State Institute of Management and Social Technologies of Belarusian State University
State Institute of Management and Social Technologies of Belarusian State University
Center for Sociological and Political Researches of Belarusian State University
The Center for Sociological and Political Research (CSPR) at the Belarusian State University is historically first and at contemporary moment a leading sociological service in the Republic of Belarus. The staff of the centre is more than 20 professionals working in the sphere of sociology, political science, economy, social psychology, organisation of polls, surveys, qualitative researchers and data processing. The structure of the centre: two Analytic Departments; Data Processing Department; Questioning Network Department; Technical Provision of the Research; Data Collection Quality Control Service. The centre has a developed network of more than 200 trained interviewers, who live in all the regions of the republic. The center has collected empirical data base since 1990-ies, and can trace the change in social, political and economical living conditions in the country since than. The Centre deals with the study of the problems of social structure of the society, electoral behaviour, conditions and quality of life, education, culture, international and cross-confessional relations, migration, cross border relations, social identity.
Prof. David Rotman is director of the Center for Sociological and Political Research. Professor Rotman is one of the leading specialists at the NIS territory in techniques of organisation and conduct of sociological research. He is an author of the conception of operative sociological research, created a number of original techniques of electoral sociological research. Professor Rotman is an author of a number of scientific works in the sphere of sociology of politics, sociology of electoral behaviour, sociology of deviant behaviour, sociology of international relations, sociology of cross border relations. He has published almost 300 papers in peerreviewed journals and he is author and editor of twenty books. His research has been financed by the Ministry of Education of Belarus, Ministry of Public Health of Belarus, Department of National Affairs of Belarus, Department on Youths Affairs, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus, Department for Religion and Nationalities, World Bank. He was a team leader of the majority of the international projects conducted by the CSPR.
Prof. Peter Brigadin – director of the State Institute of Management and Social Technologies, doctor of history, professor. Author of a number of scientific works in the sphere of state administration, social structure of the Belarusian society, human resources management, problems of education. Prof. Brigading published more than 200 scientific works. Dr. Larissa Sohlaeva – vice-director of the Center for Sociological and Political Researches of Belarusian State University, PhD, assistant professor. Dr. Sohlaeva is an author of a number of scientific works in the sphere of sociology of medicine, sociology of education, sociology of youths, sociology of culture; published about 100 scientific works.
Dr. Larissa Filinskaya – PhD, assistant professor, lecturer at the chair of Sociology of Belarusian State University. Dr. Filinskaya is an author of a number of scientific works in the sphere of economic sociology, sociology of social work, sociology of youths, sociology of education; published about 100 scientific works.
Anna Markovich – project assistant and interpreter.
Relevant projects of the team:
- Influence of the lifestyle quality and living conditions on the health of the population of
the Republic of Belarus – funded by the Fund for Fundamental Researches of the
Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus. - Estimation of the effectiveness of the training program: teaching living skills and healthy
lifestyle to schoolchildren – for the UNISEF. - Problems of healthy lifestyle of university students – for the Belarusian State University.
- Problems of usage of iodine salt in the diet of the population of the Republic of Belarus – for the UNO.
- Estimation of the system of healthcare of population in the Republic of Belarus in contemporary conditions – for the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Belarus.
- Necessity in medical and social support among old-aged and disabled people – for the International Red Cross Organisation.
- Influence of the consequences of Chernobyl catastrophe on the health of the population, living at the radiation contaminated territories – INTAS.
- Living conditions, lifestyle and health – FP 5 programme, Confirming the international role of community research, INCO-Copernicus 2000-2003.
Team leader
Prof. David Rotman
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Dr. Petr Brigadin
Project Assistant
Anna Markovich
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