Dr Hamide Elif Üzümcü

Dr Hamide Elif Üzümcü is a Visiting Fellow at the Alwaleed Centre and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Social Sciences University of Ankara in Türkiye.

Prior to this appointment, Elif was based at the University of Edinburgh as an IASH–Alwaleed Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Her research interests include Islamic environmental ethics, Sufi narrative and cultural heritage, childhood studies, intra- and intergenerational family relationships. She is currently researching Sufi perspectives on the morals of socio-ecological interactions shared through the Sufi storytelling tradition within family relationships in the UK.

Before joining the Alwaleed Centre and IASH, Elif worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on a multinational project in family sociology, conducting the UK fieldwork, and taught Sociology of Cultural Processes at the University of Padua in Italy, where she was awarded a PhD cum Laude (with Honours) in Social Sciences in 2021. Her doctoral research on children’s intrafamilial privacy, based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Türkiye, was awarded the Turkish Social Sciences Association’s Young Social Scientist Prize in 2023. Elif currently serves as an editorial board member of Children & Society and as Communications Manager on the board of the International Sociological Association’s RC53 Sociology of Childhood research committee.

Photo of Dr Hamide Elif Üzümcü, who is smiling. She is standing in a park with trees behind her.

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