Dr Sevinç Bermek

Sevinç Bermek is a Lecturer in International Political Economy at King’s College London’s Department of European and International Studies.

She holds a PhD from the University of Warwick, and a degree in Economics from Bilkent University. Prior to joining King’s, she was a Fellow in the Department of Government at the LSE and a Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard’s Center for European Studies.

Her research explores authoritarian governance, gender norms, and public policy in Türkiye and Russia, with a focus on housing, migration, and gender-based violence. She is the author of The Rise of Hybrid Political Islam in Turkey (Palgrave, 2019), and co-author of a recent VoxEU column on victim-blaming norms and violence against women. Her 2024 article in Social Sciences examines Turkey’s policy response to Afghan migration. Bermek’s interdisciplinary work combines political economy and behavioural insights to study policy change, crisis response, and norm-driven political behaviour.

Expertise

Authoritarian Regimes, Gender Norms, Norm Diffusion, Public Policy Tools