Eylem Atakav is Professor of Film, Gender and Public Engagement at the University of East Anglia where she teaches courses on women and world cinema; gender and Middle Eastern media, and documentary. She is the author of Women and Turkish Cinema: Gender Politics, Cultural Identity and Representation (2012) and editor of Directory of World Cinema: Turkey (Intellect, 2013). She is the director of Growing Up Married – an internationally acclaimed documentary about forced marriage and child brides in Turkey; and co-director of Lifeline, a documentary that reveals the reality of working in the frontline of the domestic abuse sector in the UK during the pandemic. She is currently completing a new documentary about migrant victims/survivors of domestic violence in England. 

Gender politics and Middle Eastern media; feminist documentary practice; religion and cultural identity; public engagement with research

Documentary; World Cinemas; Women, Islam and media; Middle Eastern cinemas; Women and Film

• BA (Hons) Film, Television and Radio Studies (Ankara University, 2003)

• MA Media Studies (Southampton Solent University, 2004)

• PhD Film, Media and Cultural Studies, 'Representation of Women in Turkish Cinema in the 1980s' (Nottingham Trent University, 2009)

• Associate Pro Vice Chancellor - Global Engagement (August 2022 - ongoing) 

• Aurora Network - Institutional Coordinator (August 2022 - ongoing)
• Chair, International Executive (August 2022 - ongoing)  
• Chair, Institute of Volunteering Research Delivery Group (September 2022 - ongoing) 

• Associate Dean - International, Faculty of Arts and Humanities (July 2017 - July 2021)