Смирнов Никита Максимович

Responsibilities

Centre of Sociology of Higher Education

Collecting and processing data within the Center's projects
Preparation of articles on the Center's subjects
Preparing analytical reports on postgraduate studies
Working on a joint project of HSE and Tsinghua University on comparative perspertive of doctoral education studies

Institute of Education

Head on the Program Committee of the International Conference of Higher Education
Serving on the Program Committee of ResearchHub
Serving on the Organizing Committee of International Summer School on Higher Education

Education

2024

Master's
HSE University

2022

Bachelor's in Political Science
HSE University

Professional Interests

political theory sociology of higher education Natural Language Processing (NLP)doctoral education Science and Technology Studies (STS)

Awards and Accomplishments

Best Teacher — 2024
Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Lecturers" (2024)

Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience

Internship at the Tsinghua University (Beijing, China, November 2024)
International Summer School on Higher Education (Issyk-Kul lake, Kyrgyzstan, August 19 – 24, 2024)
Summer school on STS by Yandex.Q (Moscow, Russia, June 17 - Luly 31, 2022)
Autumn school "Good governance" by InLiberty (Moscow, Russia, November 14-18, 2021)

Courses (2024/2025)

Foundations of Normative Thinking about Modern Politics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Political Theory (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Research Seminar "Evidence-based Education Development" (Master’s programme; Institute of Education field of study Public Administration, field of study Public Administration, field of study Public Administration; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Research Seminar: Basics of Academic Work for the Preparation of Term Paper (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
The History of Political Thought (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Applied Mathematics and Information Science, field of study Applied Mathematics and Information Science, field of study Political Science; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
Past Courses

Priority topics of student papers

Conceptualizing academic profession through labor sociology: doctoral students and young researchers through lenses of precarity / postoperaism / cognitariat etc.

Individual and institutional factors of doctoral students' productivity

The perception of "conflict of interest" in Russian universities

Epistemic and/or sucess beliefs and their relationships with educational outcomes

Theoretical research on the concept of violence in political and cosial theory

Timetable for today

Full timetable

Conferences

2024
XV Международная конференция исследователей высшего образования (конференция ИВО) (Москва). Presentation: Эффективность грантовой поддержки аспирантов в России: квазиэкспериментальный анализ программы РФФИ
XV Международная конференция исследователей высшего образования (конференция ИВО) (Москва). Presentation: Roundtable "Bridging Cultures in Doctoral Supervision: Unique Practices and Universal Solutions"

2023
XXI международная конференция молодых ученых “Векторы” (Москва). Presentation: Тематическая инкапсуляция как вызов для высшего образования и науки
XIV Международная конференция исследователей высшего образования (Москва). Presentation: Поверните налево? Тематическое моделирование англоязычных исследований аспирантуры

2020
XXI Апрельская международная конференция по проблемам развития экономики и общества (Москва). Presentation: Бесланская трагедия как коллективная травма: анализ комментариев в социальной сети YouTube
Альянс социальных наук: междисциплинарная конференция по социальным наукам для студентов и аспирантов (Москва). Presentation: Особенности производства социального знания: дисциплинарные границы и их нарушения (на примере НИУ ВШЭ)

Employment history

Politics & Psychology Research Laboratory at HSE: Research-intern (may 2021 - july 2022)

Interregional Network of Educational Projects "DisCourse": Curator of Educational Programs (2018 - present)

Big Data and Information Retrieval School at HSE: Visiting Lecturer (January - July 2023)

Diginavis: Head of Product Department (January 2021 - July 2023)

Guitardo Music School Network: Marketing Department Analyst (May 2019 - September 2020)

Nikita Smirnov