Doctor of Sociology, lectures in social sciences at various universities and has rich experience in scientific research activities. She is the leader of a number of scientific scholarships and research grants; Young scientist program fellow of the Heinrich Biol Foundation, Ilia Chavchavadze scholarship program of the National Science Foundation of Georgia, Transnational Crime and Corruption Research Center (TraCCC CO) research grant, National Science Foundation of Georgia President's grant for young scientists and Caucasian Swiss Academic Network (ASCN) grant supervisor and etc. For years, Tamar has cooperated with various international and local non-governmental organizations, where she is invited as an expert, researcher, monitoring, and development specialist. Among them she was an expert in the monitoring direction of the GTZ ‘Local Self-Government Development Promotion’ program; She also cooperated with the ‘Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development (CIPDD)’ in various projects; She was a researcher at the Institute of Economic Development (GEDI), non-governmental organization ‘Institute of Social Research and Analysis’ (ISSA), implemented the project ‘Creating a map of religious organizations and FBO Georgia’ within the framework of Word Vision International, etc. She has published books: ‘Existing Discourses on the Rule of Law and Jury Court’, published within the ‘President's Grant for Young Scientists’ of the National Science Foundation of Georgia; Co-authorship of ‘Meritocracy Formation Process in Transforming Public Service’ (in Georgian and English). Ilia University Publishing House, Tbilisi.) ISBN 978-9941-18-085-9.; ‘Principles of power distribution and ‘control and balance" in Georgia’ (in Georgian and English). Co-authorship. Ilia University Publishing House, Tbilisi) ISBN 978-9941-0-6070-0. She has published more than 25 scientific papers in both Georgian and international refereed scientific journals. She is a participant in numerous international conferences and forums.
Courses:
- Sociology of culture
- Intercultural relations
- Meritocratic perspective and social institutions
Research and Publications:
- 2021 Self-government in terms of gender: the role and needs of women in local politics (empirical sociological research), Georgian scientists, Vol.3, No.3(2021) DOI: https://doi.org/10.52340/gs.2021.08.07, association for science.
- 2020 Cases of Law-making in Georgia - the Contradiction of Rule of Law and Rule by Law, The Journal of Politics and Democratization, Volume 4-2 (January 2020) (GIPA, Tbilisi, Georgia).
- 2019 Public Management Culture and Meritocracy in Georgia– through the Prism of Development of State Institutions, Journal of Politics and Democratization, Volume 4-1 (June 2019) (GIPA, Tbilisi, Georgia).
- 2018 Democratization process in lawmaking prism: Rule of Law vs. Rule by Law, Freedom from Independence for 100 Years (26 Essays), Institute for Education and Consciousness.
- 2018 Civil Consciousness and Discourse on the Boundaries of the Participation of the Georgian Church in Public Life, Civic Education and Practices of Democracy in Post-Soviet Countries International Conference Papers.
Projects:
2019 - Summer School for Professors, (Beijing, Lanzhou University) Chinese Embassy, Confucius Institute, Alte University
2016-2017 - grantee, project leader, "Development of migration management in Georgia through research-based advocacy, awareness-raising, networking and technology", European Union, Young Lawyers Association
2015 Mentoring Program, Research Visit to Berlin, Germany, Academic Caucasus Swiss Network (ASCN)
2012-2016 – Researcher, "Informal Power Networks - in Georgia and Armenia", Academic Swiss Network of the Caucasus (ASCN)
2012 - Researcher, "Principles of Power Distribution and Control Balancing" in Georgia, Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation grant (agreement number 12/41)
2010-2011 - Grant recipient, project leader, "Meritocracy Formation Process in Transforming Public Service", Caucasus Swiss Academic Network (ASCN)
Research interests:
Theory and practice of formal and informal institutions, concepts of the rule of law, sociology of religion and gender, strategies for functioning public service and local self-government, and public service reform.
