Working Lives Research Institute
Research Fellow
Janroj joined the WLRI institute in 2007 to work on a project on ‘Influences of identity, community and social networks on ethnic minority representation at work’ (with Dr. Jane Holgate and Prof. Anna Pollert). Currently he is part of a research team (PI Prof Sonia McKay) at WLRI, working on an EU funded research project entitled “ Study on Precarious Work and Social Rights”. This cross national comparative research project aims to provide a structured mapping of precarious work in each of the 12 EU Member States and its significance in the national and European labour market, including its impact upon specific social groups.
He has previously been part of a research team at Sussex Centre for Migration Research conducting fieldwork with Kurdish, Turkish and Turkish Cypriots migrants for the MIGSYS Research Project in the
He has been awarded a PhD degree by Burunel University for his thesis entitled “Transnational Media Audiences and Conflict: Turks and Kurds in Europe”. The thesis deals with how Kurdish and Turkish migrants in Europe (Sweden, Germany and UK) view the Turkish and Kurdish ethno-nationalist conflict in Turkey through the media.
Janroj has experience of working in
He has been co-lecturing since 2008 following modules at Faculty of Applied SocialSciences, London Metropolitan: IT and Society, Comparative International Communications, Globalisation and the Mass and Globalisation, Locality and Youth as well as Living Theory. He has also worked as associate lecturer, teaching “The Press in Britain”, Department of Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck (2010) and teaching assistant,
Dr Janroj Keles
Research Fellow
London Metropolitan University
Working Lives Research Institute
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
160-220, Holloway Rd., London N7 8DB
Email: j.Keles@londonmet.ac.uk
Tel (w)020 7133 5087
Tel (m) 0787 5149068
Holgate, J. Pollert, A and Keles, J (2009) Union decline, minority ethnic workers and employment advice in local communities. Industrial Law Journal 38:3. 412-416.
Keles, J (2011) The responses of Germany to trafficked forced Labour and extreme form of labour exploitation, Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University
Holgate, J. Pollert, A and Keles, J. (2009) Ethnic minority representation at work: An initial review of literature and concepts
Holgate, J. Pollert, A and Keles, J. (2009) To whom do I turn when I am invisible?: The experience of Kurdish workers who have problems at work?
Holgate, J. Pollert, A and Keles, J. (2009) The influence of identity, 'community' and social networks on how workers access support for work-based problems
Holgate, J. Pollert, A and Keles, J. (2009) Union decline and the lack of employment advice for minority ethnic workers in the UK: can community support organisations help to fill the gap?
King R, Thomson M, Mai N, and Keles J.Y. (2008) ‘Turks’ in
Keles, J. Kumarappan, L. Holgate, J. Pollert, A. (2010) Visualising ‘community’: an experiment in participatory photograpy among Kurdish Diaspora in the UK. Paper presented at Visual Sociology Study Group, BSA Annual Conference, Glasgow, 7-9 April 2010.
Holgate, J, Pollert, P, Keles, J.(2009) Union decline and the lack of employment advice for minority ethnic workers in the
Keles, J, Holgate,J, Pollert, P. (2009) To whom do I turn when I am invisible? The experiences of Kurdish workers who have problems at work. Paper presented at the British Sociological Association Annual Conference,
Holgate,J, Pollert, P, Keles, J. (2009) The influence of identity, 'community' and social networks on how workers access support for work-based problems. Paper presented at the International Labour Process conference,
2008: Banal Nationalism in Turkish media. Paper presented to "British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES)" organised by
2008: The representation of Turkish and Kurdish ethno-national conflict in the media, Paper presented to "Summer School in Media & Nationalism" organised by Universitat de Vic (UVic),
2007: The Turkish and Kurdish ethno-nationalist conflict and the role of Turkish and Kurdish media in the conflict. Paper presented to "Communication and Conflict: Propaganda, Spin and Lobbying in the Global Age" organised by
2007: The Development of Kurdish media in Diaspora. Paper presented to "KSSO seminar series", SOAS, London/UK, 14 May 07
Keles (2012) Kurds in Syria and the Old concepts of “Good Kurds” and “Bad Kurds”, Kurdnet.com
Keles(2012) Roj Tv Neden Kapatilmamali? ( Why should Roj TV not be shut down?), Gelawej, 2011 (Turkish)
2010 Telgraf Newspaper and Toplum Postasi on working conditions of Kuridsh migrants in the UK
2010 Turkish Times Newspaper on ethnic minority workers and labour market in the UK
2010 Telgraf Newspaper on HEFCE budget cuts and universities
2009 Telgraf Newspaper on EMRAW research fundings on BME workers
2007 Swedish Radio: interview on Kurdish audience and their media use and consumption (1/8)
2007 Yeni Ozgur Poitika newspaper on Kurdish Language (02.07)
2007 Telgraf Newspaper on Kurdish community (03.07)
1996 Aksiyon Dergisi on Habitat II conference in Turkey(78/06.96)
1996 Express newspaper on Turkey's human rights record(4/06.96)
Janroj has been organizing seminars since 2007 on identity, ethnicity, nationalism, gender, forced migration, racism, citizenship, human rights and minority rights and transnational media in the context of Kurds and Kurdistan, Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria.
Some of them are listed below
Defining the Nation: Kurdish Historiography in Turkey in the 1990s. speaker: Dr Konrad Hirschler of School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 4th May
Kurdistan in Iraq – progress and challenges, speaker Ms. Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman of Kurdistan Regional Government’s High Representative to the UK, chair: Dr. Konrad Hirschler, Senior Lecturer in the History of the Near and Middle East, SOAS, 20th March
Green Movement and national minorities in Iran, speaker: Dr. Said Sharm, 26th Febrary 2010,
Gender, Memory, and Political Discourse: The case of Anfal surviving women, speaker: Dr.Choman Hardi, Date, time and venue: 21rst January 2010
Presences and absences in stories about racism and disadvantage, speaker: Dr. Maja Cederberg of Oxford Brookes University, chair:Dr. Umut Erel of Open University, 22nd Oct, 2009
Citizenship and stateless Kurds in Syria. Mr. Robert Lowe of Chatham House, Dr. Amed Shamo, Independent Researcher, chair: Janroj Keles, 8th Oct, 2009
New communication technologies and Kurdish language and culture. speakers: Dr. Amir Hassanpour, Associate Professor of University of Toronto, Mr. Hassan Ghazi, independent researcher, Dr. Jaffer Sheyholislami, Assistant Professor of Carleton University, chair: Janroj Keles, 4 Apr, 09
The obstacles and options for a political and peaceful solution of Turkey’s Kurdish Question by former Kurdish Democracy Party MP and former political prisoner Mrs Leyla Zana, and Prof. Mary Davis, SOAS University, May 2008
Filmography
And the Clock Is Ticking, This documentary film gives an account of the situation of refugees in Germany, 2000
The Turkish Wedding Makers, documentary, Assistant Director for Christof Weinert, Prod. Arte broadcast December 02 Documentary about the Kurdish and Turkish Minorities' wedding celebrations.
Das Ufer, short film, 03 Abstract video
CuandoTeVi, short film, 03 Abstract video
•Keles, J. Kumarappan, L. Holgate, J. Pollert, A. (2010) Visualising ‘community’: an experiment in participatory photograpy among Kurdish Diaspora in the UK. Paper presented at Visual Sociology Study Group, BSA Annual Conference, Glasgow, 7-9 April 2010.
•Holgate, J. (2009) Adapt or decline: a trade union future for black workers? Paper presented at Critical Labour Studies Symposium. School of African and Oriental Studies. 21-22 November 2009.
•Holgate, J. Pollert, P. Keles, J. (2009) Union decline and the lack of employment advice for minority ethnic workers in the UK: can community support organisations help to fill the gap? Paper presented at the International Industrial Relations Association Annual Conference, Sydney, 24-27 August 2009.
•Keles, J. Holgate, J. Pollert, P. (2009) To whom do I turn when I am invisible? The experiences of Kurdish workers who have problems at work. Paper presented at the British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Cardiff, 15-17 April 2009.
•Holgate, J. Pollert, P. Keles, J. (2009) The influence of identity, ‘community’ and social networks on how workers access support for work-based problems. Paper presented at the International Labour Process Conference, Edinburgh, 6-8 April 2009.
