USTA Mentorship Programme 2023-2025
Almaty, Kazakhstan
July 11-13, 2024
Workshop Structure
Day 1. July 11
9.00 - 10.30 Dr Gulzat Botoeva and Dr Assel Tutumlu “Welcome and Introductions”
10.45 - 12.15 Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen “Writing and publishing with confidence”
12.15 - 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 - 15.30 Professor Madeleine Reeves “Finding a home for your article. 10 questions to help to choose a journal”
15.45 - 17.15 Hikoyat Salimova and Dr Sofiya du Boulay “Navigating Through Uncertainties in Academic Career: Networking and Mental Wellbeing”
Day 2. July 12
9.00 - 10.30 Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen “Crafting Central Asian theory”
10.45 - 12.15 Dr Rano Turaeva “Decolonial methodologies”
12.15 - 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 - 15.30 Professor Madeleine Reeves “Hooks, anchors and portholes: tools for identifying “contribution””
15.45 - 18.00 Professor Madeleine Reeves, Dr Rano Turaeva and Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen.
An open panel “Sharing pitfalls and success strategies in academic publishing.” This session is open to the wider academic audience.
Day 3. July 13
9.00 - 10.30 Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen “Crafting Central Asian methodology”
10.45 - 12.15 Dr Assel Tutumlu and Dr Gulzat Botoeva “Consistency of the argument”
12.15 - 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 - 15.30 Dr Rano Turaeva “How to work with reviewers’ comments”
15.45- 17.15 Professor Madeleine Reeves “Citation as a gift. Tactics for making Central Asia research more visible in disciplinary journals”
Presenters as they appear in the workshop:
Dr Gulzat Botoeva
Gulzat is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Swansea University. She received her Ph.D. and MA in Sociological Research Methods from University of Essex. Her research is focused on various illegal economic activities in the Eurasian region. Dr. Botoeva is interested in studying illegal and informal economies (crypto-mining, small-scale gold mining, small-scale hashish production) in a post-Soviet context, primarily through qualitative research methods and ethnographies of crime. She has published in Theoretical Criminology, The International Journal of Drug Policy, and Central Asian Survey.
Dr Assel Tutumlu
Assel is an Associate Professor in Political Science at Near East University, Northern Cyprus. She received her Ph.D. in Global Affairs from Rutgers, State University of New Jersey (USA) and two MA degrees in Politics from the New School for Social Research (New York, USA) and International Affairs (American University, USA). Her research explores the nature of authoritarian regimes in Central Asia and beyond, particularly looking into the discursive and disciplinary practices. She appeared on Al-Jazeera, BBC, TRTWorld, and France24. Her work was published in Europe-Asia Studies, Central Asian Survey, Security Journal, Journal of Eurasian Studies, Problems of Post-Communism.
Dr Diana T Kudaibergen
Dr. Kudaibergen studies different intersections of power relations through realms of political sociology dealing with concepts of state, nationalising regimes, and ideologies.
Dr. Diana T. Kudaibergen is Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. Her first book, Rewriting the Nation in Modern Kazakh Literature (Lexington, 2017) deals with the study of nationalism, modernisation, and cultural development in modern Kazakhstan. Her second book Toward Nationalizing Regimes. Conceptualizing Power and Identity in the Post-Soviet Realm focuses on the rise of nationalising regimes in post-Soviet space after 1991 with a prime focus on power struggles among the political and cultural elites in democratic and non-democratic states (Pittsburgh University Press, 2020). Currently, she has completed her third book manuscript on power, state, and resistance in contemporary art of the post-Soviet Eurasia.
Professor Madeleine Reeves
Madeleine Reeves is a social anthropologist interested in borders, labour migration, sovereignty, time, and social reproduction. She joined COMPAS and the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford in January 2022.
Her research over the last two decades has focused on three broad areas. First, she has sought to contribute to the anthropological study of borders and bordering in regions of fragile state governance and territorial dispute. Her first monograph, Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia, was published in 2014.
Second, she has sought to bring a critical anthropological voice to interdisciplinary debates about the intersections between infrastructure, immobility, inter-communal conflict, and co-existence.
Third, building on RCUK and Nuffield-funded post-doctoral research, she has conducted ethnographic research since 2009 on transnational labour migration from Central Asia to Russia and with the Kyrgyz diaspora in Russia, joining scholars who have sought to bring considerations of value, ethics and intergenerational care to our analysis of mobile and transnational life.
Hikoyat Salimova
Hikoyat Salimova is a PhD Candidate in Urban Studies, HafenCity University Hamburg. She holds MSc in Urban and Regional Planning from Ball State University and BSc in Economics/Education from Bukhara Technological Institute. She worked in different academic and research projects in the capacity of national consultant, project manager, and project assistant. Hikoyat Salimova’s research interests include urbanism, community development, social and economic activities in public spaces. Her publications include book chapters in People’s Spaces: Coping, Familiarizing, Creating, and Eurasia Twenty Years After, articles in journals Critical Housing Analysis, Ketmen, and conference papers.
Dr Sofya Du Boulay
Sofya has a PhD in Political Science from Oxford Brookes University and an MA in International Affairs from the Graduate Institute of Geneva. She worked as a political consultant for various international organisations, including the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, Global Voices, and the University of Swansea. Her publications featured in Problems of Post-Communism, Ketmen, and Communist and Post-Communist Studies.
Dr Rano Turaeva
Rano Turaeva is a Habilitandin at the Ludwig Maximillian University and a regional expert on Central Asia and a consultant serving various International Organisations. She is working on research project on the topic of migration and Islam in Russia. She has published her works in differenct journals such as Inner Asia, Central Asian Survey, Communist and post-Communist Studies, and many others. Her book Migration and Identity:the Uzbek Experience is published with Routledge in 2016.
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