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Biography
Indira is Postgraduate researcher in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham (UK). She is a member of the REPRESENT Research Centre for the Study of Parties and Democracy and Asia Research Institute.
Prior to the University of Nottingham, Indira combined work at the academy with work in the civil service of Kazakhstan. She was a Head of Trade Negotiations Division at the Ministry of Trade and Integration; Chief Expert of the Department of Foreign Trade Development at the Ministry of National Economy; Expert of the Department of Administration and Control at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana (Kazakhstan) and Assistant Council at the Embassy of Kazakhstan in Turkey, Ankara (Turkey). She has also been a Projects Coordinator at "Penal Reform International in Central Asia" (NGO) in Astana (Kazakhstan) and Senior Lawyer at several LLPs in Astana (Kazakhstan).
Indira holds a LLM in Public International Law from the University of Leicester (UK) and BA in Jurisprudence from L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Faculty of Law, Astana (Kazakhstan).
Teaching Summary
Indira contributed to the undergraduate modules Civil Law, Family law and convened postgraduate modules The Law of the World Trade Organization, WTO Dispute Settlement System in the Faculty of Law at… read more
Research Summary
Indira's ongoing research examines the women's advancement within leadership positions in the civil service. She analyzes the impact of the concept of second-generation gender bias on vertical gender… read more
Indira contributed to the undergraduate modules Civil Law, Family law and convened postgraduate modules The Law of the World Trade Organization, WTO Dispute Settlement System in the Faculty of Law at L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University in Astana (Kazakhstan). In 2021 she contributed to the undergraduate level modules of the School of Science and Humanities at the Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan) as a General Teaching Assistant.
Current Research
Indira's ongoing research examines the women's advancement within leadership positions in the civil service. She analyzes the impact of the concept of second-generation gender bias on vertical gender segregation at senior and middle leadership levels of civil service in Kazakhstan.
Past Research
In the past, Indira was interested in research on the death penalty and life imprisonment and contributed to the research paper "The Abolition of the Death Penalty and its Alternative Sanction in Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan", 2012, https://cdn.penalreform.org/wpcontent/uploads/2013/05/Central-Asia-research-report-on-death-penalty-and-life-imprisonment_ENGLISH.pdf