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Dr Sertaç Sehlikoğlu

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Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul

Examines women's changing leisure and self-formation as agentive forces that shift and transform socio-cultural conditions in the Muslim world

2021

Sertaç Sehlikoglu

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Jun 1

Why I Advise My Neurodivergent Mentees Not to Disclose Their Diagnosis to their Employers

There is a piece of advice I give regularly to some of the brightest scholars I have ever mentored. It breaks my heart a little bit, every…

Why I Advise My Neurodivergent Mentees Not to Disclose Their Diagnosis to their Employers

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Jun 12, 2025

We All Need an Autistic Nudge: Why the World Needs Neurodivergent Clarity for Justice

In a world increasingly paralysed by performative activism and social conformity, we need what I call “an autistic nudge” — the kind of…

Graffiti of Greta Thunberg on the building of a busy Western Street

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Dr Sertaç Sehlikoğlu

Apr 13, 2023

A Brown Woman is Never a Senior

or On Sara Ahmed’s Strangeness

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Jan 20, 2021

Erkeklik, İnsanlık, Kulluk

İnsanlığın Aşağısındaki Erkeklik

Dr Sertaç Sehlikoğlu

Jun 16

Stop Asking for a Diagnosis. Start Building a Workplace

Why the case for neurodiversity-friendly work is a case for everyone

Stop Asking for a Diagnosis. Start Building a Workplace

Dr Sertaç Sehlikoğlu

Jun 9

The Unseen Hand: How Middle Management Manipulates Upward

Photo by Max Bender on Unsplash

Dr Sertaç Sehlikoğlu

Aug 25, 2025

Academic Mentorship at the Age of AI

I have been having the privilege of mentoring women of colour and people of colour who were born and raised in non-EuroAmerican contexts…

Dr Sertaç Sehlikoğlu

Jul 28, 2025

Academic Interviews: Preparation

Academic interviews can be transformative moments in your career, and preparation is key to success. The following principles have proven…

Dr Sertaç Sehlikoğlu

Jul 11, 2025

The Hidden Trauma: Bureaucratic Battles’ Impact on the “Academic Outsiders”

In UK academia’s current crisis of mass redundancies and institutional upheaval, academics from disadvantaged backgrounds experience…

The Hidden Trauma: Bureaucratic Battles’ Impact on the “Academic Outsiders”

Dr Sertaç Sehlikoğlu

Jul 9, 2025

Fahri the Magic Boy: A Story of Dyspraxia and Enchantment

I am incredibly proud to share this deeply personal project with you — a story that has been growing in my heart for quite some time…

Fahri the Magic Boy: A Story of Dyspraxia and Enchantment