Dr Sait Bayrakdar

Assistant Professor (Research Focused)

Email: sait.bayrakdar@warwick.ac.uk

Profile

Dr Sait Bayrakdar is a sociologist who conducts research in the fields of sociology of education and youth, social stratification, intersectionality, migration, and social policy. His research primarily relies on quantitative methods to investigate how structural inequalities play out in people’s lives across the life course and in different domains of life.

Sait joined the University of Warwick in July 2024. He is currently working on the ThirdGen project, which investigates the socio-economic outcomes and care arrangements of descendants of labour migrants from Turkey. He is also one of the co-investigators of the Young Lives Young Futures project at King’s College London, which explores young people’s post-16 transitions with a particular focus on social equalities.

Research

Sait’s research interests are social inequalities, and his research covers a wide range of domains, including social mobility and stratification, migration, education, housing, and the labour market. He utilises quantitative data and advanced statistical methods to understand how seemingly individual outcomes are rooted in structural inequalities and how we can develop our understanding of these inequalities by moving beyond traditional modes of data analysis, which are often constrained by data availability limitations and methodological nationalism.

Publications

Journal articles

Eroğlu, S., Bayrakdar, S., & Guveli, A. (2024). Understanding the consequences of international migration for housing tenure: evidence from a multi-site and intergenerational study. Housing Studies, 1-23.

Gewirtz, S., Mcpherson, C., Bayrakdar, S., Maguire, M., Weavers, A., Winch, C., Laczik, A. & Newton, O. (2024). Creating more equitable school-to-work transitions for young people not taking the university route: An ‘equalities-ecologies’ framework. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 1-23.

Hall, M., Barbrook-Johnson, P., Bayrakdar, S., & King, A. (2024). Queer(y)ing Agent-Based Modelling for Use in LGBTQ Studies: An Example from Workplace Inequalities. Journal of Homosexuality, DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2022.2106464.

Bayrakdar, S., & Guveli, A. (2023). Inequalities in home learning and schools’ remote teaching provision during the Covid-19 school closure in the UK. Sociology, 57(4), 767–788.

Bayrakdar, S., & King, A. (2023). LGBT discrimination, harassment and violence in Germany, Portugal and the UK: A quantitative comparative approach. Current Sociology, 71(1), 152-172.

Bayrakdar, S., & King, A. (2022). Job satisfaction and sexual orientation in Britain. Work, Employment and Society, 36(1), 21-39.

Bayrakdar, S., & Guveli, A. (2021). Understanding the benefits of migration: Multigenerational transmission, gender and educational outcomes of Turks in Europe. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(13), 3037- 3058.

Coulter, R., Bayrakdar, S., & Berrington, A. (2020). Longitudinal life course perspectives on housing inequality in young adulthood. Geography Compass, 14(5), e12488.

Bayrakdar, S., Coulter, R., Lersch, P., & Vidal, S. (2019). Family formation, parental background and young adults’ first entry into homeownership in Britain and Germany. Housing Studies, 34(6), 974-996.

Bayrakdar, S., & Coulter, R. (2018). Parents, local house prices, and leaving home in Britain. Population, Space and Place, 24(2), e2087.

Guveli, A., Ganzeboom, B.G.H., Baykara-Krumme, H., Platt, L. Eroglu, S., Spierings, N., Bayrakdar, S., Nauck, B. & Sozeri, E.K. (2017). 2000 Families: identifying the research potential of an origins-of-migration study. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 40(14), 2558-2576.

Book

Guveli, A., Ganzeboom, B.G. H., Platt, L., Nauck, B., Baykara-Krumme, H., Eroḡlu, S., Bayrakdar, S., Sözeri, K. E. & Spierings, N. (2016) Intergenerational consequences of migration: Socio-economic, family and cultural patterns of stability and change in Turkey and Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Book Chapters

McPherson, C., Bayrakdar, S., Gewirtz, S., Maguire, M., Weavers, A., Laczik, A. and Winch, C. (2024), ‘Promoting more equitable post-school transitions: learning from the experiences of migrant youth in England’ in Promoting Inclusive Systems for Migrants in Education, Downes, P., Anderson, J., Behtoui, A. and Van Praag, L. (Eds.), Routledge.

Bayrakdar, S. (2015). ‘Does Ethnic Capital Contribute to the Educational Outcomes of Individuals with Turkish Background in Europe?’ in The Young And The Elderly at Risk: Individual Outcomes and Contemporary Policy Challenges In European Societies, Salagean I., Lomos C. & Hartung A. (Eds.), Intersentia.