Dr Dilnoza Ubaydullaeva

Dilnoza is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University. She is a Lecturer in Government and International Relations at Flinders University.  Her research is at the nexus of security and policymaking in higher education.

Dilnoza completed her PhD in Political Sciences and International Relations at the Australian National University.  Her thesis focused on security and policymaking in the higher education system in post-Soviet Central Asia.

Dilnoza’s research interests include the politics of tertiary education, internationalization in higher education, civil society and democratization in Central Asia. She was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Central Asia Program of Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. Dilnoza’s publications appeared in journals such as the Journal of Political Ideologies, Central Asian Survey, Problems of Post-Communism and Central Asian Affairs.

Dilnoza is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. In recognition of her teaching at ANU, she has been awarded with the ANU Award for Excellence in Education.  Dilnoza holds an MA in International Studies from Tsukuba University, Japan. Her MA thesis on the topic of shadow education received the “Outstanding Thesis Award” at Tsukuba University. She also has an MA (with distinction) in English Linguistics and a BA (with distinction) in TESOL.

AWARDS AND GRANTS 

• Australian National University “Excellence in Education Award” – 2023
• Central Eurasian Studies Society Early Career Researcher Conference Grant - 2022
• Fellow, Advance HE, UK Higher Education Academy -2022
• Best PhD Paper Award, Australasian Association for Communist and Post-Communist Studies and the European Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand - 2021
• Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship - 2019
• Central Asia Program Fellowship Grant, George Washington University - 2019
• Outstanding Thesis Award, University of Tsukuba - 2013
• Japanese Government Scholarship (MEXT) - 2012
• LG Grant Scholarship and LG Grand Prix - 2006
• Best Paper Award, Annual Academic Conference, World Languages University - 2006
• Student of the Year Award, Institute for English Language Teacher Education - 2006