GSEM Sociology Researchers and Colleagues from Poland Discussed the Issues of Youth and Volunteering in the former USSR

17:53, December 14, 2019

The research seminar «Youth in contemporary society: identity, social well-being, innovation development» took place on December 10th

Dr. Anna Karnat from the Pedagogical University of Cracow took part in the seminar.

Dr. Karnat presented a report «Youth’s Individual Strategies for Adaptation to Life in Contemporary Society – Identity Perspective» telling about the problems of constructing young people’s identity in modern society, social adaptation and self-realisation of the young generation, as well as opportunities for applying specialised metrics to measure social identity in sociology.

GSEM researchers from the Academic Department of Sociology and Public and Municipal Administration Technologies Maria Pevnaya, Yana Didkovskaya, Anna Kuzminchyuk and Daria Telepaeva presented their research on the seminar topics.

Deputy Director of the School of Public Administration and Entrepreneurship Anna Bagirova told about the research achievements of the School in the field of Social Policy, as well as related fields of sociology, economics, social psychology and management theory.

The visit of the Polish researchers to Ural Federal University took place from December 8th to 12th in the framework of the project «Achieving leading positions in QS subject rankings in 2020».

The visit resulted in the arrangement on further cooperation that include joint publications on the issues of youth policy implementation, cross-country research on social wellbeing and identity of the youth, as well as preparation of grant applications for the Erasmus+ programme, inviting visiting professors and students to participate in the events held in Russia and in Europe.