Deniz N. Duru is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at the Department of Communication at Lund University. She holds a BA in Anthropology (first class honours) from SOAS and PhD/Dphil in Anthropology from the University of Sussex. She worked in the Sociology Department at the University of York and at the Media, Cognition and Communication Department at the University of Copenhagen, before joining The Department of Communication, at Lund University. Her research interests include conviviality, multiculturalism, diversity, social media, media anthropology, anthropology of Turkey, and refugees and migrants in Europe. She has published journal articles in the  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, MedieKultur, South European Society and Politics, Southeast European and Blacksea Studies and several book chapters with international publishers. She currently teaches Digital Ethnography, Digital Methods, Media and Diversity at the Masters' Level and Introduction to Media Studies, Public Opinion Building, Media Content Analysis and Research Methods in Media Analysis at the undergraduate level. She is the author of the book Conviviality in Burgaz: Living, Loving and Fighting on a Diverse Island in Istanbul (2024, Palgrave, Published Open Access), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52334-2. 

Since 2008, I have worked on various projects that investigated diversity, migration and media use in communities characterised by ethno-religious and socio-economic differences in Europe and its peripheries.

I am starting a new project funded by FORTE (8,025,000 SEK): "Digital Navigation of Migrants in the Swedish Labour Market: a multi-stakeholder and interdisciplinary approach" as a PI which will last for 3 years (2025 - 2028). 

I was the PI of the NOS-HS/Nordforsk funded network "Mobility and Digital Media Connections in Times of Crisis: Novel Methodologies and Nordic Directions (2023-2024)".

The previous project, Workaway, built on digital media use in mobility studies and long-term digital ethnography in Denmark. Transsol was an interdisciplinary and comparative Horizon2020 project on transnational solidarity towards migrants, refugees, unemployed and disabled people in Europe. The Eurochallenge project examined the ways in which migrants socialise and use social media as a communication tool between the state, the civil society, Danes and immigrants. We investigated differences among EU and non-EU migrants in accommodating to the Danish flexicurity labour and welfare regime during times of economic crisis (post 2008). During the Eucross (EU FP7 project), I investigated transnational cross-border practices, virtual mobility (internet and social media use), perceptions of diversity and multiple identities of Turkish and Kurdish migrants in Europe (UK, Denmark, Italy and Germany). 

My doctoral thesis proposal won the ORSAS (Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme funded by the UK government) competition, which was open to all disciplines within the university. I also received Sussex Anthropology Department Fellowship and was awarded the writing-up grant from the Funds for Women Graduates in the UK.