Yermek Adayeva graduated from I. Zhansugurov Taldykorgan State University in 1995 with specialization in Kazakh language and literature. After completing her postgraduate studies at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (1999), she began working at the Department of Creative Literature and Translation Theory. She worked as docent of this department until she transferred to Nazarbayev University and became an instructor at the Kazakh language, Literature and Culture Department in 2013.
Yermek Adayeva is the author of more than 40 scholarly articles, and three subject tutorials.
