HONORS AND AWARDS

Fellowships and Scholarships

Faculty of Education Graduate Award, University of British Columbia | 2025-2026

President's Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award, University of British Columbia | 2021–2026

Four Year Doctoral Fellowship (4YF), University of British Columbia | 2021–2025

Dean of Education Scholarship, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia | 2022, 2025

Mary Ashworth Memorial Graduate Scholarship in Education, LLED, University of British Columbia | 2023

Joseph Katz Memorial Scholarship, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia | 2023

R. Howard Webster Graduate Fellowship, Green College, University of British Columbia | 2021

Master's Scholarship, Nazarbayev University | 2017–2019

State Undergraduate Scholarship, Republic of Qazaqstan | 2013–2017

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Grants

Research Funding Grant, LLED, University of British Columbia | 2024

Advancing Excellence in Education through Professional Development Grant, ELVLC, University of British Columbia | 2023

Student EDID Grant, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia | 2023

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Awards and Honours

The Larry Vandergrift Best Graduate Paper Award, Canadian Modern Language Review | 2024

Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award, LLED, University of British Columbia | 2025

Graduate Student Award, Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics | 2025

Distinguished Scholar Award, Astana IT University | 2021

Runner up, Republican Student Subject Olympiad—TESOL, Abylai Khan Kazakh University | 2015, 2016

Winner, Student Subject Olympiad—TESOL, Auezov South Qazaqstan University | 2014, 2015

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Travel Grants

Sessional Conference Travel Grant, University of British Columbia | 2025, 2026

Faculty Travel Grant, UBC–Ritsumeikan AEP | 2025, 2026

Professional Development Fund Grant, University of British Columbia | 2025

Graduate Student Travel Grant, LLED, University of British Columbia | 2025

Congress Graduate Merit Award, Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics | 2025

Conference Team Travel Honorarium, American Association for Applied Linguistics | 2024

Graduate Student Travel Grant, GPS, University of British Columbia | 2023

Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant, Faculty of Education Office of Research, University of British Columbia | 2023

Conference Team Travel Honorarium, American Association for Applied Linguistics | 2023

Student Travel Bursary, Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University | 2019