Gulnaz Isabekova

early-stage 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@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)

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


Research Interests:

• Welfare Policy and Healthcare;
• Development Aid;
• Poverty, Inequality and Human Rights.

 
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

2015 - 2018 Early stage researcher at the Research Centre for East European Studies within the Marie Curie Innovative Training Network „Caspian“.

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

2014 - 2015  Analyst/project assistant at Norwegian Helsinki Committee

2012 - 2015 Country manager for the Varieties of democracy project, coordinated by the University  of Gothenburg

June 2014 - Jan 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

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

Oct 2010 - July 2011  Team work “Politics and conflict in Kyrgyzstan in 2010: migration link” coordinated by UNESCO and AUCA social research center

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

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

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

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

“Central Asian cooperation on water issues and ways of its improvement,” AUCA Academic Review 1(9), Bishkek, Albino LTD 2009