Metrics
Publication
36
Open Access
7
UN Sustainable Development Goals
Education
2003 - 2007
2003 - 2007Doctorate
University of Ulster, Graduate School Of Policy Studies And Law, United Kingdom
2001 - 2002
2001 - 2002Postgraduate
University of London - The London School of Economics and Political Science, European Institute, United Kingdom
1999 - 2001
1999 - 2001Postgraduate
Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology, Turkey
1994 - 1999
1994 - 1999Undergraduate
Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology, Turkey
Dissertations
2007
2007Doctorate
Patterns of Europeanization across Welfare Regimes: Gender Equality in Employment from the Treaty of Rome to the Open Method of Coordination 
University Of Ulster, Graduate School Of Policy Studies And Law
2002
2002Postgraduate
EU Citizenship and its Implications for the Third Country Nationals Living within the European Union
University Of London - The London School Of Economics And Political Science, European Institute
2001
2001Postgraduate
The Shopping mall as a metropolitan consuption space: The case Migros Alışveriş Merkezi in Ankara
Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology
Foreign Languages
C1 Advanced
C1 AdvancedEnglish
Research Areas
Social Sciences and Humanities
Sociology
Social Strafication and Mobility
Political Science
International Relations
European Studies
Academic Positions
2018 - Continues
2018 - ContinuesAssociate Professor
Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology
2011 - 2018
2011 - 2018Assistant Professor
Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology
2009 - 2010
2009 - 2010Lecturer PhD
European University Institute, Max Weber Programme
2006 - 2009
2006 - 2009Lecturer PhD
Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Avrupa Çalışmaları Merkezi
Managerial Experience
2017 - Continues
2017 - ContinuesHead of Department
Middle East Technical University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Social Policy
2019 - 2022
2019 - 2022Assistant Director of the Institute
Middle East Technical University, Graduate School Of Social Sciences
2012 - 2015
2012 - 2015Deputy Head of Department
Supervised Theses
2024
2024Postgraduate
Impacts of construction boom in Ankara within the watermetabolism framework
Aybars A. I. (Advisor)
G.CAN(Student)
2024
2024Postgraduate
Analysis of disaster response social policies from gender perspective: The case of 6 February earthquakes
Aybars A. I. (Advisor)
Z.ÖZDEMİR(Student)
2023
2023Postgraduate
COVID-19 and welfare state transformation: Insights from Turkey's poverty policy
Aybars A. I. (Advisor)
E.ÜNAL(Student)
2023
2023Postgraduate
Global governance of policies regarding NEETs and the case of Turkey
Aybars A. I. (Advisor)
S.ERTÜRK(Student)
2022
2022Postgraduate
Experiences of professional women who left work after becoming mothers, the case of Turkey
AYBARS A. İ. (Advisor)
E.GÜVEN(Student)
2022
2022Postgraduate
GENDER EQUALITY APPROACHES OF LARGE SCALED COMPANIES IN TURKEY: GENDER POLICIES AND PRACTICES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF WOMEN DIRECTORS
AYBARS A. İ. (Advisor)
R.ÖZDEMİR(Student)
2022
2022Postgraduate
Women's experiences of ageing: Social participation of grandmothers providing daycare
AYBARS A. İ. (Advisor)
B.DEMİRKOL(Student)
2022
2022Postgraduate
An evaluation of the role of active labour market policies on Syrian refugees' access to labour market: The case of ILO in Turkey
AYBARS A. İ. (Advisor)
G.KARSLI(Student)
2022
2022Postgraduate
The effects of reproductive right policies on women's experience of egg and embryo freezing process in Turkey
AYBARS A. İ. (Advisor), BEŞPINAR AKGÜNER F. U. (Advisor)
C.DENİZ(Student)
2021
2021Postgraduate
Impact of short time work schemes on labour life: Turkey's case during covid-19 pandemic and lessons to be drawn from German experience
AYBARS A. İ. (Advisor)
S.ATEŞ(Student)
2020
2020Postgraduate
An analysis of policies towards young children through a child rights perspective : the case of Turkey
AYBARS A. İ. (Advisor)
S.Kosif(Student)
2019
2019Postgraduate
A comparative content analysis of gender portrayals in children's picture story books: In the case of native and translated books written for children aged 3-6
AYBARS A. İ. (Advisor)
A.PEKER(Student)
2019
2019Postgraduate
A Comparative content analysis of gender portrayals in children’s picture story books: in the case of native and translated books written for children aged 3-6
AYBARS A. İ. (Advisor)
A.Peker(Student)
2017
2017Postgraduate
Coming out to parents: Transformation of the families with LGBTQ children
BEŞPINAR AKGÜNER F. U. (Co-Advisor), AYBARS A. İ. (Co-Advisor)
E.ECEM(Student)
2016
2016Postgraduate
Impact of government entrepreneurship supports on women’s empowerment: the case of women in Ankara
AYBARS A. İ. (Advisor)
D.Demirez(Student)
2016
2016Postgraduate
Impact of government entrepreneurship supports on women's empowerment: The case of women in Ankara
AYBARS A. İ. (Advisor)
D.DEMİREZ(Student)
2014
2014Postgraduate
Uses of social network sites among digital natives: The case of Facebook use among METU students
AYBARS A. İ. (Advisor)
F.AKBUĞA(Student)
Designed Lessons
Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Inequality and Social Policy
Aybars A. İ.
Sociology of the European Union
Aybars A. İ.
Articles
All (7)
SCI-E, SSCI, AHCI (4)
SCI-E, SSCI, AHCI, ESCI (6)
ESCI (2)
Scopus (4)
TRDizin (2)
Other Publications (1)
2025
20251. A Content Analysis of Gender Portrayals in Turkish Children’s Picturebooks
Peker A., Aybars A. I.
Early Childhood Education Journal
, vol.53, no.2, pp.517-528, 2025 (SSCI, Scopus)
2025
20252. ENGELLİ İSTİHDAMINDA KOTA UYGULAMASI: AVRUPA BİRLİĞİ ÜLKELERİNE GÜNCEL BİR BAKIŞ
Korkmaz B. C., AYBARS A. İ.
ANKARA AVRUPA CALISMALARI DERGISI-ANKARA REVIEW OF EUROPEAN STUDIES , vol.24, no.2, 2025 (ESCI, TRDizin)
2024
20243. THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL POLICY IN EUROPE
Aybars A. I.
ANKARA AVRUPA CALISMALARI DERGISI-ANKARA REVIEW OF EUROPEAN STUDIES
, vol.23, no.1, pp.43-69, 2024 (ESCI, TRDizin)
2019
20194. Europeanization without substance? EU-Turkey relations and gender equality in employment
Aybars A. İ., Copeland P., Tsarouhas D.
COMPARATIVE EUROPEAN POLITICS
, vol.17, no.5, pp.778-796, 2019 (SSCI, Scopus)
2019
20195. The State and Women’s Organizations in Turkey: An Irreversible Distance or Total Embeddedness?
Aybars A. İ., Ayata A.
International Journal of Contemporary Sociology
, vol.56, pp.55-85, 2019 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
2018
20186. Familialization of care arrangements in Turkey: questioning the social inclusion of ‘the invisible’
Aybars A. İ., Beşpınar Akgüner F. U., Kalaycıoğlu H. S.
Research and Policy on Turkey
, vol.3, no.2, pp.115-137, 2018 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
2010
20107. Straddling Two Continents: Social Policy and Welfare Politics in Turkey
Aybars A. İ., Tsarouhas D.
SOCIAL POLICY & ADMINISTRATION
, vol.44, no.6, pp.746-763, 2010 (SSCI, Scopus)
Papers Presented at Peer-Reviewed Scientific Conferences
2017
20171. Feeling more insecure than before: Women in academia in Turkey
BEŞPINAR AKGÜNER F. U., AYBARS A. İ.
European Sociological Association (ESA), 13th Conference, Atina, Greece, 31 August 2017, (Summary Text)
2016
20162. Cultural and Institutional Resistance against Gender Equality The case of Middle East Technical University in Turkey
AYBARS A. İ., ACAR F., BEŞPINAR AKGÜNER F. U.
Gender Time International Conference 2016, Paris, France, 29 - 30 September 2016, (Summary Text)
2015
20153. Struggling Against the Myth of Equality in Research and Academia The case of women in academia in Turkey
BEŞPINAR AKGÜNER F. U., AYBARS A. İ.
12th Conference of the European Sociological Association 2015: Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination, Prag, Czech Republic, 25 - 28 August 2015, (Summary Text)
2009
20094. Women with Disability in Turkey and France
AYBARS A. İ.
2nd European Conference on Multidimensional Equality Law (SECMEL), Leeds, United Kingdom, 29 March 2009, pp.79-95, (Full Text)
Books
2025
20251. Women's Civil Society Organizations in Turkey: Reflections of Europeanisation and De-Europeanisation along the EU Journey
KAZANOĞLU N., AYBARS A. İ.
Routledge, Oxford, 2025
2025
20252. Türkiye-AB İlişkilerinde Kadın Hakları ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet Eşitliği
AYBARS A. İ.
in: Ankara Anlaşması'nın 60. Yılında Türkiye - Avrupa Birliği İlişkileri: Sorunlar ve Çözüm Önerileri, AKÇAY SARİYE BELGİN, Editor, Seçkin, Ankara, pp.645-670, 2025
2024
20243. Women in Rural Turkey: Navigating Barriers in Access to Resources, Services and Decision-Making
BEŞPINAR AKGÜNER F. U., AYATA A., AYBARS A. İ.
UN Women, Ankara, 2024
2024
20244. Women in Rural Turkiye: Navigating Barriers in Access to Resources, Services, and Decision-Making
AYATA A., BEŞPINAR AKGÜNER F. U., AYBARS A. İ.
UN Women, Ankara, 2024
2024
20245. UKRAYNA KRİZİ İHTİYAÇ TESPİT RAPORU: Türkiye’deki Ukraynalılar Hakkında Durum Analizi
AYBARS A. İ.
UNICEF, Ankara, 2024
2023
20236. Uluslararası İlişkiler Çalışmalarında Sosyal Politika
Aybars A. I.
in: Türkiye’de Uluslararası İlişkiler Çalışmaları: Alt Alanlar ve Bölgesel Odaklar, Ergun,Ayça; Üstün,Çiğdem; Akgül-Açıkmeşe,Sinem, Editor, İmge Kitabevi Yayınları, Ankara, pp.493-525, 2023
2023
20237. Social Policy and the Welfare State: From ‘Modernisation’ to ‘De-Europeanisation’
AYBARS A. İ.
in: A Companion to Modern Turkey's Centennial: Political, Sociological, Economic and Institutional Transformations since 1923, Özerdem, Alpaslan; Öztürk, Ahmet Erdi, Editor, Edinburgh University Press , Edinburgh, pp.529-539, 2023
2023
20238. Sosyal Politika
Aybars A. I.
in: Avrupa Birliği: Tarihçe, Teoriler, Kurumlar ve Politikalar (Gözden Geçirilmiş 4. Baskı), Akçay,Belgin; Göçmen,İlke, Editor, Seçkin Yayıncılık, Ankara, pp.429-451, 2023
2021
20219. The Future of the EU from Turkey’s Perspective: Social Aspects
AYBARS A. İ.
in: Views on the Future of Europe from the EU’s Neighbouring Countries, ANGHELESCU, Ana-Maria Andreea, MARCU, Ionuț-Mircea, Editor, European Institute of Romania, Bükreş, pp.53-54, 2021
2020
202010. Yurttaş Gazeteciliği
AYBARS A. İ.
in: Sivil Toplum Kuruluşları İçin Hak Temelli Gazetecilik Kılavuzu, Durna, Tezcan, Editor, um:ag Vakfı Yayınları: 147, Ankara, pp.61-74, 2020
2020
202011. Avrupa'da Yeni Sosyal Politika Yaklaşımları
AYBARS A. İ.
in: Türkiye'de Yoksulluk ve Eşitsizlik: Nedenler, Süreçler, Çözümler, Ayata, Sencer, Editor, SODAR / Sosyal Denge ve Demokrasi Araştırma Merkezi, Ankara, pp.257-264, 2020
2016
201612. Sosyal Politika
AYBARS A. İ.
in: Avrupa Birliği Tarihçe Teoriler Kurumlar ve Politikalar Genişletilmiş ve Güncellenmiş 3 Baskı, Akçay, Belgin ve Göçmen, İlke, Editor, Seçkin Yayıncılık, Ankara, pp.549-572, 2016
2014
201413. Anne Baba ile Çocuklar Arasındaki İlişkiler
AYBARS A. İ.
in: Türkiye Aile Yapısı Araştırması Tespitler Öneriler, T.C. Aile ve Sosyal Politikalar Bakanlığı, Aile ve Toplum Hizmetleri Genel Müdürlüğü, Editor, Aile ve Sosyal Politikalar Bakanlığı, İstanbul, pp.208-231, 2014
2014
201414. Ailede Sosyal Faaliyetler
AYBARS A. İ.
in: Türkiye Aile Yapısı Araştırması Tespitler Öneriler, T.C. Aile ve Sosyal Politikalar Bakanlığı, Aile ve Toplum Hizmetleri Genel Müdürlüğü, Editor, Aile ve Sosyal Politikalar Bakanlığı, İstanbul, pp.280-319, 2014
2013
201315. Erken Yaşlarda Çocuk Refahı ve Kadın İstihdamıPolitika Belgesi
BEŞPINAR AKGÜNER F. U., AYBARS A. İ.
UNICEF, Ankara, 2013
2013
201316. Child Well-being in Early Years and Women’s Employment
BEŞPINAR AKGÜNER F. U., AYBARS A. İ.
UNICEF, Ankara, 2013
2013
201317. Sosyal Politika
AYBARS A. İ.
in: Yarım Asrın Ardından Türkiye Avrupa Birliği İlişkileri, Belgin Akçay, Sinem Akgül Açıkmeşe, Editor, Turhan Kitabevi, Ankara, pp.428-446, 2013
2012
201218. Sosyal Politika
AYBARS A. İ.
in: Avrupa Birliği Tarihçe Kurumlar ve Politikalar, Belgin Akçay, İlke Göçmen, Editor, Seçkin Yayıncılık, Ankara, pp.464-485, 2012
2011
201119. Women with disabilities in Turkey and France
AYBARS A. İ.
in: EU Non Discrimination Law and intersectionality Investigating the triangle between racial gender and disability discrimination, Dagmar Schiek, Anna Lawson, Editor, Ashgate, Aldershot, pp.79-95, 2011
2010
201020. Gender Equality in the EU and Turkey
AYBARS A. İ.
in: EU Enlargement and Turkey Social Policy Gender and Citizenship, Ayşe İdil Aybars, Editor, Zeplin İletişim Hizmetleri, Ankara, pp.31-71, 2010
2010
201021. Introduction
AYBARS A. İ.
in: EU Enlargement and Turkey Social Policy Gender and Citizenship, Ayşe İdil Aybars, Editor, Zeplin İletişim Hizmetleri, Ankara, pp.1-4, 2010
2008
200822. The European Employment Strategy and the Europeanisation of Gender Equality in Employment
AYBARS A. İ.
in: Gender and the Open Method of Coordination Perspectives on Law Governance and Equality in the EU, Fiona Beveridge, Samantha Velluti, Editor, Ashgate, Hampshire, pp.55-76, 2008
2007
200723. Bridging the Real Divide: The Importance of Social and Regional Policy in Turkey’s EU Accession Process
TSAROUHAS D., ERTUGAL ÖZVEREN E., AYBARS A. İ.
in: Bridging the Real Divide Social and Regional Policy in Turkey s EU Accession Process, Dimitris Tsarouhas, Ebru Ertugal, Ayşe İdil Aybars, Editor, ODTÜ Yayıncılık / METU Press, Ankara, pp.279-286, 2007
2007
200724. Introduction: The EU-Turkey Debate Revisited
TSAROUHAS D., ERTUGAL ÖZVEREN E., AYBARS A. İ.
in: Bridging the Real Divide Social and Regional Policy in Turkey s EU Accession Process, Dimitris Tsarouhas, Ebru Ertugal, Ayşe İdil Aybars, Editor, ODTÜ Yayıncılık / METU Press, Ankara, pp.1-16, 2007
2007
200725. The Development of the EU Gender Equality Framework: A Bridge between the Economic and the Social
AYBARS A. İ.
in: Bridging the Real Divide Social and Regional Policy in Turkey s EU Accession Process, Dimitris Tsarouhas, Ebru Ertugal, Ayşe İdil Aybars, Editor, ODTÜ Yayıncılık / METU Press, Ankara, pp.72-102, 2007
Funded Projects
2024 - 2024
2024 - 2024MESA EŞİTLİĞE SAYGILI ÇALIŞMA ORTAMI REHBERİ
Project Supported by Other Private Institutions
(Project Final Report)
Beşpınar Akgüner F. U. (Executive), Aybars A. İ. (Executive), Saktanber A. N.
2014 - 2018
2014 - 2018
Effective Gender Equality Research and The Academia EGERA
AB IPA Project
(Project Final Report)
Beşpınar Akgüner F. U., Aybars A. İ., Ayata A. (Executive)