Assoc. Prof. Dr. Melis Cin is a faculty member in the Education and Social Justice program at Lancaster University, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on education, gender, and international development, exploring the sociological and political dimensions of education. Dr. Cin approaches the importance of education quality from a critical and feminist perspective.
Her work primarily concentrates on Sub-Saharan Africa, examining the social impact of education, how it addresses global challenges, and the social production of education in these regions. Additionally, her research is methodologically rooted in participatory arts, investigating the relationship between art and development.
Dr. Cin has authored several influential works, including:
Gender Justice, Equality and Education: Creating Capabilities for Girls’ and Women’s Development (Palgrave, 2017)
Capabilities, Youth, Gender: Rethinking Opportunities and Agency from a Human Development Perspective (co-authored with Aurora Lopez-Fogues, Routledge, 2018)
Feminist Theorisation of Europeanisation: Gender Equality Policies in Turkey and the EU (co-authored with Rahime Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm, Palgrave, 2020)
Post-Conflict Participatory Arts and Socially Engaged Development (co-authored with Faith Mkwananzi, Routledge, 2022)
Feminist Art in Resistance: Aesthetic, Methods and Politics of Art in Turkey (co-authored with Elif Dastarlı, Palgrave, 2023).
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