Prof. Dr. Mehmet Şükrü Bellibaş completed his undergraduate education in Educational Sciences at Istanbul University (2009) and his doctorate in Educational Administration at Michigan State University (2014). Bellibaş, who became an Associate Professor in 2017, became a Professor in the field of Educational Sciences in 2024. Prof. Bellibaş currently works for the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Prof. Bellibaş has more than 50 articles published in journals indexed in respected national and international directories. Prof. Bellibaş's research area is educational administration.

I am a professor of chemistry education. I have been teaching courses mainly on research methods in education and teaching and learning of science and chemistry at the secondary level. My research interests include teacher training, curriculum evaluation, how students learn in science/chemistry, undergraduates’ understandings of chemical ideas in thermodynamics, context-based teaching, problem-based learning, trends in science/chemistry education, and teaching science/chemistry to visually impaired students.
I have served in IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry - www.iupac.org) Committee on Chemistry Education as a titular member (2008-2015) and chair (2016-2017). Currently, I am representing Turkey as a national representative in the same committee since 2018.
I am also a member of some national and international organizations serving in science or chemistry education as well as taking active roles such as board memberships and administrative duties. 

İbrahim Hakan Karataş
Professor in Educational Administration
İbrahim Hakan Karataş completed his undergraduate studies in Turkish Language and Literature at Boğaziçi University in 1998 and earned a master’s degree from the same department in 2001. He received his Ph.D. in 2008 from the Department of Educational Administration, Supervision, Planning, and Economics at Marmara University. Between 1998 and 2002, he taught English, Turkish, and Turkish Language and Literature at private and public schools. In 1999, he served as a research assistant at Kars Kafkas University. From 2004 to 2010, he worked in the private sector and participated in textbook writing committees of the Board of Education at the Ministry of National Education. Between 2012 and 2013, he completed his postdoctoral research at the University of Northern Iowa in the United States. He is currently a faculty member in the Department of Educational Administration at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Istanbul Medeniyet University.
At Istanbul Medeniyet University, he has held administrative roles such as Head of the Department of Educational Sciences, Chair of the Department of Educational Administration, Core Courses Coordinator, and Deputy Director of the Continuing Education Center. He currently serves as the Coordinator of the Teaching Development Center (ÖGEM) at the university.
Dr. Karataş has served as a member or advisor in various national and international civil society organizations. He is the founder of the School Heads Association and the international educator network, Leading Innovation for Educators (LIFE). From 2019 to 2022, he was the founding coordinator of the Educational Policy Research Center (EPAM), operating under the İLKE Foundation. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Board for the School Administrators Association and as Vice Chairman of the Board for the Association of Education Administrators and Supervisors (EYEDDER).
His academic research focuses on school leadership, educational administration, the internationalization of higher education, educational policies, and civil society organizations. In addition to numerous academic articles and book chapters, he has authored textbooks in Turkish, Turkish Language and Literature, and Language and Expression for primary, middle, and high school levels. Dr. Karataş has also published four original books and translated four others.
Currently, he is a visiting researcher at Makerere University, the oldest university in East Africa, in Uganda, where he is conducting research on the internationalization of higher education and educational diplomacy.

Dr. Turker Kurt is an professor of educational administration. He received his doctorate in educational administration from the Gazi University in Ankara, Turkey. He has served as a teacher, a university professor, and a consultant to K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and non-profit professional organizations. Dr. Kurt was a postdoctoral visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013-2014. Dr. Kurt teaches graduate level courses including educational reform and leadership, management of higher education, and school administration. Dr. Kurt teaches undergraduate level courses including introduction to educational sciences, classroom management, and educational sociology. Recently, he has studied as a visiting research associate at the University College London, Institute of Education in 2021-2022.
Dr. Kurt’s research focuses on the higher education policy, governance, and leadership with an emphasis on equity issues. He also runs research in educational leadership, education reform, and education finance.

Dr. Kurt has served on the editorial boards of peer reviewed journals including Journal of Research on Education and Society (JRES), International Journal of Psychology and Education Studies (IJPES), and UMT Education Review (UER). He is one of the founding members of the Association for Higher Education Studies (AHES) in Turkey and served as the vice president of the association between 2016-2020. Dr. Kurt has been actively contributing to organization of annual conference of International Higher Education Studies Conference (IHEC) since 2017.