Political Science PhD Candidate, Şule Yaylacı, was recently awarded the UBC-Yale Fox Fellowship, and is now at Yale, where she will be wrapping up and disseminating her PhD research, and engaging in the academic community at one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
Şule Yaylacı earned her BSc in Political Science and Public Administration at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara Turkey, and a MSc in Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. She employs a mixed methodology to identify the causal relationship between bystanding political violence and the attitudes and beliefs of citizens towards democracy. Her cases for qualitative analysis are Turkey and Peru.
The UBC-Yale Fox Fellowship focuses on fostering peace and prosperity in the world. It further offers the unique opportunity to expand doctoral research through interactions with an interdisciplinary group of distinguished Fellows from many corners of the world while benefiting from the outstanding resources and facilities at Yale University.
“As a Fox Fellow, I look forward to carrying forward my research by presenting it in workshops, discussing and crystallizing my findings as well as disseminating them to a broad network of scholars. Furthermore, spending multiple semesters at Yale University will provide me with an opportunity to develop a new professional network, and will enhance my academic engagements with its remarkable institutional capacity.”
About the UBC-Yale Fox Fellowship:
The UBC-Yale Fox International Fellows Program is designed to enhance mutual understanding between the peoples of the United States and other countries by promoting international scholarly exchanges and collaborations among the next generation of leaders. To accomplish this goal, the program seeks to identify and nurture those students who are interested in harnessing scholarly knowledge to respond to the world’s most pressing challenges. For these reasons, the program especially welcome students enrolled in the social sciences and kindred disciplines in the humanities and professional schools.
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Şule Yaylacı in the News:
Roundhouse Radio Vancouver
Sule Yaylaci discusses the attacks on the airport in Turkey, on Roundhouse Radio Vancouver.
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