Dr. Mehmet Ali Dikerdem has been involved with Middlesex University for many years, teaching a wide range of courses on Third World development, social, urban and ethnic policy studies in social sciences and humanities, and was appointed 0.5 Lecturer in 1990 in social policy and ethnic studies, and was a founding member of the Race & Culture honours programme (1995-2001). He was also appointed 0.5 Lecturer at Bristol University's postgraduate Development Studies programme (1991-95)where he worked with the late Professor Peter Townsend.
Dr Dikerdem joined the Institute for Work Based Learning in 2002, becoming the Postgraduate Curriculum Leader for Work Based Studies (2003-8) and then Programme Leader for the Masters and Doctorate in Professional Studies (M/DProf) in 2009. Apart from the design and delivery of professional doctorates and work based learning programmes,his academic interests include practice based research methodologies,sociology of work and professions, Gramsci studies,multiculturalism, and Turkish migration and diaspora studies.
He is also a regular commentator on issues relating to Turkish-speaking communities in Britain and Turkish affairs. His BA is in Politics and Modern History from Manchester University (1992) and MA and DPhil in Sociology from Sussex University (1980).
Bilingual in Turkish and English with reading knowledge of French.
Dr. Mehmet Ali Dikerdem is the Programme Leader for the transdisciplinary Masters/Doctorate in Professional Studies, Module Leader for one of the core DProf modules on designing practitioner research and a core member of the DProf team. He has had international experience in design and delivery of professional practice modules at different higher education levels, as well as being invited as an External Assessor to validate similar programmes at different universities in the Britain. Over the years, as a M/DProf programme adviser (equivalent of a PhD Director of Studies) he has successfully steered through a large number of professional doctorate candidates in different professional fields as well as some social science PhDs.He has examined a large number of doctorates in both categories.
Dr Dikerdem is Academic Director of the Center for Advanced Professional Studies, Limerick, Ireland; Link Tutor for the Management Centre - Turkiye based in Istanbul delivering WBL masters programmes; Link Tutor for the joint WBL masters programme with one of TUrkey's elite universities, the Middle East Technical University (2008-). He is an adviser to the Ozer Group Educational Foundation in London.
I am currently focusing on a number of topics : such as what constitutes `doctoral' education ? Knowldge production in practitioner doctorates;professions and professionalism; intellectual origins of pratice based pedagogies; Gramsci and education; the `practice turn' in methodological approaches.
He is in the editorial board of Wblearning-ejournal.com and Higher Education Skills and Work-based Learning journal. He has represented the Institute in a number of key university committees at the request of the Director. He is a founder of the Turkish-Speaking Staff association as well as the Anglo-Turkish Education Fund at Middlesex University. He has been involved in local and national taskforces for the enhancement of educational attainment levels of Turkish-speaking communities in Britain.
Dikerdem, Mehmet Ali (2013) Researching the recognition of prior learning: international perspectives [Book review]. Studies in Continuing Education , 35 (1). pp. 124-126. ISSN 1470-126X
Dikerdem, Mehmet Ali (2013) New paths to research based doctorates. In: 4th World Conference on Learning, Teaching and Educational Leadership, 27-29 October 2013, University of Barcelona.
Costley, Carol and Dikerdem, Mehmet Ali (2011) Work based learning pedagogies and academic development. Project Report. Middlesex University, London, UK.
Gibbs, Paul and Dikerdem, Mehmet Ali and Elliott, Geoffrey and Garnett, Jonathan (2007) Introduction to a special issue on worker researchers. Research in Post-Compulsory Education , 12 (3). pp. 277-278. ISSN 1359-6748
Gibbs, Paul and Dikerdem, Mehmet Ali and Elliott, Geoffrey and Garnett, Jonathan (2007) Introduction [Adult education and lifelong learning]. Research in Post-Compulsory Education , 12 (3). pp. 277-278. ISSN 1359-6748
He is currently involved as a consultant in the World Health Organisation, Turkish Ministry of Health and Middlesex University bid for blended learning training for mental health staff in Turkey.
Dr Dikerdem is Academic Director of the Center for Advanced Professional Studies, Limerick, Ireland; Link Tutor for the Management Centre - Turkiye based in Istanbul delivering WBL masters programmes; Link Tutor for the joint WBL masters programme with one of TUrkey's elite universities, the Middle East Technical University (2008-). He is an adviser to the Ozer Group Educational Foundation in London.
