By the decision of the Scientific Council of the National University of Uzbekistan No. 2 dated September 28, 2017, the Department of Social Work was established and officially created by University Order No. 01-598 dated October 21, 2017. Since October 21, 2017, leading professors and lecturers of the department have been providing education in bachelor’s and master’s programs in Social Work.
The Department of Social Work is engaged in training qualified specialists in the field of social work, conducting scientific research, and organizing academic and methodological activities.
In the current academic year, 764 bachelor’s students are enrolled in Social Work (238 full-time, 350 part-time, 122 distance learning), along with 37 master’s students and 17 distance master’s students.
In the 2025/2026 academic year, the department employs 11 full-time faculty members, 9 part-time instructors, and 3 external part-time lecturers. In the previous academic year, 8 foreign professors were involved in the teaching process, and in the current year, 10 foreign professors participated. In addition, the department has 2 doctoral students and 10 independent researchers.
Over the past 5 years, the department’s faculty and researchers have published more than 250 scientific works, including 8 textbooks, more than 10 teaching manuals, 8 monographs, and over 200 articles in leading national and international scientific journals.
Currently, cooperation memoranda have been signed with:
- National Training Center for Social Protection System Employees under the National Agency for Social Protection under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan
- “Taskin” Children’s Hospice (Tashkent)
- Tashkent Children’s Home
- NGO “Ishonch va Hayot”
- Ministry of Poverty Reduction and Employment of the Republic of Uzbekistan
- Specialized Boarding School No. 100, Olmazor District
- Ecological Party of Uzbekistan
- Public Association of Persons with Disabilities “Sharoit plyus”
- Institute of Social and Spiritual Research under the Republican Center for Spirituality and Enlightenment
- Department of Public Education of Uchtepa District
- Chirchik State Pedagogical Institute of Tashkent Region
- Tashkent City Court
- Project “Socio-economic inclusion of socially vulnerable youth, including persons with disabilities”
- Republican Center for Social Adaptation of Children
- Center for Support of Children with Disabilities and Their Families “Umidvorlik”
- Association of Disabled Persons of Uzbekistan
- Extra-budgetary Pension Fund under the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Uzbekistan
- SOS Children’s Villages Uzbekistan Association
- Samarkand State University
- Association of Social Work Schools of Samarkand Region
- Boarding School for Children with Disabilities “Muruvvat” No. 1
- Initiative Support Center “Istiqbolli avlod”
- Initiative Support Center “Nihol”
- LLC “Ro‘y-Rost”
Currently, the department is headed by Professor N.M. Latipova, Doctor of Sociological Sciences.
