Ozan Isler wins Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award

We are happy to announce that CeDEx external fellow, Dr Ozan Isler, has been awarded a "Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award" for his essay.  The theme of the award this year was "Post-Corona World and Turkey: social psychological and political impacts of the pandemics".

The “Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award” has been endowed in honour of the late Sakıp Sabancı, Honorary Chairman of Sabancı University’s Board of Trustees, and covers fields such as Turkish and Islamic Art and the History, Economy and Sociology of Turkey. It was first introduced in 2005 in order to encourage research on all aspects of Turkish culture, society and politics, and to uphold distinguished examples of fresh research with a view to engaging intellectual attention on Turkey’s role in the contemporary world.

The Special Jury Award was presented to Professor Susan Michie, Professor of Health Psychology and Director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London, and the consultant advisor to the World Health Organisation on Covid-19 and behaviour. You can watch a tribute here on YouTube.

The Essay Award winners were: Dr Ozan Isler with Dr Onurcan Yilmaz; Dr Sinan Alper; and Dr Aysenur Dal with Dr Efe Tokdemir.

Ozan is an experimental and behavioural economist at Queensland University of Technology's School of Economics and Finance and Centre for Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology. His research focuses on the economics and psychology of social and moral dilemmas from a dual-process perspective. As well as being an external fellow of CeDEx, he is a founding member of the Istanbul Moral Intuitions Research Laboratory (MINT). He is currently leading the Think Forward Initiative research grant to promote financial preparedness under cognitive resource scarcity.