Professional Summary
Bilgen Turkay is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Cincinnati. Her subfields are International Relations and Comparative Politics.
She holds an M.A. in Journalism from Ankara University and undergraduate degrees in International Relations and Public Relations and Advertising.
Her research interests include immigration, refugees, NGOs, social media, technology, and human rights. Currently, her comparative research focuses on how NGOs and international organizations developed and implemented strategies in response to the Syrian and Ukrainian refugee crises in Canada, Germany, and the United States.
Education
Master of Arts: Ankara University Turkey, 2019 (Journalism)
Bachelor of Arts: Ankara University Turkey, 2014 (Two Majors: International Relations, Public Relations and Advertising )
Research and Practice Interests
Immigration, refugees, NGOs, social media, technology and human rights.
Publications
Other Publications
Turkay, Bilgen & Turkay, Selen (2019. ) Understanding Turkish NGOs' Digital Technology Use in Helping Refugees in Turkey .CHI EA '19: Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), United States of America,
Book Chapter
Bilgen Turkay (2020 ) Social Media and ICT Use by Refugees, Immigrants and NGO's: A Literature Overview Communication of Migration in Media and Arts .(pp. 111).London, Transnational Press London (Author)