Associate Professor Mario Bara, PhD
Mario Bara obtained his degree in a double major program in Sociology and History from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, in 2007. He earned his doctoral degree in the field of Social Sciences, specializing in Sociology, from the same university in 2014. From 2008 to 2015, he was employed at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies in Zagreb. Since 2014, he has been engaged as an external associate, and since 2015, he has been employed as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology of the Catholic University of Croatia in Zagreb.
He has participated as a researcher in several projects, including the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports (MZOŠ) project “The Impact of Migration on the Regional Development of Croatia” (2008–2013), the Croatian Science Foundation project “Second Homes and the Social Sustainability of Local Communities in Croatia” (2014–2017), and the Croatian Science Foundation project “Modernization of Urban Life in Croatia through the Development of Communal Infrastructure in the 19th and 20th Centuries” (IP-2016-06-2015) (2017–2021). In 2019, he collaborated on the project “Young Return Migrants: Experiences and Motivation” at the Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, and in the same year, he participated in the Catholic University of Croatia project “Analysis of the Causes, Motives, and Characteristics of the Emigration of Croatian Families to Germany.”
From 2021 to 2022, he contributed to the “Faith and Freedom” project funded by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. He was the principal investigator of the project “Lessons from the Past: Conflicts, Recovery, and Resilience – A Case Study from Croatia” (2023–2024), also supported by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. He is currently a researcher on the project “DinamiRH – Dynamics and Challenges of Migration, Re-Migration, and Immigration in the Republic of Croatia” at the Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb, Croatia. 
A selection of his bibliography is available at: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/27567

Prof. Dr. İslam CAN: Born in Osmaniye in 1981. He completed his primary and secondary education there. In 2004, he graduated from the Department of Philosophy at Çukurova University. He completed his master’s degree in the Department of Sociology at Selçuk University in 2010, and his PhD in 2015 with a thesis entitled ‘Political Trust in Turkey in Terms of Leaders, Institutions and Processes: A Sociological Quantitative Study’. He has conducted research in the sub-disciplines of family, health, political and disaster sociology. He has also authored books entitled Sağlık Olsun (Sağlık Sosyolojisine Bütünsel Bir Yaklaşım), Teşhir Toplumu, Türkiye'de Siyasal Güven (Political Trust in Turkey), Duyu Sosyolojisi (The Sociology of the Senses)(Editor), and Afet Sosyolojisi (The Sociology of Disasters)(Editor). Islam Can currently works as a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Selçuk University.

 

Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi, İktisadî İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Anabilim Dalında İkinci Doktora öğrenimini tamamlamıştır.
 

Spor Tarihi

Karaismailler Köyü İlkokulu’ndan 1975, Denizli Cumhuriyet Lisesi’nden 1981’de mezun oldum. 1985 yılında, Ankara Üniversitesi/Dil Ve Tarih Coğrafya Fakültesi/Coğrafya Bölümü/Fiziki Coğrafya ve Jeoloji lisans programından mezun oldum. Yüksek Lisansı Fırat Üniversitesi/Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü/Fiziki Coğrafya bilim alanında “Kovancılar Ovası ve yakın çevresinin genel ve uygulamalı jeomorfolojisi (1990)” konusunda yaptım. Doktora eğitimimi Fırat Üniversitesi/Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü/Fiziki Coğrafya bilim alanında “Örmeli (Şiro) Çayı havzasının genel ve uygulamalı jeomorfolojisi (1994)” konusunda tamamladım. Fırat Üniversitesi’nde 1987-1994 yılları arasında araştırma görevlisi, 1995-2000 yardımcı doçent, 2000-2002’de doçent, Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi’nde 2002-2006 doçent, 2006’dan itibaren profesör olarak çalışıyorum. Fiziki coğrafya, özellikle jeomorfoloji, tektonik, klimatoloji, arazi kullanımı ve jeomiras konularında çalışıyorum.

He was born in Samsun in 1976. He completed his primary and secondary education in the Çarşamba district of Samsun. He graduated from the Department of Philosophy at Ege University in 2003, and in 2014 he completed his PhD at the Institute of Social Sciences of Ege University, in the Department of Systematic Philosophy and Logic, with a dissertation entitled The Problem of Evil in Leibniz’s Théodicée. In 2019, he was awarded the title of Associate Professor of Philosophy and is currently a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at Afyon Kocatepe University.

Aylin SALTÜRK (R.A., Ph.D.) has two degrees, English Language Teaching and Psychology, moreover has MSc and Ph.D. in Educational Psychology. Her research interest is mainly focused on perfectionism, procrastination, motivation in education and test anxiety.

Gamze Çoban completed her undergraduate education in 2013 at the Department of Architecture at Yaşar University; she completed her master's (2019) and doctoral (2024) education at the Department of Architecture at Gazi University. She began her academic career in 2017 as a Research Assistant at the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, Faculty of Fine Arts, Afyon Kocatepe University; she was appointed to the position of Assistant Professor in 2024. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Afyon Kocatepe University, and holds the position of Erasmus Coordinator for the department. Çoban has published articles in peer-reviewed journals indexed in various databases and presented papers at international scientific conferences in the fields of interior design, design education, architectural heritage and conservation, and universal and barrier-free design.

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