Gulnaz Isabekova

researcher

CRC 1342 Global Dynamics of Social Policy

Project B06: External reform models and internal debates on the new conceptualisation of social policy in the post-Soviet region

Room 3740 / Phone 0421-218-57073 
gulnaz(at)uni-bremen.de

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PhD Thesis
The (limited) development of primary health care in the post-Soviet region: the role of donors and states in projects combating tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in Armenia and Kyrgyzstan

(Supervisors: Heiko Pleines, Monika Ewa Kaminska, Kristina Jönsson)


Research Interests:

• development aid
• public health and healthcare systems
• sustainability
• poverty, inequality and migration

 
Education

since 2015 Affiliated fellow (PhD student) at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences within the Marie Curie Innovative Training Network „Caspian“.

2011-2012  MSc in Comparative Public Policy, the University of Edinburgh

2007-2011  BA in International and Comparative Politics and International Law, American University of Central Asia (AUCA)
 

Work experience

since 2018 Researcher at the Research Centre for East European Studies in the context of CRC 1342 Global Dynamics of Social Policy (https://www.socialpolicydynamics.de/en/)

2012 - present Country Coordinator on Kyrgyzstan in the Varieties of Democracy project, coordinated by the University of Gothenburg (https://www.v-dem.net/en/about/)

2015 - 2018 Early stage researcher at the Research Centre for East European Studies within the Marie Curie Innovative Training Network „Caspian“ (http://caspianet.eu/)

2014 - 2015 Project specialist/assistant at Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia

2014 - 2015 Analyst/project assistant at Norwegian Helsinki Committee

2014 - 2015 Research assistant “Parliamentarism and accountability in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: parties, fractions and civil society before and after 2010,” AUCA/ Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

2012 - 2014 Project manager at Kyrgyz-German “Naryn” LLC

2010 - 2011 Team research on “Politics and conflict in Kyrgyzstan in 2010: migration link” coordinated by UNESCO and AUCA Social Research Center

2009 - 2012 Team research project on the “Elites of Kyrgyzstan,” department of International and Comparative Politics, AUCA

2007 - 2010 Public assistant at the Parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic

 
Publications

Isabekova, Gulnaz (2019): Diverse health care developments: the role of national and international actors. In: S. An, T. Chubarova, B. Deacon, P.  Stubbs (eds.): Social policy, poverty and inequality in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Columbia University Press, in print

Isabekova, Gulnaz (2019): The relationships between stakeholders engaged in development assistance: towards an analytical framework, in: SOCIUM SFB 1342 Working Paper Series, Working Paper 3, in print

Isabekova, Gulnaz (2019). The Contribution of Vulnerability of Labour Migrants to Drug Resistance in the Region: Overview and Suggestions. The European Journal of Development Research 31(3), pp.620-642. (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41287-018-0172-1)

Isabekova, Gulnaz (2018). Healthcare Workers in the Southern Caucasus: Availability, Migration and Patients’ Access to Healthcare. Caucasus Analytical Digest 103, pp. 6-17. (http://www.laender-analysen.de/cad/pdf/CaucasusAnalyticalDigest103.pdf)

Isabekova, Gulnaz (2016): Wer bekommt wieviel? Entwicklungshilfe im Gesundheitswesen der zentralasiatischen Staaten, in: Zentralasien-Analysen No. 108 (December 2016), pp. 2-11

Williams, Aled / Isabekova, Gulnaz / Ormushev, Kubanychbek / Omokeev, Toktobek / Zakharchenko, Natalia (2013): “Leaking projects? Corruption and local water management in Kyrgyzstan,” U4 Practical Insight 2013(3)