Care & Platformisation – My recent research project investigates how digital platforms reshape social care under fiscal and demographic pressures. I am particularly interested in care platforms across different welfare regimes and their impacts on labour regulation, business power and marketisation. Using computational text analysis and digital ethnography, my ongoing paper project focuses on migration dynamics in these paltforms and shows how platforms organise cross-border mobility and reproduce inequalities. This research contributes to comparative debates on welfare digitalisation and political economy of social reproduction.

Autocratic Governance & Welfare Reforms – As a parallel research agenda, I study how governmental and non-governmental actors influence welfare reforms in authoritarian regimes. Focusing on the pension movement, my current work analyses how social movements use digital narratives to shape policy debates, by drawing on the Narrative Policy Framework and mixed-methods research with social media data. An ongoing paper further examines how faith-based organisations become central to poverty governance and the contested legitimacy of welfare provision in times of democratic decline.

 Gender & Civil Society – Building on previous strand, I also study the intersections of gender and civil society in illiberal settings. My work establishes a link between the proliferating women’s GONGOs (government-organised NGOs) and their impact on policymaking procedures. My forthcoming book builds on fieldwork and process tracing to show how authoritarian regimes instrumentalise civil society to restrict gender equality by using women’s GONGOs in Türkiye as a case.