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Six academics working in different universities based in Turkey and with expertise in diverse disciplines neighbouring social policy recorded introductory video lectures for social policy students at Boğaziçi University.
Boğaziçi News published an interview with Volkan Yılmaz (in Turkish) on the conditions for fair access to safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines worldwide.
Boğaziçi University Social Policy Forum with the financial support of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and Research Worldwide Istanbul has published video lectures (in Turkish) for faculty members on inclusionary education in the context of disabilities.
Volkan Yılmaz and Püren Aktaş’s article entitled ‘The Making of a Global Medical Tourism Destination: From State-Supported Privatisation to State Entrepreneurialism in Healthcare in Turkey’ has been published in Global Social Policy.
Volkan Yılmaz delivered a talk on patient experiences in Turkey as part of Koç University’s College of Social Sciences and Humanities seminar series.
Volkan Yılmaz’s chapter (co-authored with Nurhan Yentürk) entitled ‘The Transformation of the Social Policy Landscape in Turkey and the Changing Role of the State in Redistribution’ (in Turkish) has been published as part of Development with the State.
Boğaziçi Lectures Feyyaz Berker Series powered by Tekfen, will host Branko Milanović
Ayse Bugra will deliver a speech on the future of globalization after the pandemic on November 25 as part of Boğaziçi University - TÜSİAD Foreign Policy Forum’s webinar. The language of the webinar will be in Turkish.
The book Justice and Vulnerability in Europe that is based on the research programme Towards a European Theory of Justice and Fairness (ETHOS) funded by EU Horizon2020 is published by Edward Elgar Publishing.
Volkan Yılmaz and Cemre Canbazer’s new review article entitled “A behavioural approach to public policy and its reflections in Turkey” has been published (in Turkish) in Society and Social Work journal of Hacettepe University.
Development Analytics will launch its report entitled The Situation of Youth Not in Employment, Education or Training in Turkey on a webinar that will take place on October 23 at 3 pm.
Volkan Yılmaz spoke on disability, discrimination and social inequalities on October 6th in a radio program (of Açık Radyo) hosted by Damla Özlüer.
Ayça Söylemez from BİANET reported on Social Policy Forum’s latest research report entitled “Employee Experiences in Istanbul during COVID-19 Outbreak”.
Ayşegül Domaniç Yelçe wrote a column in Hurriyet newspaper (in Turkish) discussing the findings of Turkish disability and employment policy research led by our faculty member Volkan Yılmaz.
The Third Disability Studies Fall School was held online between 1-11 September.
The research report entitled "Employee Experiences in Istanbul during the COVID-19 Pandemic" which is a qualitative study conducted by Social Policy Forum researchers has been published in Boğaziçi News (in Turkish).
The research report entitled "Employee Experiences in Istanbul during the COVID-19 Pandemic" (in Turkish) is published. The report relies on a qualitative study conducted by Social Policy Forum researchers under the supervision of Volkan Yılmaz.
Başak Akkan’s new article entitled “Representative justice in the European normative framework and tensions with the national political discourses” has been published in European Politics and Society (co-authored with Dorota Lepianka).
Volkan Yılmaz has been elected to the editorial board of Journal of Social Policy for four years starting from 1st January 2021.
On the mental health policy webinar: A human-rights approach to mental health is essential (in Turkish)
Interview with Volkan Yilmaz on social and economic problems of the Turkish youth has been published in BBC Turkce (in Turkish).
Applications Open for Disability Studies Fall School (1-11 September 2020)
The new report entitled “The COVID-19 Long-Term Care situation in Turkey” written by Başak Akkan and Cemre Canbazer was published in the International Long-Term Care Policy Network Blog.
Başak Akkan will deliver a speech during the webinar entitled “Evaluating child labor literature in the last 20 years: Theory, methodology and ethics” on June 15 organized by Istanbul Bilgi University Child Studies Unit and Center for Migration Research.
Boğaziçi University Social Policy Forum and World Health Organization Country Office for Turkey will organize a Social Policy Webinar entitled “Why do we need a human rights approach to mental health?” on the United Nations Public Service Day.
Volkan Yilmaz delivered a lecture on the fundamentals of health policies to the Youth Approaches to Health Association (YAHA, Y-PEER Turkey) team.
The commentary entitled " The Effects of Covid-19 on Children and Social Policies Targeting Children” (in Turkish) authored by Dr. Başak Akkan has been published by TESEV.
Volkan Yılmaz’s new article entitled “Exploring Patient Experiences of the Internal Market for Healthcare Provision in Turkey: Publicness under Pressure” has been published in the Journal of Social Policy.
Admission Results for 2020-2021 Academic Period
Interview list for admissions is announced.
Ayse Bugra will deliver a speech on globalization and developing countries after the pandemic on June 5 as part of Science Academy’s webinar. The language of the webinar will be in Turkish.
Volkan Yilmaz’s lecture (in Turkish) entitled “What Do We Learn From the Pandemic? Health Policies in Turkey and Beyond” is available online on the university’s YouTube page.
Volkan Yılmaz will deliver a speech on health policies in Turkey and the world in times of pandemic on May 30 as part of Bogazici University’s “BU+ Open Courses”.
Ayse Bugra will deliver a speech on society and social policy in times of pandemic on May 22 as part of Science Academy’s webinar.
Volkan Yılmaz discussed social assistance in times of pandemic and crisis with the municipality representatives on May 18th as part of Yerel-iz Association’s webinar.
Ayse Bugra’s new article entitled “Politics of social policy in a late industrializing country: The case of Turkey” has been published in Journal of Development and Change.
Volkan Yılmaz delivered a speech entitled Pandemic and Social Inequalities: Is Pandemic a Great Leveller? as part of the webinar organised on May 11th by the European Medical Students’ Association-Turkey.
Graduate Programs Open Day May 2, 2020
Volkan Yılmaz’s new article entitled “A contextual policy analysis of the cash programme in a humanitarian setting: The case of the Emergency Social Safety Net” has been published in Disasters (co-authored with Talita Cetinoglu).
Volkan Yilmaz delivered a lecture on social policy for municipalities as part of the Local Advocacy School, which took place at Bahcesehir University on 22 February.
Our faculty member Volkan Yılmaz delivered a lecture on social policy as part of the Winter 2020 Program of the European School of Politics (ESP) on January 27.
Dr. Basak Akkan’s book review on “Home-land: Romanian Roma, domestics spaces and the state" was published in the Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Application Period for 2020/2021 Fall Term 23 March – 10 April 2020
Among the graduate students of Social Policy Master Program Püren Aktaş's new article has been published in Journal of Health Administration (Hacettepe University).
Announcement about the 2020 applications for the Social Policy Graduate Program
Assoc. Prof. Volkan Yilmaz presented the findings of British Academy-supported research on the regulation of the healthcare services sector to Health and Society Studies group on December 29.
Emeritus Prof. Ayse Bugra delivered a talk on her book entitled “Capitalism, Poverty and Social Policy in Turkey” (in Turkish).
Assoc. Prof. Volkan Yılmaz will give a speech on current trends in public social spending in Turkey at Social Rights Association.
Author Events: Emeritus Prof. Ayse Bugra will give a speech on her book entitled "Capitalism, Poverty and Social Policy in Turkey" at Homer Bookstore.
Assoc. Prof. Volkan Yılmaz presented a paper entitled “Reimagining Equality Through Disability” in the 7th Rethinking Social Work Conference.
Among the graduate students of Social Policy Master Program Zehra Keleş Yüksel and Fırat Çoban will present their papers in the 12th Young Social Politicians Congress.
Dr. Volkan Yılmaz’s new commentary entitled “Why Politics and Social Policy Matter for Shaping Humanitarian Assistance" was published in The Social Policy Blog.
Our board member Prof. Biray Kolluoglu will be hosted by The Institute for Human Sciences, IWM during 2019-2020 academic period for her research project focusing on conservative and secular families' child raising practices.
Among the graduate students of Social Policy Master Program Simla Serim presented a paper entitled “Work and family reconciliation in Turkey: Women as a vulnerable group” in the 14th Conference of the European Sociological Association.
Among the graduate students of Social Policy Master Program Remziye Gul Aslan presented a paper entitled “Saving informally: An examination of local “gün” meetings in Turkey” in the 14th Conference of the European Sociological Association.
Dr Volkan Yilmaz’s new article entitled “An Examination of Disability and Employment Policy in Turkey through the Perspectives of Disability NGOs and Policymakers” has been published in Disability & Society.
Among the graduate students of Social Policy Master Program Puren Aktas presented a paper in the 14th Conference of the European Sociological Association.
Dr Volkan Yilmaz has been elected as the Vice-Chair of the European Sociological Association (ESA) Research Network 26 – Sociology of Social Policy and Social Welfare for the 2019-2021 period.
Our faculty member Dr Volkan Yilmaz presented a paper entitled “Regulatory challenges in Turkish internal market in health care: The case of financial protection of patients” in the 14th Conference of the European Sociological Association.
Call for Applications for the 2019 Disability Studies Master's/ Ph.D. Thesis Award
Disability Studies Fall School (September 19-20-21, 2019)
Başak Akkan’s new article entitled “An egalitarian politics of care: young female carers and the intersectional inequalities of gender, class and age" was published in Feminist Theory.
Dr Volkan Yilmaz delivered a talk entitled “From Social Security to Poverty Alleviation: The Past and Present of Social Policy in Turkey” at the Sociology Colloquium of Yeditepe University.
2019-2020 MA Application Results
Dr Volkan Yilmaz delivered a talk at the conference organized by the Nordic Network on Disability Research (NNDR).
Our student Anıl Gencelli delivered a talk at the conference organized by Nordic Network on Disability Research (NNDR).
Grad student Merve Kardelen Bilir's article on "The Southern European Model in Welfare Regime Types and a Comparison Among The Health Care Provisions in Italy and Turkey " was published
Grad student Merve Kardelen Bilir's article on "Deinstitutionalization in Mental Health Policy: from Institutional-Based to Community- Based Mental Healthcare Services" was published.
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position in Social Policy
Graduate Programs Application: Interview lists are announced
Call for participants: Research workshop on social science perspectives on the healthcare policy challenges in the emerging economies
Başak Akkan’s new article entitled “Care as an inequality-creating phenomenon: an intersectional analysis of the care practices of young female carers in Istanbul" was published in Journal of Gender Studies.
Graduate Program Information Day (open day) for English-speaking Candidates
Application Period for 2019/2020 Fall Term 25 March – 12 April 2019
Başak Akkan's and Simla Serim's new article entitled “Work and family reconciliation in Turkey: young women as a vulnerable group in the labour market" was published
Dr Volkan Yılmaz’s new article entitled “Unequal Turkey Under Construction" was published in the Middle East Report (MERIP).
Dr Volkan Yılmaz’s article entitled “The Emerging Welfare Mix for Syrian Refugees in Turkey: The Interplay between Humanitarian Assistance Programmes and the Turkish Welfare System" was published in the Journal of Social Policy.
Boğaziçi University Social Policy Forum in collaboration with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Disability Studies Graduate Thesis Awards were granted.
Our faculty member Volkan Yılmaz delivered a talk at the 11th Philanthropy Seminar entitled Technologies for Life without Barriers organized by Sabancı Foundation.
Elifcan Çelebi has been granted Şirin Tekeli Research Award (2018)
An edited book dedicated to our dear Emeritus Professor Ayşe Buğra, who is among the founders of Master’s Program in Social Policy, has just been released.
The special issue on “Continuity and Change in Social Policies in Turkey” edited by our faculty member Dr Volkan Yilmaz has been recently published by the Journal of Research and Policy on Turkey.
Our faculty member Dr Volkan Yilmaz presented a paper in the Mid-term Conference of the European Sociological Association’
Dr Volkan Yilmaz’s book chapter co-authored with Prof. Nurhan Yenturk on “The transformation of social policy landscape in Turkey” was published in the book entitled “Public expenditures of Turkey from social assistance to security (2006-2017)” published
Dr Volkan Yilmaz’s book chapter on “Social policy and ageing” was published in the edited book entitled “Ageing and old age: Interdisciplinary perspectives” published by Istanbul Bilgi University Press (in Turkish).
The commentary entitled "Private profit versus public welfare: Can they be reconciled in the internal healthcare market?” authored by our faculty member, Dr Volkan Yılmaz has been published in the “Unsettling Healthcare” website run by the researchers of
Our faculty member Volkan Yilmaz presented a paper entitled “Putting cash transfers in context” in the 5th World Conference on Humanitarian Studies that took place in the Hague, the Netherlands.
2018-2019 MA Application Results
Our faculty members Ayşe Buğra and Volkan Yilmaz appeared as on-air guests of Tamer Durak on Medyascope on June 21st, 2018. You may watch the program entitled ‘Social Inequalities, Employment and Social Policy’ online (broadcasted in Turkish).
Our faculty member Volkan Yilmaz delivered a talk on ‘The right of people with disabilities at the city level: Perspective, applicability, and monitoring’, as part of Human Rights Cities Workshop organized by Istanbul University Research Center for Global
Graduate Programs Application: Interview lists are announced
Ayşe Buğra was awarded Bogazici University Aptullah Kuran Outstanding Service Award
Bogazici University and Raoul Wallenberg Institute sign partnership agreement in social policy research and education
A book review by William Armstrong on our faculty member Volkan Yilmaz’s book entitled The Politics of Healthcare Reform in Turkey was published in the Hurriyet Daily News.
Our faculty member Volkan Yılmaz will speak on his book entitled "The Politics of Healthcare Reform in Turkey" on Friday, March 23 / 14.30 IB 204.
Boğaziçi University Graduate Programs Information Day is on March 31!
Emeritus Professor Ayşe Buğra's article entitled "Gender Inequality in Turkey in a Comparative Perspective" was published in Sarkaç journal.
Our faculty member Başak Akkan’s article entitled “How Do Children Contextualize Their Well-Being? Methodological Insights from a Neighborhood Based Qualitative Study in Istanbul", co-authored with Serra Müderrisoglu, Pınar Uyan-Semerci and Emre Erdogan,
Our faculty member Volkan Yilmaz delivered a speech, entitled Changing Employment Relations in Private Hospitals Sector, as part of the Private Medicine and its Problems Workshop organised by Turkish Thoracic Society on January 7th, 2018.
Bogazici University faculty member Dr. Volkan Yilmaz has been awarded Newton Advanced Fellowship by the British Academy-the UK’s national body for the humanities and social sciences.
Our faculty member İpek Göçmen’s article entitled “Egg freezing experiences of women in Turkey: From the social context to the narratives of reproductive ageing and empowerment", co-authored with Azer Kılıç of Koç University, was published in European Jou
New Article: Akkan B.(2017)The Politics of Care in Turkey: Sacred Familialism in a Changing Political Context, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, jxx011, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxx011
New Article: Akkan B., Deniz M. B. and Ertan M. (2017) Romanization of Poverty: Spatial Stigmatization of Roma Neighbourhoods in Turkey, Romani Studies, 27(1): 73-93.
New article: Uyan-Semerci P,Erdoğan E.Akkan B.,Müderrisoğlu S.,Karatay A. (2017) ‘Contextualizing Subjective Well-being of Children in Different Domains: Does Higher Safety Provide Higher Subjective Well-being for Child Citizens?’, Children and Youth Serv
Our faculty member Volkan Yilmaz’s article entitled “Historical trajectory of public health expenditures in Turkey: a descriptive analysis", co-authored with Nurhan Yenturk of Istanbul Bilgi University, was published in Turkish in Community and Physician
Our faculty member Volkan Yilmaz has been elected as a board member for the Sociology of Social Policy and Social Welfare Research Network of the European Sociological Association.
Our faculty member Volkan Yilmaz, in collaboration with Talita Cetinoglu, presented a paper entitled “An analysis of cash transfer scheme for Syrian refugees in Turkey at the nexus of humanitarian response and domestic social policy development” as part o
Our faculty member Volkan Yilmaz presented a paper entitled “Mental Health Policies and Transition to Community Mental Health Care” in the seminar organised by Human Rights in Mental Health Initiative Association (RUSIHAK) on October 21st.
Among the graduate students of Social Policy Master Program, Çağla Gün and Merve Kardelen Bilir presented their papers in 10. Mülkiye Young Social Politicians Congress.
Among the graduate students of Social Policy Master Program, Zeynep Gülöz Bakır is entitled to receive graduate scholarship provided to the master thesis subjects on “rural development and energy efficiency/renewable energy projects”.
The book entitled "The Politics of Healthcare Reform in Turkey" by Volkan Yılmaz has been published.
2017-2018 MA Application Results
Departmental Exams
Boğaziçi University Graduate Programs Information Day is on April 1!
The commentary entitled "Is universal health coverage possible without strong public presence in its provision?" by our faculty member Volkan Yılmaz has been published.
Application Period for 2017/2018 Fall Term 3-20 April 2017
Workshop on Health Policy and Equity
VIII. Organization Theory Symposium
Researcher Alpkan Birelma (Social Policy Forum) was awarded Prof. Cahit Talas Social Policy Award for his PhD thesis entitled “In Search of the Working Class: Workers’ Subjectivities and Resistance in an Istanbul Neighborhood”
UNDP's Regional Human Development Report - Income and Social Inequalities in Turkey was released. This report was written by our faculty members, Ayşe Bugra and Volkan Yilmaz, and Social Policy Forum researchers.
The article entitled "Youth welfare policy in Turkey in comparative perspective: a case of ‘Denied Youth Citizenship’" by Volkan Yılmaz have been published.
International Seminar by Volkan Yılmaz, Changing origins of inequalities in access to health care services in Turkey: From occupational status to income
2016-2017 MA Application Results
Call for Application: Social Policy Award
Introduction Day April 2nd, 2016
Graduate Programs Application
University Registration of Students Admitted to Graduate Programs
Interview Date for Social Policy Graduate Program
Entrance Examination Date is May 8, 2015
Social Policy Graduate Program meets M.S. candidates