Professor Ibrahim Sirkeci PhD (Sheffield), BA (Bilkent), FHEA (IoE, London) Professor of Transnational Studies and Marketing Director of the Regent’s Centre for Transnational Studies E-mail: [email protected] Current teaching interests: Transnational marketing, International marketing, transnationalism, demographic analysis, transnational mobility, ethnicity and conflict Current research and consultancy interests: Transnational marketing, transnational mobility, international marketing, transnational consumers, marketing of higher education, ethnic marketing, UK, Turkey, Germany, Iraq, Middle East, Emerging Markets. 1. Education and Qualifications 2008 Interuniversity Docent in Business and Management (Marketing) title awarded Docent by YÖK (Council of Higher Education, Turkey), Interuniversity Board (ÜAK) 2006-2007 University of London, Institute of Education, UK. PGCE Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher and Professional Education 1999-2003 University of Sheffield, Department of Geography, UK. PhD PhD in (Human) Geography 1992-1997 Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. BA BA in Political Science and Public Administration. 2. Employment 08/2005 – present Professor of Transnational Studies and Marketing - Regent’s College, Faculty of Business & Management, Department of Marketing, Strategy & Law, London, UK. 01/2005 – 07/2005 Leverhulme Research Fellow - University of Bristol, Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, Bristol, UK. 07/2003 – 11/2004 Assistant Professor in Management and Head of Department, Department of Tourism Management - Atilim University, Faculty of Management, Ankara, Turkey. Previously I have also worked at Hacettepe University, Bilkent University, History Foundation, OLEYIS Trade Union, and various small companies. 3. Research Funding and Grants I have secured over £200,000 worth of research funding from competitive grant programmes including the British Academy, the UK Higher Education Academy, the World Bank, European Development Fund, European Commission, and Euromonitor. Besides I worked as part of research teams gaining access to multi-million pounds large grants from the European Commission and the Leverhulme Trust. I was also awarded research training and mobility grants worth over £73,000 along with several higher education scholarships and bursaries worth £70,000. 1 4. Key Research and Consultancy Projects: 4.1. Jan – May. 2011, Consultancy Project on “Global Remittance Practices during the financial crisis and beyond", an edited book project commissioned by the World Bank. (Editor, collaboration with J. Cohen and D. Ratha) 4.2. Nov – Dec. 2010, Consultancy Project: “Analysis of Consumer Lifestyles in Turkey"; commissioned by Euromonitor International. (Principal Investigator) 4.3. Oct – Dec. 2010, Consultancy Project on “The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis and Beyond on Remittances in South Asia"; funded by the World Bank. (Principal Investigator, collaboration with J. Cohen) 4.4. 2010 – 2011, “Role of research reputation in marketing of undergraduate business degrees in the UK: A comparative analysis of Marketing and other business disciplines"; funded by the Higher Education Academy (BMAF). (Principal Investigator) 4.5. 2009 Aug-Nov. Consultancy provided to Turkish Statistics Institute, Ankara, Turkey; on Upgrading the Statistical System of Turkey (USST II) EuropeAid/124214/D/SER/TR, DELTUR/REG/(2007)/A/8715, Contract Number TR 0503.16-1/01, Sub-Project C: Upgrading the Social and Demography Statistics of Turkey and Establishing a System to Provide Periodical Data. (Expert Consultant) 4.6. 2005 – 2008, Leverhulme Programme Project: "Ethnic residential segregation and transition from school to work in the UK” at University of Bristol, Department of Sociology Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship (funded by Leverhulme Trust and led by Tariq Modood at University of Bristol) (part of a large consortium). (Research Fellow) 5. Academic Service and Research Supervision I have served as reviewer, external examiner, and evaluator for various funding bodies, learned societies, journals, and publishers including ESRC, Higher Education Academy, European Marketing Academy, Academy of Marketing, European Conference on Research Methods in Business and Management, Transnational Marketing Journal, Migration Letters, Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, Population Review, Consumer Behaviour Research, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Pearson Education. I have been supervising and examining postgraduate students in the College as well as visiting postdoctoral and doctoral researchers from overseas universities including Edinburgh Napier University, Selcuk University, Marmara University, Northwestern University, University of Amsterdam, IMT Lucca, Sakarya University, and Middle East Technical University. 6. Professional Memberships I am a member of several professional bodies including International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, British Society for Population Studies, Chartered Institute of Marketing, Academy of Marketing. 7. Publications Record Summary Published 10 books and research reports, edited 20 journal issues, over 50 book chapters, journal articles and reviews, and delivered over 50 papers in conferences, seminars, lectures and invited talks to universities and prestigious learned societies in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, USA, and the UK. Journal articles appeared in high impact journals included in SSCI such as Environment and Planning A, International Migration, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociological Research Online. 2 8. Key publications: books, journal articles and conference papers 8.1. SIRKECI, I., Cohen, J., and Ratha, D. (2012) Global Remittance Practices and Migration During the Financial Crisis and Beyond, The World Bank, Washington, DC. USA (in press). 8.2. Cohen, J., and SIRKECI, I. (2011) Cultures of Migration in a Time of Crisis, University of Texas Press, Austin, USA. (pp. 204, ISBN: 978-0-292-72685-7). 8.3. SIRKECI, I. (2006) The Environment of Insecurity in Turkey and the Emigration of Turkish Kurds to Germany, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. (pp. 332, ISBN: 0-7734-5739-9). 8.4. SIRKECI, I. and Magnusdottir, L. (2011) "Understanding illegal music downloading in the UK: A multi-attribute model", Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, Vol.5, No1, pp. 8.5. Khattab, N., Modood, T., and Johnston, R., SIRKECI, I. (2011) “Economic activity in the South Asian Population in Britain: the impact of ethnicity, religion and class,” Ethnic and Racial Studies (SSCI). 8.6. SIRKECI, I. (2011) “Marketing the British Business School: Role of research reputation in business school choice as perceived by the research leaders”, BMAF Magazine, Issue 12, The Higher Education Academy. 8.7. Johnston, R., SIRKECI, I., Khattab, N., and Modood, T. (2010) “Ethno-religious categories and measuring occupational attainment in relation to Education in England and Wales: a multi- level analysis”, Environment and Planning A, Vol. 42 No. 3, pp. 578 – 591 (SSCI). 8.8. Khattab, N., Johnston, R., SIRKECI, I., and Modood, T. (2010) “The impact of spatial segregation on the employment outcomes amongst Bangladeshis men and women in England and Wales,” Sociological Research Online, Vol. 15, No. 2 (SSCI). 8.9. SIRKECI, I. (2009) “Transnational mobility and conflict”, Migration Letters, Vol.6, No.1, pp.3-14. 8.10.SIRKECI, I. (2009) “Ethnic Marketing Potential in England and Wales: New evidence from the 2001 UK Census”, Asian Journal of Marketing, Vol.3, No.1, pp.1-9. 8.11.SIRKECI, I. and Mannix, R. (2009) “Segmentation challenges posed by ‘transnationals’ in mobile marketing”, in Key Pousttchi and Dietmar G. Wiedemann (eds.) The Handbook of Research on Mobile Marketing Management, Information Science Reference, IGI Global, Hershey, New York, USA, pp.94-114. (ISBN: 978-1-60566-074-5). 8.12.Cohen, J. and SIRKECI, I. (2005) “A comparative study of Turkish and Mexican Transnational Migration Outcomes: Facilitating or restricting immigrant integration?”, in Henke, H. (ed.) Crossing Over: Comparing Recent Migration in the United States and Europe, Lexington Books, New York, pp.147-162. 8.13.SIRKECI, I. (2005) "Diaspora: Turkish", in M. Gibney and R. Hansen (eds.) Immigration and Asylum From 1900 to the Present, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, pp.607-610. 8.14.SIRKECI, I., Mannix, R., and Bologna, L. (2010) “Who cares about research? Role of research reputation in business school marketing in England” paper presented at Academy of Marketing Annual Conference, Coventry University, 6-8 July 2010, Coventry, UK. 8.15.Magnúsdóttir, L. B. and SIRKECI, I. (2010) “What determines illegal music downloading in the UK?” paper presented at The 32nd INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, University of Cologne, 16-19 June 2010, Cologne, Germany. 8.16.SIRKECI, I., and Mannix, R. (2009) “Transnational Mobiles: A growing consumer segment”, paper presented at the Second International Conference on Social Sciences, Social Sciences Research Society, 10-11 Sept 2009, Izmir, Turkey. 3.