Derya Ozkul is Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick, Department of Sociology and Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. Her research explores migration policies and their impact on migrants and refugees and uses qualitative methods. In the Algorithmic Fairness for Asylum Seekers and Refugees (AFAR) project, Derya will be investigating how asylum seekers and refugees experience and perceive the use of new technologies in migration and asylum governance. Previously at the Refugee Studies Centre, Derya worked on the Refugees are Migrants: Refugee Mobility, Recognition and Rights (RefMig) project and explored access to asylum in Lebanon and Turkey. Before coming to RSC, Derya was working at the University of Sydney where she completed her PhD thesis in Sociology and Social Policy on the impact of migration policies on migrant communities in Germany and Australia, and taught various units, including Introduction to Sociology, Sociological Theory, Sociology of Terrorism and Human Rights and Social Protest.
Previously, Derya held visiting fellowships at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) and Bielefeld University in Germany and worked as a researcher at the Migration Research Centre at Koc University. Derya also holds an MSc degree in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and a BA degree in Political Science and International Relations from Bogazici University. She is an active member of the Migration Research Association in Turkey. Her work includes Social Transformation and International Migration (Palgrave 2015, co-edited with Stephen Castles and Magdalena Arias Cubas) and Precarious Lives and Syrian Refugees in Turkey (New Perspectives on Turkey 2016, co-edited with Mine Eder). Her work has been published in various journals, including, among others, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Turkish Studies, and Third World Quarterly. Her publications can be found in Google Scholar and ResearchGate.
