Yerkebulan Sairambay joined the SDU in 2022 as a research fellow. He recevied his PhD in sociology from the University of Cambridge in 2022. His current research explores political participation, new media, civil society, and democratization with a particular focus on the countries of postcommunist Europe and former Soviet Union. The results of Sairambay’s research have been published in Central Asian Survey, Slavonica, Studies of Transition States and Societies, Human Affairs, Slovak Journal of Political Sciences, and Politics in Central Europe.

2018-2022, PhD in sociology, University of Cambridge;
2017-2018, MA in political science, Corvinus University of Budapest;
2016-2017, MSc in Russian, Central and East European studies, University of Glasgow;
2011-2015, BSc in Marketing, South Qazaqstan State University;
2014-2015, Erasmus student, University of Padua;
2013, Visiting student, University of Luxembourg.

Small Business Entrepreneur. Shymkent, 2011.

IRN 111 - Academic Writing;
IRN 328 - Research Methods;
IRN 218 - International Organizations.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:
2022. How young people use new media in political participation in Russia and Kazakhstan. Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research. (Accepted and Forthcoming). [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. [Q2]
2022. The Contributions of New Media to Young People’s Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan. Central Asian Survey, (Online first). [Q2]
2021. Political Culture and Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan: A New Civic Culture with Contestation? Slavonica, 26(2), 116-127. [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. [Q2]
2020. The contemporary challenges of measuring political participation. Slovak Journal of Political Sciences, 20(2), 206-226. [Q2]
2020. Reconceptualising Political Participation. Human Affairs, 30(1), 120-127. [Q2]
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. [Q2]
2019. Post-Soviet Russian Nation-Building: ‘Purposefully Ambiguous’ or ‘Sufficiently Flexible’ with ‘a Russian Flavour’. Slavonica, 24(1-2), 1-11. [Q3]
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
How has digitisation facilitated the rise of “digital totalitarianism”? VISION: A Publication of Cambridge University International Development Society, Michaelmas 2021, pp. 35-37.
On the international stage, to what extent do legacies of “imperial status” affect contemporary policies and practices of the Russian Federation?, @iSience, Ukraine, 2018.BOOKS:
550th Anniversary of the Kazakh Khanate, book on history, co-author, @Merey, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2015;
The test collection on Geography, book on Geography, @Zhebe design, Shymkent, Kazakhstan, 2009.

A lot of conferences, seminars, contests, competitions, forums in regional, national and international levels – more than 100, including:
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.

Yerkebulan’s research interests involve, but are not limited to, the following areas of expertise: political participation, civic engagement, clan politics, new media, civil society, democratisation, and nation- and state- building.

Member of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, since 2021.
Full Time Member of the British Sociological Association, since 2020.
Member of the European Sociological Association, 2020-2022.
Member of the International Sociological Association, 2020-2024.
Member of the Political Studies Association, since 2020.
Member of the Media and Politics Group of PSA, since 2020.
Member of the Erasmus Mundus Association, since 2017.
Member of the Research Committee on Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change, 2020-2024.

BOLASHAK scholarship for the PhD degree, University of Cambridge, UK, 2022
Presidential ‘Bolashak’ scholarship, UK, 2018-2022.
‘Erasmus+: Erasmus Mundus IMRCEES’ programme scholarship, Scotland-Hungary, 2016-2018.
‘Erasmus Mundus: SILKROUTE’ project scholarship, Italy, 2014-2015.
Presidential Scholarship from the Fund of the First President of the Republic of Qazaqstan, 2014.
‘Academic Mobility’ programme scholarship, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, 2013.
Presidential Scholarship from the Ministry of Education and Science of Qazaqstan, 2013.
‘The Best Position Paper’ in FAO committee of New Silk Way International Model United Nations, 2016.
Grand-Prix with ‘Gold Medal’ in International Competition for media projects ‘Economics in the Trend’ of IV Eurasian Economic Forum on Youth, Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2013.