CV Summary

Mehmet Ali Üzelgün is a Research Fellow in the Communication and Culture research group at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte) at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. He is also an Invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, and at Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, and an associate researcher at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His research explores diverse discursive and rhetorical features of climate change communication, with a specific focus on environmental activism and social-ecological change. He simultaneously works on the ethics of public discourse and argument, with a specific interest in the communicative predicaments unfolding on social media platforms. He is a team member of the projects "JustFutures - Climate Futures and Just Transformations: Young People's Narratives and Political Imaginaries", and "EUMEPLAT - European Media Platforms". Coordinates the Portuguese participation in the international project "LiFi - Living with Wildfire: imagining, narrating and acting upon a changing climate".

Academic Qualifications
University/Institution Type Degree Period
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Portugal - Lisboa
PhD Social and Organizational Psychology 2014
Middle East Technical University (METU)
Turkey - Ankara
M.Sc. Science and Technology (Policy) Studies 2007
Middle East Technical University (METU)
Turkey - Ankara
Licenciate Psychology 1997
Media and Communications Social Sciences
Other Social Sciences Social Sciences
Philosophy, Ethics and Religion Humanities