Dr Bilge Serin
- Lecturer (Urban Studies & Social Policy)
telephone:
0141 330 2963
email:
Bilge.Serin@glasgow.ac.uk
29 Bute Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RS
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-0549Biography
Bilge Serin works as Lecturer in Global Urbanism. She is an urban researcher with a diverse background including urban design, urban development, urban politics and architecture. She worked at the University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University and Middle East Technical University as well as the Chamber of City Planners in Turkey before joining University of Glasgow.
Bilge has completed her PhD in Urban Studies at Heriot-Watt University on the contemporary commodification of urban space via private neighbourhoods in Istanbul. Her research interests cluster around dynamics behind inequality in urban space including exclusionary practices in urban Development housing, discursive formation of exclusion in urban space, representations of urban space and everyday life in mass media, imagining urban futures, and the dynamics of contemporary commodification of urban space.
Research interests
- Commodification of urban space and financilisation of housing
- Commoning and mutual aid (during Covid-19 pandemic)
- Inequality, exclusion and segregation in urban space, and everyday life in mediated living environments
- Reponses to climate emergency via build environment, espeially by retrofitting existing buildings
- Discursive formation of urban space, representations of urban space in mass media, imagining and representation of urban futures and housing
- Urban design and neighbourhood placemaking
Research groups
Grants
Grants and Funding
The Sydney-Glasgow Ignition Grants (Co-Investigator), 2024: Funding for the research project “The new social injustice from energy-efficiency retrofitting programs: An exploratory study of its nature, scale and the actors involved”
ESRC and AHRC Research Centres Grant (Co-Investigator), 2022: Research centre funding for the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (led by Prof Ken Gibb, University of Glasgow)
ESRC Impact Accelerator Account Fund (Principal Investigator), 2022: Funding for the research project “From Charity to Solidarity: COVID-19 Mutual Aid Groups in Scotland”
Urban Studies Research Incentivisation Fund, University of Glasgow (Principal Investigator), 2022: Funding for scoping study for the grant application “Facilitating Sharing Cities: Local Governments’ Role in Facilitating Sharing Practices”
EPSRC and NERC Grant (Named Researcher), 2021: Funding for the research project “Decarbonising Heating and Cooling: Flexible Air Source Heart Pump for Domestic Heating Decarbonisation” (led by Prof Zhibin Yu, University of Glasgow)
Early Career Researcher Fund, Public Engagement Fund, and Research Incentivisation Fund from the School of Social Political Sciences, University of Glasgow (Principal Investigator), 2021: Funding for the research project “From Charity to Solidarity: COVID-19 Mutual Aid Groups in Scotland”
College of Social Sciences Research Fund, and Urban Studies Research Incentivisation Fund, from the School of Social Political Sciences, University of Glasgow (Principal Investigator), 2020: Funding for the research project “From Charity to Solidarity: COVID-19 Mutual Aid Groups in Scotland”
Scottish Funding Council Climate Emergency Collaboration Challenge (Named Researcher), 2020: Funding for the research project “Evaluating options and outcomes in the retrofit of pre-1919 Glasgow tenement housing” (led by Prof Ken Gibb, University of Glasgow)
British Institute Strategic Research Initiatives Research Grant (Principal Investigator), 2019: Funding for the research project “Exploring the Potentials and Challenges of Retrofitting Housing Stock”
Partnership Collaboration Awards, University of Glasgow and University of Sydney, 2019: Travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses for exchange visits (awarded to the research team led by Prof Ken Gibb (University of Glasgow) and Prof Nicole Gurran (University of Sydney))
Urban Studies Research Incentivisation Fund, University of Glasgow (Principal Investigator), 2019: Funding for fieldwork for the research project “Imagining Urban Space”
International Sociological Association Registration Grant, 2018
National Centre for Research Methods Bursary, 2017: Research methods workshop fee, subsistence, travel and accommodation expenses for the workshop “Understanding small areas: spatial analysis of population and neighbourhood data”
Fellowships and Scholarships
The Urban Studies Institute, University of Antwerp, Visiting Scholar Fellowship, 2024
RC21-IJURR-FURS Summer School on Comparative Urban Studies Fellowship, 2015: Summer school fee, travel and accommodation expenses
French Institute for Anatolian Studies Short-Term Bursary, 2014: Funding for PhD research fieldwork in Istanbul, Turkey
Heriot-Watt University the School of Built Environment PhD Scholarship, 2013
Supervision
Accepting PhD Students on the following topics:
- Commodification of urban space and financilisation of housing
- Commoning and mutual aid (during Covid-19 pandemic)
- Inequality, exclusion and segregation in urban space, and everyday life in mediated living environments
- Reponses to climate emergency via build environment, espeially by retrofitting existing buildings
- Discursive formation of urban space, representations of urban space in mass media, imagining and representation of urban futures and housing
- Urban design and neighbourhood placemaking
- Subasi, Safiye Ozge
Exploring Housing Vacancies in the Midst of the Affordable Housing Crisis in Istanbul, Turkey
Teaching
Dissertation Co-convenor for Urban Studies and Social Policy PGT Programmes
Course Convenor for:
- Regenerating Cities (Postgraduate)
- Urban Design Policy and Practice (Postgraduate)
Contributing (UG/PGT) to the courses below:
- International Urban Challenges (Postgraduate)
- Sustainable Housing Development (Postgraduate)
- Research Methods (Postgraduate)
- Understanding Glasgow (Undergraduate)
Additional information
Selected Invited Talks
- The public service provision, the neoliberal model and beyond, University of Glasgow, 19 February 2025
- Commoning in urban space, University of Antwerp, 25 May 2024
- Retrofitting housing the case of Niddrie Road Demonstration Project, University of Alicante, 16 October 2023
- Keynote Speech at the 7th Conference on Urban Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (16-18 May 2022)
- Personal Impact with Bilge Serin: Engaging with General Public via Blogs and Walking Workshops, Uni. of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK (28 May 2020)
- Inclusive in Discourse, Exclusionary in Practice?, University of Sydney, Australia (21 November 2019)
- Commodifying Urban Space: The Clash of Promises and Everyday Life, Space+Place+Society Research Network Open Talk Series, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK (3 May 2017)
- The Promised Lands, Media and the Production of Urban Space: The Case of Branded Housing Projects, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (17 March 2016)
Selected Conference and Workshop Organisation
The Melting Pot, Edinburgh and Online, UK (14 November 2022): Organising a workshop with the title “From Charity to Solidarity: What can we learn from Covid-19 mutual aid groups for future crises?” about Covid-19 Mutual Aid Groups Practice in the UK (https://covid19mutualaid.co.uk)
Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG) Annual International Conference, Newcastle and Online, UK (Online) (30 August - 2 September 2022): Organising a session with the title “Commodities and Commons: Commodification and Decommodification of/in Urban Space” about the commodification of urban space
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, UK (31 August – 3 September 2021): Organising a session with the title “From Privatopias to Urban Commoning: Commodification and Decommodification of/in Urban Space” about the commodification of urban space
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, UK (27 - 30 August 2019): Organising a session with the title “Ever wanted something more? Ever thought there could be a better way to live free from shackles of old tired world?” about the discursive struggle over the production of urban space
Architecture Fringe - In Real Life, Scotland (in various cities) (07 – 23 June 2019): Organising a walking workshop, with the title “Tenements Talking”, about historic tenements
ISA World Congress of Sociology - Power, Violence and Justice, Toronto, Canada (15 - 21 July 2018): Organising two RC21 sessions with the title “The power struggle over urban space: spatial violence and (in)justice”
Personal blog:
www.bilgeserin.com
