Oya Güneri

Oya Güneri is a Professor and Vice Rector at TED University, affiliated with the Department of Educational Sciences and Guidance and Psychological Counseling. Her research focuses on student well-being, mental health in educational settings, and counseling methodologies. She has extensively studied psychological factors influencing academic success, including mindfulness, emotion regulation, and cross-cultural adaptations of psychological scales. Her work addresses international student adaptation, career development needs, and institutional policies supporting student and faculty success. Key contributions include validating the multidimensional subjective financial well-being scale across multiple countries and analyzing the impact of video modeling in counseling education.

Her academic journey includes leadership roles in higher education administration and mentoring programs. She has developed peer mentoring initiatives for new faculty and evaluated teaching effectiveness through mid-semester evaluations. Her research often integrates qualitative and quantitative methods to address systemic challenges in education, such as bullying prevention, teacher job satisfaction, and the role of technology in learning. She has authored over 50 publications and actively contributes to Turkish educational policy through her work on university service design and student support systems.

Notable projects include assessing university adjustment services, adapting psychological tools like the Drexel Defusion Scale for Turkish contexts, and investigating factors affecting academic procrastination among education students. Her work emphasizes evidence-based solutions for improving pedagogical practices and student mental health outcomes.