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The AI Community conference, which was held online, was attended by leading international and Russian experts in the field of AI, as well as business representatives.

Svetlana Dorofeeva made a talk at the first interdisciplinary workshop on Phonology and Dyslexia.

In December 2021, the HSE ISSEK English-language Master’s programme in Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation became one of three HSE University management programmes to receive European accreditation by the European Foundation for Management Development. We spoke to Dirk Meissner, the academic supervisor of the programme, about the significance of European accreditation, the programme’s unique opportunities for students, and student engagement in research.

We are happy to introduce a new academic supervisor of the Laboratory for Social and Cognitive Informatics—Reinhold Kliegl, senior professor of experimental psychology at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

Daria Semenova presented her Candidate of Science (PhD) thesis on Willingness to pay in the foodmarket: attributive VS neuroeconomic approaches. The thesis is supervised by Sofya Kulikova and Maria Molodchik

On January 17, a joint seminar was held by the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research (NRU HSE) and the Russian Committee for Children Villages - SOS. The seminar was dedicated to the results of a study of the lives of SOS students.

On January 20 Sergey Startsev (Research Assistant, International Laboratory for Social Inclusion Research, National Research University Higher School of Economics) took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report "Not to know, but to be afraid: sources and ways to overcome cancerophobia".

An article “Staying Out of Trouble: Criminal Cases Against Russian Mayors” by Noah Buckley, Ora John. Reuter,  Michael Rochlitz, Anton Aisin was published in Comparative Political Studies.

The application deadline is January 31, 2022.

Researchers from HSE University and St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (SPSUACE) used eye tracking to study how residents who own cars and those who don’t look at the shared courtyards of multistorey apartment buildings. The study was published in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.