Education, language, digital publics, and social change.
My research combines quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, and computational approaches to examine institutional and societal change in Kazakhstan and Central Asia.
Research themes
Language, education & stratification
Language policy, multilingualism, educational pathways, linguistic capital, academic literacies, and institutional advantage.
Digital public discourse
Large-scale social media data, sentiment-oriented coding, public perceptions, geopolitical spillovers, identity, and socio-economic change.
Institutional research & analytics
Student success, programme evaluation, survey research, performance monitoring, forecasting, and evidence-informed decision support.
Political economy & labour markets
Education-to-work transitions, social mobility, migration, minority participation, and political economy analysis in Central Asia.
Research leadership
Sentiments in Transition: Public Perceptions of Socio-Economic Change in Kazakhstan amid the Russia–Ukraine War.
Methods & tools
PythonRSPSSQualtricsNVivoMAXQDAForecastingARIMASurvey analysisMixed methodsDigital discourse analysis