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Education
2022 - Continues
2022 - ContinuesDoctorate
Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education, Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, Turkey
2018 - 2022
2018 - 2022Postgraduate
Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education, Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, Turkey
2011 - 2018
2011 - 2018Undergraduate
Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education, Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, Turkey
Dissertations
2022
2022Postgraduate
Emotion Regulation and Emotion Socialization of Early Childhood Educators
Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education, Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education
Foreign Languages
B2 Upper Intermediate
B2 Upper IntermediateFrench
C1 Advanced
C1 AdvancedEnglish
Certificates, Courses and Trainings
2022
2022Statistical Programming with R
Measurement and Evaluation
Gazi Üniversitesi
2022
2022Measurement of Affective and Psychomotor Characteristics
Measurement and Evaluation
Hacettepe Üniversitesi
2019
2019Reading Culture and Children's Literature
Vocational Training
Ankara Üniversitesi
2019
2019French Language
Foreign Language
Fransız Kültür Merkezi (Institut Français de Turquie)
2016
2016French Language
Foreign Language
Université de Bretagne Occidentale
Research Areas
Social Sciences and Humanities
Developmental Psychology
Education
Preschool Education
Academic Positions
2019 - Continues
2019 - ContinuesResearch Assistant
Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education, Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education
Journal articles indexed in SCI, SSCI, and AHCI
Articles Published in Other Journals
2025
2025Socialising Children’s Negative Emotions in Early Education: Adapting and Validating a Scale for Teachers
ÜZÜM S., Filik R., DEMİRCAN H. Ö.
International Journal of Emotional Education
, vol.17, no.1, pp.95-110, 2025 (ESCI)
Papers Presented at Peer-Reviewed Scientific Conferences
2025
2025Understanding Teacher Resistance to Organizational Change from the Perspective of EFL Instructors
Çetin A., Üzüm S.
European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2025, Belgrade, Serbia, 9 - 12 September 2025
2025
2025Measuring Parental Roles in Children's Emotional Resilience
Uyanık-Koç B., Üzüm S.
European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2025, Belgrade, Serbia, 9 - 12 September 2025, (Summary Text)
2025
2025Exploring Preschoolers’ Environmental Attitudes Toward Deforestation through A Wordless Picture Book
Başer Kanbak C., Tanrısevdi M., Üzüm S.
16th Conference of the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA), Kobenhavn, Denmark, 25 - 29 August 2025, (Summary Text)
2025
2025Socialization of Young Children’s Emotions - Practices from The Field
Üzüm S., Çapa Aydin Y.
The European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) 2025, Graz, Austria, 25 - 29 August 2025, pp.1
2024
2024Resimli Çocuk Kitapları Üzerine Yapılan Araştırmaların Sistematik İncelemesi: Türkiye Örneklemi
Üzüm S., Olgan R.
EDUCongress 2024, Diyarbakır, Turkey, 18 - 21 September 2024, pp.2462-2465
2024
2024Emotion Across Cultures – Comparative Analysis of Emotion-Related Contents in Children's Storybooks
Üzüm S., Demircan H. Ö.
18th International Conference on Motivation & Emotion (EARLI Special Interest Group - SIG 8), ICM 2024, Bern, Switzerland, 28 - 30 August 2024, pp.85
2024
2024A Review of Post-Graduate Theses and Doctoral Dissertations Concerning Empathy in Early Childhood Education
Üzüm S., Erden F.
XI International Eurasian Educational Research Congress, Kocaeli, Turkey, 21 - 24 May 2024, pp.107-108
2024
2024Silent Story, Loud Empathy: Investigating Children's Empathy on Deforestation
Üzüm S., Başer Kanbak C., Tanrisevdi M.
Joint Conference of the EARLI Special Interest Groups: Learning and Development in Early Childhood (SIG 5) and Play, Learning and Development (SIG 28) , Warszawa, Poland, 10 - 12 July 2024, pp.99
2024
2024Exploring Nature Worldviews in Environment-themed Children's Books Across Cultures
Üzüm S., Başer Kanbak C.
28th JURE (Junior Researchers of EARLI), Sevilla, Spain, 24 - 28 June 2024
2023
2023Çocukların Olumsuz Duygularıyla Başa Çıkma Ölçeği - Öğretmen Ölçeği’nin (CCNES-T) Türkiye Bağlamında Kültürlerarası Uyarlaması ve Ön Geçerlik Çalışması
Üzüm S., Demircan H. Ö.
8. Uluslararası Okul Öncesi Eğitim Kongresi, Karaman, Turkey, 26 - 28 October 2023, pp.271-272
2023
2023Early Childhood Educators’ Emotion Regulation and Socialization of Young Children’s Negative Emotions
Üzüm S., Demircan H. Ö.
European Conference on Educational Research, ECER2023, Glasgow, England, 22 - 25 August 2023, (Summary Text)
2023
2023Does Child-Centered Teaching Require as Much Specialty as It Thought?: Pre-Service EC Teacher’s Views on Co-Constructing, Deconstructing, and Community Building
Üzüm S., Yapar N. B., Demircan H. Ö.
Emerging Researchers' Conference, ERC2023, Glasgow, England, 21 - 22 August 2023
2022
2022Visual Arts in Early Childhood Classrooms: The Views of Pre-service Teachers
Üzüm S., Sevimli Çelik S.
74th OMEP World Assembly and Conference, Athens, Greece, 11 - 15 July 2022, pp.45
2021
2021A Systematic Review of Executive Function and Emotion Regulation Studies in Early Childhood
Üzüm S., Demircan H. Ö.
30th European Early Childhood Education Research Conference (EECERA), Zagreb, Croatia, 1 - 17 September 2021, pp.271-272
Funded Projects
2025 - 2025
2025 - 2025
Developing Sustainability Literacy Through Ecopedagogy in Architectural Education
TUBITAK Project
(Project Abstract)
Çalıkuşu A. N. (Executive), Erkılıç M., Engin C.
2024 - 2024
2024 - 2024Kapsayıcı Bir Öğrenme Ortamının Teşvik Edilmesinde Resimli Hikaye Kitapları 2
TUBITAK Project
Özbek Ö. Y.(Executive), Taneri P. O., Barutçu Yıldırım K. F., Kulakoğlu B., Kamış Ö., Aşkaroğlu A., et al.
Memberships and Roles in Scientific Organizations
2024 - Present
2024 - PresentThe European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI)
Member
2024 - 2025
2024 - 2025European Science Education Research Association (ESERA)
Member
Peer Reviews in Scientific Publications
February 2025
February 2025European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2025
Conference Paper (Abstract)
November 2024
November 2024Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi
National Scientific Refreed Journal
March 2024
March 202418th International Conference on Motivation & Emotion (EARLI Special Interest Group), ICM 2024
Conference Paper (Abstract)
February 2024
February 2024European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2024
Conference Paper (Abstract)
January 2024
January 202428th JURE (Junior Researchers of EARLI) 2024
Conference Paper (Abstract)
Mobility Activity
2025 - 2025
2025 - 2025Improving Competencies and Qualifications
Get Education
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
2025 - 2025
2025 - 2025Improving Competencies and Qualifications
Get Education
Technische Universitaet Chemnitz-Zwickau, Germany
2024 - 2024
2024 - 2024Improving Competencies and Qualifications
Get Education
Universitaet Bern (University of Bern), Switzerland
2024 - 2024
2024 - 2024Erasmus Programme
Intership
Universita Degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
2023 - 2023
2023 - 2023Improving Competencies and Qualifications
Get Education
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2016 - 2017
2016 - 2017Erasmus Programme
Get Education
Université de Bretagne Occidentale: Brest, France
Congress and Symposium Activities
25 June 2024 - 25 June 2024
25 June 2024 - 25 June 202428th JURE (Junior Researchers of EARLI)
Session Moderator
Sevilla-Spain
23 August 2023 - 25 August 2023
23 August 2023 - 25 August 2023European Conference on Educational Research, ECER2023
Session Moderator
Glasgow-England
Scholarships
2024 - Continues
2024 - ContinuesTEV Doctoral Scholarship
Foundation
2025 - 2025
2025 - 2025University of Amsterdam’s Research Priority Area: Real Emotions
University
2025 - 2025
2025 - 2025EARLI Conference 2025 Travel Award
Other International Organizations
2024 - 2024
2024 - 20242224-A Yurt Dışı Bilimsel Etkinliklere Katılımı Destekleme Programı
TUBITAK
2024 - 2024
2024 - 2024Grant for Erasmus Exchange Short Term Doctoral Mobility (Internship)
European Commission
2024 - 2024
2024 - 2024Travel Grant for the research paper entitled “Exploring Nature Worldviews in Environment-themed Children's Books Across Cultures” and presented at 28th JURE (Junior Researchers of EARLI) 2024
Other International Organizations
2023 - 2023
2023 - 20232224-A Grant Program for Participation in Scientific Meetings Abroad
TUBITAK
2016 - 2017
2016 - 2017Grant for Erasmus Exchange Student Mobility (Study Abroad)
European Commission
Scientific Research / Working Group Memberships
2025 - Present
2025 - Present