Research & Expertise

How do we evaluate the contribution of innovations to urban development? Why do cities need innovation? How do cities attract top talents? These and many other questions were addressed by the participants of the international online discussion ‘Increasing the Innovation Attractiveness of Global Cities: Best Practices’ organised by the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (HSE ISSEK) on March 1, 2023. The event also featured the presentation of new outcomes of a global study on urban innovation carried out since 2020.

On March 6, 2023, the ILSIR seminar was devoted to the discussion of the concept of "cultural citizenship". The report on their research was presented by the laboratory staff - Senior Research Fellow Tatiana Vlasova and Research Assistant Danila Ivanov. The debater was Maria Kozlova, Chief Research Fellow of the ILSIR.

February 16, 2023 in Kolomna Centre for Sociocultural Research's leading researcher Bushina E.V. presented a report “The relationship between acculturation and school bullying among Russian schoolchildren” at the XVIII scientific conference with international participation “Practical educational psychology of the 21st century: a developing person in a transforming world”, organized by the State University of Social Sciences and Humanities.

The first issue of 2023 included a special issue of "Psychology. Journal of the Higher School of Economics" dedicated to the consequences of digitalization while COVID-19. Articles by CSCR staff N.Tatarko, M.Efremova, D.Dubrov, M.Bultseva, E.Bushina, A.Mironova, G.Rodionov, E.Maklasova, Z.Lepshokova, V.Galyapina based on the results of research conducted within the framework of the Russian Science Foundation project "The Impact of Digitalization on the Social Capital and Values of Russian Society" were published in this issue.

At the Culture Matters seminar on February 21, a report was heard from Evgenia Vitalievna Egamberdieva on the topic: Social and psychological features of the psychological safety of students in conditions of intercultural interaction.

On March 3, 2023, the International Laboratory of Digital Transformation in Public Administration held a workshop on data-driven public administration. The discussion was moderated by the Head of the laboratory Evgeny Styrin and the junior researcher of the Laboratory Ilya Stepanov.

On March 3, at the seminar "Modern Demography", representatives of the Marchuk institute of numerical mathematics of the Russian academy of sciences, graduate student Andrey Vlad and Ph.D. Tatiana Sannikova talked about modeling the seasonality of viral infections and the impact of quarantine measures on the mental health of the population.

Since 2019, the cHARISMa supercomputer has been helping staff, teachers and students of HSE university to solve research tasks. In February 2023, it completed its millionth task—a computational experiment dedicated to studying the phenomenon of multiparticle localisation in quasi-one-dimensional quantum systems.

On March 1, 2023, the ILSIR seminar was held, dedicated to the report of the Senior Research Fellow of the ILSIR Konstantin Obukhov on the topic "The place of professional knowledge and skills in the practice of volunteering for the socially oriented non-profit sector of the regions of Russia". 
The debater was a Research Assistant of the ILSIR Polina Guseva.