Janroj Keles

Janroj Yilmaz Keles is a joint editor of the journal Work, Employment and Society, a Senior Research Fellow in Politics at Middlesex University Law School and a Visiting Fellow at London School of Economics (LSE), researching on peace and conflict, gender, political violence, ethnicity and nationalism, statelessness, migration, diasporas and international relations, social movements and media and political communication. He is also module leader of International Politics of the Middle East and North Africa. Keles has extensive experience of international education. He studied in Turkey, German and United Kingdom. He received his PhD in Sociology and Communications from Brunel University. His PhD thesis, entitled "Media, Diaspora and Conflict: Nationalism and Identity amongst Kurdish and Turkish Migrants in Europe" is an interdisciplinary and comparative cross-national study based on sociologically informed analysis of mass communication, national-ethnic identity, multiple belonging and inter-group relations/conflict within diasporic and/or transnational settings. He is one of the Co-investigators for the GCRF HUB – Gender, Justice and Security led by the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security in partnership with Middlesex University and other 17 institutions around the world (£15.2 million) (Middlesex University leads Migration & Displacement, £2.6 million, with Professor Eleonore Kofman, Professor Brad Blitz, Dr Janroj Keles and Dr Neelam Raina) He has been awarded a research grant with Dr Neelam Raina for a study on Post-Conflict Craft Heritage of Iraq and Kurdistan – A scoping study of Samawah and Erbil, funded by Nahren Project, Art and Humanities Research Council and GCFR (£30.000). His ten years of experience in researching within higher education has comprised different roles in multiple research projects across disciplines ranging from media and sociology to international relations. Consequently, he has an interdisciplinary and cross-national comparative research background. He has a proven track record of securing external research funding, having contributed as Research Fellow or co-investigator to projects funded by the ESRC (£360,000), the EU Commission (319,456.00) the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (Clark and Keles, £60,000), and the OECD ( Dodd and Keles, £5000). As a Principal Investigator, he received small grants from the International Organisation for Migration to undertake research on undocumented migrants in the UK (£5000) and from the Council of The British Institute for the Study of Iraq for my research project on “Transnational Mobility and Digital Social Networking (£8000). Moreover, he received a Newton Fund to research the role of transnational entrepreneurship in post-conflict developing economies (Kurdistan-Iraq, £3650). Previously he worked as a Lecturer, teaching sociology and media studies at Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, London Metropolitan University and an Associate Lecturer at Department of Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck. He also worked at Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University where he worked for a number of cross-national and interdisciplinary research projects on migration, visual and work sociology, civic engagement and participation, forced labour, human trafficking, precarious work, labour movement and trade union, community, identity, ethnicity, racism and globalization. While he was doing his PhD, he has been part of a research team to explore 'Legitimising the discourses of radicalisation: Political violence in the new media ecology' for University of Warwick, worked for Harvard University in London on the political participation and religious integration of Muslims in Europe after 9/11 and participated in the MIGSYS research project (Professor Russell King) to examine the growing diversity of migrant types, nationalities, ethnicities, cultures, languages and motivations, especially in "super-diversity" within the urban settings such as London (see King at el 2008). He has published several single-authored and co-authored articles in peer-reviewed high-quality journals including Journal for Ethnic and Migration Studies, The Sociological Review, Antipode, Urban Studies, Middle East Journal of Culture & Communication, Industrial Law Journal, Work, Employment and Society, My monograph Media, Conflict and Diaspora (I.B. Tauris, 2015), was well received. In addition, his feature articles were published in University World News, Open Democracy, Foreign Policy, European Union Foreign Affairs Journal and Chartist Follow him at https://twitter.com/janroj Languages Spoken English, Kurdish, Turkish and German