The article by Tatiana Karabchuk (LCSR Associate Researcher) and Ruslan Almukhametov (ex-research assistant of LCSR) titled "Wages of Policemen in Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Russia" was published in March issue of "Journal of Economic Sociology".
Education
Preliminary program of the Sixth LCSR International Workshop “Social and Cultural Changes in Cross-National Perspective: Subjective Well-being, Trust, Social capital and Values” is available online.
A career in science and technology might sound appealing to the average Russian, but a recent survey showed that most Russians believe men are better suited for this line of work than women. The young women interviewed for this story, a mathematician and a programmer, are of a different opinion.
December 17, Michael Zakharyaschev, professor of computer science at Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of London, Birkbeck gave a presentation at a seminar of International Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Structural Analysis.
25th annual conference of the European Second Language Association was devoted to the problem of language acquisition "Second Language Acquisition : Implications for language sciences"
International summer school has been organized from 27 July to 10 August by the University of Applied Sciences «Hochschule Bremerhaven». Over 30 students from 12 countries took part in the event.
On August 17-21 Tatyana Bolgina, Maria Grabovskaya, Grigory Ignatyev and Anastasia Kobzeva, Research Fellows of the Neurolinguistics Laboratory, took part in the Utrecht Summer School in the Netherlands attending the courses "Bilingualism" and "Introduction to L1 and L2 acquisition".