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Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of everyday academic life. While much attention has been paid to how students use AI in learning, far less is known about how faculty members engage with AI tools in their own research writing and publication practices. A new study by researchers from the HSE Institute of Education and the Academic Writing Centre offers rare insights into how university instructors are navigating this emerging terrain.

February 04

Around one in three doctoral students begin their studies without clear goals, while only around 10% of graduates successfully defend their dissertations on time. What factors have influenced this trend over the last decade? Researchers from the IOE Centre of Sociology of Higher Education conducted a study examining the motivations of PhD students across Russian universities.

January 29

In just two years, generative AI has traveled an astonishing path—from a clever novelty to a genuine game changer in higher education. As tools like ChatGPT exploded into academic life, scholars across the globe rushed to make sense of what this new technology means for universities, teaching, and knowledge itself. That urgent, fast-moving response is what an international team of scholars—Isak Frumin, Anton Vorochkov, Margarita Kiryushina, Daria Platonova, and Evgeniy Terentiev—set out to explore in their sweeping new study, Mapping the Generative AI Research in Higher Education: 2022–2024 Insights. Published in Higher Education Quarterly, the research analyzes more than 4,000 publications produced between 2022 and 2024. The result is a vivid, data-rich portrait of a field evolving at breakneck speed—revealing not only what researchers are studying, but how, where, and with what mix of excitement, concern, and uncertainty. What emerges is academia in full sprint, trying to keep pace with a technology that refuses to slow down.

January 26

Publications

This pocket data book contains the main indicators reflecting the relevance of digital technologies for enterprises and individuals, the activity of ICT sector enterprises, the infrastructure and personnel of the digital economy.
The data book includes information of the Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, European Statistical Office (Eurostat), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), UNESCO, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and results of methodological and analytical studies of the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge.
In some cases, the presented data specify those published earlier.
M.: HSE ISSEK, 2026.
Article
Afanaseva Polina, Ermolaeva A., Dayneko A. et al.
The dark triad (DT) is a psychological construct that describes a set of personality traits, including narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism. These traits influence individual behaviors associated with establishing and sustaining interpersonal connections. Previous research on associations between DT and social contacts often focuses on specific types of relationships, such as friendships or romantic partnerships. This study examines links between DT and social relationship formation patterns among students from Moscow universities (n = 240) in the context of sociodemographic characteristics. The results indicate that higher levels of psychopathy are associated with alienating behaviors, whereas higher levels of narcissism are related to both alienating and active behaviors. However, no significant correlations were observed between Machiavellianism and involvement in social relationships. Regarding associations between sociodemographic characteristics and DT, age was related to the expression of DT traits, whereas area of study and gender were not. Overall, these findings provide insight into the nature of interpersonal relationships in relation to the expression of DT traits and may be used in future research as well as in practice to develop more effective ways to support university students.
Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment. 2026.
One of the promises of MOOC platforms that were widely discussed during the first two waves of MOOC popularity in 2010–2016 was its marketing potential for international student recruitment. However, the research on the effects of MOOC on international enrolment is currently scarce. Based on the data from Coursera and edX platforms for MOOC supply information, and Times Higher Education World University Rankings (THE Ranking) for national and international students’ statistics, this research aims to explore whether the MOOC supply is positively associated with international students enrolment. Results of regression modelling reveal that, considering the whole sample and all other factors being equal, there is no significant association between the number of MOOCs university supplies and the percentage of international students at this university. However, the second model, which includes interaction term, and thus divides the overall effect of MOOCs by different countries, demonstrates that for some countries such an association does appear. These countries are the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, and Russia. For all four countries the detected effect is positive. Finally, the study presents MOOC description page content analysis to define the elements that might promote the university enrolment and push the MOOC learners through the Marketing Funnel from Awareness and Interest to Desire and Action. This paper might be of interest for the university international affairs and student recruitment deputies, to benefit from MOOC supply the university has, or vice versa for the online learning department managers to contribute to the university key performance indicators improvement designing and redesigning online courses for the international audience.
In bk.: Digital Education: Shaping Sustainable Lifelong Learning for All in the Era of AI. 9th European MOOCs Stakeholders Summit, EMOOCs 2025, Paris, France, June 30 – July 2, 2025, Proceedings. Springer, 2026. P. 130-143.
This study presents a methodology for developing a new questionnaire format called explicit continuum scenario scales, in the example of a client focus questionnaire. Elements of the Rasch Guttman scenario scale methodology were used in its development. In three consequent studies, different aspects of the scale functioning were investigated. In Study 1, on the sample of 100 respondents, it was shown that the explicit continuum scale produces reliable results and helps avoid the ceiling effect shown in the Likert response format version of the client focus questionnaire. In Study 2, the scale was administered in a competition environment, in a sample of 735 people. Despite the positive shift of scores, the instrument shows excellent psychometric characteristics and still resists the ceiling effect. In Study 3, new items were included, and the scale was presented in an interactive format. In the sample of 65,000 university students, it demonstrated the robustness of its psychometrics characteristics including dimensionality. The results of the three studies show that the explicit continuum format has the advantage of the stable dimensionality similar to the expanded format and is promising for measurement in social sciences.
Basic research program. WP BRP. National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2024

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