Özlem

Celik

I am a Collegium Fellow at Turku Advanced Studies Institute (TIAS) and Department of Sociology, University of Turku and a visiting scholar at the University of Helsinki. I am Docent (Assoc. Prof.) in Urban Political Economy at Tampere University, Faculty of Built Environment (BEN). I received my Ph.D. degree from the University of Sheffield, Urban Studies and Planning Department, after I received my MA in Sociology, Middle East Technical University and my BA in Urban and Regional Planning, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Turkey. Previously, I held research and teaching positions in political science, human geography, sustainability science, international relations and global development studies in different universities of UK, Turkey, Sweden and Finland. I am currently the PI of Kone funded research group project: Movement Memory-Scapes: Remembering the Decade of Mass Protest under Authoritarianism (2026-2030). I am the co-founder and co-director of two networks: NUPE and Urban and Regional Political Economy Working Group, IIPPE. I joined Housing Studies Journal as an Editor with an additional role as Social Media Editor in 2024 and to the International Editorial Board of Globalizations Journal in 2026. 

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