Dr Bilge Serin

Lecturer (Urban Studies & Social Policy)

telephone: 0141 330 2963
email: Bilge.Serin@glasgow.ac.uk

29 Bute Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RS

Biography

Bilge Serin works as Lecturer in Global Urbanism. She is an urban researcher with a diverse background including urban design, urban development, urban politics and architecture. She worked at the University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University and Middle East Technical University as well as the Chamber of City Planners in Turkey before joining University of Glasgow.

Bilge has completed her PhD in Urban Studies at Heriot-Watt University on the contemporary commodification of urban space via private neighbourhoods in Istanbul. Her research interests cluster around dynamics behind inequality in urban space including exclusionary practices in urban Development housing, discursive formation of exclusion in urban space, representations of urban space and everyday life in mass media, imagining urban futures, and the dynamics of contemporary commodification of urban space.

Research interests

Commodification of urban space and financilisation of housing
Commoning and mutual aid (during Covid-19 pandemic)
Inequality, exclusion and segregation in urban space, and everyday life in mediated living environments
Reponses to climate emergency via build environment, espeially by retrofitting existing buildings
Discursive formation of urban space, representations of urban space in mass media, imagining and representation of urban futures and housing
Urban design and neighbourhood placemaking

Research groups

Place & built environment

Publications

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Number of items: 54.

2023

White, James T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6315-3165, Kenny, Tom, Samuel, Flora, Foye, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7880-2714, James, Gareth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6856-6188 and Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2023) Are well-designed places possible? A model of design governance intervention in the planning, design and development of new neighbourhoods. Journal of Urban Design, (doi: 10.1080/13574809.2023.2296885) (Early Online Publication)

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2023) Urban Solidarity During the Pandemic: From Bottom-up Mutual Aid Groups to Top-down Municipal Solidarity Practices. Urban Studies Foundation Workshop: New Municipalism, Democratic Public Ownership, and the Politics of the Common, Barcelona, Spain, 18-22 Sept 2023.

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549, White, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6315-3165 and Hoolachan, A. (2023) A Human-centred Approach to Retrofitting Housing for Carbon Reduction: Opportunities and Challenges. UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference 2023, Glasgow, UK, 4-6 Sept 2023.

Gibb, Kenn, Sharpe, Tim, Higney, Anthony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5337-3869, Moreno-Rangel, Alejandro, Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549, White, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6315-3165 and Hoolachan, Andrew (2023) Niddrie Road, Glasgow: Tenement Retrofit Evaluation. Project Report. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence.

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2023) From prefabs to modern methods of development: challenges, potentials and lessons learnt. [Website]

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2023) Reviewing Residential Retrofitting Literature. Project Report. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence.

Payne, Sarah and Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2023) The potential role of modern methods of construction in addressing systemic supply issues. Project Report. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence.

2022

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2022) Provision of Amenities by Large-scale Urban Development Projects in the UK. High-Density and Mixed-Use Urbanism: Innovative Tools for Financing Public Amenities Symposium, Haifa and Tel Aviv, Israel, 12-16 Dec 2022.

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 and Irak, Daghan (2022) Production of space from the digital front: From everyday life to the everyday politics of networked practices. Cities, 130, 103889. (doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2022.103889)

Serin, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549, Soaita, A.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2874-6763 and Chapman, E. (2022) From Charity to Solidarity: Commoning of Care under the Pandemic as an 'Urgent Utopia'. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, USA, 25 Feb - 01 Mar 2022.

White, J., Kearns, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3198-8392, Serin, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549, Bettini, F., Blandy, S., Bright, S. and Webb, B. (2022) 21st-Century High-Rise: The Planning, Design, Development and Governance of Residential Towers in UK Cities. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, USA, 25 Feb - 01 Mar 2022.

2021

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2021) De-commodifying Care: COVID-19 Mutual Aid Groups in the UK. 15th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Barcelona, Spain, 31 Aug - 10 Sep 2021.

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2021) Inclusive Cities: Inclusive in Discourse, Exclusive in Practice? RC21 Annual Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, 14-16 Jul 2021.

White, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6315-3165 and Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2021) High-Rise Residential Development: An International Evidence Review. Project Report. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, Glasgow.

Serin, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 and Peker, E. (2021) Retrofitting Existing Housing to Tackle with Climate Emergency: A Comparative Research on Turkey and Scotland. Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG) Annual International Conference, London, UK, 31 Aug - 10 Sep 2021.

2020

White, James T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6315-3165, Kenny, Tom, Samuel, Flora, Foye, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7880-2714, James, Gareth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6856-6188 and Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2020) Delivering design value: The housing design quality conundrum. Project Report. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, Glasgow.

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 and Hastings, Annette ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9174-0677 (2020) Suburbs are becoming increasingly diverse – urban development and the pandemic will transform them further. Conversation, 30 Nov.

Irak, D. and Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2020) Production of Space from Digital Front: From Everyday Life to Everyday Politics of Networked Practices. Unpacking ‘the Opposition’ in Undemocratic Regimes: The Role, Transformation and Challenges of the Oppositional Actors in Turkey and Beyond, 27- 28 Nov 2020.

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549, Smith, Harry and McWilliams, Chris (2020) The role of the state in the commodification of urban space: the case of branded housing projects, Istanbul. European Urban and Regional Studies, 27(4), pp. 342-358. (doi: 10.1177/0969776420920921)

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2020) Producing Exclusionary Urban Space as a Mainstream Neoliberal Practice: The Case of Private Neighbourhoods. CPERN Mid-Term Workshop, 19-20 June 2020.

Soaita, Adriana Mihaela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2874-6763, Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 and Preece, Jenny (2020) A methodological quest for systematic literature mapping. International Journal of Housing Policy, 20(3), pp. 320-343. (doi: 10.1080/19491247.2019.1649040)

2019

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2019) Branded Verticality: Discursive Formation of Contemporary High-Rise Residential Developments. Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG) Annual Conference, London, UK, 27-30 Aug 2019.

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2019) Inequality is being built into cities: segregated playgrounds are just the start. Conversation, 8 May.

Payne, Sarah, Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549, James, Gareth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6856-6188 and Adams, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5479-0007 (2019) How does the land supply system affect the business of UK speculative housebuilding? An evidence review. Project Report. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE), Glasgow.

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2019) The Banality of evil: Discrimination Within Everyday Life. 14th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Manchester, UK, 20-23 Aug 2019.

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 and Peker, Ender (2019) Retrofitting existing housing stock to achieve CO2 reduction targets. Heritage Turkey, 9, pp. 23-24. (doi: 10.18866/biaa2019.12)

2018

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549, Kintrea, Keith ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0789-9007 and Gibb, Kenneth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1148-9249 (2018) Social housing in Scotland. Project Report. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE), Glasgow.

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549, Kenny, Tom, White, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6315-3165 and Samual, Flora (2018) Design Value at the neighbourhood scale: what does it mean and how do we measure it? Project Report. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, Glasgow.

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2018) Reviewing the Housing Supply Literature: a Literature Mapping. Working Paper. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, Glasgow.

Serin, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2018) Public-led Exclusion: the Case of Branded Housing Projects, Istanbul. ENHR International Conference: More Together, More Apart: Migration, Densification, egregation, Uppsala, Sweden, 26-29 Jun 2018.

Serin, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549, Samuel, F., White, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6315-3165, Kenny, T. and Foye, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7880-2714 (2018) The Value of Design in Housing and Neighbourhoods. ENHR International Conference: More Together, More Apart: Migration, Densification, Segregation, Uppsala, Sweden, 26-29 Jun 2018.

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2018) Cross Disciplinary Review of Placemaking Literature: a Literature Mapping. Working Paper. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, Glasgow.

Payne, S., Adams, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5479-0007, Serin, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 and James, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6856-6188 (2018) Contemporary Practices in Speculative Housing Provision. HSA Conference 2018: Professionalism, Policy and Practice; Exploring the Relationship Between Theory and Practice in Housing Studies, Sheffield, UK, 11-13 Apr 2018.

Soaita, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2874-6763, Serin, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 and Preece, J. (2018) A Methodological Quest for Fast Literature Mapping Within the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence. HSA Conference 2018: Professionalism, Policy and Practice; Exploring the Relationship Between Theory and Practice in Housing Studies, Sheffield, UK, 11-13 Apr 2018.

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549, White, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6315-3165, Kenny, Tom, Samuel, Flora and Foye, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7880-2714 (2018) Housing Placemaking: What is the Value of Design? [Website]

Adams, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5479-0007, Payne, Sarah, Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 and James, Gareth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6856-6188 (2018) Land and housing supply: It's about more than just build out rates. [Website]

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549, Kenny, T., White, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6315-3165 and Samuel, F. (2018) Design Value at the Neighbourhood Scale: What Does It Mean and How Do We Measure It? Housing Studies Association Conference, Sheffield, UK, 10-12 Apr 2018.

2017

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2017) How Utopia Became a Real Estate Leaflet? [Website]

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2017) "Have you noticed the change in the city?" - Mass Media and Housing Futures in Turkey. [Website]

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2017) “Ever wanted something more?” – Mass Media Representation and Housing Futures. [Website]

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2017) How Utopia Became a Real Estate Leaflet? Planetary Futures Conference: Imagining the Future - Financial Capitalism and the Social Imagination, London, UK, 11 Jul 2017.

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2017) Doing Architectural Research: Socio-political Perspectives on Theories, Methodologies and Praxis. The Centre for Urban Conflicts Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 26 Jun 2017.

2016

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2016) A questionable Robin Hood story: branded housing projects and public-led commodification of urban space. Research Turkey, 5(7), pp. 6-23.

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2016) The promised territories: the production of branded housing projects in contemporary Turkey. European Journal of Turkish Studies, 2016(23),

2015

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2015) Illiberal Production of Urban Space: The Case of Branded Housing Projects in İstanbul, Turkey. Populism, Majoritarianism and Crises of Liberal Democracy: Modes of Illiberal Governance in Comparative Perspective, Graz, Austria, 1-3 Oct 2015.

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2015) Commodifying the Utopia. The Ideal City: Between Myth and Reality - Representations, Policies, Contradictions and Challenges for Tomorrow's Urban Life, Urbino, Italy, 27-29 Aug 2015.

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2015) Daily Life in a ‘Branded Housing Project’: Control, Mediation, and Commodification. Annual Conference of the AESOP Urban Cultures and Public Spaces Group, Glasgow, UK, 4-6 Jun 2015.

2014

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2014) Branded Housing Projects in Istanbul: Commodification of Access Rights to the Urban Infrastructure. Critical Geographies of Urban Infrastructure: Annual Conference of the Urban Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society, London, UK, 6-7 Nov 2014.

2012

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2012) Projects and Urban Structure: Comparative Analysis of Integration of Housing Projects to Urban Structure. 26th Annual Congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning, Ankara, Turkey, 11-15 Jul 2012.

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2012) Agro tourism. In: Ersoy, Melih (ed.) Kentsel Planlama Ansiklopedik Sözlük = Urban Planning Encyclopaedic Dictionary. Ninova: Istanbul, pp. 6-8. ISBN 9786058844421

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2012) Ecotourism. In: Ersoy, Melih (ed.) Kentsel Planlama Ansiklopedik Sözlük = Urban Planning Encyclopaedic Dictionary. Ninova: Istanbul, pp. 104-106. ISBN 9786058844421

2011

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2011) Design Control Framework-aimed Design Guides in Urban Design Guidance, the UK Case. 2nd Urban and Regional Research Network Symposium, Ankara, Turkey, 2011.

2009

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2009) Comparative Evaluation of a Regeneration Project for Culturally Diverse, Historical, Inner-City Area of İstanbul; the Case of Sulukule Regeneration Project. 23rd Annual Congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning, Liverpool, UK, 15-18 Jul 2009.

2008

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2008) Preference Model: A Quantitative Approach To Spatial Planning Decisions, the Case of Istanbul Metropolitan Area. AESOP-ACSP Joint Congress, Chicago, IL, USA, 6-11 Jul 2008.

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Number of items: 54.

Articles

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2019) Inequality is being built into cities: segregated playgrounds are just the start. Conversation, 8 May.

Book Sections

Research Reports or Papers

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2023) Reviewing Residential Retrofitting Literature. Project Report. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence.

White, James T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6315-3165, Kenny, Tom, Samuel, Flora, Foye, Chris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7880-2714, James, Gareth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6856-6188 and Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2020) Delivering design value: The housing design quality conundrum. Project Report. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, Glasgow.

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2018) Reviewing the Housing Supply Literature: a Literature Mapping. Working Paper. UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, Glasgow.

Conference or Workshop Item

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2021) Inclusive Cities: Inclusive in Discourse, Exclusive in Practice? RC21 Annual Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, 14-16 Jul 2021.

Website

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2023) From prefabs to modern methods of development: challenges, potentials and lessons learnt. [Website]

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2017) How Utopia Became a Real Estate Leaflet? [Website]

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2017) "Have you noticed the change in the city?" - Mass Media and Housing Futures in Turkey. [Website]

Serin, Bilge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549 (2017) “Ever wanted something more?” – Mass Media Representation and Housing Futures. [Website]

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Grants

Grants and Funding

The Sydney-Glasgow Ignition Grants (Co-Investigator), 2024: Funding for the research project “The new social injustice from energy-efficiency retrofitting programs: An exploratory study of its nature, scale and the actors involved”

ESRC and AHRC Research Centres Grant (Co-Investigator), 2022: Research centre funding for the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (led by Prof Ken Gibb, University of Glasgow)

ESRC Impact Accelerator Account Fund (Principal Investigator), 2022: Funding for the research project “From Charity to Solidarity: COVID-19 Mutual Aid Groups in Scotland”

Urban Studies Research Incentivisation Fund, University of Glasgow (Principal Investigator), 2022: Funding for scoping study for the grant application “Facilitating Sharing Cities: Local Governments’ Role in Facilitating Sharing Practices”

EPSRC and NERC Grant (Named Researcher), 2021: Funding for the research project “Decarbonising Heating and Cooling: Flexible Air Source Heart Pump for Domestic Heating Decarbonisation” (led by Prof Zhibin Yu, University of Glasgow)

Early Career Researcher Fund, Public Engagement Fund, and Research Incentivisation Fund from the School of Social Political Sciences, University of Glasgow (Principal Investigator), 2021: Funding for the research project “From Charity to Solidarity: COVID-19 Mutual Aid Groups in Scotland”

College of Social Sciences Research Fund, and Urban Studies Research Incentivisation Fund, from the School of Social Political Sciences, University of Glasgow (Principal Investigator), 2020: Funding for the research project “From Charity to Solidarity: COVID-19 Mutual Aid Groups in Scotland”

Scottish Funding Council Climate Emergency Collaboration Challenge (Named Researcher), 2020: Funding for the research project “Evaluating options and outcomes in the retrofit of pre-1919 Glasgow tenement housing” (led by Prof Ken Gibb, University of Glasgow)

British Institute Strategic Research Initiatives Research Grant (Principal Investigator), 2019: Funding for the research project “Exploring the Potentials and Challenges of Retrofitting Housing Stock”

Partnership Collaboration Awards, University of Glasgow and University of Sydney, 2019: Travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses for exchange visits (awarded to the research team led by Prof Ken Gibb (University of Glasgow) and Prof Nicole Gurran (University of Sydney))

Urban Studies Research Incentivisation Fund, University of Glasgow (Principal Investigator), 2019: Funding for fieldwork for the research project “Imagining Urban Space”

International Sociological Association Registration Grant, 2018

National Centre for Research Methods Bursary, 2017: Research methods workshop fee, subsistence, travel and accommodation expenses for the workshop “Understanding small areas: spatial analysis of population and neighbourhood data”

Fellowships and Scholarships

The Urban Studies Institute, University of Antwerp, Visiting Scholar Fellowship, 2024

RC21-IJURR-FURS Summer School on Comparative Urban Studies Fellowship, 2015: Summer school fee, travel and accommodation expenses

French Institute for Anatolian Studies Short-Term Bursary, 2014: Funding for PhD research fieldwork in Istanbul, Turkey

Heriot-Watt University the School of Built Environment PhD Scholarship, 2013

Supervision

Accepting PhD Students on the following topics:

Commodification of urban space and financilisation of housing
Commoning and mutual aid (during Covid-19 pandemic)
Inequality, exclusion and segregation in urban space, and everyday life in mediated living environments
Reponses to climate emergency via build environment, espeially by retrofitting existing buildings
Discursive formation of urban space, representations of urban space in mass media, imagining and representation of urban futures and housing
Urban design and neighbourhood placemaking

Subasi, Safiye Ozge
Exploring Housing Vacancies in the Midst of the Affordable Housing Crisis in Istanbul, Turkey

Teaching

Dissertation Co-convenor for Urban Studies and Social Policy PGT Programmes

Course Convenor for:

Regenerating Cities (Postgraduate)
Urban Design Policy and Practice (Postgraduate)

Contributing (UG/PGT) to the courses below:

International Urban Challenges (Postgraduate)
Sustainable Housing Development (Postgraduate)
Research Methods (Postgraduate)
Understanding Glasgow (Undergraduate)

Additional information

Selected Invited Talks

The public service provision, the neoliberal model and beyond, University of Glasgow, 19 February 2025
Commoning in urban space, University of Antwerp, 25 May 2024
Retrofitting housing the case of Niddrie Road Demonstration Project, University of Alicante, 16 October 2023
Keynote Speech at the 7th Conference on Urban Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (16-18 May 2022)
Personal Impact with Bilge Serin: Engaging with General Public via Blogs and Walking Workshops, Uni. of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK (28 May 2020)
Inclusive in Discourse, Exclusionary in Practice?, University of Sydney, Australia (21 November 2019)
Commodifying Urban Space: The Clash of Promises and Everyday Life, Space+Place+Society Research Network Open Talk Series, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK (3 May 2017)
The Promised Lands, Media and the Production of Urban Space: The Case of Branded Housing Projects, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (17 March 2016)

Selected Conference and Workshop Organisation

The Melting Pot, Edinburgh and Online, UK (14 November 2022): Organising a workshop with the title “From Charity to Solidarity: What can we learn from Covid-19 mutual aid groups for future crises?” about Covid-19 Mutual Aid Groups Practice in the UK (https://covid19mutualaid.co.uk)

Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG) Annual International Conference, Newcastle and Online, UK (Online) (30 August - 2 September 2022): Organising a session with the title “Commodities and Commons: Commodification and Decommodification of/in Urban Space” about the commodification of urban space

RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, UK (31 August – 3 September 2021): Organising a session with the title “From Privatopias to Urban Commoning: Commodification and Decommodification of/in Urban Space” about the commodification of urban space

RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, UK (27 - 30 August 2019): Organising a session with the title “Ever wanted something more? Ever thought there could be a better way to live free from shackles of old tired world?” about the discursive struggle over the production of urban space

Architecture Fringe - In Real Life, Scotland (in various cities) (07 – 23 June 2019): Organising a walking workshop, with the title “Tenements Talking”, about historic tenements

ISA World Congress of Sociology - Power, Violence and Justice, Toronto, Canada (15 - 21 July 2018): Organising two RC21 sessions with the title “The power struggle over urban space: spatial violence and (in)justice”

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