SERVICE

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Reviewer of Qazaqstani high-school student manuscripts for https://galymind.com, June 17, 2025
Session chair, Language Planning and Policy; English as an Additional Language, Canadian Association for Applied Linguistics (CAAL) Annual Conference 2025
Organizer and Facilitator, NUGSE MA in Multilingual Education Reunion, May 18, 2025
Reviewer, Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE) Conference, December 2024
Reviewer, Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, December 2024
Reviewer, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, September 2024
Reviewer, Linguistics and Education, August, December 2024
Interview with Gulnara Alexandrova: PhD в Канаде с полным финансированием
(Doing PhD with full funding in Canada), August 2024
Session chair, Teacher Education, Canadian Association for Applied Linguistics (CAAL) Annual Conference 2024
Facilitator, Global South Scholars’ affinity group networking event, American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Conference 2024
Reviewer, American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Conference 2024
Organizing Committee Member, American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Conference, 2022–2024
Organizer and Host, Multilingual Education Thinktank (Qazaqstan), 2022 – present
Instagram blog (Information for graduate school applicants, and free professional development for English language teachers and education researchers), 2020–present
YouTube channel with free professional development content, including the series “Learn with Serikbolsyn,” 2020–present
Reviewer, Reconceptualizing Language Norms in Multilingual Contexts (Book), June 2023
Reviewer, Journal of Literacy Innovation, May 2023
Reviewer, The Concept of Multilingual Education for Altynsarin National Academy of Education, The Ministry of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, March 2023
Member, AAAL Online Education and Outreach Committee (OEOC), Webinar Committee, 2022 – 2023
Reviewer, TESOL Doctoral Research Forum, 2022
Reviewer, Journal of NU GSE Research in Education, 2017–2021

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Participant, UBC’s Faculty of Education Strategic Planning Student Focus Group, April 3, 2025
Organizer, UBC’s Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series: Arts-Based Approaches to Public Engagement with Research, March 11, 2025
Alumni Representative, Alumni Focus Group, M. Auezov South Qazaqstan State University’s Accreditation, May 15, 2024
Participant, Graduate Student & Postdoctoral Fellow Focus Group, UBC’s Language Sciences Institute, Oct 2023 – present
Member, Faculty of Education Student Leads, University of British Columbia, 2022 – 2023
Discussant, From Baselines to Decolonizing Standards: What Does Language Have to Do with It?, UBC Green College, April 19, 2023
Organizing Committee Member, UBC LLED Student Conference: “Language and Literacy Education: Creating Access for All”, 2022 – 2023
PhD Student Representative, UBC Graduate Curriculum Advisory Committee, 2022 – 2023
Associate, UBC Centre for Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), 2022 – present
Member, AITU Council of Young Researchers, 2020 – 2021
Invited Alum, NU Instagram Takeover for One Day with NU Alum, 2020
Member, NU student association GradUnion, 2018 – 2019
Graduate Student Representative, NU Innovative Learning Committee, 2017 – 2019
Representative, NU Open House Day, Graduate School of Education, 2018

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Member of UBC Green College Academic Committee, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2024–2025
Member of UBC Green College Sustainability Committee, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2023–2025
Member of UBC Green College Membership Committee, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2023
Co-chair of UBC Green College Pride Collective, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2021–2023
Volunteer interpreter at the Study UK Exhibition, Astana, Qazaqstan, 2019
Volunteer interpreter at the EXPO Green Energy Forum, Shymkent, Qazaqstan, 2017
Volunteer interpreter at the American Council Exhibition, Shymkent, Qazaqstan, 2015

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member, Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE), 2024 - present
Member, TESOL International Association, 2024 - present
Member, BC Teachers of English as an Additional Language (TEAL), 2024 - present
Member, Canadian Association for Applied Linguistics (CAAL), 2022 – present
Member, American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), 2022 – present
Associate, UBC Centre for Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), 2022 – present
Member, Young Researchers Alliance, 2020 – 2022