Postgraduate research students

Research Interests

• Gender-based violence
• Rural criminology
• Feminist criminology
• Qualitative research
• Feminist theory and research

Baturoğlu, Ü., and Çöllü, N. (2018) Reproduction and Idealization of Intensive Mothering: Blogger Mothers Example in Turkey. In L. Aydemir, ed. Migration, Politics, Violence and Women’s Studies. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac, pp. 489-500.

• Professor Michele Burman
• Dr Oona Brooks

The Republic of Turkey Ministry of National Education, Postgraduate Research Scholarship

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), Postgraduate Scholarship

“It does happen here!”: Women’s experiences of gender-based violence in rural and island communities, Annual British Society of Criminology Conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom, July 2024.

“The impact of rurality on victims-survivors' experiences of accessing support in rural communities in Scotland”, Thinking Theory, Research & Practice: The Feminist Politics of Social Justice LEX, VAWGRN, FRAN, and CSEL Joint Conference, Liverpool, United Kingdom, November 2023.

“Hard to reach but easy to ignore”: Victims/survivors’ experiences of accessing support in rural communities. 23rd Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Florence, Italy, September 2023.

Researching Gender-Based Violence within Rural/Remote Areas in Scotland. 22nd Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Malaga, Spain, September 2022.

From Marx to Feminist Standpoint Theory: Epistemological Inquiry of Knowledge and Politics. Turkish Social Sciences Association 15th National Social Sciences Conference, Ankara, Turkey, November 2017.

Reproduction and Idealization of Intensive Mothering: Blogger Mothers Example in Turkey. International Berlin Conference of Social Science and Humanities, Berlin, Germany, May 2017.

2021-2022: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Sociology: Level 2, University of Glasgow, Scotland

2018: Teaching Assistant, Field Staff Training, Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies, Turkey

Previous Related Work Experience

Project Assistant (04.2018- 04.2019) - Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies, 2018 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey (T-DHS), Ankara/Turkey.

Field Supervisor (10.2018-12.2018) - Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies, 2018 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey (T-DHS).

Team Member (25.11.2016-10.12.2016) - UN Women, 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, Ankara/Turkey.

Volunteer Work (09.2015-10.2015) - Flying Broom Women’s Communication and Research Association, Ankara/Turkey.

Volunteer Work (10.2013-12.2014) - We Will Stop Femicide Platform, Ankara/Turkey.

Education

MS in Gender and Women's Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara/Turkey.

Thesis: Petty Commodity Production in Agriculture Cannot Survive Without Women’s Labour: From the Standpoint of Rural Women’s Life Experiences in Turkey.

BS in Sociology (Honour Degree), Middle East Technical University, Ankara/Turkey.

Contribution to Research Activities

Peer Reviewer, Criminology and Criminal Justice

Peer Reviewer, Journal of Gender-Based Violence

Membership in Professional Bodies

Member of the European Society of Criminology

Working group on Gender, Crime and Justice

Working group on Rural Criminology (ERC)

Member of the International Society for the Study of Rural Crime 

Current Affiliations

Member of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research

Co-Convenor of the University of Glasgow Gender-Based Violence Research Forum

Steering Committee Member of the Violence Against Women and Girls Research Network

Member of ESC Gender, Crime and Justice Working Group

Member of ESC Rural Criminology Working Group

Member of BSC Women, Crime and Criminal Justice Network (WCCJ)

Member of BSA Violence Against Women Study Group

Member of the European Network on Gender and Violence