Belarusian State University (Belarus)
The Center for Sociological and Political Research (CSPR) at the Belarussian 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; Questionning 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.
The team includes Prof. David Rotman (Team Leader), Mag. Oksana Ivanjuto, Anna Markovich
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 peer-reviewed 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. David Rotman
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Mag. Oksana Ivaniuta
Anna Markovich
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