News

ICSID seminar at Columbia University

Current research and preliminary results of ICSID's activities in 2011-2012 were presentaed at an open seminar in New York on September 19-21th, 2012.

The Conception and Socio-Cultural Attributes of the Frontier Territories

On September 20 Anna Nemirovskaya presented her collaborative project with Roberto Foa at the LCSR regular seminar

Essex Summer School - Episode II

Olga Gryaznova is telling about her trip to Essex (and Cambridge!)

"Religion, demography and attitudes toward civil marriage in Israel 1969–2009"

Evgenia Bystrov's article has just been published online before print in Current Sociology.

Working seminar of the Graduate School of Education HSE 13-15 September 2012

From 13 till 15 September 2012 a working seminar of Graduate School of Economics took place in “Klyazma Resort”. Directions of scientific work, peculiarities of project realization in the field of education, communication and cooperation within the University were discussed at the event.

On Wednesday, September 19 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was hold.

Speaker: Ilya Zutler (HSE)
Title: "Probabilistic preferences in the cumulative prospect theory"

A training course “Attitudes and behavior”

A training course "Attitudes and behavior" leading by Isek Ajzen, professor emeritus of psychology of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, took place in ILSCR on 17-19 September. It was a part of the training programs "Advanced social psychology: theory, methodology, practice" of the International Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research.

Government awards for the HSE staff members

Daniel Alexandrov was decorated with the Russian Government Certificate of Honor

Plenty of Engineers – Plenty of Innovations?

On September 18th 2012, the HSE Institute for Educational Studies held the latest in its series of regular seminars. Martin Carnoy, Stanford University Professor and Academic Supervisor of the International Laboratory for Education Policy Analysis, spoke about ‘BRIC Triumph: Unprecedented Boom of Higher Education’.

ERC Grants: Options and Opportunities

On September 18th 2012, a delegation from the European Research Council (ERC) visited the Higher School of Economics. ERC representatives spoke about how Russian researchers can access the grant programme of the Council.