Dr. Dilnoza Ubaydullaeva

Biography

Dilnoza Ubaydullaeva is a Research Fellow at the National Security College of the Australian National University. Before joining ANU, she was a Lecturer in Government at Flinders University and an Honorary Research Fellow at the ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, focusing primarily on the Middle East and Central Asia. Dilnoza's research interests span securitisation theory, geopolitics in Central Eurasia, radicalisation, and Russian foreign policy, particularly how these areas intersect with security policymaking and higher education. She has published in notable academic journals such as Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Political Ideologies, and Central Asian Survey. Additionally, she has contributed opinion pieces to platforms including The Conversation and The Diplomat. Dilnoza earned her PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the Australian National University, where her dissertation examined the context of securitisation theory within higher education policies in post-Soviet Central Asia. She has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Central Asia Program of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University and participated in the DAAD-Tsukuba Research Program in Central Eurasian Studies at the University of Tübingen in Germany. As a recognized educator, she was honored with the ANU Award for Excellence in Education and is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.

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