The Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO), KULeuven has a vacancy for a post-doc position to analyse and report upon welfare attitudes of Russians in comparison to attitudes of citizens of a selection of European countries. Application deadline is 15 October 2016.
On September 27, Guido Sechi (Ph.D., University of Latvia), took part in the "Culture Matters" research seminar with the report on "Social capital accumulation and effects at a local level: evidence from Latvia".
On September 22nd, Kamila Isaeva (MSc in Psychology at HSE and TiU), made a report "Russian-speaking identity and its impact on interethnic relationships (the case of Uzbekistan)". The report took place at the scientific seminar "Culture matters".
Regional Conference on of World Association of Public Opinion Research dedicated to Survey Research and the Study of Social and Cultural Change is taking place at HSE Moscow September 15-17, 2016 in partnership with World Values Survey. Ronald Inglehart, Academic Supervisor of HSE Laboratory for Comparative Social Research and the Founding President of the World Values Survey (WVS) has talked to HSE News Service about the role of sociology in the modern world and the changes in values and beliefs around the world.
On Wednesday, September 14 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was held. Professor Georgy Artemov from the University of Melbourne gave a lecture on «Assignment mechanisms: common preferences and information acquisition»
The World Association for Public Opinion Research’s (WAPOR) annual regional conference ‘Survey Research and the Study of Social and Cultural Change’ kicks off at HSE on September 15, 2016.
