Didem has just got back from london! Warm thanks to ABTA!
Didem started following the work of Alexandra Jönsson-Leclerc, Sciences Po, Paris, Centre d'Etudes de la Vie Politique française - CEVIPOF.
Didem will be in Sparta on 3-4 May for a conference on Europeanization :)
Didem will be in Sparta on 3-4 May for a conference on Europeanization :)
Royal Holloway, University of London
Graduate Student, Politics and International Relations
Teaching Assistant
Thesis Title: Turkey-European Union Relations from a World Polity Perspective
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Chris Rumford
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About
Didem has a BSc (International Relations) from Middle East Technical University (Turkey), Masters by Research (Politics and International Relations) from the University of Edinburgh (UK), and Professional Masters diploma (International Relations) from Paris Institute of Strategic and International Relations-IRIS. She worked in Turkish Grand National Assembly as a parliamentary assistant and in Istanbul Ticaret University as a research assistant.
Her PhD thesis in Royal Holloway, 'Turkey-European Union Relations from a World Polity Perspective', is supervised by Professor Chris Rumford and draws on the Stanford School of Sociological Institutionalism to examine the relations between Turkey and the EU on a wide array of policy areas that include the rights of foreigners to work and own land in Turkey, freedom of expression, Ombudsmanship and the Cyprus conflict.
She presented papers in the UACES, EUPRA,EUSA, PSA and GSA conferences. Didem is the founding co-leader of the 'Changing Turkey in a Changing World' research group affiliated with the Center for Global and Transnational Politics at Royal Holloway. She co-organized several workshops and conference on Turkey-EU relations, and transnationalism. She has been teaching assistant for the courses Introduction to International Relations, Introduction to Research Methods, and Introduction to Politics and Government.
Didem was a visiting student at Bielefeld University -financed by the Bielefeld Graduate School of History and Sociology- between June and September 2010. Didem was a visiting researcher at the Centre for European Studies, Middle East Technical University from October to December 2010.
She is currently looking for a post-doctoral programme or lectureship which would help her expand her research on systemic causes for the perseverance of conflicts and European-led democratization in North Africa and Central Asia.
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