PhD Candidate, Sociology
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Dilan Eren is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology. She works at the intersection of work, occupations, and organizations by adopting a cultural sociology lens to examine topics of social inequality. Her dissertation, “The Self-Taught Economy: Open-Access and Inclusion in the Tech Industry,” studies how aspiring developers without a computer science degree make sense and use open-access to coding skills initiatives to get jobs in tech. She adopts a longitudinal perspective and uses multiple methods (including surveys, in-depth interviews, and digital ethnography and observations) to understand how open access to coding initiatives may alter or not the existing regimes of inequalities and make tech more or less diverse. To learn more about Eren’s research and publications, visit her departmental profile page or visit her website.
In Spring 2022, Eren received travel funding to present at the European Groups for Organizational Studies provided by CISS. For more information on this grant and the grant recipients, see our featured article here.