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EDUCATION
2024-2025
King’s College London, UK
Postdoctoral Research, Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication (LDC)
2016-2022
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkiye
Doctor of Philosophy, Language Studies (ELT) (GPA: 3.93 / 4.00)
Dissertation: The Corpus of Turkish Youth Language (CoTY): The compilation and interactional dynamics of a spoken corpus
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hale Işık-Güler
2012-2015
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkiye
Master of Arts, English Language Teaching (GPA: 3.88 / 4.00)
Thesis: The metaphorical reconstruction of Turkey in political discourse: A corpus-driven critical metaphor analysis
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hale Işık-Güler
2007-2011
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkiye
Bachelor of Arts, Foreign Language Education (GPA: 3.77 / 4.00)
Minor: Psychology
ACACEMIC CITIZENSHIP
2019 – Present, Co-founder & Coordinator, Corpus and Discourse Research Group (DISCORE), Ankara, Turkiye
ACADEMIC HONORS & AWARDS
2023- Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkiye (TUBITAK), Turkiye
2016-2022 Graduate Student Scholarship (PhD), Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkiye (TUBITAK), Turkiye
2012-2015 Dean’s High Honor List (MA), Middle East Technical University, Turkiye
2012-2015 Graduate Student Scholarship (MA), Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkiye (TUBITAK), Turkiye
2012 Global Leaders Development Program (Host Country: Japan), Cabinet Office, Government of Japan
2011-2012 Comenius Language Assistantship (Host Institution: Mankkaanpuron koulu, Espoo, Finland), The European Union
2007-2011 Dean’s High Honor List (BA), Middle East Technical University, Turkiye
2007-2011 Merit-based Undergraduate Studies Scholarship, Ministry of National Education, Turkiye
EMPLOYMENT RECORD
2018 – Present, Academic Staff, Research & Development Office, Rectorate, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkiye
- monitoring and evaluation of Research-intensive University Programme outputs
- coordinating R&D units and organizing relevant activities to support staff within the research ecosystem
- dissemination of R&D Office activities, projects, news
2018 – 2023, Higher Education Specialist, The Council of Higher Education, Ankara, Turkiye
Specialist and Coordinator in the following nation-wide projects:
- Higher Education Specialization Commission Report for 12th National Development Plan 2024-28
- Universities Specializing in Priority Areas Project (2023)
- HEI Joint Research and Application Centres (2021-2023)
- Research-intensive Universities Programme (2019-2023)
- Regional Development Universities Programme (2019-2023)
- Foreign Language Education Scholarship for Turkish Academics (2018-2020)
2014 – 2018, Language Specialist, The Prime Ministry of Republic of Turkiye, Ankara, Turkiye
SKILLS
Languages: Turkish (C2, Native), English (C2, Fluent), Japanese (B1, Intermediate), French (A2, Upper Beginner)
Software: EXMARaLDA: Partitur-Editor, COMA, EXAKT; AntConc; MAXQDA; SPSS
