Dr Selçuk Bedük

Selçuk is an interdisciplinary researcher with a background in economics and a DPhil in Social Policy from Oxford. His research focuses on poverty, inequality, and social policy, addressing central questions: how best to measure and respond to poverty; how inequality accumulates across the life course and is transmitted between generations; and which welfare systems most effectively reduce poverty and provide security for all.

Some of his current research examines:

• the intergenerational persistence of homeownership in Europe (funded by an international Volkswagen Stiftung grant)
• long-term childhood poverty in Britain (supported by a John Fell Fund grant)
• the financial consequences of job loss in different welfare states
• the conditions of the poorest households during the UK austerity period
• the life-course earnings inequality in Britain

Selçuk was the inaugural Barnett Scholar and completed his DPhil at DSPI in 2018 with a thesis on poverty measurement in the EU. He re-joined the department in October 2021, having previously worked as a Senior Research Officer at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex.

For a full list of publications, recent research and teaching activities, please see this personal website.