Dr. 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 Impact of Donor-State-Civil Society Interaction on the Sustainability of Health Aid. Case Studies of Projects combatting 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

Heinrich, A., Isabekova. G., Müller, A., Pleines, H. (forthcoming). Causal mechanisms in the introduction of mandatory health insurance in the post-Soviet region. In: J. Kuhlmann and F. Nullmeier (Eds.), Causal Mechanisms in the Global Development of Social Policies. Palgrave Macmillan

Heinrich, A., Isabekova. G., Müller, A., Pleines, H., Ten Brink, T. (2021). The Agency of Recipient Countries in Transnational Policy-related Knowledge Transfer: From Conditionality to Elaborated Autonomous Policy Learning. Communist and Post-Communist Studies 54(3), 51-72. https://doi.org/10.1525/j.postcomstud.2021.54.3.51

Isabekova, G. (2020). Mutual learning on the local level: The Swiss Red Cross and the Village Health Committees in the Kyrgyz Republic. Global Social Policy 21(1), 117-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468018120950032

Isabekova, G. and Pleines, H. (2020). Integrating development aid into social policy: Lessons on cooperation and its challenges learned from the example of health care in Kyrgyzstan. Social Policy & Administration, online first. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12669  

Isabekova, G. (2019). The Contribution of Vulnerability of Labour Migrants to Drug Resistance in the Region: Overview and Suggestions. European Journal of Development Research 31, 620-642. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-018-0172-16

Isabekova, G. (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 (pp. 235-260). Ibidem Press. ISBN-13: 978-3-8382-1308-87

Isabekova, G. (2019). The relationships between stakeholders engaged in development assistance: towards an analytical framework. SOCIUM SFB 1342 Working Papers 3, 1-28. ISSN 2629-5741 https://www.socialpolicydynamics.de/f/035bc4652e.pdf

Isabekova, G. (2018). Healthcare Workers in the Southern Caucasus: Availability, Migration and Patients’ Access to Healthcare. Caucasus Analytical Digest 103, 6-17. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000269801

Isabekova, G. (2017). Restricted Data on Development Assistance: The Case of Healthcare Interventions in Armenia and Kyrgyzstan”. Around the CASPIAN Policy paper 6, 1-7. http://caspianet.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Gulnaz-Isabekova-Restricted-DevelopmentData.pdf

Isabekova, G. (2016). Wer bekommt wieviel? Entwicklungshilfe im Gesundheitswesen der zentralasiatischen Staaten [Who gets what? Development assistance to healthcare in Central Asian countries]. Zentralasien-Analysen 108, 2-5

Isabekova, G., Ormushev, K., Omokeev, T., Williams, A., Zakharchenko, N. (2013). Leaking Projects?Corruption and Local Water Management in Kyrgyzstan. U4 Practical Insight 2013(3), 1-11. https://www.cmi.no/publications/file/4921-leaking-projects.pdf

Isabekova, G. and Mayjanova, S. (2009). Central Asian Cooperation on Water Issues and the ways of its improvement. AUCA Academic Review 1(9), 58-64. Albino LTD.