Aysel Basmacı Kaya

She graduated from Kocaeli University Social Work Department in 2016 with a 2nd degree. She worked with refugees and asylum seekers in European Union and UNICEF projects between 2016-2020. Between 2018-2020, she completed her master’s degree in Üsküdar University Institute of Health Sciences, in the field of Social Work, by writing her thesis “Examination of Social Services Provided to Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Turkey”. In 2022, she won the Istanbul Cerrahpaşa University Graduate Education Institute Social Work Doctorate Program and she is still continuing. Her areas of expertise include refugees and asylum seekers, child protection, elderly and addiction.

Alp Koçer

 Alp completed his BA in Social Work at the İstanbul Gelişim University in 2018 and then his MA in Social Work at the Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa in 2021. Alp is currently PhD student in Social Work at Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa. And he is working at Nisantasi University at the Department of Social Work as lecturer. Alp’s reasearch interests include social policy, social care, disabled & elderly people.

Orhan Koçak

Orhan Kocak received his Ph.D. from the Social Policy program of Istanbul University. After working in different public and private universities, he has been working as a Full Professor in the Department of Social Work at the Faculty of Health Sciences at Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa for the last five years. He works on aging, migration, and technology addiction. Kocak has publications in international high-impact factor journals and works as an editor and reviewer in international journals.