Education

On 13-14 May, the first in-person intensive of the HSE Predoc Programme for Preparation for PhD in Social Sciences and Humanities was held at the HSE St. Petersburg campus. Arsenii Buchatskii, a research assistant of our Laboratory and a student of the Joint «‎Master's-PhD» Study Track, was one of the 21 participants of the intensive, selected among 36 candidates, and shared his impressions of the school.

The Summer School, organized by the Laboratory for Social and Cognitive Informatics and the Department of Informatics at HSE University in St. Petersburg, will take place from July 1 to July 7, 2024.

The student received the highest score during the interview dedicated to her future specialty, demonstrating the full readiness for scientific work as a graduate student. In total with the portfolio, her final scores are the best among all applicants in this field.

On February 8th, Science Day in Russia, which this year also marked the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the 190th birthday of the great Russian scientist Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev, IDLab at HSE University in Perm actively participated in the “Scientists to Schools” campaign.

The IL SIR team took part in the presentation of the master’s program “Sociology of the Public Sphere and Digital Analytics” at the Winter School of the HSE Faculty of Social Sciences in Sociology 2024.

The annual student school-conference “Information technologies and systems. Bioinformatics" ITIS(b), which was attended by more than 100 people from HSE, IITP RAS, Skoltech, Moscow State University, MIPT.

In the framework of a major academic mission to Latin America, a delegation from HSE University visited the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), a Brazilian higher education institution and analytical centre for training specialists in administration. Representatives of FGV have expressed their interest in signing a cooperation agreement in the spheres of media communications and game theory.

Vitaly Kurenoy has lectured on cinema in a remote format for the participants of the ILSIR Autumn school.

On October 30th, the ILSIR Autumn school "Cinema as mediator: cinematic images in participatory social researches and practices" has opened its doors.