Dilara Özel

Peace Begins in the Classroom: What Fourth Graders Showed Us About Living Together Children in refugee-receiving classrooms often grow up surrounded by uncertainty, cultural differences, and daily conflict, both spoken and unspoken. This study explored whether a peace education prog...

I’ve just created a Kudos page for my article, if you’d like a clear, simple overview of the study, you can read the short summary here:
🔗 link.growkudos.com/1eq69edks1s

Peace Education In Schools: Building Peace As A Teacher - TeachingTimes Identifying a gap in professional development, Dilara Özel brings the pedagogy of peace education into the classroom. How can you use it to help your students today?

And the second part is here! : www.teachingtimes.com/peace-educat...

I spoke at Beyond Ceasefires yesterday a beautiful event by the Azerbaijani Society at University of Glasgow. It gave me a moment to reflect on reconciliation, and the role of emotions in peacebuilding.

Sometimes peace isn’t in the apology, or the closure, or the perfect ending. It’s in that small space we open for our own emotions, the place where we stop waiting for someone else to fix it and simply let ourselves feel. Whatever we are holding letting it free

Here is the link: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

I became an academic grandmother (again)! When I was writing my thesis, my SE instructor said: “Finishing a thesis or publishing a book that’s a kind of birth too. My second grandchild is here, the experiential part of my thesis, now published in Peace & Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology (APA).

Honored to contribute to Professional Development Today. Thank you Prof. Handscomb for the invitation. here’s my article on Peace Education in Schools:

www.teachingtimes.com/peace-educat...

MINDS Seminar Series 2024 - 2025 - YouTube This seminar series features longer presentations from some of the speakers from MINDS Conferences 2024.

You can now watch the MINDS Academia Seminar Series on YouTube, a project I contributed to last year.
So glad to see ongoing efforts to build a more supportive academic environment 💙
m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The Somatic Trauma Workshop Learn how trauma affects the body somatically and how paying attention to body sensations is essential for healing. With Q&A.

I’ll be conducting an online The Somatic Trauma Workshop! Join me to explore body-based approaches to trauma, healing, and presence. So excited about this.🎊
Let me know if you’d like to attend. 🧿
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-somati...

Great start to the weekend. My proposal “The Body Remembers, the State Forgets: Trauma-Informed Peace Pedagogy in Authoritarian Context” has been accepted for presentation at #CIES2026 in San Francisco 🎉 🎊

Tickets going fast for our Online Spring School with only 3 more weeks to go!

This year's theme is - "May Peace Prevail" 🕊️

Tickets and full program on our linktree!

Between the pages: a qualitative inquiry into researcher wellbeing Despite the growing emphasis on research productivity and project development within academic institutions worldwide, the concept of academic wellbeing remains relatively underexplored. This study ...

Our new paper in Higher Education Research & Development! 🎉 “Between the pages: a qualitative inquiry into researcher wellbeing”

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We explore the lived experiences of researcher wellbeing. @herdjournal.bsky.social

So looking forward to having a cup of Eritrean coffee on 13 June!

Mark your diaries and join us in the Byres Community Hub in the Clarice Pearce Building for a afternoon of coffee, stories and excellent company.

All welcome, drop-in, no need to register and entirely FREE!

See you there!

📣 Families with 8-11yo children: we have a fun workshop for you to join on Saturday 14 June. We will be looking at family connections, heritage, identity and how we relate to each other. Let by Tawona Sitholé and Dilara Özel, this promises to be a fun-filled educational activity for your Saturday!

Turkish baking in tin and on plate with tea

Team Meeting @uofgunescorila.bsky.social in UofGARC

“Last night …. Because I didn’t want to work…”

Love the benefits of a balanced work pattern for us all 😁😍🫶🏼😇

The workers in Unions in the past put a lot in to ensuring working hours and weekends and we are celebrating

Our weekly team meeting just took a creative turn! Poetic vibes, artistic sparks, and crafty magic all around.
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