Hande Dönmez Gülenoğlu is a PhD candidate in Political Science and Sociology at Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, and a member of the Center on Social Movements Studies (COSMOS).  Her research interests focus on mobilization and everyday contestation under authoritarianism with a focus on environmental and lifestyle movements in Turkey.

She holds a BA in Political Science and Public Administration from Hacettepe University and an MA in Political Science of Ankara University, Turkey. Previously, she worked as a qualitative researcher in various research projects in the field of migration and gender funded by international donors including ICMPD, MMC and DRC.

Research interests: mobilization under authoritarianism, everyday politics, everyday contestation, environmental movements, lifestyle movements