Sekreter
Gökçe Gökalp serves as a faculty member at the Educational Sciences Department in Middle East Technical University since 2012. She completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology and her Master’s degree in General/Experimental Psychology in California State University, Northridge. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. She held an administrative position as a student affairs specialist at the Rossier School of Education’s Doctoral Support Center for 4 years after receiving her Ph.D. In the center she was responsible for developing and providing academic support and advisement services to doctoral students in relation to dissertation writing process. She continued this work once she was employed as a faculty member at the Middle East Technical University as part of a Project related to future faculty development program, establishing the Graduate education and academic support office. During the 3 years of the project she developed and provided academic support services such as thesis writing, research methods, time management and organized orientation programs and thesis writing camps. She has currently expanded this work to also include researcher well-being and mental health through organizing seminars in these topics, through developing and sharing content to raise awareness about well-being of researchers via an online Academic well-being ¨Akademik İyi Yaşam¨ platform. Between 2016-2021 she has served as the vice dean of the Faculty of Education at the Middle East Technical University and served in university committees. She conducts research related to graduate education, the development of graduate students as future researchers and academicians, researcher well-being, approaches to raising academicians and crisis and crisis management in higher education.