A project executed by two academic staff members of IMU Department of Sociology has been entitled to be supported within the scope of TUBITAK 1002-Fast Support Program. Asst. Dr. Ayşe Polat is the project coordinator and Res. Asst. Dr. Zübeyde Demircioğlu is working as a researcher for the project titled ‘Experiences of Filiation Teams in Istanbul during the Covid-19 Pandemic Process: A Multidisciplinary Phenomenological Analysis’.
The project focuses on the experiences of healthcare workers who perform the ‘filiation’ (case and contact detection) activities carried out to keep the COVID-19 pandemic under control in Turkey. As part of the project, in-depth interviews will be held with the filiation teams working in various districts of Istanbul, and information will be collected about how the filiation studies have been carried out since the beginning of the pandemic, how the participants experienced the fieldwork, and the difficulties they faced individually and professionally. The project also aims to examine the opinions of the teams about the organization and its operation, the problems they identified during the process, and the solution proposals.
We congratulate our faculty members and wish them continued success.