She has some thoughts on the human condition. Learning the art of staying foolish.
September 21, 2026 at 10:45 PM
She has some thoughts on the human condition. Learning the art of staying foolish.
Our research on integrating peace education and sustainability has been published in Education, Citizenship and Social Justice! Send me a DM for the full article. Article link: doi.org/10.1177/1746...
The intersection of peace and sustainability: Narrative inquiry through critical pedagogies in language teaching - Dilara Özel, Ayşegül Yurtsever, 2026
This study explores the integration of peace education and sustainability principles into English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms, focusing on how the Su...
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August 21, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Our research on integrating peace education and sustainability has been published in Education, Citizenship and Social Justice! Send me a DM for the full article. Article link: doi.org/10.1177/1746...
Bu yıl, 2. Çocuk ve Travma Kongresi’nde “Çocuklar İçin Somatik Deneyimleme Uygulamaları: Sinir Sistemi Egzersizleri” başlıklı atölyemi gerçekleştireceğim. Görüşmek üzere! 🌿 www.egedencocuktravmakongresi.com
August 5, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Bu yıl, 2. Çocuk ve Travma Kongresi’nde “Çocuklar İçin Somatik Deneyimleme Uygulamaları: Sinir Sistemi Egzersizleri” başlıklı atölyemi gerçekleştireceğim. Görüşmek üzere! 🌿 www.egedencocuktravmakongresi.com
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend ECER this year, as my travel schedule did not leave enough time for the Schengen visa process. However, I will still be there through two presentations! First, Ayşegül will present the peace education programme we implemented in Şanlıurfa.
August 3, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend ECER this year, as my travel schedule did not leave enough time for the Schengen visa process. However, I will still be there through two presentations! First, Ayşegül will present the peace education programme we implemented in Şanlıurfa.
Excited to be at XIV ICCE in İzmir! Tomorrow, I’ll be presenting my paper: The Paradox of Teaching Peace in Authoritarian Contexts: Hearing Children Beyond Participation. Looking forward to engaging conversations on education in challenging contexts!
July 2, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Excited to be at XIV ICCE in İzmir! Tomorrow, I’ll be presenting my paper: The Paradox of Teaching Peace in Authoritarian Contexts: Hearing Children Beyond Participation. Looking forward to engaging conversations on education in challenging contexts!
My first face-to-face talk outside Türkiye, on Somatic Experiencing. So excited to share something that has helped me so much, both personally and professionally.
Sharing it in Liverpool feels very meaningful. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1985921703...
Sharing it in Liverpool feels very meaningful. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1985921703...
The Somatic Nature of Trauma: How trauma disrupts the nervous system
Learn how trauma affects the body somatically and how listening to our body is essential for healing. With Q&A.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 5, 2026 at 9:15 AM
My first face-to-face talk outside Türkiye, on Somatic Experiencing. So excited to share something that has helped me so much, both personally and professionally.
Sharing it in Liverpool feels very meaningful. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1985921703...
Sharing it in Liverpool feels very meaningful. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1985921703...
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🎉 it's open.
booking is now live for Spring School 2026 — Caring & Sharing: The Arts of Integrating.
📅 26–28 May · Glasgow
register here → events.humanitix.com/rielaspring2...
(or scan the QR in the image)
✉️ questions: [email protected]
booking is now live for Spring School 2026 — Caring & Sharing: The Arts of Integrating.
📅 26–28 May · Glasgow
register here → events.humanitix.com/rielaspring2...
(or scan the QR in the image)
✉️ questions: [email protected]
April 17, 2026 at 2:02 PM
🎉 it's open.
booking is now live for Spring School 2026 — Caring & Sharing: The Arts of Integrating.
📅 26–28 May · Glasgow
register here → events.humanitix.com/rielaspring2...
(or scan the QR in the image)
✉️ questions: [email protected]
booking is now live for Spring School 2026 — Caring & Sharing: The Arts of Integrating.
📅 26–28 May · Glasgow
register here → events.humanitix.com/rielaspring2...
(or scan the QR in the image)
✉️ questions: [email protected]
Our article on palliative care is pubslihed! I had the pleasure of contributing to the data analysis for this important and insightful study on palliative caregiving.
bit.ly/3MkaM5u
bit.ly/3MkaM5u
Witnessing the end, supporting the living: A qualitative study of palliative caregiving in end-of-life patients in Türkiye | Palliative & Supportive Care | Cambridge Core
Witnessing the end, supporting the living: A qualitative study of palliative caregiving in end-of-life patients in Türkiye - Volume 24
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February 11, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Our article on palliative care is pubslihed! I had the pleasure of contributing to the data analysis for this important and insightful study on palliative caregiving.
bit.ly/3MkaM5u
bit.ly/3MkaM5u
My new article on fluidity of peace is out 🎉🥳
I argue that peace is fluid, shaped by context, power, and time. Peace education should adapt to these shifting meanings rather than rely on universal or adapted models.
You can reach the whole article here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/pol...
I argue that peace is fluid, shaped by context, power, and time. Peace education should adapt to these shifting meanings rather than rely on universal or adapted models.
You can reach the whole article here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/pol...
Frontiers | Whose peace? Why context and local voices matter in reimagining peace education
This conceptual analysis examines the fluidity of peace as both an idea and a practice, and the shifting positionalities of those who teach and study it. Whi...
www.frontiersin.org
February 5, 2026 at 1:53 PM
My new article on fluidity of peace is out 🎉🥳
I argue that peace is fluid, shaped by context, power, and time. Peace education should adapt to these shifting meanings rather than rely on universal or adapted models.
You can reach the whole article here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/pol...
I argue that peace is fluid, shaped by context, power, and time. Peace education should adapt to these shifting meanings rather than rely on universal or adapted models.
You can reach the whole article here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/pol...
What if peace education isn’t about giving children a voice but about learning how to listen?
Join me on 5 February at University College Dublin for an open VARiE seminar on children, context, and peace beyond participation.
Join me on 5 February at University College Dublin for an open VARiE seminar on children, context, and peace beyond participation.
January 19, 2026 at 2:48 PM
What if peace education isn’t about giving children a voice but about learning how to listen?
Join me on 5 February at University College Dublin for an open VARiE seminar on children, context, and peace beyond participation.
Join me on 5 February at University College Dublin for an open VARiE seminar on children, context, and peace beyond participation.
Sometimes peace isn’t in the apology, or the closure, or the perfect ending. It’s in that small space we open for our own emotions, the place where we stop waiting for someone else to fix it and simply let ourselves feel. Whatever we are holding letting it free
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Sometimes peace isn’t in the apology, or the closure, or the perfect ending. It’s in that small space we open for our own emotions, the place where we stop waiting for someone else to fix it and simply let ourselves feel. Whatever we are holding letting it free
I became an academic grandmother (again)! When I was writing my thesis, my SE instructor said: “Finishing a thesis or publishing a book that’s a kind of birth too. My second grandchild is here, the experiential part of my thesis, now published in Peace & Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology (APA).
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November 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I became an academic grandmother (again)! When I was writing my thesis, my SE instructor said: “Finishing a thesis or publishing a book that’s a kind of birth too. My second grandchild is here, the experiential part of my thesis, now published in Peace & Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology (APA).
Honored to contribute to Professional Development Today. Thank you Prof. Handscomb for the invitation. here’s my article on Peace Education in Schools:
www.teachingtimes.com/peace-educat...
www.teachingtimes.com/peace-educat...
Peace Education In Schools: The Everyday Work Of Coexistence - TeachingTimes
What is peace education, and why is it fundamentally important to all schools? Dilara Özel shares a pedagogy for countering division and violence.
www.teachingtimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Honored to contribute to Professional Development Today. Thank you Prof. Handscomb for the invitation. here’s my article on Peace Education in Schools:
www.teachingtimes.com/peace-educat...
www.teachingtimes.com/peace-educat...
You can now watch the MINDS Academia Seminar Series on YouTube, a project I contributed to last year.
So glad to see ongoing efforts to build a more supportive academic environment 💙
m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
So glad to see ongoing efforts to build a more supportive academic environment 💙
m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
MINDS Seminar Series 2024 - 2025 - YouTube
This seminar series features longer presentations from some of the speakers from MINDS Conferences 2024.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
You can now watch the MINDS Academia Seminar Series on YouTube, a project I contributed to last year.
So glad to see ongoing efforts to build a more supportive academic environment 💙
m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
So glad to see ongoing efforts to build a more supportive academic environment 💙
m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
I’ll be conducting an online The Somatic Trauma Workshop! Join me to explore body-based approaches to trauma, healing, and presence. So excited about this.🎊
Let me know if you’d like to attend. 🧿
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-somati...
Let me know if you’d like to attend. 🧿
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-somati...
The Somatic Trauma Workshop
Learn how trauma affects the body somatically and how paying attention to body sensations is essential for healing. With Q&A.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I’ll be conducting an online The Somatic Trauma Workshop! Join me to explore body-based approaches to trauma, healing, and presence. So excited about this.🎊
Let me know if you’d like to attend. 🧿
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-somati...
Let me know if you’d like to attend. 🧿
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-somati...
Great start to the weekend. My proposal “The Body Remembers, the State Forgets: Trauma-Informed Peace Pedagogy in Authoritarian Context” has been accepted for presentation at #CIES2026 in San Francisco 🎉 🎊
October 18, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Great start to the weekend. My proposal “The Body Remembers, the State Forgets: Trauma-Informed Peace Pedagogy in Authoritarian Context” has been accepted for presentation at #CIES2026 in San Francisco 🎉 🎊
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Tickets going fast for our Online Spring School with only 3 more weeks to go!
This year's theme is - "May Peace Prevail" 🕊️
Tickets and full program on our linktree!
This year's theme is - "May Peace Prevail" 🕊️
Tickets and full program on our linktree!
October 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Tickets going fast for our Online Spring School with only 3 more weeks to go!
This year's theme is - "May Peace Prevail" 🕊️
Tickets and full program on our linktree!
This year's theme is - "May Peace Prevail" 🕊️
Tickets and full program on our linktree!
Our new paper in Higher Education Research & Development! 🎉 “Between the pages: a qualitative inquiry into researcher wellbeing”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We explore the lived experiences of researcher wellbeing. @herdjournal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We explore the lived experiences of researcher wellbeing. @herdjournal.bsky.social
Between the pages: a qualitative inquiry into researcher wellbeing
Despite the growing emphasis on research productivity and project development within academic institutions worldwide, the concept of academic wellbeing remains relatively underexplored. This study ...
www.tandfonline.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Our new paper in Higher Education Research & Development! 🎉 “Between the pages: a qualitative inquiry into researcher wellbeing”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We explore the lived experiences of researcher wellbeing. @herdjournal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We explore the lived experiences of researcher wellbeing. @herdjournal.bsky.social
Reposted by Dilara Özel
So looking forward to having a cup of Eritrean coffee on 13 June!
Mark your diaries and join us in the Byres Community Hub in the Clarice Pearce Building for a afternoon of coffee, stories and excellent company.
All welcome, drop-in, no need to register and entirely FREE!
See you there!
Mark your diaries and join us in the Byres Community Hub in the Clarice Pearce Building for a afternoon of coffee, stories and excellent company.
All welcome, drop-in, no need to register and entirely FREE!
See you there!
May 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
So looking forward to having a cup of Eritrean coffee on 13 June!
Mark your diaries and join us in the Byres Community Hub in the Clarice Pearce Building for a afternoon of coffee, stories and excellent company.
All welcome, drop-in, no need to register and entirely FREE!
See you there!
Mark your diaries and join us in the Byres Community Hub in the Clarice Pearce Building for a afternoon of coffee, stories and excellent company.
All welcome, drop-in, no need to register and entirely FREE!
See you there!
Reposted by Dilara Özel
📣 Families with 8-11yo children: we have a fun workshop for you to join on Saturday 14 June. We will be looking at family connections, heritage, identity and how we relate to each other. Let by Tawona Sitholé and Dilara Özel, this promises to be a fun-filled educational activity for your Saturday!
June 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
📣 Families with 8-11yo children: we have a fun workshop for you to join on Saturday 14 June. We will be looking at family connections, heritage, identity and how we relate to each other. Let by Tawona Sitholé and Dilara Özel, this promises to be a fun-filled educational activity for your Saturday!
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Team Meeting @uofgunescorila.bsky.social in UofGARC
“Last night …. Because I didn’t want to work…”
Love the benefits of a balanced work pattern for us all 😁😍🫶🏼😇
The workers in Unions in the past put a lot in to ensuring working hours and weekends and we are celebrating
“Last night …. Because I didn’t want to work…”
Love the benefits of a balanced work pattern for us all 😁😍🫶🏼😇
The workers in Unions in the past put a lot in to ensuring working hours and weekends and we are celebrating
February 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Team Meeting @uofgunescorila.bsky.social in UofGARC
“Last night …. Because I didn’t want to work…”
Love the benefits of a balanced work pattern for us all 😁😍🫶🏼😇
The workers in Unions in the past put a lot in to ensuring working hours and weekends and we are celebrating
“Last night …. Because I didn’t want to work…”
Love the benefits of a balanced work pattern for us all 😁😍🫶🏼😇
The workers in Unions in the past put a lot in to ensuring working hours and weekends and we are celebrating
Reposted by Dilara Özel
Our weekly team meeting just took a creative turn! Poetic vibes, artistic sparks, and crafty magic all around.
@alisonphipps.bsky.social
@uofgeducation.bsky.social
@alisonphipps.bsky.social
@uofgeducation.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Our weekly team meeting just took a creative turn! Poetic vibes, artistic sparks, and crafty magic all around.
@alisonphipps.bsky.social
@uofgeducation.bsky.social
@alisonphipps.bsky.social
@uofgeducation.bsky.social