Hasret Saygı

Dr. Hasret Saygı serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Language Education at Istanbul 29 Mayıs University, specializing in sociolinguistics and multilingualism research with focus on migration and identity dynamics.

Her academic credentials include:

• Licence: Middle East Technical University (2010)
• Master's in Applied Linguistics: King's College London (2012)
• Doctorate: Boğaziçi University (2019)

During doctoral studies, she conducted research at Universitat de Lleida (Spain) and completed postdoctoral work at UCL Institute of Education.

Her research employs ethnographic and discourse analysis methodologies to investigate language-identity relationships among refugees, immigrants, and international students across multilingual environments including domestic, professional, and educational settings. Current work emphasizes intercultural communication patterns in urban and institutional contexts.

Key recognitions include:

• Boğaziçi University Thesis of the Year Award for doctoral dissertation
• UCL Honorary Research Fellow designation maintaining ongoing collaboration

She has presented findings at over twenty international conferences, publishes in sociolinguistics journals, and teaches undergraduate/graduate courses while directing field research projects examining language practices in migratory contexts.