Department of sociology

1. Grant funding project for 2022-2024: «Women of ethnic communities as channels for reproduction and formation of civil and ethnic identity (on the example of the Turkestan region and Shymkent city)». Project manager: Otar E.S.
2. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Kazakhstan - A dilQala Network Grant for 2022-2023: «The Right to the City: Barrier-Free Access to Common Spaces in Residential Buildings for People with Disabilities (Astana Case)». Project manager: Abetowa Z.T.
3. Grant funding project for 2022-2024: «Social modernization of the New Kazakhstan: improving the standard of living and forming an optimal social policy for the socially vulnerable population». Project manager: Baygabylov N.O.
4. Project within the framework of the PCF for 2023-2025 (MEGA project): «Kazakhstani society in the context of digital transformation: prospects and risks». Project manager: Baygabylov N.O.
5. Project «Zhas Galym» for 2022-2024: «Interculturalism and tolerance in multi-ethnic Kazakhstan in the context of globalization and new migration challenges». Project manager: Nakipbaeva Zh.A.
6. International project SOLID (DAAD, Germany) for 2022-2024: «Social work and strengthening of NGOs in development cooperation to treat drug addiction» with the participation of partners from the faculties of social work at Frankfurt University (Germany), Shanghai University (China). Project manager: Yesimova D.G.

• Consulting company "DATAmetrics"
• Research Institute «Public Opinion»,
• Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan,
• NGO «Association of Sociologists and Political Scientists of Kazakhstan»,
• NGO NIA «Institute of Democracy»,
• «Mediker Astana» LLP,
• Private educational institution «SOS Children's Village Astana»,
• Scientific Research Center «Bilim» LLP,
• TOO NIC «Youth»,
• TOO «Business Solutions Center»,
• PI Institute of Public Policy of the Party «Nur Otan»,
• Private Institution «Center for Social Interaction and Communications»,
• NGO «National Alliance of Professional Social Workers»,
• State Institution «Specialized Interdistrict Court for Minors»,
• State Institution «Medical Center for Mental Health» and others.

• Evan Blakely Carillio Dowell is a research professor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
• Li Rudong – PhD, Associate Professor, Shanghai Academy of Global Governance and Area Studies, Shanghai University, China.
• I. Erpay – Siirt University, Turkey;
• J. Hauck – Research Center, Berlin;
• M. Safronova – University of California Santa Barbara, USA;
• E.G. Vanhemping – Scandinavian Institute of Academic Mobility, Seinajoki, Finland;
• Hayati Beserli – Gazi University, Turkey;
• Sari Hanafi is Vice President of the International Sociological Association and Professor at the American University of Beirut;
• Melehin Andrew – professor, President of the sociological company «ROMIR», Moscow, Russia;
• M.V. Bersenev, V.I. Zinovyeva, M.P.Shulmin – Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radio Engineering, Russia;
• Yves Tauschwitz – European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany;
• Azamat Zhunisbay – University of California, USA;
• P.V. Tokar – Uzhgorod University, Ukraine;
• K. Fleming – University of Liverpool, UK;
• Eckhard Dietrich - Magdeburg Otto von Guericke University , Germany;
• Markus Kaiser – University of Trier, Germany;
• Pal Tamas – Director, Institute of Sociology,
• Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest;
• Gunner Ozkan – Konya University , Turkey;
• Heiko Schrader is Director of the Institute of
• Sociology at the University of Magdeburg, Germany.