My multidisciplinary research has three distinct but interlinked foci:

- Neoliberalisation of childhood in comparative contexts, with a specific focus on Turkey and Britain.

- Childhood and children’s rights in policy and public discourse

- Children’s culture in the twentieth century

Theoretically, I adopt a social justice approach, exploring the relations between injustice/inequality, distinction, exclusion and conceptualisations of childhood, and advancing understandings of these and neoliberalism in the process. Methodologically, I offer historical and sociological insights about lived experiences of childhood and their relationship to cultural artefacts, such as newspapers and literature. Building on my MA thesis which discusses the social construction of childhood in Turkey in the post-war period, my PhD examines the relation between social, political, and economic change and discourses about childhood in the news media in the 1980s and 1990s. Currently, I'm leading a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. This  research focuses on neoliberalism and childhood in the local contexts of Turkey and Britain. Specifically, I argue and evidence the ways that media panics about children and childhood in the 1980s reflected a resistance to social, political, and economic change, but at the same time, became an exclusionary practice that defined who would be considered a child.