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Devran Gulel

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University of Portsmouth

Devran Gulel holds a PhD in law from the University of Portsmouth, UK, where she was a fully-funded doctoral candidate between 2017 and 2020. Gulel is engaged in interdisciplinary research spanning law, politics and society, feminism and gender politics in a global context, democratic backsliding and authoritarianism, human rights under authoritarian regimes, and misogyny in political discourse, the judiciary, and law enforcement. In her previous role as the Jean Monnet Scholar of Turkey (2015-2016), she researched women's welfare in the Nordic Welfare States at Lund University (Sweden). Dr Gulel has taught a wide range of modules, including European Union law, identity politics, comparative politics, and global feminism.

Education

  • 2021 
    School of Law, University of Portsmouth, PhD

Publications

  • 2022
    Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society, ‘I WANT TO BREAK FREE!’ A Study on Women Who Seek Freedom from Religion and the Islamic Veil in Turkey
  • 2021
    Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, A Critical Assessment of Turkey’s Positive Obligations in Combatting Violence against Women: Looking behind the Judgments
  • 2020
    Nuovi Autoritarismi e Democrazie: Diritto, Istituzioni, Società, Patterns of Misogyny in Turkey's Contemporary Political Discourse: An Analysis of the Presidential Speeches
  • 2019
    Women's History Review, Feminist movement and law-making in Turkey: a critical appraisal from 1998 to 2018