Biography
Selçuk Bedük is a Departmental Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy at the University of Oxford.
His research examines poverty, inequality, and comparative social policy, with recent projects focusing on the intergenerational persistence of homeownership in Europe (funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung), long-term childhood poverty in Britain, and the financial consequences of job loss across welfare states.
Selçuk holds a DPhil in Social Policy from Oxford, with a background in Economics. He was the inaugural Barnett Scholar at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention and is currently an Associate Fellow of Nuffield College.
You can find more up-to-date information in his website: https://sites.google.com/view/beduk
Recent Publications
Oct 2025
Insurance against risk? Cost and compensation of job loss in different welfare states
in Socio-Economic Review
Selçuk Bedük , Anette Eva Fasang , Susan Harkness , Stefan B Andrade , Zafer Buyukkececi , Satu Helske , Aleksi Karhula
in Socio-Economic Review
Selçuk Bedük , Anette Eva Fasang , Susan Harkness , Stefan B Andrade , Zafer Buyukkececi , Satu Helske , Aleksi Karhula
Sept 2024
Lives in Welfare States: Life Courses, Earnings Accumulation, and Relative Living Standards in Five European Countries
in American Journal of Sociology
Anette Eva Fasang , Stefan Bastholm Andrade , Selçuk Bedük , Zafer Buyukkececi , Aleksi Karhula
in American Journal of Sociology
Anette Eva Fasang , Stefan Bastholm Andrade , Selçuk Bedük , Zafer Buyukkececi , Aleksi Karhula
Jun 2024
What explains intergenerational associations in home ownership and value in the UK? Investigating the transmission mechanisms
in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Selçuk Bedük , Susan Harkness
in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Selçuk Bedük , Susan Harkness
