Dr Gulbin Ates

Gulbin Aysi Ates is postdoc researcher in Disinformation Research Cluster. She received undergraduate degree in psychology at Middle East Technical University, she completed her graduate studies in political science and public administration at Middle East Technical University. Her master’s thesis entitled “Representing Centre-Right or Conservative Right? The Case of The Democratic Party in Turkey, 1970-1980”. The thesis examined an overlooked party in Turkish politics and is critical to compare the periods within the Turkish political history. She has a Ph.D. degree in political science at Ankara University. The dissertation was based on an interdisciplinary approach of psychology and political science, named as “An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Conspiracy Theories from the Fields of Political Ideology and Political Psychology: The Case of Sebilürreşad Journal”. In addition to her academic work, Dr. Ateş has been working as a Supreme Council Expert at the Radio and Television Supreme Council in Turkey. She completed the expertise thesis titled as "Evaluation of National and International Legal Regulations Regarding Children in the Field of Communication" titled thesis as an expertise thesis at the Radio and Television Supreme Council of Turkey. She also supervised an expertise thesis named as "Content Analysis of Television Children's Programmes: Examples of TRT Çocuk and Cartoon Network TV Channels” at the Radio and Television Supreme Council of Turkey.