Deniz Celikoglu is a doctoral candidate at DCU Anti-Bullying Centre, working on the PARTICIPATE project funded by the Horizon Europe Programme of the European Commission – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA).

Her research focuses on parents’ experiences of young boys’ involvement in online gendered and sexual harassment, with a particular interest on the role played by extreme online groups and ideas. Deniz completed her Bachelor of Science in Sociology at Middle East Technical University (2019) and received her MSc degree in Sociology in European Context at Charles University Prague (2022).

For her master’s thesis, she conducted qualitative research on the contested agency of battered women who killed their batterers in Turkey.

Digital Cultures & Online Abuse Children & Young People Gender, Sexuality & Power