Research Fellow - O Sarimehmet Duman

Dr Ozgun Sarimehmet Duman, BSc (METU), MA (York), PhD (Ankara University).

Telephone: +44 (0) 114 2220 665
Office Room: A6 Elmfield Lodge

Email: O.Duman@sheffield.ac.uk

Profile

Dr. Ozgun Sarimehmet Duman studied political science at METU, Ankara. She received her MA in
Comparative Politics from the University of York, with her dissertation on the role of international financial institutions in the integration of Turkish economy with global capitalism. While working as a research assistant first at Bilkent University and then at METU, Ozgun completed her PhD at Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences in October 2010. In her PhD thesis titled “The Effect of Working Class Organisations on State Policies: A Comparative Analysis of Labour Market Reform Processes in Greece and Turkey”, she studied the transition from Keynesian to monetarist economic policies in the aforementioned countries and decisiveness of the organisational capacity of the working class.

Having obtained the Jean Monnet Scholarship of the European Commission for her postdoctoral research, Dr. Sarimehmet Duman joined the Department of Politics in February 2011.

Research

She is currently working with Professor Colin Hay on the role of European social and employment policies on labour market reforms in Greece and Turkey. Her broader research areas are international political economy, comparative politics, economic crises, Europeanisation, labour-capital relations, trade unions, Greek and Turkish politics.

Articles/Publications

• Sarimehmet Duman, Ozgun. (forthcoming article in an edited volume). “Resistance of the Working Class During the Labour Market Deregulation in Greece” (in Turkish), Turkish Centre for Class Studies (TUSAM).
• Sarimehmet Duman, Ozgun. 2009. “From Welfare Politics to Neoliberalism: Reaction of Social Classes to Labour Market Reforms in Greece and Turkey”. In G.Eleftherakis, S. Hannam, E. Kalyva and A. Psychogios (eds.), Infusing Research and Knowledge in South-East Europe. Thessaloniki: South-East European Research Centre: 184-196.
• Sarimehmet Duman, Ozgun. 2009. “Four Elements in Turkey’s Integration with the World Economy: the Government, the Military, the Capitalist Class and the IMF” (in Turkish). In Mustafa Kemal Coskun (ed.), Structure Practice Subject: Critique of the Transition Processes of Capitalism from Political Economy Perspective. Ankara: Dipnot Press: 81-102.

Conference Presentations

• “The EU’s Influence on the Labour Market Reform Process in Greece”. Paper accepted to be presented at the 17th Workshop on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe, EuroMemo Group, September 16-18, 2011, Vienna.
• “Economic Crises as an ‘Opportunity’ for Both: The Reaction of Capital and Labour to the Current Economic Crisis in Greece”. First International Conference in Political Economy, “Beyond the Crisis”, International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE), The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, September 10-12, 2010, Crete.
• “Organised Unity and Political Struggle of the Greek Working Class During Neoliberal Transition Process.” 11th National Social Sciences Conference, Turkish Social Science Association, December 9-11, 2009, Ankara.
• “The Working Class Resistance to the State’s Labour Market Deregulation Policies: Greece versus Turkey”, International Research Workshop in Political Economy, International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE), The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, September 14-15, 2009, Ankara .
• “The Decisiveness of the Working Class Resistance in Labour Market Deregulation Process: Turkey versus Greece.” Karaburun Science Congress, September 3-6, 2009, Izmir.
• “From Welfare Politics to Neoliberalism: Reaction of Social Classes to Labour Market Reforms in Greece and Turkey.” 4th Annual South-East European Doctoral Student Conference, July 6-7, 2009, Thessaloniki.
• “The Working Class Resistance During the Labour Market Deregulation in Greece.” Turkish Centre for Class Studies (TUSAM), December 27-28, 2008, Istanbul.
• “The 1980s: Turkey’s Integration with the World Economy and the Relations with the IMF.” 10th National Social Sciences Conference, Turkish Social Science Association, November 28-30, 2007, Ankara.
• “Safeguarding Free Market Relations in and beyond National Borders: Co-assistance between the Turkish State and the IMF”. Graduate Seminar, Bilkent University, Department of Politics, May 14, 2003, Ankara (Also member of the Organising Committee).