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Project Team
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Rahime Süleymanoğlu Kürüm (Jean Monnet Chair Holder)
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Bahçeşehir University, Türkiye | Rahime Süleymanoğlu Kürüm (Chair Holder) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations. She is also an affiliate of the Nottingham Interdisciplinary Centre for Economic and Political Research. She received her PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Nottingham, UK, in 2012, writing her doctoral dissertation on the Europeanization of national foreign policy in non-member states. Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm previously served as co-coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module "Women's Development and the Europeanization of Gender Policies". Her research focuses on Europeanization, EU foreign policy, Turkish foreign policy, gender studies in the EU, gender and diplomacy, and elite sociology. She is the author of "Conditionality, the EU and Turkey: From Transformation to Retrenchment" (Routledge, 2019) and co-editor of "Feminist Framing of Europeanisation: Gender Equality Policies in Turkey and the EU" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). |
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Aybüke Ceren Çolakoğlu (Project Assistant)
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Bahçeşehir University, Türkiye | Aybüke Ceren Çolakoğlu is a student in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bahçeşehir University and works as a project assistant for the Feminist Epistemic Justice in Europe and Beyond (FEJUST) Jean Monnet Chair. As a member of the Peace working group of the CIFAL youth platform, part of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, Çolakoğlu also volunteers to raise awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals, and she serves as Vice President of the Political Science and International Relations Club. During the 2021-2022 academic year, Çolakoğlu worked as a student assistant at the ULMER-HLO (School of Government and Leadership) research center. |
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Melis Cin
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Lancaster University, United Kingdom | F. Melis Cin is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Lancaster University. Cin received her PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2014 with a dissertation on international development, gender and the sociology of education. She is also a senior visiting researcher at the University of the Free State in South Africa. Her research focuses on gender, peace education and feminist theory in education. She has also written extensively on epistemic justice and participatory arts methods. She leads one of the most prestigious projects of UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) on peace education in Africa. |
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Özge Zihnioğlu
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University of Liverpool, United Kingdom |
Özge Zihnioğlu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Liverpool. She has carried out extensive research and published widely on Turkish civil society, EU civil society support and Türkiye-EU relations. Her research has been supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye, the British Academy, the British Council and the Mercator Foundation. Zihnioğlu is the author of "European Union Civil Society Policy and Turkey: A Bridge Too Far?" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and "EU-Turkey Relations: Civil Society and Depoliticization" (Routledge, 2020). Her articles have been published in international journals such as Journal of Common Market Studies, Third World Quarterly, Social Movement Studies, Turkish Studies and Voluntas. She received the Young Scientist Award from the Science Academy in Türkiye (2015) and the International Relations Council (2018). Zihnioğlu is a member of the Carnegie Endowment's Civic Research Network. |
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Atakan Yılmaz
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Bahçeşehir University, Türkiye | Atakan Yılmaz is a Research Assistant in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bahçeşehir University and a PhD candidate at Galatasaray University. His research focuses on the role of diplomacy and international law in contemporary security policies and on computational social science research methods. |
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Damla Bayraktar Aksel
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Bahçeşehir University, Türkiye | Damla Bayraktar Aksel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bahçeşehir University and a research fellow at the Koç University Migration Research Center (MiReKoc). She previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher and coordinator at MiReKoc. She completed her PhD in Political Science and International Relations at Koç University, her master's degree at Sciences Po Paris and her BA in Public Policy. She is a graduate of the Department of Sociology at Galatasaray University. Her research focuses on migration governance, transactionalism, diasporas, irregular migration and EU-Türkiye relations on migration. She also completed her master's thesis on women's NGOs in Türkiye from a Europeanization perspective. She has taken part in internationally funded research at MiReKoc as a team member and has extensive expertise in project management and administration. Projects she has participated in: 2015 - national researcher for the FP7 project LEFAMSOL; 2015 - ICMPD's "migrant smuggling research"; 2017-19 - national researcher for Horizon2020 CEASEVAL; 2019 - national researcher for Horizon2020 CROSS-Migration. |
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Digdem Soyaltın (Instructor - Education and Training)
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University of Aberdeen | Digdem Soyaltin-Colella is a Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Her recent publications have appeared in Europe-Asia Studies, South European and Black Sea Studies, and International Political Science Review. She is the author of "Europeanization, Corruption and Good Governance in the Public Sector: The Case of Turkey" (2017). |
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Selin Türkeş-Kılıç
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Yeditepe University, Türkiye | Selin Türkeş-Kılıç is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Yeditepe University (Istanbul). She is the coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module EUDIOC "European Union: Deeper Integration by Overtaking Crisis" (2019-2022) and a member of the coordinating team of the Jean Monnet Module EUTHPART "Empowering Youth Participation through EU Values" (2022-2025). She received her BA in International Relations from Bilkent University (Ankara) (2004) and her PhD in Political Science from Sabancı University (Istanbul) (2012). Between May 2011 and May 2012, she was a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Deusto in Bilbao, Spain, and she was a visiting researcher at ARENA, University of Oslo, Norway (Spring 2010). Her research focuses on discursive and deliberative processes in policy-making in Türkiye and the European Union. Her publications have appeared in various international edited volumes and journals, including Journal of European Public Policy, Turkish Studies and European Foreign Affairs Review. |
