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Appointed to TÜBİTAK's Scientific Advisory Board
(December 2024)
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Our Vice Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and Faculty Member of the Department of Business Administration, Associate Professor Deniz Öztürk, has been appointed as a member of the Advisory Board of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Support Group (SOBAG) under the Directorate of Research Support Programs at TÜBİTAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye). About SOBAG SOBAG works to support scientists engaged in R&D activities across all fields of social and humanities sciences, encouraging and developing scientific research in line with universal advancements and national priorities. SOBAG Advisory Board members play an active role in the application, evaluation, monitoring, conclusion, and outcome-impact tracking processes of research projects in their respective fields.
Who is Associate Prof. Deniz Öztürk?
Currently serving as a faculty member in the Department of Business Administration at Izmir Bakırçay University's Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Associate Professor Deniz Öztürk is also the Head of the Department of Management and Organization. Additionally, she serves as Vice Dean of the Faculty, responsible for academic affairs. Öztürk completed her secondary education and high school at Izmir American College with a scholarship. She graduated as the top student from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Middle East Technical University (METU). She pursued her master’s degree in public policy and administration at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in the UK with a scholarship from the Turkish Ministry of National Education. She completed her Ph.D. at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University and joined Izmir Bakırçay University in 2018, becoming an associate professor in the field of Management and Organization in 2023. As part of her doctoral research, she conducted a six-month study at the University of Alberta in Canada. During the 2019/20 academic year, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh Business School for one year.
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