On the 'Social Field': How Did II Interregional Student Science Conference Go
On May 22-23 in Kanatnyy Tsekh building was held II Interregional Student Science Conference 'Social Field'. Researchers from the Centre for Youth Studies participated as speakers and moderators of sessions. In this article we share the impressions of participants and organisers.
On May 22-23 II Interregional Student Science Conference 'Social field' was held in the HSE building on Vasilievsky Ostrov. The conference was organised by the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of the Saint Petersburg School of Social Sciences.
Conference became a platform for presenting student research, for scientific discussion, and for networking and networking among young researchers from different cities. One of the conference organisers was Ekaterina Semenova, a research intern at the CYS. Among other things, she presented her own report on the ontological security of students with experience in educational migration. The presentation was based on data from 'Mirror Labratories' of CYS and KFU current project 'Educational Migration of Students from Small Towns and Villages to Megacities. Social Inclusion as a Way to Increase Sustainability: Barriers, Strategies, Successful Practices'.
CYS: research intern
This year at 'Social Field' I tried my hand at several roles at once: I helped with organising at the preliminary stage, answered participants’ questions, selected applications, and sent out newsletters. I gave a presentation and listened to a large number of interesting speeches from friends and colleagues. This year, we received a lot of interesting applications: we reviewed more than 100 abstracts! The selected papers were of a high standard, and the conference brought together students from Moscow, Samara, Sevastopol, Vladikavkaz, Ulyanovsk, and other cities.
When we were creating the schedule, we tried to allocate more time for discussion, and it really paid off: the discussions turned out to be rich and very useful. The main impression for me made the work of Violetta Konstantinova, an 11th‑grade school student who prepared a report as part of my track on biographical methodology at the Young Sociologist School. She did a great job working with a large corpus of diaries, identified their features, discovered the difference between the narratives of men and women, and performed very well at the conference that exceeds the school level. I’m very proud of her!
The conference traditionally featured CYS researchers as participants. Nadezhda Nartova spoke at the plenary session, Iana Krupets became moderator for session on economic sociology, Yuliya Epanova managed city research session, Evgenia Kuziner moderated session on youth research, and Dmitrii Ivanov managed session on migrational studies.
Intern researcher CYS Nina Skorokhodova suggested to organise a session for conference dedicated to migration and mobility where also participated as a speaker. On session participants discussed different approaches to studying migrational attitudes and international mobilities.
CYS: intern researcher
At the session on migration and mobility, we were able to discuss with colleagues various approaches to studying migration intentions in the modern era. It was great to listen to a presentation on the topic of international mobility — in particular, a colleague presented a study on the characteristics of Ossetian migration to the USA. This was very interesting and offered a new perspective on studying the cultural identity of those who relocate.
'Social Field' brought together participants with a variety of research interests and became a platform where students were able to present thier own projects, get feedback and tune in to academic discussion with colleagues from different universities and cities. We thank the organisers for their trust, and the conference's press centre for the wonderful photos.
