Postdoctoral researcher, project “How ‘Social’ is Turkey?” at Bielefeld University, 2017 –
Education
Ph.D., Bilkent University, with distinction, dissertation title: ‘Pathways to universal social security in lower income countries: explaining the emergence of welfare states in the developing world’, 2016
B.A., Philosophy and Economics, Bayreuth University, 2009
Experience in Research Projects
Postdoctoral researcher, project “How ‘social’ is Turkey?” at Bielefeld University (principal investigator: Lutz Leisering), funded by Stiftung Mercator, 2017 – 2020. Responsible for generating and analysing qualitative and quantitative data (policy analysis, qualitative content analysis, cluster analysis, interviews)
Researcher, project “Mapping the Turkish Welfare State through Original Data Production: A Theoretical and Methodological Contribution to Comparative Welfare State Research” (principal investigator: Tolga Bölükbaşı), funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK). Responsible for generating quantitative comparative data on Turkey’s social security system for the Social Citizenship Indicator Programme (SCIP) and the Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset (CWED), 2014 – 2017.
Researcher, project “Media Discourse on Muslim Migrants in Western Europe”, funded by TÜBITAK, 2011 – 2013. Responsible for qualitative and quantitative content analysis of media discourse in Austria and Germany.
Fellowships and Grants
Visiting fellow, Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS), 2014
Visiting grant, two research visits to the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University via EU-funded projects InGRID and InGRID 2, 2015/2018
Research grant, TÜBITAK, 2014 – 2015
Conference grant, TÜBITAK, 2014
Teaching
‘Social policy in the Global South’, Bielefeld University, Faculty of Sociology, 2015-2016
‘Introduction to Sociology’, TA, Bilkent University, Department of Political Science, 2012-2014