Конча Валерия

Responsibilities

Junior Research Fellow:

data management and analysis
writing scientific articles
project management, control over the stages of its implementation

Digital Consultant:

Conducting individual and group consultations on the use of AI in teaching and research

Education

2022

Master's
HSE University

Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience

Advanced training course “Teach for HSE: 7 key principles of teaching excellence”, 2024

Sociological School "Modern Researcher: Communication, Analytics and Big Data Analysis, Consulting", WCIOM 2022

Bayesian Statistics, IPSA HSE, 2021

International Organizations Management, University of Geneva, 2020

Professional Interests

Digital Politics: Mobilization, Engagement,and Participation data science plurilingual creativity protests and social movements predictive models digital technologies AI (artificial intellence)

Awards and Accomplishments

Best Teacher — 2023–2024
Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Researchers" (2024)

Postgraduate Studies

2nd year of study
Approved topic of thesis: The Transformation of the Collective Identities of the Participants of the Protest and Counter-protest Movements: the cases of Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter
Academic Supervisor :Ахременко Андрей Сергеевич

Courses (2023/2024)

Government and Public Policy in the Age of Digital Technology (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Political Science, field of study Political Science; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Government and Public Policy in the Age of Digital Technology (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Rus
Modern Political Science (Mago-Lego; 2, 3 module)Rus
Modern Political Science (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Political Science, field of study Political Science; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
Past Courses

Conferences

- Koncha V. 2019. Youth Silk – building the Silk Road culture exchange and cooperation among the youth of the 21st century International Conference, Beijing, China.
- Koncha V, (April 2-3, 2021)April theses International Conference, Perm University, Russia
- Koncha V, (November 11-13, 2021) “The Effect of Inequality and Polarization on Democratic Stability”, 3rd International Conference on Inequality and Diversity (IDC—2021), St. Petersburg, Russia
- Koncha, V. Kharkhurin, A.V (April 12-14, 2021). "The influence of intercultural competence on bilingual’s creativity". The “Multilingual Urban Space” international conference, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.
- Koncha, V. Kharkhurin, A.V., & Charkhabi, M. (December 3-4, 2021). The interactive effects of multilingual and multicultural experiences on creative thinking. Implications for plurilingual creativity paradigm. Languages, Education, and Development Conference. Moscow, Russia
- Koncha, V. Kharkhurin, A.V., & Charkhabi, M. (July 5-8 2022). Exploring moderation effects of plurilingualism and pluriculturalism on divergent thinking. 17th European Congress of Psychology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Koncha V. (July 14-17, 2022). The role of tolerance and intolerance of ambiguity in the effects of plurilingualism and pluriculturalism on creativity. South Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon, USA
- Evgeny Sedashov, Belenkov Vadim, Valeriya Koncha. The Effect of Internet Shutdowns on Protest Activity in India: an Empirical Investigation. 16th International Conference Management of large-scale system development (MLSD) 2023.

2021
The “Multilingual Urban Space” international conference (Москва). Presentation: The influence of intercultural competence on bilingual’s creativity

Grants

Russian Science Foundation No 64, the research topic: «Contribution of
multilingualism and intercultural competence to emotional burnout resistance»,
Project No 22-28-00958

26

Jan

2024

Constructing collective identity in the interaction of protests and counter-protests in online environments

Valeria Koncha and Andrei Akhremenko spoke about their research