For any queries about the research project or the Digital Museum of Sufi Stories and Art by Children and Families, or if you are interested in taking part, please contact Dr Hamide Elif Üzümcü at: hamideelif.uzumcu@ed.ac.uk
Dr Hamide Elif Üzümcü is a TÜBİTAK 2219 International Postdoctoral Fellow and an Associate Fellow at the Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World at the University of Edinburgh. Elif is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Social Sciences University of Ankara in Türkiye.
During her current research stay for the Sufi Storytelling Project, she is a Nominated Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh. She was previously based there as an IASH–Alwaleed Postdoctoral Fellow. Elif’s research interests include Islamic environmental ethics, Sufi narrative and cultural heritage, childhood studies, intra- and intergenerational family relationships. She is currently researching Sufi perspectives on the morals of socio-ecological interactions shared through the Sufi storytelling tradition within family relationships in the UK.
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