ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2025– Present, Adjunct Faculty | Department of Foreign Language Education, Faculty of Education, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkiye
Courses taught:
▪FLE311 Advanced Writing and Research Skills
▪FLE490 Discourse Analysis and Language Teaching
2024–2025, Postdoctoral Research Fellow | The Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication,
School of Education, Communication & Society, King’s College London, UK
EDUCATION
2016–2022, Doctor of Philosophy | Language Studies (ELT), Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkiye
Dissertation: “The Corpus of Turkish Youth Language (CoTY): The compilation and interactional dynamics of a spoken corpus“
2012–2025, Master of Arts | English Language Teaching, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkiye
2007–2011, Bachelor of Arts | Foreign Language Education (Minor: Psychology) Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkiye
ACADEMIC CITIZENSHIP
2025– Present, Affiliate Member | King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence, UK
2025– Present, Affiliate Research Fellow | The Centre for Language, Discourse and Communication, King’s College London, UK
2024– Present, Co-convener | Corpus and Beyond Seminar Series, King’s College London, UK
2019– Present, Co-founder & Co-convener | Corpus and Discourse Research Group (DISCORE), METU, Ankara, Turkiye
ACADEMIC HONORS & AWARDS
2024–2025 | Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkiye (TUBITAK)
2012–2022 | Graduate Student Scholarship (MA & PhD), Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkiye (TUBITAK)
2012–2015 | Dean’s High Honor List (MA), Middle East Technical University, 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 | Undergraduate Studies Scholarship, Ministry of National Education, Turkiye
EMPLOYMENT RECORD
2023 – Present | Research & Development Coordination Office, Rectorate, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkiye
- monitoring and evaluation of Research-intensive University Programme outputs
- organising university R&D agenda to support staff & academic units
2018 – 2023 | Higher Education Specialist, The Council of Higher Education, Ankara, Turkiye
- 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