Ebru TEKİN, Ph.D. Candidate E-mail: ebrutekin@hotmail.com ...

Area of Specialization
Political Economy, European Studies, Globalization, Agricultural transformation.
Experience
Dublin City University, Department of International Relations, Dublin, Ireland
Exchange Student, January 2009 – June 2009
Yeditepe University, Faculty of Commercial Sciences, Istanbul
Teaching Assistant; Lecturer of the courses of Marketing; & Human Resource Management; Academic advisor;
Supervised marketing, management & investment projects. Coordinated Social Sciences & Humanities Track,
September 2005 – January 2009.
Doğan Media Group, Istanbul
Research & Strategic Planning Department, Research Expert. Supervised market research projects. Conducted faceto-face
& in-depth interviews. Analyzed & reported the data, January 2005 – August 2005
DAP Marketing Research Inc., Istanbul
Project Director. Supervised international market research projects of selected MNCs & domestic brands, such as
Shell, Colgate, Arcelik, New Holland etc. Coordinated all the stages of the market research projects including
preparing briefs, planning research methods, preparing survey forms, training the field staff, evaluating the final data
& reporting to the client, April 2003 - December 2004
Conferences & Workshops & Summer Schools
Paper Presentation “Transnationalization of Agriculture in a Nutshell: Hazelnut Production and Exchange in the
World” 51. ISA Annual Convention in New Orleans, Theory vs. Policy? Connecting Scholars and Practitioners, LA,
USA, 17-20 February 2010.
Paper Presentation “Neo-Liberal Globalization in a Nutshell: Production of Hazelnut and its Market in Turkey”
Anthropological Association of Ireland Conference Memory, Identity and Belonging in an Interconnected World,
Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1-2 May 2009
Participated in a Masterclass on “Researching Migrant Life Histories: From Synchrony to Diachrony”, by Prof. John
Eade, Roehampton University, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, May 13-May 15 2009
Paper Presentation “The Privatization of Turkish Airlines in a Deregulating Airline Industry in the Process of
Membership Negotiations with the European Union”, 4th World Conference for Graduate Research in Tourism,
Hospitality and Leisure, Antalya, Turkey, 23-27 April 2008
Paper Presentation “Political Economy of Institutional Transformation of Turkish Hazelnut Sector: Informal Local
and European Networks“, ESPAnet/RECWOWE PhD Workshop, Hamburg, Germany, 05-06 October, 2007
Poster Presentation “Impacts of Institutional Transformation on Actors in Hazelnut Agriculture in Turkey in the
Integration Process with the European Union”, EAAE PhD Workshop, Rennes, France, 04-05 September, 2007
Paper Presentation “Political Economy of Turkish Hazelnut Production: World Bank Agricultural Reform
Implementation Project” ECSR and TransEurope Conference on Globalization, Social Inequality and Life Course,
Groningen, Netherlands, 01-02 September, 2007
ECSR and TransEurope Joint Summer School on “Globalization, Social Inequality and Life Course: Comparative
Methodological Approaches”, Groningen, Netherlands, 27-31 August, 2007
Swedish Institute Summer University on “Theories of Gender and Diversity and Democratic Practices in Local
Government”, Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-22 June 2007