معرفی
Mehmet Fuat Kina is an Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Social Research at the Institute of Population and Social Research, Marmara University. He previously served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the same university and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Koç University's Center for Computational Social Sciences, where he also taught in the MA Program in Computational Social Sciences.
Educational Background:
- BA in Economics from Boğaziçi University (2015)
- MA from İstanbul Şehir University (2018), with a thesis analyzing anti-immigrant sentiment and labor market precarity in Europe
- PhD dissertation on radical rural movements and welfare policies in Brazil/India, employing quasi-experimental methods to address reverse causality
Research Focus:
His work bridges computational social sciences, causal inference, and comparative welfare systems. He examines how social assistance programs interact with political mobilization, particularly in developing economies. Key projects include contributions to European Commission-funded initiatives: Emerging Markets Welfare, Politus, and Social ComQuant.
Academic Contributions:
Published in SSCI journals such as New Perspectives on Turkey, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, and Asian Journal of Social Science, alongside book chapters. His methodological expertise spans statistical analysis and quasi-experimental frameworks.
