Anniversary of psychologist and scientist Fatima Tashimova

Fatima Sagimbekovna Tashimova, Doctor of Psychology, Associate Professor, and Director of the Center for Psychological Technologies and Innovations, turns 70.

On January 12, 2026, Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Associate Professor, Director of the Center for Psychological Technologies and Innovations Fatima Tashimova celebrates her 70th birthday.

The Faculty of Philosophy and Political Science, Department of General and Applied Psychology, extends sincere congratulations to Fatima Sagimbekovna on her jubilee and wishes her strong health, happiness, new creative achievements, and further professional success.

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Fatima Sagimbekovna Tashimova was born in the city of Zaisan, East Kazakhstan Region. She began her professional journey as a student at the Kazakh State Women’s Pedagogical Institute. Her path to academic excellence was both complex and dedicated: she worked as a lecturer at the Pavlodar Pedagogical Institute, completed an internship at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after V. I. Lenin, pursued postgraduate studies at the Research Institute of General and Pedagogical Psychology of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences (Moscow), the Research Institute of Adult General Education (Leningrad), and Tallinn University (Estonia). She later served as Head of Department at the Ekibastuz филиал of Pavlodar University and at Ädilet University.

In 1995, she defended her Candidate of Sciences dissertation entitled “Dependence of the Meaning of Students’ Learning on the Characteristics of Their Lifestyle” in two specialties: 19.00.01 – General Psychology, Personality Psychology, History of Psychology, Ethnopsychology and 19.00.07 – Developmental and Educational Psychology. In 2010, she defended her Doctoral dissertation entitled “Subject Determination of Meanings” in specialty 19.00.01 – General Psychology, Personality Psychology, History of Psychology, Ethnopsychology.

In 1998, at the invitation of N. Loginova, she joined the Department of General Psychology at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University as a faculty member. Notably, Fatima Sagimbekovna served twice as Head of the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy and Political Science: in 2003–2004 (General Psychology) and in 2011–2012 (General and Ethnic Psychology). As Head of Department, she actively contributed to the development of practice-oriented psychology, including training-based work with students, trainees, and clients.

Her period of departmental leadership was marked by high research activity: faculty members published more than 34 articles indexed in Web of Science and Scopus. The early 2010s were also characterized by the active involvement of international scholars through the Ministry’s “Invited Foreign Professor” program. Particularly significant were lectures by Yu. Alexandrov (Russia) on psychophysiology, Man Cheung (United Kingdom) on coping behavior in stressful situations, and Saba Safdar (Canada) on ethnopsychology.

Fatima Sagimbekovna is the initiator and founder of the Center for Psychological Technologies and Innovations, which has become a stronghold of integrative applied psychology in Kazakhstan. The Center focuses on the adaptation and development of new psychotechnologies based on achievements in various areas of global psychology, taking into account the values and traditions of Kazakhstan.

The Center annually organizes International Winter and Summer Psychological Schools, which have become creative laboratories and platforms for professional exchange among practicing psychologists, researchers, and educators, as well as institutions for advancing psychological professional mastery.

In addition, the jubilarian serves as the director of the student club “Creator”, where pressing issues faced by youth are discussed and addressed. Students and alumni speak with warmth and appreciation of Fatima Sagimbekovna as a practicing psychologist, integrative psychologist, researcher and scholar, teacher and mentor. Alongside her professional achievements, she is a devoted mother and grandmother of two grandchildren and the founder of a psychological academic dynasty.

She celebrates her jubilee in a characteristically active manner, organizing the 8th International Winter Psychological School, which will be held from January 28 to 31, 2026.

The activities of the Center for Psychological Technologies and Innovations, including the International Winter School and the Round Table on Integrative Psychology, contribute to the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, specifically SDG 3 “Good Health and Well-being” and SDG 4 “Quality Education”.

We invite colleagues and specialists to participate in the International Winter Psychological School and the International Round Table on Integrative Psychology on January 28, 2026, at the Scientific Library of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.

Center for Psychological Technologies and Innovations
Department of General and Applied Psychology

Faculty of Philosophy and Political Science

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University