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Dr. Hasret Saygı is a sociolinguist specialising in multilingualism, migration, and intercultural communication. Her research investigates how language functions within migration contexts to shape belonging, identity, and inequality.
She completed her MA in Applied Linguistics at King’s College London and earned her PhD from Boğaziçi University, a leading research university in Turkey. Her doctoral research was awarded the Thesis of the Year in recognition of its scholarly distinction. During her doctoral studies, she was a visiting researcher at the Universitat de Lleida (Spain), and she subsequently held a postdoctoral research position at the Institute of Education, University College London. Her graduate and postdoctoral research was supported by the Research Council of Turkey in recognition of academic merit.
Dr Saygı is currently a Lecturer at Istanbul 29 Mayıs University and holds the position of Honorary Research Fellow at the University College London. She has presented her work at over twenty international conferences and published in leading peer-reviewed journals in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. She is the author of Risky Communications and Precarity in London’s Shared Housing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).
