Aliya Kuzhabekova
Affiliations
Associate Professor
Werklund School of Education
Contact information
Location
Office: EDT 914
Background
Educational Background
PhD Higher Education Policy and Administration, University of Minnesota, 2011
MS Higher Education Leadership, University of North Dakota,
MA Applied Linguistics, University of North Dakota,
Biography
Dr. Aliya Kuzhabekova is an Associate Professor in Leadership, Policy, and Governance specialization in the Werklund School of Education. Dr. Kuzhabekova has extensive experience as a faculty member, administrator and scholar in international and Canadian contexts. Upon graduation from PhD in Higher Education Policy and Administration, Aliya was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Centre for Science, Technology and Public Policy in her alma mater in the U.S.. She then worked as an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Higher Education Leadership at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan, where she became a recognized scholar in international education and higher education reform in post-Soviet Central Asia. She has produced a number of publications on such topics as 1) research capacity building in higher education in transitional contexts, doctoral education reform and researcher development; 2) internationalization and international mobility (faculty mobility, mobility of graduate students, immigrant student experiences); 3) equity issues in higher education (women in higher education leadership, women and international mobility, women in STEM fields). After relocation to Canada in 2018, Aliya worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar at Carleton University and a part-time Professor at the University of Ottawa. Aliya has supervised over 30 Master's and graduate students, many of whom were non-native speakers of English. She has managed 10 funded research projects, including grants from the Ministry of Education of Kazakhstan, Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Insight grant, Partnership Engage and Partnership Development grants). Aliya's research and teaching are based on her diverse administrative in higher education settings, including experience as an Executive Assistant to university presidents of two international universities in Kazakhstan, leadership positions on university committees and service as a member of the National Research Council in the area of education in Kazakhstan. Aliya is an active member of the Comparative and International Education Society and Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education.
Projects
Awards
- Early Career Researcher Award, Werklund School of Education. 2024
- Honor Letter for Achievements in Research from the Ministry of Education of Kazakhstan, 2020
- Clarivate Analytics "Most Productive Social Science Researcher in Kazakhstan", 2020
- Clarivate Analytics "Most Cited Paper in Social Sciences in Kazakhstan", 2019
- Springer "Most Productive Social Science Researcher in Kazakhstan", 2017
- Presidential "Bolashak" Scholarship for Study Abroad, Kazakhstan, 2006
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