Derya Ozkul is a research officer at the University of Oxford, Department of International Development, Refugee Studies Centre. She is currently working as part of an ERC-funded grant on Recognising Refugees and leads the research in Turkey and Lebanon. In the context of this project, Dr Ozkul is studying the norms and institutions that inform the procedures to recognise refugees in different countries and mobility restrictions that migrants and refugees face. Dr Ozkul has recently been awarded the John Fell Fund by the University of Oxford. As an independent Principal Investigator in this project, she works on the governance of AI-based technologies in migration management. For this research, she is studying the relevant existing legislation and data sharing practices among NGOs, governments and the UN Agencies. Derya previously worked at the University of Sydney, School of Social and Political Sciences as a tutor, sessional lecturer and a research assistant, where she also completed her doctoral dissertation. Throughout her doctoral thesis, Derya worked on her independent doctoral research and worked part-time on a five-year Australian Research Council-funded research project. In this project, together with an interdisciplinary team, she explored the changes in social policies and their relationship to migration patterns in Australia, Turkey, Mexico and South Korea. She has published widely in many areas related to migration and displacement. See her list of publications at ResearchGate or Google Scholar.
