Sociolinguist- Multilingualism & Migration- 🎓Honorary Research Fellow @ucl @IOE_London| MA @KingsCollegeLon PhD @Unibogazici| 💼@Ist29MayisUni
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Mar 23
At #AAAL2026 in Chicago, I spoke about my book, which examines the housing crisis through a sociolinguistic lens. I specifically focused on how language shapes access to housing and how unequal linguistic capital and migrancy produces precarity in shared homes.
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Jan 21
Great to meet @hasretsaygi yesterday and chat about all things #housing. Her new book on shared housing in London’s toxic private rental sector is a fascinating analysis of household dynamics, precarious and anxieties. Well worth reading!
Jan 20
A brilliant conversation today with @PaulWatt1232 on how housing crises are lived and negotiated in everyday life. My book frames shared housing as a communicative crisis, while Paul’s work offers powerful insights into regeneration and social mixing. Excited about the overlaps.
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Jan 20
A brilliant conversation today with @PaulWatt1232 on how housing crises are lived and negotiated in everyday life. My book frames shared housing as a communicative crisis, while Paul’s work offers powerful insights into regeneration and social mixing. Excited about the overlaps.
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Jan 20
My book is about London’s single millennials sharing houses with strangers. It examines how “home” is built through everyday interaction in London’s shared houses. It treats housing precarity as a communicative and social crisis.
link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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Join us on January 14th for an important educational seminar focused on supporting Turkish as a heritage language in the UK.
🔗 Register here:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/education…
🗣️ The seminar will be conducted primarily in Turkish.
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24 Dec 2025
As 2025 comes to an end, I’ve been reflecting on how much I learned and grew through the projects I worked on. A major turning point was publishing my first book on London's shared houses, genuinely the most exciting milestone for me. link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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24 Dec 2025
Another highlight was my collaboration with Dr. Sara Young. We looked at how Turkish families integrate into the British education system and their educational migration processes, everyday challenges they face around schooling, language, and belonging. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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24 Dec 2025
Also had time to reflect on forced migration to Turkey, through two co-authored Turkish articles
• Heritage language education of Syrian children in Istanbul dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/jler…
• Shifting values of Arabic in TR as it becomes associated with refugees dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/huef…
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1 Nov 2025
📢 My open-access article with Dr. Sara Young is out in JMMD. We explore the growing trend of Turkish middle-class families migrating to the West for their children’s education, framing it as both a sacrifice and an aspiration. @tandfonline @WeAreTandF
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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1 Nov 2025
Drawing on in-depth interviews with mothers in London, we examine how families invest emotionally, linguistically, and financially in their children’s futures, idealising Western schooling as a path to global opportunity and belonging.
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1 Nov 2025
Yet, migration often comes with hidden costs: downward mobility for parents, pressure on children to “succeed,” and family tensions around language, identity, and belonging.
Mothers’ stories reveal both hope and hardship in this pursuit of the “British dream.”
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22 Sep 2025
RT @LondraEgitim: UCL’de görev yapan Dr. Sara Young ve Dr. Hasret Saygı, iki dilli çocukların eğitimi üzerine görüş alışverişinde bulunmak…
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11 Sep 2025
Amazing #BAAL2025 in Glasgow! Warm hospitality from the City Chambers, inspiring talks & reconnections.
Proud my UCL Honorary Appointment is extended 3 more years 🙌
Also a fruitful London meeting with the Turkish Education Counsellor’s Office to plan our research! @UofGlasgow
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1 Sep 2025
'Risky Communications and Precarity in London's Shared Housing' examines the experiences of single professionals living in shared housing in London, focusing on how language, communication, and social inequalities shape these living arrangements. bit.ly/4g2auKZ
ALT Risky Communications and Precarity in London's Shared Housing
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30 Aug 2025
#NewBook alert: 'Risky Communications and Precarity in London's Shared Housing: Speaking Home' by Hasret Saygı has just been #PublishedByPalgrave!
This #PalgravePivot explores how language influences access to housing and dynamics within shared houses: link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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8 Jul 2025
Exciting news! My first monograph from @Palgrave is out for pre-order! A sociolinguistic take on how language, inequality and shared living practices shape life in London’s shared homes.
Millennials, this one’s for (and about) you!
👉Amazon pre-order link bit.ly/4lrsekL
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2 May 2025
Değerli hocam @hasretsaygi ile birlikte çalıştığımız, "Türkiye'deki Suriyeli öğrenciler ve Arapça" konusunu tartıştığımız makalemiz Dil Eğitimi ve Araştırmaları Dergisi'nin son sayısında yayında. Alana katkı sağlaması dileğiyle.
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13 Mar 2025
I spoke at Warwick’s MIT Network about my forthcoming book, to be published by Palgrave, where I bring a sociolinguistic lens to London’s housing crisis by exploring language, identity & household relations in shared houses. Recording of my talk is below:
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/…
12 Mar 2025
Many thanks to all of our attendees for joining us today and a special thank you to our speaker @hasretsaygi for an inspiring talk!
Check our website for the recording and more updates on future sessions!
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/…
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6 Mar 2025
The @BritishAcademy_ Conference 2025, now hybrid @StirUni! My talk 'From Affinity to Stigma: Arabic Language in Turkiye’s Migration Context,' will share data from 3 fieldworks, revealing urban-rural divides, educational backgrounds and intergenerational differences. 15:10 (GMT)!
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