Anna Shirokanova

Senior Research Fellow:Ronald F. Inglehart Laboratory for Comparative Social Research

Anna Shirokanova has been at HSE University since 2011.

Education and Degrees

2013
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD)
2010
Master's
Belarusian State University
2009
Degree
Belarusian State University

* Candidate of Sciences
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.

Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience

2020 – Teach for HSE developing programme "Presenting Information and Data. Creating Presentations" with Aleksandr Bogachev, HSE, Russia

2018 – 7th LCSR Summer School "Bayesian Approach in Social Science in R" with Hannes Kröger, Moscow, Russia

2017 – CERGE-EI developing programme for lecturers teaching economics and social sciences in English; HSE, St.Petersburg, Russia

2017 – 6th GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology, courses "Designing, Implementing, and Analyzing Longitudinal Surveys" with Tarek Al Baghal and Alexandru Cernat in R and "Structural Equation Modeling for Longitudinal and Panel Data" with Daniel Seddig and Georg Kessler in Mplus; GESIS in Cologne, Germany

2017 – ESRA short courses "The Mechanics of Longitudinal Data Analysis" by Oliver Lipps, "Applications of Big Data to Social Sciences" by Claudia Abreu Lopes and Anastasia Mizoyants-McKnight, 7th ESRA conference, Lisbon, Portugal

2016 – Summer Institute of Civic Studies with Peter Levine, Karol Soltan and Tetiana Kloubert, Augsburg University, Germany

2015 – 5^th LCSR Summer School "Introduction to Factorial Design and Data Visualization with R" with Hermann Dülmer in SPSS and R, Voronovo, Russia

2015 – ESRA short course "Latent Class Analysis for survey research" by Daniel Oberski, 6th ESRA conference, Reykjavik, Iceland

2014 – Summer school "Phenomenology of the Everyday" with Mikkel B. Tin, Ina Nalivaika, University College Telemark, Norway (lecturer)

2014 – 4^th LCSR Summer School "Categorical Data Analysis" with Jacques Hagenaars in lEM and LatentGold, Zelenogorsk, Russia

2013 – 3^rd LCSR Summer School "Multilevel Confirmatory Factor Analysis (MCFA) and Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling (MSEM) in Mplus" with Hermann Dülmer, Zelenogorsk, Russia

2013 - ESRA short course "New Developments in Latent Variable Modeling using Mplus" by Bengt Muthen, 5th ESRA conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2012 – 4-week research visit at the EUROLAB, GESIS, Cologne, Germany

2012 – 45^th Essex Summer School in Data Analysis in the Social Sciences, course "Multilevel Analysis with Applications" with Kelvyn Jones in MLwiN; University of Essex, United Kingdom

2012 – 2^nd LCSR Summer School "Causal Measurements and Structural Equations" with Peter Schmidt in Mplus, Zelenogorsk, Russia

2012 – 1^st Summer School of the Laboratory of Education and Science, Higher School of Economics, "Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications" (22-30 June) with Jeroen Bruggeman and Benjamin Lind in R, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2012 – Doctoral student's visit, University of Bialystok, Poland

2011 – 1^st LCSR Summer School "Multilevel Analysis in Comparative Studies" with Hermann Dülmer in HLM, Pushkin, Russia

2011 – 44^th Essex Summer School in Data Analysis in the Social Sciences, course "Applied Regression" with Jeremy Miles in Stata, University of Essex, United Kingdom

2011 – 1^st Summer School in Qualitative Methods in Sociology, Higher School of Economics, Zvenigorod, Russia

2010 – 9^th ESS Training Course on "Working with comparative surveys", Ljubljana, Slovenia

2009-2010 – MA in European Studies, cum laude, European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania

2007-2008 – Erasmus+ exchange student, Faculty of Political Science, Aleksander Gieysztor Academy of Humanities, Pultusk, Poland

Professional Interests

social norms and values game studies scholarly communication multilevel modelling value change machine learning and data mining Bayesian statistics computational social science

Awards and Accomplishments

Best Teacher – 2023, 2018

Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Researchers" (2018-2019)
Category "New Lecturers under 30" (2016-2017)

Conferences

2021
Digital Transformation & Society (DTGS 2021) (online). Presentation: The Role of Values in Academic Cheating at University Online
Digital Transformation & Society (DTGS 2021) (online). Presentation: A Semi-Automated Pipeline for Mapping the Shifts and Continuities in Media Discourse
9th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA 2021) (online). Presentation: Religiosity and Confidence in Healthcare System During the Pandemic
IPSA 26th World Congress of Political Science (Лиссабон). Presentation: Mapping Shifts and Continuities in Media Discourse: A Proposal of a Pipeline
2020
Networks in the Global World - 2020. Structures in contexts: understanding relations in european societies and beyond (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Co-playing with Friends and Social Capital: A Comparative Analysis of Two Dota 2 Communities
2019
5th International Conference on Computational Social Science (Amsterdam). Presentation: Shifts and Continuities in the Discourse on Internet Regulation in Russia
9th LCSR International Workshop «Comparative Social Research» (Moscow) (Москва). Presentation: 'All the Single Ladies': A Comparison of Female Singles' Social Relations in Europe
International workshop “Social Inequality and Value Polarization: A Cross-Country Perspective” (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Anti-Immigrant Attitudes in Russia: Media vs. Surveys
2018
10th ACM Conference on Web Science (Амстердам). Presentation: Internet Regulation Media Coverage in Russia: Topics and Countries
XIX April International Academic Conference On Economic and Social Development (Moscow). Presentation: Generalized trust and media consumption in democratic and nondemocratic societies
The Determinants of Trust (Uppsala). Presentation: Trusting Under What Conditions? The Links between Internet and Television News Consumption and Generalised Trust
Networks in the Global World 2018: Principles behind Structures (Saint-Petersburg). Presentation: Mixed Methods in Social Network Analysis: Combining the Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
Digital Transformations & Global Society 2018 (DTGS’18) (Saint Petersburg). Presentation: Internet Regulation: A Text-based Approach to Media Coverage
Networks in the Global World 2018: Principles behind Structures (Saint-Petersburg). Presentation: Mixing Social Network Analysis with Structural Topic Modeling: The case of Internet regulation coverage in the Russian media
2017
The 7th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) (Лиссабон). Presentation: Cross-level Factors in Sustainability Value Patterns
XVIII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development (Москва). Presentation: Disentangling Subjective Well-Being Components on Individual and Country Levels
2016
WAPOR 2016 Regional Conference "Survey Research and the Study of Social and Cultural Change" (Москва). Presentation: Life Satisfaction and the Effects of Ageing Across Europe
ASEEES-MAG Summer Convention 2016 (Lviv). Presentation: Democratic Values and Nationalism in Russian Society Before and After 2014
XVII APRIL INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC CONFERENCE ON ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (Moscow). Presentation: Perception of Mutual Help among Alone-Living Europeans before and after the Recession
2015
CEECOM 2015 8th Central and Eastern European Media and Communication Conference (Загреб). Presentation: The challenge of digital public sphere in Eastern Europe
6th conference of the European Survey Research Association (Рейкьявик). Presentation: After the Great Recession: Perception of Mutual Help among Single Europeans
V международная социологическая Грушинская конференция «Большая социология: расширение пространства данных» (Москва). Presentation: Альтруизм ценностей самовыражения: тест на данных Европейского социального исследования (ESS)
XVI April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development (Москва). Presentation: The Role of New Media in the Everyday Construction of Personal Identity
2014
19th Annual ASN World Convention (Нью-Йорк). Presentation: Social Solidarity in Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine: Resources for Reconstruction
XV Апрельская международная научная конференции «Модернизация экономики и общества» (Москва). Presentation: Islamic Work Ethic? In Search of Empirical Evidence in the WVS
4th LCSR International Annual Research Conference "Cultural and Economic Changes under Cross-National Perspective" (St.-Petersburg). Presentation: Middle-Aged Europeans Living Alone: Well-Off and Happy?
4th LCSR International Workshop “Social and Cultural Changes in Cross-National Perspective: Values and Modernization” (Москва). Presentation: Islamic Work Ethic? In Search of Empirical Evidence in the WVS
XV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development (Moscow). Presentation: Islamic Work Ethic? In Search of Empirical Evidence in the WVS
2013
Still Postsocialism? Cultural Memory and Social Transformations (Казань). Presentation: Social and Family Solidarity in the Post - Communist Transition: Post - Socialist vs. Post - Soviet?
11th Conference of the European Sociological Association (Турин). Presentation: The Role of Science in Society: Resetting the Agenda with Web 2.0 Tools
The 5th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) (Любляна). Presentation: Economic and Religious Factors of Post-Communist Social Solidarity
2012
Second International Annual Conference of the LCSR: “Social Change in Cross-National Perspective” (Москва). Presentation: Individualization and Social Solidarities in Post-Communist Europe: Do Old Divisions Persist?
2011
ASN Moscow Conference 2011 (Москва). Presentation: East, West, Within, Without: Identities in the Political Discourse of Belarus and Ukraine, 2001-2010
2010
"Sociology on the Move", XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology (Гётеборг). Presentation: Is Religiosity Being Reproduced at the Post-Soviet University? A Case from Belarus
2009
30th Conference of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (Сантьяго де Компостела). Presentation: Individualisation of Moral and Religious Beliefs as Pluralism (Post-Soviet Youth)

Publications⁴³

Article Афанасьева Ю. А., Соколов Б. О., Широканова А. А. Факторы ковид-скептицизма в России: результаты анализа материалов двух волн лонгитюдного опроса «Ценности в кризисе» // Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены. 2023. № 5. С. 115-137. doi
Chapter Shirokanova A., Silyutina O. A Semi-automated Pipeline for Mapping the Shifts and Continuities in Media Discourse, in: Digital Transformation and Global Society. 6th International Conference, DTGS 2021, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 23–25, 2021, Revised Selected Papers / Ed. by D. A. Alexandrov, A. V. Boukhanovsky, A. V. Chugunov, Y. Kabanov, O. Koltsova, I. Musabirov, S. Pashakhin. Cham: Springer, 2022. doi P. 19-35. doi
Article Oshchepkov A. Y., Shirokanova A. Bridging the gap between multilevel modeling and economic methods // Social Science Research. 2022. Vol. 104. Article 102689. doi
Chapter Vlasenko Anastasiia, Shirokanova A. The Role of Values in Academic Cheating at University Online, in: Digital Transformation and Global Society. 6th International Conference, DTGS 2021, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 23–25, 2021, Revised Selected Papers / Ed. by D. A. Alexandrov, A. V. Boukhanovsky, A. V. Chugunov, Y. Kabanov, O. Koltsova, I. Musabirov, S. Pashakhin. Cham: Springer, 2022. doi P. 294-307. doi
Chapter Mikhalchuk D., Shirokanova A. Co-playing with Friends and Social Capital: A Comparative Analysis of Two Dota 2 Communities, in: Networks in the Global World V: Proceedings of NetGloW 2020. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems Vol. 181. Cham: Springer, 2021. P. 209-221. doi
Preprint Oshchepkov A. Y., Shirokanova A. Multilevel Modeling for Economists: Why, When and How / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Economics/EC". 2020. No. 233.
Article Титаренко Л. Г., Широканова А. А. Стратегии выхода студентов белорусских вузов на регулируемый рынок труда // Социологические исследования. 2020. № 12. С. 128-138. doi
Article Широканова А. А. Тренды субъективного благополучия в России: 1998-2018 // Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Серия 12: Социология. 2020. № 1. С. 4-24. doi
Article Широканова А. А., Волченко О. В. “Большой Брат следит за тобой”: приемлемость государственного онлайн-наблюдения в 30 европейских странах (по данным EVS-2017) // Информационное общество. 2020. № 2. С. 88-96.
Chapter Shirokanova A., Silyutina O. Internet Regulation Media Coverage in Russia: Topics and Countries, in: WebSci'18 Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science. NY : ACM, 2018. doi P. 359-363. doi
Chapter Shirokanova A., Silyutina O. Internet Regulation: A Text-based Approach to Media Coverage, in: Digital Transformation and Global Society Third International Conference, DTGS 2018, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 30 –June 2, 2018, Revised Selected Papers, Part I / Ed. by Daniel A. Alexandrov, A. V. Boukhanovsky, A. V. Chugunov, Y. Kabanov, O. Koltsova. Issue 858. Cham : Springer, 2018. doi P. 181-194. doi
Article Широканова А. А. Установки в отношении социального обеспечения в Польше и России: результаты Европейского социального исследования // Журнал Белорусского государственного университета. Социология. 2018. № 1. С. 135-143.
Preprint Vólchenko O., Shirokanova A. Social Trust and Media Consumption in Democratic and Non-Democratic Societies / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series SOC "Sociology". 2017. No. 76.
Book Ефимова Н. В., Широканова А. А., Бурина И. Ф., Дмитриева О. Е. Массовые коммуникации: учеб.-метод. комплекс. Мн. : БГУ, 2017.
Chapter Широканова А. А. Новые медиа // В кн.: Массовые коммуникации: учеб.-метод. комплекс. Мн. : БГУ, 2017. С. 92-145.
Article Мальцева Д. В., Широканова А. А., Моисеев С. П., Брик Т. Сетевой анализ биографических интервью: возможности и ограничения // Телескоп: журнал социологических и маркетинговых исследований. 2017. № 1. С. 29-36.
Article Широканова А. А. Близкие духом: динамика ценностей в Беларуси и соседних странах, 1990-2012 // Социология. Научно-теоретический журнал. 2016. № 3. С. 108-118.
Chapter Широканова А. А. Когда две независимые переменные взаимодействуют: эффекты модерации в социальных исследованиях // В кн.: Статистические методы в гуманитарных и экономических науках. Издательство Нестор-История, 2016. С. 338-340.
Article Волченко О. В., Широканова А. А. Применение многоуровневого регрессионного моделирования к межстрановым данным (на примере генерализованного доверия) // Социология: методология, методы, математическое моделирование. 2016. № 43. С. 7-62.
Chapter Широканова А. А. Роль новых медиа в повседневном конструировании личной идентичности // В кн.: XVI Апрельская международная научная конференция по проблемам развития экономики и общества: в 4 кн. / Отв. ред.: Е. Г. Ясин. Кн. 3. М. : Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2016. С. 398-405.
Chapter Широканова А. А. Эволюция социального в многопользовательских компьютерных играх // В кн.: Медиафилософия ХII. Игра или реальность? Опыт исследования компьютерных игр / Под общ. ред.: В. В. Савчук. СПб. : Фонд развития конфликтологии, 2016. С. 117-134.
Article Shirokanova A. A comparative study of work ethic among Muslims and Protestants: Multilevel evidence // Social Compass. 2015. Vol. 62. No. 4. P. 615-631. doi
Preprint Shirokanova A. Protestant Work Ethic Among the Muslims: Changeable Empirical Evidence / National Research University Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2015. No. 60.
Chapter Широканова А. А. Исламская трудовая этика: в поисках эмпирических доказательств // В кн.: XV апрельская международная научная конференция по проблемам развития экономики и общества: в 4-х книгах / Отв. ред.: Е. Г. Ясин. Кн. 4. М. : Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2015. С. 139-148.
Chapter Тыканова Е. В., Широканова А. А. Коммуникативные модели конфликтного взаимодействия городских властей, бизнеса и горожан (на примере Санкт-Петербурга и Минска) // В кн.: Технологии и модели GR в Беларуси и России: сравнительный анализ. Мн. : БГУ, 2015. С. 118-124.
Chapter Широканова А. А. Новые медиа в повседневной жизни: пересборка медиатизированной идентичности // В кн.: Феноменология повседневности / Пер. с англ. В : Логвінаў, 2015. С. 143-181.
Book Ефимова Н., Комаровский А., Макарова Л., Мальцева Д. В., Никитин И. А., Сарна А., Сергеева О., Терещенко О., Широканова А. А. Новые медиа: социальная теория и методология исследований. Словарь-справочник / Отв. ред.: О. Сергеева, О. В. Терещенко. СПб. : Алетейя, 2015.
Book Широканова А. А., Сидорская И. В., Грибанов В. В., Титаренко Л. Г., Тыканова Е. В., Лебедева Е., Сечко Е. Технологии и модели GR в Беларуси и России: сравнительный анализ. Мн. : БГУ, 2015.
Book Даль Э., Гиргель Д., Наливайко И., Позднякова А., Шрумпф Э., Широканова А. А., Танген Я. У., Тин М. Б. Феноменология повседневности / Пер. с англ. В : Логвінаў, 2015.
Chapter Shirokanova A. New Media in Everyday Life: Reassembling the Mediated Identity, in: Phenomenology of the Everyday. Oslo : Novus Press, 2014. Ch. 4. P. 118-149.
Book Dahl E., Hirhel D., Nalivaika I., Pazdniakova A., Schrumpf E., Shirokanova A., Tangen J. O., Tin M. B. Phenomenology of the Everyday. Oslo : Novus Press, 2014.
Article Широканова А. А. Динамика горизонтального и вертикального доверия в Беларуси (по материалам WVS) // Веснік Брэсцкага універсітэта. 2014. № 2. С. 127-133.
Book Мурадян Е. С., Сальникова С. А., Титаренко Л. Г., Широканова А. А. Динамика ценностно-нормативной системы и жизненные шансы: опыт постсоветской трансформации в Пограничье. В : Издательство Европейского гуманитарного университета, 2014.
Chapter Широканова А. А. Жизненные ценности населения Беларуси и Украины: старое и новое в условиях Пограничья // В кн.: Динамика ценностно-нормативной системы и жизненные шансы: опыт постсоветской трансформации в Пограничье. В : Издательство Европейского гуманитарного университета, 2014. Гл. 3. С. 195-251.
Article Широканова А. А. ММОРПГ как площадки формирования личной идентичности // Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 7: Философия. Социология и социальные технологии. 2014. Т. 23. № 3. С. 78-87.
Book Савчук В. В., Широканова А. А., Деникин А., Ветушинский А., Мюле Ф., Салин А., Кузнецов А., Архипов В., Быков Е., Масленкова Н., Скоморох М., Денешек А., Шевцов К., Буглак С., Муждаба А., Ленкевич А., Латыпова А., Очеретяный К., Ермилов К., Ханова П., Богост Я., Тимченко К. Медиафилософия ХI Компьютерные игры: стратегии исследования / Под общ. ред.: В. В. Савчук. СПб. : Издательство Санкт-Петербургского философского общества, 2014.
Chapter Широканова А. А. Состояние и перспективы развития электронной научной коммуникации в Беларуси // В кн.: Теория и методы исследований коммуникации Вып. 3. Мн. : Издательский центр БГУ, 2014. Гл. 8. С. 73-92.
Article Широканова А. А. Сравнительное исследование морали в странах Восточной Европы (по материалам EVS и WVS) // Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены. 2014. № 5. С. 221-224.
Book Терещенко О. В., Калачева И. И., Сарна А. Я., Купчинова Т. В., Елсукова Н. А., Бурина И. Ф., Мазаник М. Н., Кириллова А. В., Широканова А. А., Ефимова Н. В., Дмитриева О. Е. Теория и методы исследований коммуникации Вып. 3. Мн. : Издательский центр БГУ, 2014.
Chapter Широканова А. А. Формирование личной идентичности в игровой повседневности ММОРПГ // В кн.: Медиафилософия ХI Компьютерные игры: стратегии исследования / Под общ. ред.: В. В. Савчук. СПб. : Издательство Санкт-Петербургского философского общества, 2014. Гл. 13. С. 167-181.
Article Широканова А. А. Научная коммуникация в эпоху новых медиа: от личных сетей к глобальному сотрудничеству // Вестник Одесского национального университета. 2013. Т. 18. № 2. С. 348-356.
Article Широканова А. А. Новая роль и формы научной коммуникации в информационную эпоху // Социология. Научно-теоретический журнал. 2013. № 1. С. 103-116.
Article Широканова А. А. Формы глобального академического неравенства в информационном обществе // Философия и социальные науки. 2013. № 1. С. 61-68.

Supplementary Materials

Supplementary material to the article: Shirokanova A. A comparative study of work ethic among Muslims and Protestants: Multilevel evidence // Social Compass. 2015. Vol. 62. No. 4. P. 615-631. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/0037768615601980

Membership in Professional Societies and Associations

International Political Science Association (IPSA) 2021

International Sociological Association (ISA) 2010-

European Survey Research Association (ESRA) 2013, 2015, 2017, 2021

European Sociological Association (ESA) 2013-2014

Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) 2016-2017

Projects

"The Role of Religiosity in Confidence in Health Care Institutions on the Values in Crisis Project Data" (2021-)

"Political Conservatism and the Attitudes to Climate Change on the ESS Data" (2019-)

"The Structure and Changes in the Media Discourse on Internet Regulation and Labor Immigration in Russia" (2017-2019)

"Multidisciplinary Indicators of Subjective Well-Being" (2017-2019)

"Social Trust and Media Consumption in Democratic and Nondemocratic Societies" (2017-2019, joint project with Olesya Volchenko, LCSR)

"Why Don't Economists Use Multilevel Regression Modelling?" (2016-2020, joint project with Aleksey Oshchepkov, CLMS HSE)

"Building A Social Network of the Community of Russian Sociologists via Biographical Interviews of B. Doktorov" (2016-2017, team leader - Daria Maltseva, ANR-Lab HSE)

"Perception of Mutual Help among Alone Living Europeans before and after the Recession" (2014-)

"Protestant Work Ethic among Muslims: Multilevel Analysis" (2012-2014)

"Individualization and Solidarity in Post-Communist Europe" (2011-2012)

Grants

2019-2020 – grant for a research group of the Russian Science Foundation, project "Societal Foundations of the Conservative Shift in European and Russian Politics: Evidence from the World Values Surveys"

2016 – DAAD grant for participation in the Summer Institute of Civic Studies, University of Augsburg and Tufts University, Germany

2013-2015 – joint grant with a team from Volgograd State University, Russia, for writing a reference book "New Media: Social Theory and Methods of Research" (St.Petersburg, 2015), from the Belarusian Foundation for Fundamental Research and Russian Scientific Foundation for the Humanities, team leaders Dr. Olga Sergeeva (Russia) and Dr. Olga Tereschenko (Belarus)

2012 – personal research visit grant for a four-week visit from the EUROLAB at GESIS -Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany (GESIS grant no. El-2012-107, project 'Individualization and Solidarity in Post-Communist Europe')

2012 – summer school grant from the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research for the participation in the 45th Essex Summer School, University of Essex, United Kingdom

2012-2014 – joint grant for writing a research book on value change in the borderland societies of Eastern Europe, Centre for Advanced Studies and Education - Vilnius (team leader Dr. Olena Muradyan, Ukraine)

2012 – grant from the International Sociological Association for attending ISA Forum of Sociology in Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2012 (declined)

2011 – summer school grant from the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research for the participation in the 44th Essex Summer School, University of Essex, United Kingdom

2010 – summer school grant from the European Social Survey for participation at the 9th ESS Training, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2009-2010 – joint research and publication grant, 1st Annual Research Competition on European Integration, European Humanities University (with Anastassia Klimovich, Belarus)

2009 – grant from International Society for the Sociology of Religion for attending the 30th ISSR Conference, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Public Blogs

Book review: Reznik, Alexander (2008) "A Book for Those Who Don't Like Statistics But Have to Use It", FOM LABS (in Russian)

Book review: Field, Andy (2016) "An Adventure in Statistics. The Reality Enigma", FOM LABS (in Russian)

Book review: Reznik, Alexander (2016) "An Elementary Introduction to Statistics (From Practice to Theory)", FOM LABS (in Russian)

Press release: Single People Become Less Happy as They Age iq.hse.ru (in Russian)

Press release: Demand for the Welfare State: Survey Results on Social Justice in Russia and Europe iq.hse.ru (in Russian)

Employment history

Since 2020 — Deputy Academic Supervisor, Master programme "Modern Social Analysis", https://spb.hse.ru/en/ma/msa/

Since 2015 — Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, HSE - St.Petersburg, Senior Research Fellow, LCSR, HSE University

2013-2015 — Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Communication, Belarus State University

2011-2015 — Affiliated Researcher, LCSR, HSE University

2010-2013 — Lecturer, Department of Social Communication, Belarus State University

2009-2015 — Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Belarus State University

Aug

2022

'I Have Never Regretted Entering 'Sociology' Programme'

Alina Kamanina is a graduate of the Bachelor's Programme 'Sociology and Social Informatics' at HSE University – Saint Petersburg. She has been working as a game analyst in 'G5 Entertainment AB' company for two years. We talked to the graduate about how she entered the game industry, what criteria she used to choose a university and why critical thinking is the main university skill, in her opinion.

Oct

2020

Seminar «Multilevel Modeling for Economists: Why, When and How»

IZA-HSE University International Labor Seminar was held on October 13, 2020.

Jun

2020

New working paper in the Working Papers Series “Economics” of the Programme for Basic Research

New working paper by Aleksey Oshchepkov and Anna Shirokanova (Laboratory for Comparative Social Research) "Multilevel Modeling for Economists: Why, When and How" is published in the Working Papers Series “Economics” of the Programme for Basic Research.

Sep

2019

Final day of the International workshop “Social Inequality and Value Polarization: A Cross-Country Perspective”

In this article we describe the final day of the International workshop “Social Inequality and Polarization Value: A Cross-Country Perspective”.

Jul

2018

ANR-Lab at NetGlow`2018 in St.Petersburg

Members of the International laboratory for Applied Network Research took part at the Conference “Networks in the Global World. Principles behind Structures: Patterns of complexity in European societies and beyond”, which was held on July 4-6 in St. Petersburg.