Yerkebulan Sairambay is a PhD candidate in Media Political Sociology at the University of Cambridge. In 2018, he received an MSc in Russian, Central and East European Studies from the University of Glasgow and an MA in Political Science from the Corvinus University of Budapest (a joint degree under the IMRCEES Erasmus Mundus programme, 2016-2018). Yerkebulan completed his undergraduate degree in Marketing with highest distinction (GPA 4.0 out of 4.0) from South Qazaqstan State University in 2015. During his time as an undergraduate, Yerkebulan studied Economics and Management at the University of Luxembourg as an exchange student in 2013. He also studied at the University of Padua as an Erasmus student in 2014-2015. He worked as an economist in Qazaqstan for one year between 2015 and 2016. His current research explores political participation, new media, civil society, and democratisation with a particular focus on post-communist Europe and former Soviet Union countries. He has been a member of the Erasmus Mundus Association since September 2017. Yerkebulan speaks Qazaq, English, and Russian fluently, and is learning Italian, French, and Hungarian.
