Doç.Dr. ZÜHAL ÜNALP ÇEPEL

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Zuhal Unalp-Cepel is currently assistant professor in the Department of International Relations at Dokuz Eylül University. She is also the Erasmus coordinator for the graduate students. In 2008, she received Finnish state scholarship (CIMO) for PhD research, and studied in the University of Eastern Finland. She received her PhD from the Department of European Studies at Dokuz Eylül University, in 2013. The thesis is titled with “Civil Society, Europeanization and Democratization in Turkey: Changing Role of MUSIAD”. Her research interests are civil society, migration, democratization, European identity and Turkey-EU relations. She has presented papers in different international conferences and workshops (IPSA, ECPR, ICSER, CINEFOGO) in Turkey, Italy, Lithuania, Belgium and France. In 2016, she was awarded with academic promotion from Council of Higher Education in Turkey. As a member of the Faculty of Business Commission on ‘Relations with Civil Society Organizations’, she takes part in voluntary projects with UNHCR and UNICEF. Currently she is working as a project staff of a Jean Monnet Network Project namely POWERS Network. Within the scope of the Project, she presented papers in the workshops organized by University of Bordeaux, France (2019), Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey (2020) and University of Seville, Spain (2021).