Irem Güney-Frahm
Research Fellow
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Campus Schöneberg - Building E
Room: E 3.02
Academic and Professional Background
- Bachelor of Economics in Istanbul, 2005
- Master of European Studies in Bath, 2007
- PhD in Gender Studies in Berlin, 2014
- Researcher and Lecturer at HWR Berlin since 2013
Expertise in
- Macroeconomics
- Gender and Globalization
Membership
- ASMEA (Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa), 2015
- Human Development and Capability Association, 2013-14
Awards
- 2015 Research Grant, Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa
Research Interests
- Women's empowerment
- Microfinances
- International development
- Turkey
Recent Research Projects
- 2015 Research Project on Women and the New Turkey Discourse, Research Grant awarded by the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa
- 2009-2014 „Arbeitende Hausfrauen auf der Suche nach dem besseren Leben. Frauenempowerment durch Mikrokreditvergabe in der Türkei“, Doctoral Dissertation, Philosophical Faculty III, oral defense in October 2014, Grade: magna cum laude
Teaching Focus
- Political Economy and Social Structure of the Modern State
- Macroeconomics
- International Economics
- Gender and Globalization
- Strategies to achieve Gender Equality
- Femina Oeconomica
- Tutor of Statistics 1&2, Monetary Theory, and Monetary Policy and Banking, Marmara University 2003-2005
Publications
- 2015 Gezi ve Alman Medyasinda Degisen Türkiye Algisi (working title, forthcoming) in Balta-Peltekoglu (ed.)
- 2015 Who is supporting whom? A Critical Assessment of Mainstream Approaches to Female Entrepreneurship, Discussion Paper HTMI (forthcoming)
- 2014 Gender und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, in: Beblo, Miriam/Carl, Andrea-Hilla/Gather, Claudia/Schmidt, Dorothea (eds.): Friederike matters. Eine kommentierte Werkschau. Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin, 2014, 3-8
- 2012 Conference report on „Krisen, Kritik & Allianzen. Arbeits- und geschlechtersoziologische Perspektivierungen“, Bulletin Info 44, Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien
- 2010 Microcredit Schemes - Miracle, Disaster or Somewhere in Between?, reset.to
- 2007-2010 Numerous Op-Eds in the Journal of Turkish Weekly
- 2008 Zu Hause im Westen, Berliner Republik, Vol. 5
- 2007 Turkey and the Holocaust – Book review in International Review of Law and Politics, 3:10