Dr Erdem Dikici

Qualifications:

PhD FHEA

Position:

Senior Lecturer in Public Health

Department:

HAS - Health and Social Sciences

Telephone:

+441179656261

Email:

Erdem.Dikici@uwe.ac.uk

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About me

I am a Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for the MSc Public Health programme at UWE Bristol, with an academic background in sociology. I completed my MSc and PhD in Sociology at the University of Bristol. I am Co-Editor for Health: Sage Journals (sagepub.com) and Review Editor for Frontiers in Sociology (Race and Ethnicity).

My work is broadly grounded in political sociology, with a particular focus on migration, multiculturalism, transnationalism, migrant integration and identity. Increasingly, I bring a public health lens to these areas, examining how political and social environments shape the health, wellbeing, integration, inclusion and belonging of migrant and racialised communities.

My research is particularly concerned with the relationship between migration, migrant integration and health, and with how wider political, social and institutional environments influence migrants' experiences and opportunities to participate and belong. I am interested in migration not simply as movement between countries, but as a social and political process shaped by immigration policies, public and political discourses, inequalities, identities and relationships between migrants and wider society.

A related strand of my work focuses on race, racisms and multiculturalism. I am interested both in the processes through which racism, racialisation and exclusion produce inequalities and in how multicultural societies negotiate cultural, ethnic and religious diversity. This includes questions of recognition, equality, inclusion, identity, participation and belonging, and their implications for the health and wellbeing of migrant and racialised communities.

More recently, my work has increasingly examined the political determinants of health, particularly the ways in which political ideologies, discourses, policies and institutional environments can influence health and health inequalities. This includes a growing focus on far-right and anti-migrant politics, and how hostile political and social environments can affect migrant health, wellbeing, integration and belonging.

My earlier research examined migration, migrant integration, identities, religion and transnationalism. My doctoral research, subsequently published as Transnational Islam and the Integration of Turks in Great Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), developed the concept of “integration as a three-way process and negotiation”, highlighting the roles of migrants, countries of residence and countries of origin in shaping processes of integration. My work on transnationalism has also explored transnational religious diversity and the ways in which identities and forms of belonging can extend across national boundaries.

Across these areas, a common concern in my work is understanding how political and social conditions produce inequality, exclusion or belonging and what these processes mean for people's health and wellbeing.

Recently completed research projects
2024–2026 | Co-Investigator and Qualitative Analysis Lead: Maximizing Child Road Fatalities: Evidence for Action. Funded by The Road Safety Trust.
2024–2026 | Principal Investigator: Health and Migrant Integration (HMI) in the UK. Funded by the Vice-Chancellor’s Early Career Research (VC ECR) Award, UWE Bristol.
2023–2026 | Principal Investigator: Rethinking Racisms in Public Health Research. Funded by the New Starter Research (NSR) Fund, UWE Bristol.

My teaching reflects this interdisciplinary perspective, bringing sociology, politics and public health into conversation around race and racism, migration and migrant health, multiculturalism, health inequalities, political determinants of health, identities, integration and belonging.

I welcome enquiries from MSc and PhD students interested in these and related areas.

Area of expertise

Migration, Migrant Integration and Health

Politics and Political Determinants of Health

Race, Ethnicity and Health Inequalities

Relgion, Identity and Wellbeing

Decolonizing Education

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