Muradiye Ates is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University. She holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in Business Administration from Vienna University of Economics, and obtained her PhD in Social Policy from Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University in 2017, with her research focusing on "The Role of State in Supporting Socially Innovative Activities in Turkey". From July 2016 to June 2017 she worked as a research fellow at the Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School. Ates has also worked as a head advisor of a parliament member in Turkey and was involved in EU Projects as as country expert concerning social Innovation in 2020. Her research interests include social development and welfare, social innovation, social enterprise and social and public policy, social risk groups and digitalisation aspects of labor.