Ödül holds a joint position between
Bradford and Leeds universities as a researcher on the EPSRC project "Intra-Firm
and Inter-Firm Knowledge Transfers and Productivity in the Retailing Sector",
with Professor Irena Grugulis at Bradford and Professor Jeremy Clegg at
Leeds.
In the project Ödül is conducting interviews
and participant observation at the head offices and selected stores
of a number of major UK supermarkets, to understand better how these
firms view productivity in their operations and how this is reflected
in the organisation and experience of work on the shop-floor.
Ödül received her PhD in sociology from the
University of California in Los Angeles, with her dissertation "Transnationality
at Work: Highly-Skilled Workers in Mobile Telecommunication Multinationals
in Finland, Sweden and Turkey". She previously received a MA in
sociology at UCLA (with a thesis on the transformation of the Turkish
tobacco sector after the arrival of multinationals in the early 1990s),
and a MA in history at Boðaziçi University (with a thesis
on the negotiation of national identity at a former American missionary
school in Izmir, Turkey, by the local students in the early 1930s).
Her BA (Hons) was in political science and international relations,
also at Boðaziçi.
Ödül has taught courses in introductory sociology,
sociological theory, social and economic change, and urban sociology
in the United States, Turkey and Sweden. She speaks Turkish, English,
and Swedish, often too fast or too much.
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