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Postdoctoral researcher (2024-2026), exploring the intersections of technology leadership, inferential social network analysis, and AI-informed student action, with a focus on how these areas, through their interconnections, strengthen school leadership, organizational learning, and student agency. Recent work has appeared in top-tier (Q1) journals such as, Journal of Educational Administration (2025), Educational Management Administration & Leadership (2025), Leadership and Policy in Schools (2025), Leading & Managing (2025), Journal of Professional Capital & Community (2025), School Leadership & Management (2024), Journal of School Leadership (2023), Professional Development in Education (2023).
Editor of Research in Educational Administration & Leadership (REAL), WoS & Scopus-indexed, open-access, non-commercial international journal. Also contributing as Interim AE for the International Journal of Leadership in Education, and serving on the editorial boards of Review of Education, Methodological Innovations, International Studies in Sociology of Education. Advisory board member of the Bloomsbury School Leadership Book Series.
Earned double PhD from Ghent University and Marmara University with distinction. Awardee of the 2021 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation by the EARDA-EERA. Awardee of the 2025 BELMAS Best Blog Runner-up.
Hold methodological expertise in programming for social network analysis and advanced quantitative modelling (RSiena, PNET, XPNET, StOCNET, Mplus, AMOS, LatentGold, Stata, SPSS, UCINET/NetDraw), with basic working knowledge of computer programming in C++, ASP.NET, and Python. Personally engaged with critical sociological perspectives, drawing on Marxist theory, Foucauldian discourse analysis, semantic network analysis, Bourdieusian sociology.
Lectured undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Leadership Theories, Philosophy of Education, Research Methods, Applied Statistics, Project Management across several universities. Recently supervised a Master's thesis (2023) on the links between instructional and technology leadership practices.
Long served as K-12 ICT teacher (10 years, still tenured) and Chief Project Executive (9 years) at the Maltepe District Governorship in Istanbul. In this role, led several education-focused social equity and inclusion projects as PI, securing over US$370,000 in grants from organisations such as UNHCR, Save the Children Istanbul, the Ministry of Development, and the European Union. Recognised as the PI of the Best State Project by the Turkish Ministry of Interior (see the project: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejtd.2021.100241)
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):
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Projects
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United Nations Of Maltepe: Cultural Integration of the 22 Nations in Maltepe through Music, Dance, Literature and Gastronomy Oriented Activities
BANOGLU, K. (PI), AKBULUT,, E. (Team Member), HACIHALIL,, R. (Team Member) & ULGEN,, S. (Team Member)
01/04/19 → 31/12/19
Project: Other project
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Development and Execution of a Psychosocial Development Model for Disadvantaged Youngsters Through Sports in Fighting Adistion
BANOGLU, K. (PI), ER,, S. (Team Member), BADEMCI,, S. (Collaborator) & KARADAYI,, F. (Collaborator)
01/09/18 → 01/09/19
Project: Research project
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The War is Over, Now is Time to Recover: Diagnosis and Treatment of School-age Syrian Refugee Children’s Post-traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD)
BANOGLU, K. (PI), AKINTI,, Z. (Team Member), KAVAL,, S. (Team Member), EREN,, U. (Team Member), YASSI,, D. (Team Member), BILGE,, N. (Team Member), OZTURKMEN,, U. (Team Member), DADA,, M. (Team Member), HUZMELI,, A. (Team Member), UNUBOL,, H. (Collaborator) & KORKMAZLAR,, U. (Collaborator)
01/01/18 → 31/12/18
Project: Research project
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Maltepe District Prepares for Disasters Through Volunteer Organization
BANOGLU, K. (PI) & DUZAGAC,, Y. (CoPI)
30/06/14 → 30/12/15
Project: Other project
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From confidence to impact: How school leaders’ self-efficacy moderates the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational learning in K-12 schools
GUMUS, S., LU, J., BANOGLU, K. & WALKER, A. D., Nov 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Educational Administration.Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
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Okul müdürlerinin öğretim ve teknoloji liderliği davranişlari arasindaki ilişkinin kanonik korelasyon analiziyle incelenmesi
DURAN, N. & BANOGLU, K., Mar 2025, In: Anadolu Journal of Educational Sciences International. 15, 1, p. 1-24Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
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Promises of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in reframing student agency and democratic participation in K–12 schools: Perspectives from student leaders
BANOGLU, K., PATRICK, J. & HACIFAZLIOĞLU, Ö., 2025, In: Leading and Managing. 31, 1, p. 90-111Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
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School principals’ networking preferences for instructional and administrative advice-seeking relations: Insights from inferential social network analysis
BANOGLU, K., KARATAŞ, İ. H. & GUMUS, S., Jan 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Educational Management Administration & Leadership.Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
4 Citations (Scopus) -
Scoping review of research on digital simulations and serious games in educational leadership and management
HALLINGER, P., BANOGLU, K. & GUMUS, S., 2025, In: Leadership and Policy in Schools. 24, 1, p. 178-199Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
5 Citations (Scopus)
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Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of 2019-2021
BANOGLU, K. (Recipient), 05 Nov 2021
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