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Dr Sinem Bal

Research Division:

Turkey/CATS CATS Fellow

sinem.bal@swp-berlin.org

Areas of Expertise

  • Turkey
  • European Union
  • Human rights
  • Migration
Focus

Refugee Studies, Gender and Politics, EU-Turkey Relations, Civil Society in Turkey, Political Economy

Short Curriculum vitae

seit 09/2025 Fellow at the Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS), SWP Berlin

01/2025-06/2025: Part-time Senior Lecturer at İzmir University of Economics, İzmir (Turkey)

01/2023-12/2024: Research Fellow at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul (Turkey)

01/2022-12/2023: Part-time Senior Lecturer at Işık University, Şile (Turkey)

07/2019-12/2021: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Nottingham (United Kingdom)

09/2015-06/2019: Lecturer at Piri Reis University, Istanbul (Turkey)

01/2015-09/2015: Full-time TÜBİTAK Researcher at University of Tübingen (Germany)