ERCAN ŞEN

Arş. Gör. ERCAN ŞEN

Unvan ARAŞTIRMA GÖREVLİSİ
Birim FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ
E-Posta ercansen@bingol.edu.tr
Dahili No 6189

Doktora, ANKARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Sosyal Psikoloji, 2014-2023

Yüksek Lisans, ANKARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü , Sosyal Psikoloji, 2011-2014

Lisans, İSTANBUL ÜNİVERSİTESİ, Eğitim Fakültesi, Rehberlik ve Psikolojik Danışmanlık, 2002-2006

Araştırma Görevlisi, Bingöl Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Psikoloji Bölümü, 2010-2012
Araştırma Görevlisi, Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Psikoloji Bölümü, 2012-2017
Araştırma Görevlisi, Bingöl Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Psikoloji Bölümü, 2026-halen
Rehber Öğretmen, Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı, 2006-2010
Proje Koordinatörü, İnsan Hakları Derneği, 2020-2025
6. Acar, Y.G., Önal, E.S., Şen, E., & Uysal, M. S (2025). Studying Kurdishness in Turkey: A review of existing research. British Journal of Social Psychology. 64(1), e12842. (SSCI, Scopus, PsycInfo)  https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12842

5. 
Uysal, M. S., Şen, E., Önal, E.S., & Acar, Y.G. (2024). Addressing epistemic violence and methodological nationalism through a meta-analytical review on intergroup contact studies in Turkey. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 12(2), 225-246. (ESCI, Scopus, PsycInfo) https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.13241

4. 
Uysal, M. S., Şen, E., Sandal-Önal, E., & Acar, Y. G. (2024). Researching identity in the imposed boundaries of a nation-state: A meta-analytical review of identity and intergroup relations between Kurds and Turks. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 31(1), 82–97(ESCI, Scopus, PsycInfo) https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000764

3. 
Eser, Ü., Bayad, A., Alparslan, K., & Şen, E. (2024). How are Kurds and Kurdishness addressed by psychology theses in Turkey? A thematic analysis. Annual Review of Critical Psychology. 18, 869-898. 
https://discourseunit.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/0869_eser_et_al.pdf  

2.  
Coşkan, C., & Şen, E. (2024). Resistance from below among racialized peoples: Exploring Kurdish understandings of power. Journal of Social Issues, 80(2), 557–606. (SSCI, Scopus, PsycInfo)  https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12596


1.  Coşkan, C., & Şen, E. (2023). “If I die, my children will pursue this case”: Counternarratives of power in Kurds. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 29(2), 135-154. (ESCI, Scopus, PsycInfo)  https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000659
1. Şen, E., Akdoğan, N., Alparslan, K., & Bayad, A. (2026). Etnik imlik Ölçeği (EKÖ): Türkçeye uyarlama, geçerlik ve güvenirlik Çalışması. Psikolojik Araştırma Perspektifleri Dergisi, 3(2), 493-528. (Ulakbim TR Dizin). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22093467

2. 
Şen, E. (2017). Algılanan ayrımcılık ve sosyal kimlik ilişkisi: Türk ve Kürt etnik grupları üzerine bir çalışma [The relationship between of perceived discrimination and social identity: A study on the Turkish and Kurdish ethnic groups]. Nesne Psikoloji Dergisi, 5 (11), 449-468. (Ulakbim TR Dizin) https://doi.org/10.7816/nesne-05-11-06

8. Acar, Y. G., Sandal-Önal, E., Şen, E., & Uysal, M.S. (2024, 30-31 May). Is studying Kurdishness enough? Tracing epistemic violence and methodological nationalism in social and political psychology research in Turkey. [Paper presentation], International Seminar Temporal, Spatial and Embodied Dimensions of Contemporary Geopolitics,Valetta, Malta.

7. Acar, Y. G., Uluğ, Ö. M., Solak, N., & Şen, E. (2023, June 30 - July 4). Political resistance in Turkey: How resistance is experienced and how it has changed in the past ten years. [Paper presentation], 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social PsychologyKrakow, Poland.

6. Uysal, M. S., Sandal-Önal, E., Şen, E., Acar, Y. G. (2022, June 30 - July 3). A decade of social psychology of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict in Turkey: A meta-analytical review. [Paper presentation], 22nd Jena Workshop on Intergroup Process 2022 on “National identity: Its nature, causes, and consequences”, Eyba/Saalfeld, Germany.

5. Şen, E., & Coşkan C. (2022, June 29 - July 1). From representations to imaginations: Understandings of Kurdish power and collective action. [Paper presentation], 28th International Conference of Europanists, Lisbon, Portugal.

4. Acar, Y.G., Uysal, M.S., Sandal Ö. E. & Şen, E. (2022, May 5). Studying Kurdishness in Turkey: A decolonial perspective on social psychological research. [Paper presentation]. Afro-Asian Critical Psychology Conference, Online.

3. Acar, Y.G., Şen, E., Uysal, M.S. & Sandal Ö. E. (2021). Studying Kurdishness in Turkey: A review and analysis of the existing literature. [Paper presentation]. The 44th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Online.

2. Şen, E. (2017, September 14-17). Sosyal psikolojik bir olgu olarak toplumsal barış (Reconciliation as a social psychological phenomenon). [Paper presentation]. Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Kongresi, Diyarbakır, Turkey.  

1. Şen, E. (2015, June 7-10). Social identity and perceived discrimination in ethnic relations: A study on the Turkish and Kurdish ethnic groups. [Paper presentation]. The 14th European Congress of Psychology, Milano, Italy.

7. Şen, E. (2024 October 18-20). Son dönemlerde psikolojide Kürtler ve Kürt meselesi üzerine yapılan çalışmalar (Recent studies on Kurds and the Kurdish question in psychology). [Paper presentation]. 8. Eleştirel Psikoloji Sempozyumu, İstanbul, Turkey.

6. Uysal, M.S., Şen, E., Sandal-Önal, E, & Acar, Y.G. (2021). Kürt meselesine ilişkin sosyal psikolojik nicel araştırmaların on yılı (2011-2021): Meta-Analitik bir derleme çalışması. (Ten years of social psychological quantitative research on the Kurdish question (2011-2021): A Meta-analytic study). [Paper presentation]. 7. Eleştirel Psikoloji Sempozyumu, Online.

5. Bayad, A., Şen, E.  & Alparslan, K. (2018, November 15-17). Türkiye’de post-materyalistik değerler ve etnik kimlik etkileşimi (The interaction of post-materialistic values and ethnic identification in Turkey). [Paper presentation]. 20. Ulusal Psikoloji Kongresi, Ankara, Turkey.

4. Bayad, A., Şen, E. & Alparslan, K. (2017, November 27-29). Bağımlı bir değişken olarak etnik kimlik statüsü: Türk ve Kürt kimliğini yordayan değişkenler (As a dependent variable social identity: variables that predict Turkish and Kurdish identity)[Paper presentation]. 2. Sosyal Psikoloji Kongresi, Gazimağusa, Turkish Republic of North Cyprus.

3. Şen, E. (2016, November 17-19). Affetmek grupları yakınlaştırır mı? Toplumsal barışın sağlanmasında gruplararası affetmenin rolü. (Does forgiveness bring groups together? The role of intergroup forgiveness in ensuring reconciliation) [Paper presentation], 1Sosyal Psikoloji Kongresi, Ankara, Turkey.

2. Şen, E. (2016, September 6-9). Toplumsal barışın sağlanmasında gruplararası affetmenin rolü: Türkiye'de yaşayan Kürtler üzerine bir ön çalışma (The role of intergroup forgiveness in ensuring reconciliation: A preliminary study on the Kurds living in Turkey). [Paper presentation]. 19. Ulusal Psikoloji Kongresi, İzmir, Turkey.  

1. Şen, E. (2016, September 6-9). Saf kötülüğe yönelik inanç ve dini yönelimin faili şeytanlaştırma ile ilişkisi (The relationship of believing pure evil and religious orientation [Poster presentation]. 19. Ulusal Psikoloji Kongresi, İzmir, Turkey.  

1. Nesne Psikoloji Dergisi

1. EASP Seedcorn Grand Funding (September 2019- March 2020)- (with Dr. Canan Coşkan): Exploring the roles of majority and minority perceptions of power dynamics and superordinate identities in understanding representations of reconciliation and forgiveness under forced migration in Turkish-Kurdish conflict

Kitap Editörlüğü

Şen, E., 
Sandal-Önal, E., Uysal, M. S., & Acar, Y. G. (2023). The political psychology of Kurds in Turkey: Critical perspectives on identity, narratives, and resistance. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33291-3


Kitap Bölümü 

6. Acar, Y. G., Uluğ, Ö. M., Solak, N., & Şen, E. (2024) Political resistance in Turkey: How resistance is experienced and how it has changed in the past ten years. In J. Vollhardt, & F. Bou Zeinnedine (Eds.), Resistance to repression and violence: Global psychological perspectives (pp. 115-134). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197687703.003.0006

5. Acar, Y. G., Bayad, A., & Şen, E. (2024). Çeşitlilik ve psikolojinin dekolonizasyonu [Diversity and decolonization of psychology]. In D. Işıker Bedir (Eds.), Psikoloji tarihi (pp. 197-214). Nobel Yayınevi. https://www.nobelyayin.com/psikoloji-tarihi-21299.html

4. Coşkan, C., Şen, E. (2024). Negotiating Kurdishness as resistance: Reclaiming racialized identities and power in the multitudes of Kurdishness through collective critical consciousness. In I. David, K. F. Toktamış (Eds.), Culture, society and political economy in Turkey (pp. 189-222). Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.3726/b22247

3. Bayad, A., & Şen, E. (2023). How ‘Turkish’ psychology become the mainstream? A discourse analysis on the trajectory of its colonial legacy. In E. Şen, E. Sandal-Önal, M. S. Uysal & Y. G. Acar (Eds.), Political psychological approaches to studying Kurdishness in Turkey: Current perspectives and future directions (pp. 167-194). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33291-3_9

2. Acar, Y. G., Önal, E.S., & Şen, E. (2022). Falling outside identity: The creation and boundaries of Turkish national identity and its consequences for minorities. In B. G. Adams & J. J. R. van de Vijver (Eds.), Non-Western Identity (pp. 181-197). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77242-0_11

1. Bayad, A., Şen, E., Alparslan, K., & Eser, Ü. (2022). Toplum ve psikoloji ilişkisini Kürt meselesi üzerinden okumak [Reading the relationship between society and psychology through the Kurdish issue]. In U. Şah, A. Gürel, B. Gürsel, E. Doğa, & E. Sandıkçı (Eds.), Eleştirel psikoloji derleme kitabı (pp. 311-336). İletişim Yayınları. https://iletisim.com.tr/kitap/elestirel-psikoloji/10273?srsltid=AfmBOoq4IYiIunPwV4j-1pnSRqS8wmjJ2DXQ-xBxSp_xoE0QsfZ9uykY

  • European Association of Social Psychology (EASP)
  • International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP)