Mahama Tawat gave a talk entitled “Culture matters… for policy scholars too”, in which he described new developments in policy scholarship.
