Research & Expertise

The 6th conference of the European Survey Research Association titled “Reykjavik is the Capital of Parsimony” took place in Reykjavik, Iceland. Among the LCSR members who presented at ESRA 15, there were four staff members and three associate researchers.

The annual foresight courses which have been running at Manchester University since 1999 are considered some of the most prestigious and important for researchers of the future. In July 2015 two researchers at the Foresight Centre at ISSEK who have been students on the courses themselves have been invited this year to come and teach.

On  July 6-8 a series of lectures on intraoperative speech mapping took place at HSE. The event was organized by the Neurolinguistics Laboratory.

On June 3 a lecture by Linda Worrall on ‘Best Practice Recommendations for Aphasia across the Continuum of Care’ took place at HSE. The event was organized by the Neurolinguistics Laboratory.

On July 2, the Higher School of Economics hosted a public discussion of the new methodological guidelines for designing innovation development programmes (IDPs) of state-owned companies. These were prepared by the Russian Ministry of Economic Development together with the Open Government with the participation of HSE, and approved in April, 2015 by the Presidential Council for Economic Modernisation and Innovatiion Development’s Presidium. The updated methodology increases importance of corporate innovations and — through introduction of KPIs — strengthens top managers’ motivation.

On June 26, the HSE Academic Council approved the opening of two new international laboratories. Specifically, the St. Petersburg School of Economics and Management will gain a laboratory for the study of healthcare economics, management, and policy, as well as a laboratory for game theory and decision-making. The labs' academic supervisors will be renowned international scholars.

On June 25, Zarina Lepshokova and Viktoria Galyapina (senior researchers at ISEL-SCR, Higher School of Economics, Moscow) took part in the «Culture matters» research seminar.

On June 11-14, the fifth ISEL SCR summer school was held near Moscow. The summer school was dedicated to group work on the participants’ research project.

On June 8-9 the International Scientific-Education Laboratory for Sociocultural Research hosted an international conference “Culture in society, between groups, and across generations”. Scientists from Greece, Israel, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, and the USA took part in the conference.

The Springer publishing company shared the statistics on the book “Science, Technology and Innovation Policy for the Future. Potentials and Limits of Foresight Studies” edited by Dirk Meissner, Leonid Gokhberg and Alexander Sokolov. Since its release in 2013, it has passed the threshold of 9500 downloads at the Springer website.