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Biography

Dr. Ezel Tabur is Lecturer in Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations (PIR) at the 51cg. Dr. Tabur joined the Department in February 2016. Before Aberdeen, she was Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations at Çukurova University. Between June - September 2015, she was Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh as a recipient of the Royal Society of Edinburgh CRF European Visiting Fellowship.

Dr. Tabur gained her doctorate at the University of Sussex in 2012. She graduated with a B.A. in Social and Political Sciences from Sabanci University (Istanbul) and an M.A in International Relations and European Studies from Central European University (Budapest).

Dr. Tabur has achieved the status of Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK in 2017. 

Research Overview

• Politics and policies of international migration
• Migration & Development
• Migration & Gender
• EU institutions and policy-making processes
• EU neighbourhood

Current Research

EU-level policy-making on migration and development

The main objective of my current research project is to contribute to the growing, yet understudied and scattered, body of research on the link between migration and development at European Union (EU) level.There is a discernible knowledge gap regarding the role of the EU in integrating development-related consequences into its external migration policy-making processes. The research aims to reconceptualise the relationship between migration and development in the European context.

Recent conference & workshop presentations: 

Gendered aspects of EU migration and asylum policy: The role of populist governments, Unpolitics in the EU workshop, Salzburg Centre of EU Studies, November 2023 

Dissecting EU policy narratives on migration and development: The gendered aspects, UACES Annual Conference, September 2023

Reconciling the domestic and international imperatives: The EU-Turkey refugee agreement (with Asli Ilgit), 4th Conference of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies, September 2022

EU level policy-making on migration and development, Workshop on Migration and New Governance, University of Strathclyde, March 2019 

Funding and Grants

Post doctoral

• Royal Society of Edinburgh - Caledonian Research Fund European Visiting Fellowship for six months, IASH, University of Edinburgh (three months completed)  (June-Sept 2015)
  
  

PhD

• 3-year Overseas Research Students Award funded by Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) (2007-2010)
  
  
• Chevening Scholarship, British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (2008-2009)
  
  
• Francois Duchene Travel Bursary, SEI & European Movement Sussex Branch (2009)
  

Teaching Responsibilities

UG: 

PI4579                International Migration and Europe (Course Convener) (2016-Present)

PI3073/PI3578   The EU: Contemporary Challenges (Course Convener) (2018- Present) 

PI4071               Politics Dissertation (Course Convener) (2022-2025)

IR4031               IR Dissertation (Course Convener) (2022-2025)

PI3069               Researching in the 21st Century  (2016-2022)

PI2508               Global Politics: Equality and Inequality (2016-Present) 

PI2009               Ideas & Ideologies in Politics and International Relations (2024-Present) 

PGT: 

PI5034 International Diplomacy Theory and Practice ( Lecturer)

PI5042 Approaches to Public Policy (Lecturer)