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)