Professional Development Programs, Workshops and Science Schools
Professional Development Focused on Implementing Research Results in the Practice of Social Policy
1. Population and Health 2023 Autumn School
(October 16-20, 2023)
The main goal of the Population and Health Autumn School is to give students an opportunity to learn about current state in various fields of demography, including various methods of measuring health inequality, with sources of data on mortality and health, current research, as well as to gain practical experience in calculating various indicators in R. The participants are researchers, graduate students and postgraduates working or studying in the field of demography, sociology, epidemiology, public health, social geography and related disciplines.
2. International Neuro-Linguistic School - From Idea to Publication
(September 26-28, 2023)
The International School was conducted by the HSE Centre for Cognition & Decision Making, co-organized by the SCoDis Center (Center for Sociocognitive Discourse Studies) at MSLU. The participants of the school learnt about the methods and key research in the field of neuro-linguistics, and also participated in workshops dedicated to the preparation and description of research methods in scientific work.
3. Tenth Summer Neurolinguistic School of the Language and Brain Center
(September 18-20, 2023)
The program of the tenth school Eye-tracking in the Lab and Beyond is devoted to the issues of video oculography. Video oculography, or eyetracking, is a modern research method that allows you to record eye movements using powerful equipment or special portable glasses equipped with video cameras. The Language and Brain Center is one of the leading Russian scientific organizations engaged in research in the field of video oculography.
The training was dedicated to the development of creative competencies. As part of the course, teachers were offered various techniques and exercises aimed at activating the creative potential of students.
5. Ninth Summer Neuro-Linguistic School of the Language and Brain Center
(June 27-28, 2022)
The program of the ninth school Experimental Studies of Ethnic Languages of Russia touched upon the developing field of psycho- and neuro-linguistic research on the material of poorly studied languages in Russia. At the lectures, experts shared their knowledge in the field of experimental and bilingual research, adaptation of clinical tests to small languages of Russia, as well as intraoperative mapping of bilinguals.
6. Eighth Summer Neurolinguistic School of the Language and Brain Center
(June 28-30, 2021)
The program of the eighth school was devoted to cognitive and neuronal mechanisms of reading and experimental approaches to their study. The lectures covered the behavioral and neurophysiological foundations of reading in different populations: adults and children, monolinguals and bilinguals, healthy speakers and people with speech disorders.
The school was held in an online format in English. Its program touched upon the methodology of behavioral and neuroimaging sciences. The participants had the opportunity to discuss issues with world-class experts, as well as gain practical skills for analyzing and interpreting fMRI data.
8. National Transfer (Intergenerational) Accounts Workshop
(February 16, 2021)
The workshop is organized by the Institute for Demography. The event was attended by students of the master's programs Demography, Population and Development, graduate students and researchers. The master class was organized with the methodological support of the United Nations Population Fund.
9. Workshops on Development and State Support of Creative Industries and Creative leadership
(November 2 and 16, 2021)
Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center and the Institute for Statistical Research and Economics of Knowledge held two workshops on creative economics and creative leadership with the participation of leading British researchers. Master classes involving discussion, questions and answers from listeners, preliminary teamwork on generating ideas and presenting its results.