Dr Muradiye Ateş is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and Birkbeck, University of London. She is a faculty member at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University. Her research focuses on social innovation, welfare state transformation, and demographic change, with expertise in social risk groups—especially women and older adults—as well as digitalisation and the future of work.

She was a Rajawali Fellow (2016–2017) at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she contributed to the establishment of the Social Innovation Studio and engaged with the work of Stephen Goldsmith on governance and innovation. Since then, she has been based in Türkiye, working across academia and NGO-led initiatives, contributing to research and practice in social development and policy innovation. She has also served as a country expert in international programmes and has been actively involved in European research frameworks, including COST Actions such as Work Inequalities in Later Life Redefined by Digitalization (DIGI-net).

Dr Ateş completed her PhD in social policy at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University and holds BA and MA degrees from Vienna University of Economics and Business. She is married and has three children.

Selected articles:

Lakomý, M., Majetić, F., & Ateş, M. (2026). Bourdieu’s capitals matter: tracking longer working lives across Europe. European Journal of Ageing. Published 29 April 2026. Open access.