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Sernaz Arslan is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at Istanbul Bilgi University, where she is also a research assistant at the Department of International Relations. Her research focuses on how rural to urban migrants belonging to different generations experience and practice urban citizenship in Istanbul. She is engaged in generational analysis with qualitative research methods, particularly the narrative approach. Her areas of interest include urban politics and history, urban narratives, spatial participation, gender studies and social policy. She has joined the COST Actioan CA1812126 Writing Urban Places in order to investigate conceptual frameworks for studying urban space and urban narratives from a multidisciplinary point of view.
COST provides networking opportunities for researchers and innovators in order to strengthen Europe’s capacity to address scientific, technological and societal challenges. There are three strategic priorities: promoting and spreading excellence, fostering interdisciplinary research for breakthrough science and empowering and retaining young researchers and innovators.
Writing Urban Places proposes an innovative investigation and implementation of a process for developing human understanding of communities, their society, and their situatedness, by narrative methods. It particularly focuses on the potential of narrative methods for urban development in European medium-sized cities.
