Academic stations
Meltem Akbulut Yildirmis was a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Policy Analysis at the Hochschule für Politik München / TUM School of Governance from 2019 to 2020. She received her PhD in Adult Education from Boğaziçi University. She received her MA in Adult Education and BA in Foreign Language Education from Boğaziçi University.
Research interests
In her dissertation, "Higher Education Governance: Perceptions of Rectors, Council of Higher Education Members, and Government Representatives", she examined the functioning of the current higher education governance model in Turkey through the perceptions of rectors, council of higher education members, and government representatives. On this basis, she analysed in particular how the decision-making structure functions, how decision-making powers are distributed, and how the interplay between state governance and institutional autonomy functions in terms of accountability, funding, appointments and the rule of law.
As part of the dissertation, she first looked at the development of models of system governance in higher education around the world. The resulting perspective led her to develop a conceptual framework, which she used to explain how the system governance process works in Turkish higher education. Revising the framework based on the perceptions of the research participants led to the creation of an idiosyncratic system governance process framework for Turkish higher education. She is currently developing her dissertation into a book manuscript and conducting a research project on the functioning of the system governance process in German higher education institutions.
Publications
Akbulut Yıldırmış, M., & Seggie, F. N. (2018). Yükseköğretim çalışmalarının akademik bir alan olarak gelişimi: Uluslararası ve ulusal düzeyde alanyazın derlemesi [The development of higher education studies as an academic field: A literature review at international and national Levels]. Yükseköğretim Dergisi / Journal of Higher Education. 8 (3), 357-367. DOI: 10.2399/yod.18.027
Akbulut Yıldırmış, M., Seggie, F. N., & Börkan, B. (2015). Faculty member perceptions of department head leadership effectiveness at a state university in Turkey. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 18 (4), 440-463. DOI: 10.1080/13603124.2014.997799
Akbulut Yıldırmış, M., & Seggie, F. N. (2015). Nitel araştırmaların desenlenmesi. In F. N. Seggie & Y. Bayyurt (Eds.), Nitel Araştırma: Yöntem, teknik, analiz ve yaklaşımları (pp. 23-35). Istanbul: Anı Yayınları.
Akbulut Yıldırmış, M., Seggie, F. N., & Sart, G. (2015). Nitel araştırmaların raporlaştırılması. In F. N. Seggie & Y. Bayyurt (Eds.), Nitel Araştırma: Yöntem, teknik, analiz ve yaklaşımları (pp. 371-384). Istanbul: Anı Yayınları.
Cameron, K. S., Quinn, R. E., DeGraff, J., & Thakor, A. J. (2015). Yeni değerler ve yeni liderlik davranışları yaratma [Creating value through new leadership behaviors] (M. Akbulut Yıldırmış & F. N. Seggie, Trans.) In S. Turan & S. Gümüş (Eds.), Rekabetçi değerler liderliği (pp. 64-83). Istanbul: PEGEM Yayınevi. (Original work published 2008)
Cameron, K. S., Quinn, R. E., DeGraff, J., & Thakor, A. J. (2015). Örgütsel değişimin tekniklerini uygulama [Applying levers of organizational change] (M. Akbulut Yıldırmış & F. N. Seggie, Trans.) In S. Turan & S. Gümüş (Eds.), Rekabetçi değerler liderliği (pp. 134-155). Istanbul: PEGEM Yayınevi. (Original work published 2008)