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‘A Scientist Must Be a Curious Person’
Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Leipzig in Germany, began her involvement with HSE when she started working with two young scholars – Christian Fröhlich, an Assistant Professor at HSE and a former PhD student of hers, and Rafael Mrowczynski, who has served as a DAAD-lecturer at HSE. Ahead of her upcoming visit to Moscow, where she will present her work on ‘Multiple Secularities’ and give a seminar on Qualitative Methods, Professor Wohlrab-Sahr spoke with the HSE news service about her work, her academic interests, and her views on the key attributes researchers need today.
Inglehart Celebrates His 82nd Birthday!
Laboratory staff congratulates Ronald Inglehart on his birthday.
Sociology Forum in Vienna: Potential of Global Sociology for Solving the Problems of Contemporary Society
From July 10 – 14, 2016, the Third International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology on ‘The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World’ took place in Vienna. About 5,000 scholars from 126 countries took part in the event.From July 10 – 14, 2016, the Third International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology on ‘The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World’ took place in Vienna. About 5,000 scholars from 126 countries took part in the event.
HSE E-mail for Students
At the end of August, all freshly enrolled HSE students will get HSE e-mail addresses. They will be able to get their addresses at their initial meetings with programme office staff*. We’d like to inform you more about the opportunities that come along with HSE e-mail.
The 6 th LCSR Summer School Started in Moscow
The 6th International LCSR Summer School started in Moscow. LCSR Summer School aims to provide the knowledge and skills to conduct latent curve modeling.
HSE Awards Best Teachers of 2016
The Higher School of Economics has selected its Best Teachers of 2016. This year the voting process was different from previous years’, and First Vice Rector Vadim Radaev explains how.
Eduard Ponarin is one of the HSE's best teachers!
According to the results of the university-wide poll "Best Teachers of HSE" Eduard D. Ponarin (Head of the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research and Professor of the HSE) became one of the best teachers of the Faculty of Social Sciences.The voting is annually held in the HSE at the end of academic year. Students and alumni choose their candidates from the faculty list — no more than two lecturers and two teachers conducting workshops or practical training. This year the turnout at the Faculty of Social Sciences was 80%.We congratulate Eduard to the another recognition of his professionalism and wish him further progress!
Estimation bias due to duplicated observations
The LCSR staff prepared a summary of Francesco Sarracino`s (STATEC, HSE-LCSR) lecture «Estimation bias due to duplicated observations: A Monte Carlo simulation», which was presented on the Sixth LCSR International Workshop.