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Dr Pınar Dinç is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. Since completing her Ph.D. at the Department of Government at the London School of Economics, her research has focused extensively on the links between political power, conflict, climate change, environmental degradation and migration among marginalised and oppressed communities. Her current research is mainly focused on Turkey, Syria, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Palestine in the Middle East.

Dr Dinç's interdisciplinary research lies at the intersection of political science, political ecology, human geography and physical geography. She was a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow between 2018 and 2020, leading the project Turkey Beyond Borders: Critical Voices, New Perspectives project since 2020. She is currently the Principal Investigator of the interdisciplinary project ECO-Syria, which examines conflict-environment interactions in North and East Syria.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 15 - Life on Land
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

UKÄ subject classification

  • Social Sciences

Free keywords

  • Turkish politics
  • Kurdish politics
  • Conflict
  • Identity politics
  • Social movements
  • Environmental politics
  • Nationalism
  • Memory Studies
  • LSSMC: Qualitative Methods Lab
  • Middle Eastern studies

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