Feride Öksüz Gül received her bachelor’s degree in the English Language Teaching program from the Department of Foreign Language Education at the Faculty of Education in Boğaziçi University in 2012, and completed her master’s degree in Educational Administration and Supervision program from Faculty of Education in Marmara University in 2016. After starting her doctorate education in the same program in 2016, she received her doctorate degree in 2020. She is currently working as a research assistant at Istanbul Medeniyet University. Her research interests are higher education management and leadership, early career researchers (ECRs) and organizational theory.
Şahabettin AKŞAB graduated from Middle East Technical University (METU), Faculty of Education, Elementary Mathematics Education as the first ranking student in 2014. He worked as mathematics teacher in Ministry of National Education between 2014-2016. In 2014, he started his master’s degree in Middle East Technical University Educational Administration and Planning Program. In 2018, he received his master’s degree from Gaziantep University, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Administration. He worked as a research assistant at Gaziantep University between 2016-2018, at Middle East Technical University between 2018-2021 and is a research assistant in the Department of Educational Sciences at Gaziantep University. He received doctoral degree in the Department of Educational Administration and Planning at METU in 2024. His main research interests are student affairs in higher education, student development in higher education, higher education policies and higher education internationalization.
After graduating from Karadeniz Technical University in 1999, he completed his master’s degree in 2004 and PhD in 2009 at Gazi University in the Department of Educational Administration. In 2012, he worked as a consultant at the Council of Higher Education for one year. In 2013, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor at Gazi University, Gazi Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences. In the same year, he was accepted as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in the USA and worked for a year. In 2018, he was appointed as Associate Professor and continued his duty at Gazi University. In 2021, he worked as a Research Associate at the University College London (UCL) Institute of Education (IOE) Education, Practice and Society Department in the United Kingdom. Since July 2023, he has been working as a professor at Gazi University, Gazi Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences. His main research interests are educational leadership, management of higher education and educational reforms.
Dr. Mehmet Şengül received his PhD in the department of English Language Teaching at the University of Anadolu. After graduation, he worked as a language instructor at Ankara University from 2007 to 2010. In the period of 2010-2014, in addition to teaching courses in English education and working on language assessment and testing at Mustafa Kemal University, Dr. Şengül served as an Expert in International Relations Unit dealing with Bologna Studies, ECTS implementation and Diploma Supplement between 2010-2014. He worked as an Expert in Multilateral Relations Unit of International Relations Department at Council of Higher Education of Turkey. He has been serving as Erasmus Institutional Vice Coordinator at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University. The areas of his expertise are foreign language education, language testing, ECTS, QF, QA, Internationalization and Mobility. He has some significant publications in higher education studies. His foreign languages levels are C2 level in English, B1 in German and A2 in French.
Dr. Kurtoğlu received his B.S. and M.S. in Political Science and Public Administration from METU. He completed his PhD in Sociology- on sociology of higher education- at the same university. Currently he is working at METU Research Center of Applied Ethics as post-doctoral researcher under DOSAP program. He is a member of the management committee of the COST ReMO Researcher Mental Health Action (2020-2024). He was a visiting researcher at the Center for Organization, Innovation and Network at University of Marburg (Germany) in 2012, supported by DAAD Sandwich Program. He is the editor of the book titled ‘Neoliberalism, Knowledge and Universities’ published in Turkish by Notabene in 2019. He is among the co-editors of the book titled ‘20 Years of the Bologna Process, EHEA and Türkiye’ published in Turkish by Beykoz Üniversitesi Yayınları in 2022. His main fields of interest are the global trends in higher education, institutional diversity and alternative universities. He has a blog on the global and national developments in the field of higher education:
Armağan Erdoğan received the title of Associate Professor from Higher Education Studies, which was opened as an academic field in Türkiye for the first time in 2015. She was awarded a scholarship from the Council of Higher Education and completed her postgraduate degrees in English and Comparative Literary Studies from the University of Warwick, England. In her doctoral thesis, she studied the educational effect of encountering the “foreign” in George Eliot’s novels about English life. After receiving her PhD in 2002, she worked at Kırıkkale University as a lecturer, head of department, and director of the foreign relations unit. Between 2008 and 2014, she worked as the International Unit Director and advisor to the president of the Council of Higher Education. During this period, she contributed to the preparation of international reports, coordinated the Bologna Process at the national level, and represented YÖK on many international platforms, such as Bologna Follow-Up Group (BFUG), representative of Türkiye, ENIC-NARIC Network Türkiye contact person, European University Association (EUA), and OECD-Institutional Governance in Higher Education (OECD-IMHE). Between 2013 and 2019, in addition to working as a faculty member at Ankara Social Sciences University, she also served as an advisor to the rector and director of the Higher Education Studies Center. Between 2009 and 2018, she was a member of the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO’s Gender Equality Specialized Committee. Her publications focus on higher education policies in Türkiye, the Bologna Process, international collaborations, quality assurance, and gender equality in higher education.
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.
Associate Professor Pinar Ayyildiz is a translator, sociologist and educational researcher. She has served Ihsan Dogramaci Bilkent University Vocational School of English Language Teaching as a teacher trainer for the Cambridge Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (DELTA) diploma program and as an academic and administrative coordinator for a total of ten years with multiple responsibilities. At the same institution, she completed the Cambridge In-service Certificate in English Language Teaching (ICELT) training program and the Cambridge Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (DELTA) international diploma program. Having worked in various higher education institutions for more than twenty years owning duties like being a course instructor, director of the School of Foreign Languages, director of the Learning and Teaching Unit, and Dean of Students, Ayyıldız’s main research focus is located within the field of Educational Administration. She holds editorial responsibilities in a fair number of international scientific publications such as Participatory Educational Research (PER), Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education (PTHE).
