Cansu Akbaş Demirel is a post-doc researcher at nccr “on the move” Project, University of Neuchâtel. She graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Science, Department of International Relations and after her graduation she started to work voluntarily at Association for Solidarity with Refugees (Mülteci-Der). She worked as a research assistant at Ege University, Department of International Relations between 2011-2017 where she received her MA and PhD. During her MA, she carried on her studies at Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (Compas) at the University of Oxford. Between 2017-2021 she worked at HRFT Academy which was held under Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT). Her thesis title was: Civil Society Actors Operating in the Field of Migration and Asylum: A Network Approach. She has conducted researches on refugees in Turkey, migration and human rights, the relationship between civil society and refugees’ access to rights; has published related to these issues.
