Employment
2021 - now Departmental Lecturer, Dep. of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford
Associate Member of Nuffield College, University of Oxford
2018 - 2021 Senior Research Officer, ISER, University of Essex
2015 - 2016 Research Assistant, Dep. of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford
2012 - 2013 Research Assistant, OXWELL, Bogazici University
Education
2013 - 2018 DPhil, Social Policy, University of Oxford
2011 - 2012 MSc, Comparative Social Policy, University of Oxford
2010 - 2011 MSc, Social Policy Analysis, University of Leuven
2005 - 2010 BA, Economics, Marmara University
Grants and Fellowships
2024-2028 Volkswagen Stiftung, Demographic change and intergenerational persistence in homeownership in Europe. €1,500,000 (With P. Lersch, M. Medgyesi, S. Vidal, S. Zinn)
2024-2025 John Fell Fund, Investigating early and long-Term childhood poverty in the UK. £9,943
2019-2020 UK Government Equalities Office, Occupational downgrading after childbirth. £23,000 (With S. Harkness)
2013-2016 Inaugural Barnett Scholar, DPhil Scholarship by DSPI, University of Oxford
2010-2011 IMPALLA Scholar, MSc Scholarship by LISER, University of Leuven
Publications
forthcoming. Bedük, S. & Fasang, A. Harkness, S. Andrade, S. Büyükkeçeci, Z. Helske, S. & Karhula, A. Insurance against risk? Economic cost and compensation of job loss in different welfare states (Socio-Economic Review)
2024. Bedük, S. & Harkness, S. What explains intergenerational associations in home ownership and value in the UK? Investigating the transmission mechanisms. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 92,100951.
2024. Fasang, A., Andrade-Bastholm, S., Bedük, S., Büyükkeçeci, Z., Helske, S. & Karhula, A. Lives in welfare states: Life courses, earnings accumulation and relative living standards in five European countries. American Journal of Sociology 130(2)
2023. Bedük, S. Insured privately? Wealth stratification of job loss in the UK. Social Inclusion 11(1)
2020. Bedük, S. Missing dimensions of poverty? Calibrating deprivation scales using perceived financial situation. European Sociological Review 36(4): 562-579.
2018. Bedük, S. Understanding material deprivation for 25 EU countries: Risk and level perspectives and distinctiveness of zeros. European Sociological Review 34(2): 121-137.
2018. Bedük, S. Missing the unhealthy? Examining empirical validity of Material Deprivation Indices using a partial criterion variable. Social Indicators Research 135(1): 91- 115.
2018. Bedük, S. Identifying people in poverty: A multidimensional deprivation measure for the EU. Barnett Papers in Social Research 18(3): 562-579.
Under review
Trends in absolute and relative mobility of homeownership in Europe (with Benassi, E. & Lersch, P. M.)
Young people's homeownership in Europe: delayed or out-of-reach? (with Benassi, E.)
Long-term childhood poverty in Britain: Trends and drivers across the 1991-2017 birth cohorts (with A. Yong)
Work in progress
Is Europe a homeowner society? Household, partner and individual homeownership across Europe during 2008-2019 (with Benassi, E.)
Social security for all? Job loss, household income and income inequality in different welfare states (with Fasang, A. Harkness, S. Andrade, S. Büyükkeçeci, Z. Helske, S. & Karhula, A.)
No one left behind? Monitoring income floor in Great Britain 1991-2020 (with Ravallion, M. & Tamayo, X. J.)
Social origin and life-time earnings in the UK (with E. Bukodi)
Family and life-time earnings inequality in the UK (with P. Lersch)
Dissertations
2017 Measuring poverty in the EU: investigating and improving empirical validity of deprivation scales, DPhil Thesis, University of Oxford, https://bit.ly/2TCRauA
2012 Activation or exclusion? Long-term effects on poverty of high benefit conditionality in the UK and the US, MSc Thesis, University of Oxford
2011 Intertemporal poverty measurement: classifying and assessing different temporal measures for 15 EU countries using ECHP, MSc Thesis, University of Leuven
Teaching
2021–now Convenor & Lecturer, Poverty in Comparative Context, MSc Social Policy, University of Oxford
2021–now Convenor & Lecturer, Social Policy Analysis, MSc Social Policy, University of Oxford
2021–now Supervision, MSc & MPhil Comparative Social Policy, University of Oxford
2019–2021 Supervision, BA Sociology, 2019-2020, University of Essex
2015–2017 Seminar Leader, Comparative Social Policy and Welfare State, MSc Social Policy, University of Oxford (https://bit.ly/2sHHNwt)
2014–2015 Tutor, Social Policy, BA in Politics, Philosophy & Economics, University of Oxford
Academic Talks
2024 European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR) Conference, Barcelona
2024 The European Network for Social Policy Analysis (ESPAnet) Conference, Tampere
2024 Earnings and Income Volatility Workshop, Resolution Foundation
2023 QSS and CLS Seminar Series, UCL
2023 London Inequality Workshop, Nuffield College, University Oxford
2023 Poverty and Policy Working Group, Online
2023 III/LIS Comparative Economic Inequality Conference, LSE
2022 European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR) Conference, Amsterdam
2022 ISA RC28 Conference, London
2021 DIAL Final Conference, Brussels
2021 American Sociological Association (ASA) Conference, Virtual Meeting
2021 ECINEQ Conference, London
2020 European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR) Conference, Amsterdam (Online)
2020 American Sociological Association (ASA) Conference, San Francisco
2020 ISA RC28 Summer Meeting, Turku
2020 European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR) Conference, Lausanne
2019 DIAL Mid-term Conference, Turku
2019 ISA RC28 Spring Meeting, Frankfurt
2018 International Symposium on Sequence Analysis and Related Methods, Monte Verita
2018 ECSR Workshop on Wealth Inequality & Mobility, Luxembourg
2018 DIAL workshop on labor market inequalities over the life course, Finland
2017 Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Seminars, UK
Academic Service
Journal Referee European Sociological Review, European Societies, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of Social Policy, Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, Social Indicators Research
Organiser Comparative Social Policy Seminar Series, 2021-2022 DSPI, University of Oxford
ISER Seminar Series, 2019-2021, ISER, University of Essex
Graduate Lunchtime Seminars, 2014-2015, DSPI, University of Oxford
Conference, 2009, "2008 crisis & income distribution in Turkey", Marmara University
Professional Development
2022 Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (PGCert), Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Oxford.
2021 Preparation for Learning and Teaching at Oxford (PLTO), Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Oxford
2021 LIS & LWS workshop (LISER, Luxembourg)
2021 Introduction to EUROMOD (ISER, University of Essex)
2019 Causal inference (by Scott Cunningham, University of Manchester)
2017 Causality (by Richard Breen, University of Oxford)
2017 Poverty in America (by David Grusky, Stanford University)
2016 Weights and sample design in Understanding Society (by Peter Lynn, ISER)
2013 Statistical matching & microsimulation (by Levy Institute & Ankara Uni.)
Language
Turkish(native), English(fluent), Italian(elementary)
STATA(proficient), R(intermediate)