Akademischer Werdegang
– since July 2026: Academy in Exile Fellow, TU Dortmund and KWI
– 2025-2026: Research Fellow at the University of Tartu (Estonian national grant for researchers and academic staff: HARNO)
– 2025: Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow, SDU University
– 2022-2025: Assistant Professor and Senior Research Fellow, SDU University
– 2022-2024: SDU University’s Ethics Committee Member
– 2022-2023: Research Associate, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
– 2018-2022: PhD in Sociology, University of Cambridge
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Media policial sociology, political participation, new media, civil society, climate change, clan politics, democratisation, queer studies, academic freedom, transitional justice, and nation- and state- building with a particular focus on the countries of post-communist Europe and former Soviet Union.
Publikationen
Monographien und Aufsätze
– Sairambay, Yerkebulan. New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Young People in Eurasia. Lexington Books, 2023.
– Sairambay, Yerkebulan. The Geography Test Collection. Shymkent: Zhebe design, 2009.
– Sairambay, Yerkebulan. “Digital Political Participation in Rural Kazakhstan: Evidence from Three Villages.” In Rural Media Studies: A Global Perspective, edited by Rashid Gabdulhakov and Marc Esteve del Valle, 37-58. Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.
Artikel (Peer-Reviewed)
– Sairambay, Yerkebulan. “Towards a Conceptualisation of ‘Alternative’ Political Participation.” Journal for Philosophy and Cultural Studies: Topos 56, no. 1 (2026): 262-79. https://doi.org/10.61095/815-0047-2026-1-262-279
– Sairambay, Yerkebulan. “Internet and New Media use by Central Asian Citizens Before and Towards the End of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” SDU Journal of Media Studies, 1, no. 1 (2025): 6-17. https://doi.org/10.47344/sdubss.v55i1.003
– Sairambay, Yerkebulan, and Assel Kamza. “The Effects of the Russo-Ukrainian War on the Kazakhstani Online Media Landscape.” Slavonica 29, no. 1 (January 2, 2024): 16–31. https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2025.2452794.
– Sairambay, Yerkebulan, Assel Kamza, Yessengul Kap, and Bakhtiyar Nurumov. “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 51, no. 1 (July 3, 2023): 33–61. https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2023.2229162.
– Sairambay, Yerkebulan. “How Young People Use New Media in Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan.” Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research 14, no. 2 (January 1, 2022). https://doi.org/10.25285/2078-1938-2022-14-2-38-72.
– Sairambay, Yerkebulan. “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, no. 1 (2022): 56-70. https://doi.org/10.58036/stss.v14i1.1007
– Sairambay, Yerkebulan. “The Contributions of New Media to Young People’s Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan.” Central Asian Survey 41, no. 3 (October 18, 2021): 571–95. https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2021.1978929.
– Sairambay, Yerkebulan. “Political Culture and Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan: A New Civic Culture with Contestation?” Slavonica 26, no. 2 (July 3, 2021): 116–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2021.1983095.
– Sairambay, Yerkebulan. “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, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 127–42. https://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2021-0006.
– Sairambay, Yerkebulan. “The Contemporary Challenges of Measuring Political Participation.” Slovak Journal of Political Sciences 20, no. 2 (December 31, 2020): 206–26. https://doi.org/10.34135/sjps.200202.
– Sairambay, Yerkebulan. “Reconceptualising Political Participation.” Human Affairs 30, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 120–27. https://doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2020-0011.
– Sairambay, Yerkebulan. “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, no. 1 (2019): 39-54.
– Sairambay, Yerkebulan. “Post-Soviet Russian Nation-Building: ‘Purposefully Ambiguous’ or ‘Sufficiently Flexible’ With ‘A Russian Flavour’?” Slavonica 24, no. 1–2 (June 10, 2019): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2019.1573554.
Rezensionen
– Sairambay, Yerkebulan. Review of The Kazakh Spring: Digital Activism and the Challenge to Dictatorship, by Diana T. Kudaibergen. Journal of Contemporary Asia (2026).
– Sairambay, Yerkebulan. Review of Backlash: China’s struggle for influence in Central Asia, by Bradley Jardine and Edward Lemon. Central Asian Affairs 13, no. 1 (2026): 119-121.
– Sairambay, Yerkebulan. Review of What does it mean to be Kazakhstani? Power, identity and nation-building, by Diana T. Kudaibergen. Nationalities Papers 54, no. 3 (2026): 678-679.