Research

Research is one of the core activities of LUNN faculty and students. LUNN research is organized and arranged in due accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation and the univetsity's Mission and Policy. We welcome overseas partners to participate in joint research in Humanities.  

For the successful conferment of Standard or Higher Doctorate Degree graduates, apart from passing the relevant educational program, you need to write and successfully present to the board a research paper (thesis) on the selected scientific topic. A number of works in rated and indexed scientific and research periodicals must also published.

LUNN offers 17 full-time standard doctorate degree programs:

• Educational Psychology, Psychodiagnostics of Digital Educational Environments (Psychological sciences)
• History and Theory of Politics (Political Science)
• Political Institutions, Processes, Technologies (Political sciences)
• Public Administration and Industrial Policies (Political Science)
• International Relations, Global and Regional Studies (Political Science)
• General history (Historical Sciences)
• History of Philosophy (Philosophical Sciences)
• Social and Political Philosophy (Philosophical Sciences)
• General Pedagogy, History of Pedagogy and Education (Pedagogical Sciences)
• Theory and Methods of Teaching and Education (Foreign Languages, Levels of General and Vocational Education) (Pedagogical Sciences)
• Methodology and Technology of Professional Education (Pedagogical Sciences)
• Russian Literature and Literatures of the Peoples of the Russian Federation (Philological Sciences)
• Literatures of the Peoples of the World (Philological Sciences)
• Russian Language. Languages ​​of the Peoples of Russia (Philological Sciences)
• Languages ​​of the Peoples of Foreign Countries (Germanic languages) (Philological Sciences)
• Theoretical, Applied and Comparative Linguistics (Philological Sciences)
• Interdisciplinary Studies of Language (Philological Sciences)

LUNN operates authoritative 2 dissertation boards for standard and higher doctorate degrees thesis presentation.

Academic programs are provided both on a paid and free-of-charge bases. 

If you wish to publish a paper in LUNN Journal, please check the relevant page of our website. LUNN conducts fundamental scientific research, applied research and exploratory development in the areas that correspond to the scope of Humanities taught and explored in the university, such as Linguistics, Teaching Foreign Languages, Social Studies, Political Science and other. We welcome universities and other organizations to conduct joint research in these areas. This may include cooperation in joint grants from Russian and foreign funds as well as public and private organizations. 

For more information on the Standard and Higher Doctorate degree programs, including the yearly tuition fees, please contact us at priem@lunn.ru or use our Write to us online form.

Feel free to use these contacts to ask questions, make inquiries and propose suggestions.

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The latest update: 15.04.2026
A person responsible for the information: 
vice-rector for youth policy and international cooperation