Research & Expertise

On May 29, Olessia Koltsova, Head of the Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics and Ksenia Leontyeva, research intern and associate professor of the St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television, spoke at the 73rd International Communications Association (ICA) conference at the Global Film Industries session, where works on the film markets of China and Nigeria were also presented.

The main goal of this scientific visit was a joint research with scientists working at the Center, in particular, with Professor A. Shanenko and Professor A. Vagov. Professor Doria has also given a seminar at the MIEM HSE, where he  talked about his recent work on new materials with non-trivial topological properties.

Ilia Naidanov presented the study “Influence of firm-generated social media content on a firm's profitability”.

A seminar on "Understanding public attitudes and values that influence the development of inclusive education in Uzbekistan" was held at the ILSIR as part of a series of consulting seminars "Care and well-being in post-socialist Eurasia: institutions, discourses, identities".

Head of the International Laboratory of Digital Transformation in Public Administration Evgeny Styrin participated in the seminar "Implementation of Digital Services and Notary Services on a Single Portal of State and Municipal Services".

The International Laboratory of Digital Transformation in Public Administration jointly with Alexander T. Shamrin (Vice President of the HSE University) and Konstantin Golovshchinsky (Deputy Director of IGMU) held an online seminar "Problems of Information Support of the Contract System".

Within the framework of the May series of scientific seminars of the laboratory, the report of researchers Anna Derkacheva and Robert Sandlerskiy "Results of the analysis of the representativeness of the existing network of ecological and climatic stations (EX) for the territory of Russia" was presented. The primary assessment of geographical representativeness of 29 ecological and climatic stations for climate, relief, soils and vegetation is given. Based on the Random forest method, both for all stations and for each one separately, territories with similar environmental parameters and territories whose physical and geographical conditions are not covered by observations in any way were identified.

On May 23, PhD student of Stockholm University Konstantin Kazenin spoke at the seminar "Modern Demography" about the son preference and its impact on fertility in Central Asia and the Middle East in cohort comparison.

Title: Bank Market Power and Transmission of Monetary Policy into Bank Lending: Evidence from Loan-Level Data
Date & Time: May, 25; 18:00 - 19:00
Where: online platform Webinar

Michael Usanin, Petr Parshakov and Irina Maximova presented the study “Topic modeling by ESG-reports”.