Research & Expertise

On April 16, 2021, the International Laboratory of Digital Transformation in Public Administration at the IPAG held a round table «Digital Transformation of Public Administration» within the framework of the XXII April International Scientific Conference of the Higher School of Economics.

IDLab employees spoke at the XXII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development

In March 2021 the HSE University and Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) were awarded an institutional partnership grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to foster cooperation between these two institutions and to involve in it a broader group of younger fellows and doctoral students. On May 27th this project will start with a digital workshop "Varieties of Populism in East and West" (deadline for submission is April 23rd; for more info about the workshop see the link at the end of the news). We interviewed Professor Dr. Katharina Bluhm, director of the Institute for East European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, about the goals of this project and prospects of cooperation between the HSE University and the FUB.

HSE University researchers have identified the genes that play a crucial role in breast cancer metastasis. The results of the study were published in the journal PLOS ONE.

On April 7, 2021, Daria Salnikova successfully defended her PhD thesis on the topic: "The relationship between objective and subjective economic well-being of the population in post-Soviet Russia", submitted for the degree of candidate of sociological sciences

Topic: Feasible Joint Posterior Beliefs
Date & Time: April, 15; 18:00 - 19:00
Where: online platform Zoom

Dmitry Kirpishchikov presented the results of a review of studies on corporate governance in the BRICS countries

From April 5 to 9, the international conference "One-Parameter Semigroups of Operators" was held in an online format.

On April 9, 2021, the International Laboratory of Digital Transformation in Public Administration, together with British scientists from the University of Bradford Professor V. Virakkodi, S. Sivaraja and Professor V. Vikantesh, held a Theory Workshop on the interaction of citizens and public digital platforms.

Petr Parshakov, researcher at ID Lab, presented the study “How Heuristic Hiring Practices Lead to Nonoptimal Outcomes: The Case of Obese Workers” at the seminar of NTNU (Norway)