Assel Mussagulova is a Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Administration at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney.
Her research interests lie at the intersection of public administration, human resource management, and public policy. She is particularly interested in how bureaucratic structures and institutions shape individual attitudes and motivations, and how to design public sector management policies that leverage these motivations for the public good. More narrowly, her research focuses on what drives individuals to join public service and what sustains or hampers their desire to create public good while employed in the public sector. This includes individual differences, cultural, and larger environmental, factors, such as bureaucratic systems and economic conditions.
Her bigger research agenda is about contributing to scholarship on building more efficient, empathetic, and attractive civil service systems.