Dr Selçuk Bedük
About
Dr Selçuk Bedük is an interdisciplinary researcher with a background in economics and a DPhil in Social Policy from Oxford University.
His research focuses on poverty, inequality and social policy, addressing central questions: how best to measure and respond to poverty; how inequality accumulates across the life course and is transmitted between generations; and which welfare systems most effectively reduce poverty and provide security for all.
Some of his current research examines the intergenerational persistence of homeownership in Europe (funded by an international Volkswagen Stiftung grant), long-term childhood poverty in Britain (supported by a John Fell Fund grant), the financial consequences of job loss and the conditions of the poorest households during the UK austerity period. He is currently Co-PI of two funded projects.
Dr Bedük was the inaugural Barnett Scholar and completed his DPhil at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, in 2018 with a thesis on poverty measurement in the EU. He re-joined the department in October 2021, having previously worked as a Senior Research Officer at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex.
For a full list of publications, recent research and teaching activities, please visit Dr Selçuk Bedük's website here.
Expertise
- Poverty and social policy; poverty measurement; causes and consequences of poverty
- Economic inequality (income and wealth)
- Housing and homeownership
- Social mobility; intergenerational transmission of advantage and disadvantage
- Job loss and its economic consequences
- Comparative social policy and welfare state
- Economic insecurity and earnings/income volatility
- Incomes of the poorest households
Selected publications
