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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Halim Baş completed his undergraduate education in Business Administration at Kocaeli University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in 2012. In 2016, he earned a master’s degree in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations from the Faculty of Economics at Istanbul University. That same year, he began his PhD studies in the same department and graduated in 2020. From 2015 to 2022, he lectured at Istanbul Medipol University Vocational School of Social Sciences. Currently, he serves in the Department of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations at the Faculty of Economics, Marmara University. Dr. Baş has published numerous articles in nationally and internationally indexed academic journals, has served as a researcher in multiple national projects, and his research focuses include social policy, youth, international students, skilled labor, and brain drain. He is proficient in English. |
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Dr. Asst. Prof. A. Sena Sezgin is a faculty member and deputy department chair in the Psychology Department, Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Marmara University. She earned her bachelor’s degree with honors from Istanbul Bilgi University in 2008; she completed her master’s under Prof. Dr. Öget Öktem‑Tanör with a thesis on executive functions and willpower; and earned her PhD under Prof. Dr. Sevim Cesur at Istanbul University, with the dissertation titled “Parent’s Perception of Having a ‘Gifted’ Child: Labeling.” In 2015, she was a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge. Since 2006, she has served as a mentor and psychologist at Kalem Foundation Schools. She also holds roles as board member, supervisor, and psychologist at Kalem Foundation Schools; is a Coordination Board Member for the Kalem Journal of Education and Human Sciences; and serves as scientific editor and Coordination Board Member at Kalem Foundation Publications and Kalem Academy Teacher Training Institute. Her primary research areas include giftedness perception and policies, labeling, narcissism and narcissism culture, school psychology, willpower, and executive functions. |
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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Özge Ünsal graduated in 2006 from Marmara University’s Preschool Teaching and Child Development Department. That same year, she entered the master’s program in the Department of Preschool Education at Marmara University, focusing her research on children's social skills development and behavioral problems. She earned her doctorate with research on the effects of a psychological resilience program for preschool children on social skills and problem behaviors. Her dissertation writing phase was completed in Modena, at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Bologna, Italy. From 2012 to 2016, she served as program coordinator at the Preschool Education Application Unit of Marmara University’s Atatürk Faculty of Education. She currently works as a Research Assistant (Dr.) in the Preschool Education Department of the Basic Education Department at Marmara University. Her work covers preschool children's social skills, problem behaviors, psychological resilience, emotion regulation, early childhood education programs, and children's literature. |
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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Asil Özdoğru, is a faculty member in the Psychology Department, Chair of the Developmental Psychology Division, and Deputy Director of the Institute of Population and Social Research at Marmara University. He completed his dual bachelor’s degrees in Guidance & Psychological Counseling and Psychology at Boğaziçi University in 2003. He earned his master’s in 2005 and doctorate in 2010 in Educational Psychology from the State University of New York at Albany. Between 2003 and 2012, he worked in various U.S. institutions as research assistant, lecturer, and research specialist. From 2013 to 2023, he held positions at Üsküdar University’s English Psychology Department as faculty and chair, and served as vice dean at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. His academic interests include child development, adult education, applied psychology, and team science. |
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Dr. Muzaffer Şenel is a visiting researcher at the Institute of Population and Social Research, Marmara University. He works in the fields of world order, security studies, European studies, and comparative foreign policy, with particular focus on Europe’s foreign policy toward the Middle East, Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea region politics and international relations, Turkey’s foreign policy, world order, the Cyprus issue, and higher education. Dr. Şenel has lectured at various universities including Istanbul Kültür, 29 Mayıs, Ankara Medipol, Marmara, Kocaeli, and Istanbul Şehir University. He has conducted research in multiple countries including the UK (Oxford University, Center for Islamic Studies), Hungary (Teleki László Institute, now Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade), Poland (Jagiellonian University European Studies Center), Armenia (American University of Armenia, Political Science and IR), and the U.S. (SUNY Binghamton, Political Science). He has been supported by research grants from Jean Monnet, TÜBİTAK, EuroMeSCo, the Black Sea Trust, and the Hrant Dink Foundation. He currently serves as a visiting researcher at SUNY Binghamton University’s Political Science Department. Dr. Şenel also produced a 6-episode documentary series titled “Forgotten Heritage: Cyprus Foundations” for TRT TV. Together with Sadık Ünay, he edited the book *Global Orders and Civilizations: Perspectives from History, Philosophy and International Relations* (Nova Science Publications, New York, 2009); with Mesut Özcan, he co-edited *Modernity and the World Order(s)* (Küre Publications, Istanbul, 2010). He is a member of the Turkish Council on Foreign Relations, American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, WOCMES, UCLA CMED, the Association for Accreditation and Rating in the Social, Humanitarian and Fundamental Sciences, Romania’s Aspen Institute, and the Black Sea Trust.
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Merve Taşcıoğulları graduated with high honors from Istanbul University’s Sociology Department. She subsequently completed a program in Family Counseling. In 2022, she began her master’s degree in the Sociology Department at Marmara University. Her key research interests include social policy, family sociology, labor sociology, digital transformation, and artificial intelligence.
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Müberra Aksu graduated with honors in 2022 from Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University’s Department of Sociology. In 2023, she completed a minor in Psychology at the same university and received her minor certificate. She received family counseling training at Marmara University and practiced family counseling for one year. In 2024, she began her master’s studies in the Department of Sociology at Marmara University.
Her research interests include family, population, social policy, life satisfaction, and media sociology. She is proficient in Spanish and has intermediate proficiency in Russian. |
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