Dr. Barış Eriçok is a faculty member at Ordu University, Faculty of Education. He holds a BA in English Language Teaching, an MA in Educational Administration, and a PhD in Educational Administration, Supervision, Planning, and Economics from Hacettepe University. His doctoral research focused on the internationalization policies of higher education in Türkiye. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the University College of Teacher Education Vienna (Pädagogische Hochschule Wien), Austria. His research interests include internationalization of higher education, educational leadership, international mobility, quality assurance, academic brain drain, and the implications of artificial intelligence for education. Dr. Eriçok actively contributes to national and international academic journals as an author and reviewer and is open to interdisciplinary research collaborations. Contact: barisericok[at]gmail.com

Education
2007 BA English Language Teaching, Hacettepe University, Türkiye
2016 MA Educational Administration and Supervision, AIBU, Türkiye Managers, academic and administrative personnel’s' opinions on managing diversity (2016) Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Bahri Aydın 2022 PhD Educational Administration, Gazi University, Türkiye International Academics in Türkiye in the Eye of Brain Drain and Soft Power: A Narrative Study (2022) Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Temel Çalık 2024 Post Doctoral Research Hamburg Universität, Germany Equality perception and cognitive biases among the international students: A comparative analysis

Employment
2007 – 2008 Language Assistant, Gymnasium Marne, Schleswig – Holstein, Germany 2008 – 2009 English Teacher, Yüce Private Schools, Ankara, Türkiye
2009 – 2023 Lecturer, School of Foreign Languages, Giresun, Türkiye 2023 – 2024 Asst. Prof. Faculty of Education, Giresun University 2024 - today Visiting Scholar, Hamburg University

Responsibilities include
Teaching: Academic Writing, Inclusive Education, Organizational Theories, Higher Education Policy Design, Philosophy of Management
Managerial: Assistant Director of School of Foreign Languages 2012 – 2015 Erasmus Departmental Coordinator

Dr. Melike Günbey is an assistant professor of Educational Administration at Faculty of Education at Giresun University, Türkiye, specializing in higher education administration and graduate education. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from Ankara University (2022), where her research focused on academic identity construction during doctoral education. Her research interests include higher education, academic identity, inclusive education and early career researchers. In addition to her research, Dr. Günbey teaches undergraduate in introduction to education and inclusive education and master degree courses in higher education administration and qualitative methods. Dr. Günbey is currently conducting her postdoctoral research project titled “A Guide for Early Career Researchers: An Identity Development Program” at Campus Fryslan, University of Groningen. 

Erkan Yüce is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education at Aksaray University. He received his PhD in English Language Teaching from the Institute of Educational Sciences at Hacettepe University in 2018. His areas of interest include foreign language teaching, CEFR, curriculum and instruction, language program evaluation, content-based language teaching, educational psychology, and academic writing.

He was born on July 2, 1980 in Diyarbakır. He began his music education at Diyarbakır Anatolian Fine Arts High School in 1994. He began his undergraduate education at Gazi University, Faculty of Fine Arts Education, Department of Music Education in 1998. In 2003, he entered the Gazi University Institute of Educational Sciences, Department of Music Education and completed his master's program in 2005. After being accepted to the Selçuk University Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Music Education PhD program the same year, he graduated in 2010 and received his doctorate. During his cello education, he had the opportunity to work with State Artist Lecturer Tayfun KARAKELLE, State Artist Lecturer Şinasi ÇİLDEN, and Assoc. Prof. İzzet NAZLIAKA. He gave various group and solo concerts at home and abroad. Emin Erdem KAYA, who began his professional life by teaching at institutions affiliated with the Ministry of National Education, worked as a lecturer at the Department of Music Education at Selçuk University between 2005 and 2011. There, he taught cello and chamber music at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as orchestra, musical hearing, reading, and writing. In 2011, he was appointed as an assistant professor at the Department of Music and Performing Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Nevşehir Hacıbektaş Veli University. Having received the title of Associate Professor in 2017, Prof. Dr. E. Erdem KAYA currently continues his professional life at the Department of Music Education, Faculty of Education, Nevşehir Hacıbektaş Veli University, and teaches cello, musical hearing-reading-writing, orchestra and Turkish music polyphony.