Ceylan Engin

Dr. Ceylan Engin is an Assistant Professor at Bogazici University, holding a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. She specializes in demography, gender studies, and public health, with research focusing on fertility, family dynamics, and vaccination attitudes. Her work often employs survey methodologies to analyze social change.

Research Projects:

• Principal Investigator for the Turkey Covid-19 Values Study (TCVS), examining pandemic-induced shifts in values related to fertility, gender, institutional trust, and vaccination.
• Head of the Sociometry Division, focusing on quantitative social research methods.

Teaching: Courses include Introduction to Sociology, Research Methods, Population Studies, and Sociology of Gender.

Research Themes: Her work bridges demographic trends with sociocultural factors, addressing topics like transgender rights, patriarchal attitudes, and family structure evolution in Turkey. She emphasizes policy-relevant findings through large-scale survey designs optimized for Turkish sociocultural contexts.

Grants & Future Work: Ongoing efforts include building a cross-sectional demographic database for Turkey. Future research aims to expand pandemic-related value change studies into post-pandemic societal recovery analyses.