Dr. Benan Gök completed her undergraduate studies in the Department of Business Administration at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Bursa Uludağ University, and received her master’s and doctoral degrees from the Department of Business Administration at the Institute of Social Sciences, Bursa Uludağ University. In 2023, she was awarded the TÜBİTAK 2219 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and conducted a one-year postdoctoral research project at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands, during which she continued her work within the framework of international academic collaborations.

Her research interests include diversity management, organizational behavior and organizational psychology, and behavioral sciences. Her studies primarily focus on inequalities in working life, leadership practices, and individuals’ experiences within organizational contexts. Adopting qualitative research methods, Gök mainly employs in-depth interviews and phenomenological approaches in her research.

Dr. Benan Gök has published numerous studies in national and international peer-reviewed journals and adopts an interdisciplinary perspective in her academic work, aiming to contribute to the behavioral sciences literature. Within the scope of diversity management, her research particularly addresses inequalities related to ethnic minorities, age, and gender.

In her teaching activities, she offers courses such as principles of management, organizational behavior, behavioral sciences, management and organization, diversity management, scientific research methods, business and professional ethics, crisis management, and human resources management, with the aim of providing students with both a solid theoretical foundation and a practice-oriented perspective.

In addition to her academic career, she conducts field research with leading global companies within Big Cat Research, thereby contributing to both the business world and the academic literature.