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• (Un)Popular Science: Making Research Accessible

  A curious contradiction has been discovered in a recent survey by the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Zircon group: while 65-70% of surveyed Russians claim to be interested in science, only 16% actually stay up to date on research news. To understand this phenomenon, scientists looked at the factors that make readers less – or more – drawn to science. They shared their insights during a meetup hosted by ITMO’s Center for Science Communication – here are the highlights.

  18.05.2023

• Sociologists Answer: Are Researchers Happy?

  A recent study by National Priorities, an operator of the national initiative Decade of Science and Technology in Russia, finds that young scientists are happier than people outside the academic world, with a majority of them (under the age of 30) exhibiting a more positive outlook on the future than their peers from other fields. Learn more about the survey findings in this article.

  08.12.2022

• Campbell’s Law: Why Smart Technologies Don’t Always Make Life Better

  In economics and politics, Campbell’s law has been considered a classic one for a long time. Nikolay Rudenko, a research associate at the Center for Science and Technology Studies of the European University at St. Petersburg  and a lecturer in ITMO’s Science and Technologies in Society Master’s program, talked about this law, its application to the implementation of technologies, and the reasons why it doesn’t always go smoothly. 

  23.07.2020

• “Science and Technologies in Society” Master’s Program: Why and How Do Researchers Study Labs and Startups?

  The Master’s program Science and Technologies in Society is currently in its first year of operation at ITMO University. We’ve spoken to Andrei Kuznetsov, one of the program’s tutors, an associate professor at ITMO University and a researcher at the STS (Science and Technology Studies) Center of the European University at St. Petersburg, to find out why scientists study science, who pays for it, and what amazing discoveries have already been made in this peculiar field.

  21.04.2020

• Social Anthropology Expedition: the Secret Lives of Physiologists

  A group of lecturers and PhD students from the Higher School of Economics (HSE), along with a researcher from ITMO University’s Science Communication Master’s program went on an unconventional sociological expedition called “Koltushi. Into Pavlov’s scientific world.” The researchers spent two weeks observing the way employees at Pavlov Institute of Physiology work and interact with each other. Read on to learn more on how to tell physiologists and doctors apart, why physiologists give each other lemons on New Year, and why the lives of scientists should be studied. 

  25.11.2019