Esra Kaya Erdoğan completed her undergraduate degree in Sociology at Istanbul University and her PhD in Sociology at the MSGSU Department of Sociology. Her doctoral dissertation was published as the book Bayağı Kalabalığız: University Student Unemployment (2021). Since her graduate studies, she has taken part in numerous research projects supported by national and international institutions. These research projects, on which her academic production is based, focus on urban transformation and spatial history research in Istanbul, the relationship between migration and space, local governments and policies, and youth and precariousness. She has given lectures on urbanisation and politics, urbanisation policies, local governments, research methods and sociology at Maltepe, Okan and Yeni Yüzyıl universities. She has contributed to books such as Istanbul’s Festivals; Mülk, Mahal, İnsan; Defending Cities; In Social Memory, Time and Space: Maltepe; In the Shadow of Authoritarian Neoliberalism; Youth Research in Turkey; Current Sociological Debates; The New Social through the Lens of Care; 100th Year of the Republic: Urbanisation and Urban Society; and Poverty in the Age of Multiple Crises: Critical Approaches to Social Policy and Social Work. She still gives various lectures at universities and continues her research studies.