SCIENTIFIC SEMINAR «THE WORLD VALUES SURVEY» (1981-2018): EXPLORING THE CULTURAL CHANGE. ORGANIZATION, HISTORY, FINDINGS»
On May 29, 2018 Public Opinion Research Institute and the (Austria, Vienna) held a Scientific Seminar «The World Values Survey» (1981-2018): Exploring the Cultural Change. Organization, History, Findings». The meeting was held in Russian. World Values Survey is the world’s largest international scientific program and research network in the field of sociology and social sciences in general, as well as a project to study value systems and change values in particular. Speakers at the Scientific Seminar: Prof. Christian W Haerpfer – World Values Survey Association President (WVSA) and others. Kseniya Kizilova, World Values Survey Association Secretary.
Prof. Christian W Haerpfer is a professor of political science and political sociology at the Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna (Austria). In 2017-2018 Christian W Haerpfer is also a Visiting Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of the United Arab Emirates in Al Ain (UAE). As the “Representative for Liaison with Science Committees,” Professor Haerpfer has been a member of the Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) in Montreal, Canada, since 2016. He coordinates the activities of all 50 IPSA research committees in terms of global research in political science and political sociology. Professor Haerpfer is the founder of the IPSA Research Committee No. 17, Comparative Public Opinion, since 2009. Professor Haerpfer is the director of the Institute for Comparative Social Research at ICSR, and the founder of the Eurasian Barometer in Vienna, Austria. The Eurasian Barometer, which analyzes social, economic and cultural changes in Eastern Europe (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova), the Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan) and Central Asia (Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan) from 2000 to 2018.
Dr. Kseniya Kizilova has been Head of the Secretariat of the World Values Survey Association (Stockholm, Sweden) since 2013. As the Head of the WVSA Secretariat, Dr. Kizilova coordinates national polls in 80 countries of the world as part of the 7th wave “World Values” (2017-2019), and is also responsible for administration, communication, etc. activities of the WVSA association. Since 2015, Kseniya Kizilova has been Deputy Director of the Institute for Comparative Social Research in Vienna, Austria. In 2013, Kseniya Kizilova became deputy director of the international comparative research program “Eurasian Barometer”, which analyzes social, economic and political changes in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. As deputy director of the Eurasian Barometer, Kseniya Kizilova is a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Barometer Research Group (GBS), which runs a network of regional barometers that study socio-political processes in all regions of the world.
Since 2017, the 7th wave of research has started, in which, since 2018, Public Opinion Research Institute is a representative of Kazakhstan.
Since 2018 Botagoz Rakisheva, Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Project Director of the Institute, is the Principal investigator of WVS-7 in Kazakhstan.
