About Research

HERZEN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY is a leading scientific and educational center of the Russian Federation. The priority areas of its activity are the development and implementation of an effective modern system of education and training at all its levels. The history of the University dates back to the St. Petersburg Educational Home, and over two centuries more than 30 scientific schools have been formed here.

For decades, the mission of the University has been to provide the national educational environment with knowledge and technologies that meet the demands of society, as well as continuous training at all levels of the educational process.

Being one of the best universities in Russia, Herzen University has been improving its position in Russian and international rankings year after year. In 2021, Herzen University was included in the QS World University Rankings, a global ranking of the best universities in the world. 

• 25 scientific laboratories, institutes and centers, including the Interdisciplinary Resource Center for Collective Use with unique scientific equipment
• over 150  units of scientific equipment, 45 of which cost more than 1 million rubles
• 11 peer-reviewed scientific journals
• more than 100 research projects per year
• annual financing of scientific research to the amount of more than 200 million rubles 
• 21 dissertation councils in 40 scientific specialties
• more than 350 publications indexed in international databases of scientific works and more than 500 publications annually included in the RSCI (Russian Science Citation Index) Core annually
• a number of internal competitions for grants for the development and support of research activities. 

Over the years a number of unique research fields have been established here including:

• ontolinguistics (developmental psycholinguistics);
• defectology (therapeutic pedagogy and the development of inclusive education in Russia);
• bilingualism (specific features of bilingual education);
• integrated research in childhood and child development;
• northern studies (studies of the indigenous minorities of the Far East and Siberia)

Our scientists and research groups undertake a range of expert work in their respective fields, and the knowledge they have acquired and accumulated has become a valuable information source for further development of science and education.

Our research interests include a variety of scientific fields (humanities, social and natural sciences). A major part of research at the Herzen University focuses on specific features of instruction in all academic subjects and their methodological and didactic principles.