Sumru Nur Elden Email & Phone Number

Munich, BY, DE

• Participated in a month-long field project to assess the socioeconomic impacts of an airport expansion expropriation on local households
• Administered socioeconomic status, greenhouse, and employability surveys to households and their members
• Co-authored a report detailing a greenhouse improvement program, recommendations, and budgets for the lenders

• Contracted research assistant to conduct detailed research, analysis, and produce a report on recycling and sustainability in Turkey
• Carried out extensive literature research on the global waste trade, waste colonialism, waste trafficking, work conditions of the waste collectors
• Assisted with a week-long field research in the Adana province
• Co-authored the report

• Conducted a week-long field research in Western Turkey on child labor in tobacco cultivation for the the report titled “Under the Cover of Night: Child Labor in Oriental Tobacco"
• Surveyed over 20 people/children to conduct a statistical overview of the reasons for childlabor
• Designed interview questions under the project supervisor
• Carried out an extensive literature review of global cultivation trends, big tobacco firm tactics and their ESG projects, international cases, and NGOs working in child labor in tobacco through an extensive literature.
• Wrote a 10-page section of the report titled “Global Overview: Child Labor in Tobacco”, detailing the global tobacco supply chain, child labor practices and industry response

London, England, United Kingdom

• Supported the Global Investigations Team by investigating corporate records and registries, while also researching board member positions across a diverse range of companies to contribute insights to the investigative.
• Conducted in-depth analysis of the latest political developments and utilized i2 iBM to create Türkiye's political risk map
• Conducted media research related to potential compliance violations, fraudulent activities, and other irregularities within various organizations

• Performed comprehensive literature reviews on night work and worker conditions, care work during night-time hours, and climate change’s impacts on working conditions
• Compiled and analysed statistical data from the UK and the US to conduct a comparative study onoverall patterns for night and shift work
• Transcribed and meticulously edited interviews for a book chapter exploring the intersections of warehouse labor and night work

• Part of the team to evaluate the effectiveness of VSO’s project in Mozambique,focused on resilient livelihoods and agroecology
• Created interview questions for different actors involved in the project including farmers, localgovernments, volunteers
• Co-authored an internal project evaluation report, providing a detailed assessment of project effectiveness and future improvement recommendations.

• Editing 4-5 articles per month for the LSE IR society Grimshaw’s current affairs blog that produces different styles of analysis of international affairs
• Researched energy politics and its cross-section into international relations
• Authored two pieces that both received over 100 reads
• “Israel and Turkey restoring full diplomatic ties: a possible solution to the EU natural gas problem"
• “The Greek-French defense pact: its implications for the world’s new hot-zone, the Eastern Mediterranean"

• Conducted market research, and competitor analysis for Fablittlebag, a sustainable fit-for-purposedisposable bag to revolutionize the disposal of period products
• Produced an infographic detailing the sustainable and environmental impacts of Fablittlebagagainst its competitors

• Worked in a student consultant team which won the prize of best Reflective piece
• Conducted qualitative research for an NGO which promotes cross-cultural dialogue
• Interviewed over 10 leaders that have led online interfaith dialogue
• Wrote a 30-page research report detailing our findings on the effectiveness of online interfaith dialogues, a guideline to running them and future recommendations for the Dialogue Society

• Quality in Health Association is a charity for women with breast cancer.
• Founded and led the Youth Branch of the charity which specializes in helping women with breastcancer
• Produced campaign ideas to increase participation amongst young volunteers and finalized theprojects that the Youth Branch will work on
• Worked in the building of the website of the charity which was used for fundraising and showcasingthe charities work
• Organized a fundraising event by facilitating logistics and curating the art collection: Art for Healthwhere art pieces were sold to support the charity (2000 pounds were collected)
• Attended administrative meetings to keep and organize files and meeting records

Bachelor'S Degree, Politics And International Relations, First Class Honours

International Baccalaureate