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Professor Ipek Demir holds the position of Professor of Diaspora Studies at the University of Leeds, within the School of Sociology and Social Policy. She is Director of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) and previously chaired the University of Leeds' Decolonising Research Task and Finish Group. Her interdisciplinary work spans diaspora studies, ethno-politics, race, and decolonial epistemology. Demir has held prestigious fellowships, including a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2025) and an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (Cambridge).
Education: BA (Ankara University), MA (University of Sussex in International Relations), PhD (University of Sussex in Social and Political Thought). She trained at the University of Cambridge's History and Philosophy of Science Department and previously taught at the University of Leicester. Her research focuses on diasporas as agents of decolonization, translation across knowledge communities, and biobank data-sharing challenges.
Research interests include diaspora theory, transnationalism, indigeneity, and the Global South. Her recent work critiques epistemological barriers in global health research and co-created the Decolonising Midwifery Education Toolkit. She is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and serves as an external examiner at the Universities of York and Manchester.
Her 15 most recent articles (2014-2025) explore diaspora theorizing, decolonial translation, and risk knowledge-sharing. Awards include the 2018 Leicester Student Union Superstar Award for teaching and the 2021 Leeds Faculty Partnership Award for PhD supervision. She supervises ongoing doctoral research on topics like interdisciplinary methods and impact studies.
