Serde is a researcher specialising in housing with a legal perspective. Her expertise includes human rights law, international migration & refugee law, discrimination law, and public international law. She wrote her PhD on migrants’ and refugees’ right to access housing without discrimination under international law. Broadly, she is interested in law and political economy, social rights, and critical approaches to human rights law.

Before starting her academic career, Serde engaged with civil society on a voluntary basis in relation to different social and environmental causes such as resisting gentrification and climate change litigation. She worked as a voluntary translator for four years, with the aim of helping human rights practitioners in Turkey to have access to the judgments and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights.

Serde frequently presents her research on the right to housing at international conferences, workshops, and seminars. She has organized workshops and guest lectures on various facets of migration law, discrimination law, and human right law. She is the co-manager of the Lotus Project (https://lotus-100.com/). She was also part of the Oxford Reports on International Law team and prepared case notes for four views issued by the United Nations Treaty Bodies (https://opil.ouplaw.com/home/ORIL). She co-convened the Law, Theology and Culture seminar series at the Faculty of Law, Lund University (https://www.law.lu.se/research/research-environments/law-theology-and-culture). She is a member of the Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Group coordinated by Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law (https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/berkeley-center-on-comparative-equality-anti-discrimination-law/about-us/membership-list-2/#bb0-last-name-a-e-0).

Serde's research has been cited by the leading civil society organizations working against migrant homelessness in Europe. 

Serde teaches public international law, human rights law, non-discrimination, migration and refugee law, migration and social justice, and housing; specifically, housing discrimination against migrants and refugees, legal responses to such discrimination, and the right to housing more broadly.

LL.M. (Lund University); M.A. (Ankara University); B.A. (Ankara University); Attorney (Ankara Bar Association)