Karolin Tuncel is a PhD candidate at the Oxford Department of International Development. Funded by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, she is researching the role of non-/religious ideologies in legitimizing gender norms in contemporary Turkey. Karolin gives workshops about gender and discrimination, and has been working on immigrants’ rights in Germany since 2014.

Before starting her PhD, Karolin gained work experience, among others, as Carlo Schmid Fellow with the United Nations in Brussels, at the Global Public Policy Institute, the German Embassy in Canada, and the Administration of the German Bundestag. As scholar of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Karolin studied Political Science and International Relations in Berlin (B.A.), Cairo, Reims, and Cambridge (MPhil).