A researcher at HSE University analysed data on 1,539 doctoral students from 161 Russian universities to identify which features of a thesis topic are associated with academic success and engagement. The most important factor was found to be personal interest in the research topic, which was associated with almost all key aspects of doctoral programme experience—from engaging with the academic supervisor to research activity and confidence about successfully defending the thesis. The findings have been published in Higher Education.
Having a good defence attorney in criminal proceedings can largely determine whether a defendant retains their freedom, health and good name. Researchers at HSE University propose a method for predicting an attorney’s performance based on the outcomes of their previous cases. The methodology takes into account the severity of the charges, the complexity of the cases, and the most likely outcome, drawing on judicial statistics.
A delegation of scientists from Hanoi visited the HSE Faculty of Computer Science and then took part in a Russian-Vietnamese conference in St Petersburg. The events were part of the three-year project ‘Flexibility and Computational Methods.’ Over the course of the project, the researchers have prepared joint publications and obtained new mathematical results.
Braginskaya N., Шмаина-Великанова А. И., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2025 Т. 29 № 1 С. 249–265
The article examines an episode from a prophetic dream, Visio Saturi, included in a collection of documents entitled Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis (cа. 203 CE). In this episode, Satur, a catechist of a group of young people who is condemned to death along with them, sees his own and Perpetua’s posthumous existence. Leaving their bodies ...
Braginskaya N., Lebedev P., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2023 Vol. 19 No. 1 P. 237–255
The early Christian work “The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity” consists of different parts combined into a single book. Three parts are generally accepted: 1) Perpetua’s Notes, 2) Saturus’s Vision, 3) the Eyewitness story and the Prologue and Epilogue written by the same author. We argue that the Prologue plus Epilogue and the Eyewitness story had different authors ...
Braginskaya N., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2022 Т. 18 № 1 С. 48–77
One of the characters of “Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis” bears the name Revocatus. He is a Saint martyr worshipped in all Christian Churches. In the early Byzantine Acts of the fifth century, where he is declared to be the brother of Felicitas, he takes part in the events and is subjected to an interrogation. In ...