Post
PhD, senior lecturer

Academic career
1999-2011, Public school, Shymkent, Kazakhstan
2011-2015, BSc in Marketing, South Kazakhstan State University
2013 Sep-Dec, Visiting student, University of Luxembourg
2014-2015, Erasmus student, University of Padua 
2016-2017, MSc in Russian, Central and East European studies, University of Glasgow 
2017-2018, MA in political science, Corvinus University of Budapest 
2021 Apr-Sep, Visiting research fellow, University of Tartu
2018-2022, PhD in (media political) sociology, University of Cambridge

Employment
2022-present, assistant professor and research fellow, SDU University
2022 - 2023, research associate, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
2021, visiting PhD scholar and assistant lecturer, University of Tartu Estonia
2017 - 2017, camp counsellor, Concordia Language Villages (United States)
2015 - 2016, economist, IE ‘Toksanbaeva G.E.’, Shymkent, Kazakhstan
2015 - 2015, marketing manager, Best IELTS Center, Shymkent, Kazakhstan

Conferences
Numerous conferences, seminars, contests, competitions, forums in regional, national and international levels –
more than 100, including:
• Connecting Protest Research(ers) workshop, the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, 15-17 May 2023;
• Law, media, society, politics, & geo-economics in the changing landscape of Eurasia, SDU, 24 April 2023;
• Various conferences, events, seminars, and workshops at the University of Cambridge, 2018-2022;
• BASEES Annual Conference, Robinson college, Cambridge, 8-10 April 2022;
• ESA PhD Summer School, Barcelona, 28-30 August 2021;
• Fifth Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies, Estonia, 7-9 June 2021;
• «4th Eurasian Research Forum», University of Cambridge, 17 March, 2017;
• «29th Annual European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy» Conference, Corvinus University
of Budapest, Hungary, 2017;
• «Giornata Internazionale dei Diritti Umani 2014», Padova, Italy, 2014;
• «XXX national congress of the Italian society of protistology ONLUS», University of Padova, Padova,
Italy, 2014;
• «Innovative economy of Kazakhstan: sustainable development in the conditions of globalization»
International Scientific Conference, VII Astana Economic Forum, Astana, Kazakhstan, 2014;
• «Europe 2014: Humanities Between Past and Future» International Student Conference, European
Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2014;
• «SCIENCE and EDUCATION - 2014» IX International Scientific Conference, L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian
National University, Astana, Kazakhstan, 2014;
• «Less Must» program in European Parliament, Strasbourg, France, 2013;
• «SCIENCE and EDUCATION - 2013» VIII International Scientific Conference, L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian
National University, Astana, Kazakhstan, 2013;
• «International competition of youth business projects «Business Eurasia», IV EEFY, Yekaterinburg, Russia,
2013.

Publications
• 2023 (November) — New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan: Exploring the Lived-Experiences of Young People in Eurasia. Lexington Books | Rowman & Littlefield.
• 2023 — Monitoring public electoral sentiment through online comments in the news media: A comparative
study of the 2019 and 2022 presidential elections in Kazakhstan. Media Asia. [Scopus, Q2]
• 2022 — How Young People Use New Media in Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan.
Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research, 14(2), 38-72. [Scopus, Q2]
• 2022 — Internet and Social Media Use by Young People for Information About (Inter)National News and Politics in Russia and Kazakhstan. Studies of Transition States and Societies, 14(1), 56-70. [Scopus, Q2]
• 2022 — The Contributions of New Media to Young People’s Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan. Central Asian Survey, 41(3), 571-595. [Scopus, Q2]
• 2021 — Political Culture and Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan: A New Civic Culture with Contestation? Slavonica, 26(2), 116-127. [Scopus, Q3]
• 2021 — Transitional Justice and Democratic Consolidation in the Post-Communist Space: A Comparative Review of the Czech Republic, Latvia, and Slovakia. Politics in Central Europe, 17(1), 127-142. [Scopus, Q2]
• 2020 — The contemporary challenges of measuring political participation. Slovak Journal of Political
Sciences, 20(2), 206-226. [Scopus, Q2]
• 2020 — Reconceptualising Political Participation. Human Affairs, 30(1), 120-127. [Scopus, Q1]
• 2019 — Young People’s Perspectives on How ‘Zhuz’ and ‘Ru’ Clans Affect Them: Evidence from Three Cities in Post-Soviet Qazaqstan. Studies of Transition States and Societies, 11(1), 39-54. [Scopus, Q2]
• 2019 — Post-Soviet Russian Nation-Building: ‘Purposefully Ambiguous’ or ‘Sufficiently Flexible’ with ‘a
Russian Flavour’. Slavonica, 24(1-2), 1-11. [Scopus, Q3]