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On June 20, 2024 a seminar was held on the topic "Emotional labour of nurses in the COVID-19 pandemic: the results of a qualitative study", organized within the framework of the Research Group "Doctor-nurse-patient relationship: between professional authority and the powers of consumers of medical services".

The 9^th African Population Conference themed «Road to 2030: Leveraging Africa’s human capital to achieve transformation in a world of uncertainty» was held between 20^th – 24^th May, 2024 at the BICC international conference center, Lilongwe, Malawi.

Applications are open until April 18

Applications for the fourth HSE University Competition of the Best Russian-language Scientific and Popular Science Papers will be accepted from February 1 to March 15. The authors that receive the highest scores from the expert jury will be awarded on June 6—Russian Language Day. The main goal of the competition is to support and promote Russian language as a language of science, as well as to popularise works affiliated with HSE University among the global Russian-speaking audience.

Roman Abramov and Danila Ivanov, researchers of the Laboratory, spoke at the round table of the Research Group on the Ethics of Social Work [SWERG] (UK, Durham University; Slovenia, University of Ljubljana).

In the new edition of the rubric "+- 10 minutes" from Vyshka.Online Tamara Shcheglova, junior research fellow of the International Laboratory of Applied Network Research of the Higher School of Economics and Researcher at the company "Aventica" speaks about the role and strength of social ties between people and how they work and how they affect us.

The journal 'Sociology: 4M' and the International Laboratory for Applied Network Research announce the preparation of a special issue of the journal dedicated to the methodology of network analysis in the social sciences. Guest editor – candidate of social sciences Daria Maltseva. Estimated release date of the issue is December 2023.

To successfully defend a doctoral dissertation, PhD candidates need not only the support of their academic supervisor and close friends and relatives, but also system-wide assistance from the university department or faculty where they study. However, HSE University researchers have found that such support can take different forms and that each has a different effect on how confident a student feels in their ability to successfully defend their dissertation. The results of their study were published in the journal Higher Education Quarterly.