Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University achieved great success within the scope of TÜBİTAK 2209-A University Students Research Projects Support Program and 84 student projects were accepted by TÜBİTAK.

Thanks to teamwork and student-academician cooperation, our students ensured that it was the period in which the highest number of student projects were produced and accepted throughout history of our university.

These projects, in which our students who have to work while participating in the distant education process during the pandemic period, also contributed, emerged as a result of intensive labor.

Among these researchers, Ceren Tekin who is a student at Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Labor Economics and Industrial Relations Department participates with her 11-month-old child Gurur Aslan during the project writing process and integrates motherhood with her researcher identity.

Tekin, who also works as a deputy manager in a retail market, attends all the meetings related to the project with his little son Gurur Aslan.

Ceren Tekin, who worked as a researcher in the project “Pandemic Process in the Eyes of Working Students” carried out by R.A Dr. Hilmi Etçi, states that she sometimes has great difficulties while fulfilling the roles of mother, researcher, spouse and manager.

R.A. Dr. Hilmi Etçi changed the thoughts of Ceren Tekin, who thought that she could not take part in a project because she was the mother of a young child and was working at the same time. Saying that the idea of participating in the project is one of the best decisions she has made in her life, Tekin says that in order to succeed, one must first believe and trust in herself:

One morning in the lesson, our lecturer Hilmi Etçi took us to the conference of our lecturer Tuğba Uçma Uysal on TÜBİTAK projects. While our Tuğba and Ceray lecturers gave information about the projects, I was content with just listening, thinking since I was working and could not spare time for it. This year, when our Hilmi lecturer contacted us and asked if we wanted to take part in the project, I was interested in this time. My son was younger at that time. Due to the lack of time, together with my other friend İbrahim İskin, who took part in the project, we scanned the sources during the day, and at night, we drafted the project. We wanted to do our best and do something on behalf of our University, Faculty and Department and we succeeded. A nice teamwork brought us a great success with it.

Saying that she loves learning and teaching, Ceren Tekin’s biggest wish is to take part in bigger projects with her son.