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Cansu Erdogan Cengiz

Bielefeld University

Cansu Erdogan Cengiz

Cansu Erdoğan Cengiz successfully defended her PhD dissertation at Bielefeld University, Germany, in 2026. Her doctoral research examined the emergence of the Turkish long-term care system, focusing on how global and national social policy actors, together with key political events, shaped the introduction of long-term care as a new policy area.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Countries Türkiye;
Topics Access to care; LTC Policy; LTC Systems;
Methods Analysis of administrative data; Case studies; Document analysis; Knowledge-exchange; Policy analysis; Theory and frameworks;
Role Research;
Interest Groups Care home markets and regulation; Long-Term Care Policy;
Websitehttps://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/medizin/fakultaet/arbeitsgruppen/allgemeinmedizin/team/ec_183879970/index.xml
ORC.ID0009-0006-2192-8176
GOOGLE SCHOLARhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pVCfdDsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/cansu-erdogan-/
Research interests

long-term care policies, global social policy, agenda-setting
Key publications

  • Erdoğan C. and Akkan B. (2024) Long-Term Care System Profile: Türkiye. Global Observatory of Long-Term Care, Care Policy & Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://goltc.org/system-profile/turkiye/

  • Erdoğan, C. The Long-term Care System in Turkey. CRC 1342 Social Policy Country Briefs, 2022(26), Bremen University. https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/1604

  • Öktem, K.G., Erdogan C. Between Welfare State and (State-organised) Charity: How Turkey’s Social Assistance Regime blends two competing Policy Paradigms. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 2020; 40(3/4): 205-219. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-11-2018-0217