Human Experiments. Egor Lazarev’s Impressions about the participation in workshops at the school ICPSR
Egor Lazarev told about his academic trip to the summer school ICPSR(Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA), where he took part in two short intensive workshops: “Design, Conduction and Analysis of Field Experiments in Social Sciences” (August, 1-5) and “Spatial Econometrics” (August 15-19), which have been delivered by professor Donald Green (Columbia University) and by professor Robert Franzese (University of Michigan), respectively.
Essex in summer: Anna Nemirovskaya, Anna Shirokanova, Darya Oreshina and Tatyana Karabchuk
Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis is the largest Summer school in Europe with more than 60 courses on contemporary quantitative and qualitative methods of data analysis in social sciences. The school is famous for its teachers: the “stars” of statistics, sociology, psychology. The authors of world famous textbooks on data analysis methods teach there. Some LCSR researchers came to Essex this summer and participated in its famous summer school.
6th ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques
ECPR was able to create a serious atmosphere for studying and to include as much lessons into a 2-week course as in a semester.
Understanding Nascent Capitalism in Eastern Europe
János Mátyás Kovács, a famous scholar from the Austrian Institute for Human Sciences delivered a lecture on his project on June, 23 at the working seminar of LCSS.
The regular LCSS working seminar on comparative studies conducted by GfK Group
The regular LCSS working seminar took place on May 26, 2011. Alexander Demidov, the chief executive officer of “GfK Rus” company, made a report about the comparative studies conducted by GfK Group.
President of Russia met with foreign scientists
Taking part in the discussion with Dmitry Medvedev were scientists from universities in the USA, Japan, Britain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and other countries, who were among the winners of the Russian Education and Science Ministry’s first tender for organising and carrying out research and development work at Russian universities. There was also scientific adviser LCSS, Ronald Inglehart.
The LCSS regular seminar: "Eurasian monitor"
Igor Zadorin, the head of the research group “Zircon”, presented main results of monitoring of social population mood of the former Soviet Union in the framework of the Eurasian monitor at the regular seminar of LCSS on April 28, 2011.
Comparative Perspectives on Social Values and Modernization,Fourth Day, April 27, 2011
The Laboratory for Comparative Social Studies hosted the international workshop «Comparative Perspectives on Social Values and Modernization» in Saint Petersburg on April 24-27 2011.
Comparative Perspectives on Social Values and Modernization,Third Day, April 26, 2011
The Laboratory for Comparative Social Studies hosted the international workshop «Comparative Perspectives on Social Values and Modernization » in Saint Petersburg on April 24-27 2011.
Comparative Perspectives on Social Values and Modernization, Second Day, April 25, 2011
The Laboratory for Comparative Social Studies hosted the international workshop «Comparative Perspectives on Social Values and Modernization» in Saint Petersburg on April 24-27 2011.