Aliya Kuzhabekova

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Kuzhabekova, A. (accepted). Gender differences in international faculty experiences during COVID-19 in Kazakhstan, Gender equity in higher education during COVID-19 in Kazakhstan Special Issue, European Education.

Oleksiyenko, Cardenas, F., Dwivedi, O., Kabir., A., Kuzhabekova., A., Mendoza, P., Muweesi, C., Vutha, R., Shchepetylnykova. (accepted). Global Pandemic and Higher Education: Crisis Management and Agency. Higher Education Quarterly.

Kuzhabekova, A., Ospanova, G. (accepted). Immigrant Social Networks and Workforce Integration. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies.

Kuzhabekova, A. (accepted). Unpacking immigrant youth career development in Canada. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies

Almukhambetova, A., Kuzhabekova, A. (accepted). COVID-19 and STEM students' intentions to pursue international mobility. What do the students say? European Education

Kuzhabekova, A., Bilyalov, D., Wan, C.D., Mussabayeva, A. (accepted). Faculty views on internationalization of higher education in Kazakhstan. Special issue for Journal of Higher Education (Turkey).

Almukhambetova, A., Kuzhabekova, A., Torrano, D. (2022). Hidden bias, low expectations, and social stereotypes: Understanding female higher education students’ retention in math-intensive STEM fields. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 1-23.

 Kuzhabekova, A., Nardon, L. (2021). Refugee students’ transition from higher education to employment: Setting a research agenda. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 1-16.

Nardon, L., Hari, A., Zhang, H., Hoselton, L., Kuzhabekova, A. (2021). Skilled immigrant women's career trajectories during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.  Equality, diversity and inclusion: An international journal. 

Kuzhabekova, A., Ispambetova, B., Baigazina, A., Sparks, J. (2021). A critical perspective on short-term international mobility of faculty: A view from Kazakhstan. Journal of Studies in International Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/10283153211016270

Kuzhabekova, A. (2021). A postcolonial feminist exploration of the scholarship on women and educational leadership with a bibliometric approach. Educational Management, Administration, and Leadership, DOI: 10.1177/17411432211003885

Kuzhabekova, A. (2021). Charting the terrain of global research on graduate education: A bibliometric approach. Journal of Further and Higher Education. DOI: 10.1080/0309877X.2021.1876219

Almukhambetova, A., Kuzhabekova, A., (2021). Negotiating conflicting discourses. Female students’ experiences in STEM majors in an international university in Central Asia. International Journal of Science Education, 43(4), 570-593.

Kuzhabekova A. (2020). Returning scholars in Kazakhstan and their role in neocolonial oppression in academia. Special Issue “The Decolonization of the Academic World”, Cosmopolis: A review of cosmopolitics, 2020-3-4, https://www.cosmopolis-rev.org/2020-3-4-fr

Almukhambetova, A., Kuzhabekova, A. ( 2020). Factors affecting the decision of female students to enroll in undergraduate science, technology, engineering and mathematics majors in Kazakhstan. International Journal of Science Education. DOI: 10.1080/09500693.2020.1742948

Kuzhabekova, A., Lee, J. (2020). International faculty engagement in local research capacity building: Factors affecting knowledge-sharing between international and local faculty in Kazakhstan. European Education, 52 (4), pp. 297-311.

Kuzhabekova, A. (2019). Invisibilizing Eurasia: How North-South dichotomization marginalizes post-Soviet scholars in international research collaborations. Journal of Studies in International Education. Special issue “Moving beyond “North” and “South”: New global perspectives on international research collaboration” (Ed. C.Sa), 24(1), pp.113-130.

Kuzhabekova, A., Sparks,J., Temerbayeva, A. (2019). Returning from study abroad and transitioning as a scholar: Stories of foreign PhD holders from Kazakhstan. Research in Comparative and International Education, 14(3), pp.412-430.

Kuzhabekova, A., Almukhambetova, A. (in press, 2019). What affects women’s progression through the leadership pipeline in universities of Central Asia: Comparing findings from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Compare, issue and pages not available yet.

Lee, J., Kuzhabekova, A. (2019). Building local research capacity in higher education: A conceptual model.Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 41(3), pp.342-347.

Torrano, D., Kuzhabekova, A. (in press, 2019). Gifted education: The state of research from publication and citation data. High Ability Studies, issues and pages not available yet.

Kuzhabekova, A. (in press, 2019). Academic motherhood in international settings: An ethnographic study of experiences of female faculty in an international university in Kazakhstan, Women Studies International Forum, 75(July-August), pages not available yet.

Kuzhabekova, A. (2019). Language Use among Secondary School Students in Kazakhstan. Applied Linguistics Research Journal, 3(2), pp.1-14.

Kuzhabekova, A., Temerbayeva, A. (2018). The Role of Conferences in Doctoral Student Socialization. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 9(2), pp.181-196.

Kuzhabekova, A., Lee, J. (2018). Relocation decision of international faculty in Kazakhstan. Journal of Studies in International Education, 22 (5), pp. 414 – 433.

Kuzhabekova, A., Ruby, A. (2018). Raising Research Productivity in a Post-Soviet Higher Education System: A Case from Central Asia, European Education, 50 (3), pp.266-28.

CohenMiller, A. S., & Kuzhabekova, A. (2018). A Quarter Century of Reforms in Post-Soviet Education: The Effects on University Faculty. European Education, 50 (3), pp.i-iv.

Lee, J., Kuzhabekova, A. (2018). Reverse Flow in Academic Mobility from Core to Periphery: Motivations of International Faculty Working in Kazakhstan, Higher Education, 76(2), pp.369–386.

Kuzhabekova, A., Janenova, S., Almukhambetova, A. (2018). Analyzing the experiences of female leaders in civil service in Kazakhstan: trapped between economic pressure to earn and traditional family role expectations, International Journal of Public Administration, 41(15), pp.1290-1301.

Kuzhabekova, A., Soltanbek, A., Almukhambetova, A., Mukhametzhanova, A. (2018). Educational Flagships as Brokers in International Policy Transfer: Learning from the Experience of Kazakhstan, European Education, 50 (4), pp.353-370.

Kuzhabekova, A., Lee, J. (2017). International faculty contribution to local research capacity building: A view from publication data. Higher Education Policy, 3(1), pp. 423-446.

Kuzhabekova, A. (2017). Combining brokerage and bonding in co-authorship: a useful strategy in social capital accumulation. Journal of Scientometric Research, 6(3), pp.176-185

Kuzhabekova, A., Almukhambetova, A. (2017). Female academic leadership in post-Soviet context: Finding work- life balance while negotiating multiple sets of gender role expectations, Special issue of European Education Research Journal: Work - Life Interferences in Scientific Careers, 16(2-3), pp.183-199.

Kuzhabekova, A., Mukhamejanova, D. (2017). Productive researchers in countries with limited research capacity: researchers as agents in post-Soviet Kazakhstan, Journal of Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral education, 8(1), pp. 30-47.

Kuzhabekova, A., Zhaparova, R. (2016). Effects of ‘Apprenticeship of observation’ of active learning techniques on teachers at earlier and later stages of teaching careers. Educational Studies Moscow, 2, pp.208-228.

Kuzma, J., Kokotovoch, A., Kuzhabekova, A. (2016). Attitudes towards governance of gene editing. Asian Biotechnology and Development Review, Special Issue on Regulation, Intellectual Property and Innovation, 18(1), pp. 69-93.

Kuzhabekova, A., Hendel, D., Chapman, D. (2015). Mapping Global Research on International Higher Education,Research in Higher Education, 56(8), pp. 861-882.

Kuzhabekova, A. (2015). Findings from TIMSS 2007: What Drives Utilization of Inquiry-based Science Instruction?International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 1(2), pp.142-150.

Kuzhabekova,A., Kuzma, J. (2014) Mapping the emerging field of genome editing. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 26(3), pp. 321-352.

Kuzma, J., Kuzhabekova, A. (2011). Corporate Social Responsibility for Nanotechnology Oversight. Medicine, Healthcare, and Philosophy. Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy 14(4), pp.407-419.

Kuzma, J., Kuzhabekova, A., (2011). Nanotechnology, Voluntary Oversight, and Corporate Social Performance: Does Company Size Matter? Journal of Nanoparticles Research, Special focus: Governance of Nanobiotechnology, 13(4), pp.1499

Stebleton, M.J., Huesman, R.L., Kuzhabekova, A. (2010). Do I belong here? Exploring immigrant college student responses on the SERU Survey sense of belonging/satisfaction factor. The Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkley, Occasional Paper Series, 13/10. Available at<http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/publications.php?s=1>

Kuzma, J. and Kuzhabekova, A, Wilder, K. (2009). Improving Oversight of Genetically Engineered Organisms, Policy & Society, 28 (4), pp. 279-299.

Paradise, J.. Wolf, S., Kuzma, J., Kuzhabekova, A., Wedekind, A., Kokkoli, E., and G. Ramachandran. (2009). Developing Oversight Strategies for Nanobiotechnology: Learning from Past Oversight Experiences. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, 37 (4), pp. 688-705. Peer Reviewed Book Chapters

Huang, F., Kuzhabekova, A., Yudkevich, M. et al. (accepted). Internationally mobile academics: A global comparative perspective. Chapter submitted to APIKS Redbook on Internationalization, The Changing Academy Series (Series Editors: Aarrevaara, T. and Finkelstein, M.)

Kuzhabekova, A. (accepted). Thirty years of research capacity development in Kazakhstani higher education. In Chankseliani, M. et al. (in progress), Building Research Universities: Insights from Post-Soviet Countries. Palgrave Macmillan.

Kuzhabekova, A. (in print). COVID-19 and Expatriate Faculty at an International University in Kazakhstan. In Glass, C. et al., (2022). The Experiences of International Faculty in Institutions of Higher Education Enhancing Recruitment, Retention, and Integration of International Talent. Routledge Studies on Global Student Mobility, New York, NY: Routledge.

Kuzhabekova, A. (2020). Internationalization as a Mechanism of Higher Education Modernization in Kazakhstan. In F.Huang (Ed.) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Internationalization of Higher Education in the Global South. New York, NY, USA: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.

Kuzhabekova, A. (2020). Doctoral Education in Kazakhstan. In Yudkevich, M., Altbach, Ph., De Witt, H. (Eds.. Trends and Issues in Doctoral Education Worldwide: An International Research Inquiry. Thousand Oaks, US: SAGE

Kuzhabekova, A. (2019). The Development of University Research in Kazakhstan during 1991-2013: a Bibliometric View. In Silova, I. and Niyozov, S. (Eds.) Globalization on the Margins: Education and Post-socialist Transformations in Central Asia (2nd ed.), USA: Information Age Publishing.

Kuzhabekova, A. (2019). Learning the ropes of academic publishing as a non-native speaker of English Research, In Ruecker, T. and Svihla, V. (Ed.), Interrupted: Navigating Challenges in Qualitative Education Research, New York, NY: Routledge.

Holley, K., Kuzhabekova., A., et al. (2017). Global Perspectives on the post-Doctoral Scholar Experience. In Jaeger, A.., Dinin, A. (Eds.) The Post-doctoral Landscape: The Invisible Scholars. Academic Press.

Kuzhabekova, A. (2017). Impact-factor requirements in Kazakhstan: The reaction of scholarly journals and implications for local research capacity building, In Curry, M. and Lillis, Th. (Eds.) Global academic publishing: Policies, practices, and pedagogies, Part of the series Studies in Knowledge Production and Participation, Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, UK.

Kerimkulova, S., Kuzhabekova, A. (2017). Quality Assurance in Higher Education of Kazakhstan: A Review of the System and Issues. In Shah, M. (Ed.) The Rise of Quality Assurance in Asian Higher Education, Woodhead Publishing, Ltd.

Ruby, A., Kuzhabekova, A., Lee, J (2017). Recruitment of International Faculty: The case of Nazarbayev University. In Yudkevitch, M., Altbach, Ph., Rumbley, L. (Eds.) International Faculty in Higher Education Comparative Perspectives on Recruitment, Integration, and Impact, pp.150-173, New York: Routledge.

Kuzma, J., Kuzhabekova, A., Priest, S., and L. Yerhot. (2010). Expert Opinion of Emerging Technologies Oversight: Lessons for Nanotechnology from Biotechnology. Book for Society for Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies. IOS Press: Amsterdam, Neth. (in press)

Anderson, Melissa S., Chiteng Kot, Felly, Jie, Yiyun, Kamata, Takehito, Kuzhabekova, Aliya, Lepkowski, Christine C., Shaw, Marta A., Sorenson, Martha M., and Vasconcelos, Sonia M. R. (2010). Differences in national approaches to doctoral education: Implications for international research collaborations. In Anderson, Melissa S., and Steneck, Nicholas H. (Eds.), International Research Collaborations:  Much to be Gained, Many Ways to Get in Trouble, New York: Routledge.

Kuzhabekova, A. (2008). Language Policies in Independent Kazakhstan, in “Linguistic Changes in Post- Communist Eastern Europe and Eurasia”, ed. Ernest Andrews (2008), Eastern European Monographs, Columbia University Press. Non-Peer Reviewed Publications (regional research newsletters)

Kuzhabekova, A. (2021). Women leadership in higher education in Kazakhstan. ACE: International Briefs for Higher Education Leaders. 9(2021), pp.13-15.

Kuzhabekova, A. (2020). A bibliometric view of graduate education research around the world, Higher Education in Russia and Beyond, 4(25), pp. 7-9.

Kuzhabekova, A. (2020). The emergence of postdoctoral studies in Kazakhstan, Higher Education in Russia and Beyond, 2(23), pp.17-19.

Kuzhabekova, A., Yembergenova, D. (2017). ‘Publish or Perish’ and the Changing Reality of Academic Journals in Kazakhstan, Higher Education in Russia and Beyond, 1(11), pp.16-17.

Kuzhabekova, A. (2015). What determines the divide between soft and hard sciences in Soviet and post-Soviet Kazakhstan, Higher Education in Russia and Beyond, 3(5), pp.9-11.

Kuzhabekova, A. (2015). Introduction of impact-factor publication requirement for faculty promotion: Experiences of Kazakhstani faculty, Higher Education in Russia and Beyond, 1(7), pp.9-11.