Berdak Bayimbetov has been teaching since 2003 and he has obtained vast experience in socio-political and media spheres for several years at academic and government institutions in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. He had worked as research fellow for the Institute for Strategic researches and the Ministry of Economy, Uzbekistan. Before joining Suleyman Demirel University (Kazakhstan), Berdak had participated in research fellowship programmes at the University of Warsaw, Poland and Anadolu University, Turkey. He had studied there political role of Mass Media and its management issues during this information age. Berdak holds MA in Media Studies from the University of Ulster (UK). Currently, he is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for European Studies (IES) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). His research mainly concerns the impacts of global media products on the socio-political viewpoints of people in Central Asia and Europe.

MA in Media Studies (2002), University of Ulster, United Kingdom
BA in International Journalism (1999) Tashkent State University, Uzbekistan

Research Fellowship, Public Relations and Marketing (2012), Anadolu University, Turkey
Research Fellowship, Political Sciences (2008), University of Warsaw, Poland

JUR404 Mass Media and Politics
JUR220 Foreign Journalism
JUR338 Communication Strategies and Audience Analysis
JUR428 Content Strategy and Development
JUR403 Contemporary Technologies of Public Relations
JUR607 Медиа, активизм және әлеуметтік өзгерістер

Journals:
'Political Discourse of Kazakh Aitys'. (2018) Central Asian Survey. In press.
'Social Information Exchange in Aitys Performances'. (2014) Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 122, 72–76. Co-author: Saudbayev M. http://www.sciencedirect.com
'Measurement of PR effectiveness during the era of social media'. (2014) Bulletin: Journalism Series. 2 (36). Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.
“MALL: Teaching English Phrases through SMS”. (2014) European Journal of Educational Research, 4 (1), 48-56. Co-author: Enes Cig, Selim Guvercin. http://www.eu-jer.com
“ELT materials from J.Bellot to S.Jobs in Kazakhstan”. 2013 Bulletin: Oriental Studies. 3 (64). Co-author: Enes Cig. Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.

'Measurement of Public Relations effectiveness'. VI-International Conference:
Building Cultural Bridges. Kaskelen, Suleyman Demirel University, 2014.
“Using social media in studying public opinion”. V-International Conference: Building Cultural Bridges. Kaskelen, Suleyman Demirel University, 2013.

Media and politics; Communication strategies, Public Relations

International Accociation for Media and Communication Research (2020-2023)