Dilara Orynbasar

Dilara Orynbasar is a Phd researcher at Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University. In her thesis she explores the interaction of university-industry-government partnerships in research. She was Visiting Scholar in University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA; Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria; and Research Fellow at Eurasian Research Institute, Kazakhstan.

Former editor-in chief of NUGSE Research in education journal. She worked as graduate intern in Government of Kazakhstan, the Office of Prime Minister (2017); Municipal Local Government, Department of Dwelling (2010). From 2011 to 2015 she was Business Analyst, Business Support Manager at Citibank, Global Subsidiaries Group.

Her current research interests include Innovation Studies, Triple, n- Helix Actors' Interactions, Network Analysis.

Dilara has published both in the international and local peer-reviewed journals. Among her main publications:

Delivering Environmental Education in Kazakhstan Through Civic Action: second-wave values and governmental responses,” Environmental Values, 1, (2013), 101-122, with Dennis Soltys

“Family Medicine as a Model of Primary Health Services Delivery: A Pilot Study in Almaty, Kazakhstan”, Central Asian Journal of Global Health, 4 (1), (2015), USA, University of Pittsburgh Press

“Entrepreneurial University Perspective: Tracking Labor Force Capacity to Support Industrialization Processes in the Emerging Markets, Evidence from Kazakhstan Data”. EMAJ: Emerging Markets Journal 6(2), (2016), 5-11. USA, University of Pittsburgh Press