HONORS AND AWARDS

FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND AWARDS

Faculty of Education Graduate Award from the University of British Columbia: 2025
Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award from the Department of Language and Literacy Education, the University of British Columbia: 2025
Graduate Student Award from the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (CAAL/ACLA): 2025
Larry Vandergrift Best Graduate Paper Award from the Canadian Modern Language Review: 2025
Research Funding Grant from the Department of Language and Literacy Education, the University of British Columbia: 2025
Advancing Excellence in Education through Professional Development Grant from the Edith Lando Virtual Learning Centre, the University of British Columbia: 2024
Joseph Katz Memorial Scholarship from the Faculty of Education, the University of British Columbia: 2023
Mary Ashworth Memorial Graduate Scholarship in Education from the Department of Language and Literacy Education, the University of British Columbia: 2023
Dean of Education Scholarship from the Faculty of Education, the University of British Columbia: 2022
Student EDID Funding Grant, from the Faculty of Education, the University of British Columbia: 2022
Four Year Doctoral Fellowship (4YF) from the University of British Columbia: 2021-2025
International Tuition Award from the University of British Columbia: 2021-2025
President's Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award from the University of British Columbia: 2021-2025
R. Howard Webster Graduate Fellowship from Green College, the University of British Columbia: 2021
Distinguished Scholar Award from Astana IT University: 2021
Master’s Program Scholarship from Nazarbayev University: 2017-2019
State Undergraduate Program Scholarship from The Republic of Qazaqstan: 2013-2017

TRAVEL AWARDS

Congress Graduate Merit Award (CGMA) from the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (CAAL/ACLA): 2025
Congress Graduate Merit Award (CGMA) from the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE): 2025
Travel Funding Grant from the University of British Columbia-Ritsumeikan Academic Exchange Program: 2025
Sessional Conference Fund Grant from the University of British Columbia: 2025
Professional Development Fund Grant from the University of British Columbia: 2025
Conference Team Travel Honorarium from the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL): 2024
Graduate Student Travel and Research Dissemination Fund Grant from the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, the University of British Columbia: 2023
Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant from the Office of Research in Education, the University of British Columbia: 2023
Conference Team Travel Honorarium from the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL): 2023
Student Travel Bursary from Nazarbayev University: 2019
Student Travel Bursary from Nazarbayev University: 2019