Dr Selçuk Bedük
Senior Departmental Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy
Dr Selçuk Bedük
Selçuk's research is centred around the main questions of poverty, inequality and social policy: how do we best measure and effectively respond to poverty? How does inequality accumulate over the life course and transmit across generations? Which welfare systems best reduce poverty and inequality, and provide security for all?
His recent work has focused on homeownership to understand its decline among younger generations.
Selçuk was the inaugural Barnett Scholar and completed his DPhil at DSPI in 2018 with a thesis on poverty measurement in the EU. He re-joined the department in October 2021, having previously worked as a Senior Research Officer at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex.
He is an associate member of the Nuffield College and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET) at Oxford.
For a full list of publications, recent research and teaching activities, check his personal website.
Bedük, S., Benassi, E. & Lersch, P. M. (2026) Are the children of homeowners increasingly advantaged? Trends in relative and absolute mobility of homeownership in Europe. European Sociological Review
Bedük, S. & Yong, A. (2026) Long-term childhood poverty in Britain: Trends and drivers across the 1991-2017 birth cohorts. Journal of Social Policy
Bedük, S. & Fasang, A. Harkness, S. Andrade, S. Büyükkeçeci, Z. Helske, S. & Karhula, A. (2025) Insurance against risk? Economic cost and compensation of job loss in different welfare states Socio-Economic Review.
Bedük, S. & Harkness, S. (2024) What explains intergenerational associations in home ownership and value in the UK? Investigating the transmission mechanisms. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 92,100951.
Fasang, A., Andrade-Bastholm, S., Bedük, S., Büyükkeçeci, Z., Helske, S. & Karhula, A. (2024) Lives in welfare states: Life courses, earnings accumulation and relative living standards in five European countries. American Journal of Sociology 130(2)
Bedük, S. (2023) Insured privately? Wealth stratification of job loss in the UK. Social Inclusion 11(1)
Bedük, S. (2020) Missing dimensions of poverty? Calibrating deprivation scales using perceived financial situation. European Sociological Review. 36-4.
Bedük, S. (2018) Identifying People in Poverty: A Multidimensional Deprivation Measure for the EU. Barnett Papers in Social Research. 18-03.
Bedük, S. (2018) Understanding material deprivation for 25 EU countries: risk and level perspectives, and distinctiveness of zeros. European Sociological Review, 1-16.
Bedük, S. (2018). Missing the Unhealthy? Examining Empirical Validity of Material Deprivation Indices Using a Partial Criterion Variable. Social Indicators Research, 1–25.
Bedük, S. (2017) Measuring poverty in the EU: Investigating empirical validity of deprivation scales. University of Oxford.
