Hamide Elif Üzümcü is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Social Sciences University of Ankara (SSUA). Before joining SSUA, she was based at the University of Edinburgh as an IASH–Alwaleed Postdoctoral Research Fellow, where she researched Sufi perspectives on the morals of socio-ecological interactions shared through the Sufi storytelling tradition within family relationships in the UK. Prior to this appointment, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on a multinational project in family sociology, conducting the UK fieldwork, and taught Sociology of Cultural Processes at the University of Padua in Italy, where she was awarded a PhD cum Laude (with Honours) in Social Sciences in 2021. Her doctoral research on children’s intrafamilial privacy, based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Türkiye, was awarded the Turkish Social Sciences Association’s Young Social Scientist Prize in 2023. Throughout her research career, she has worked as a visiting researcher at several centres for childhood studies, including the Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth (CIRCY) at the University of Sussex, the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) at the University of Edinburgh, and the Trinity Research in Childhood Centre (TRICC) at Trinity College Dublin. She has secured external funding for participation in international conferences, academic visits, academic memberships, and the organisation of scholarly events, including support from Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), Arqus European University Alliance, COST Action CA21143, British Academy Early Career Researcher Network and European Sociological Association. She currently serves as an editorial board member of Children & Society and as Communications Manager on the board of the International Sociological Association’s RC53 Sociology of Childhood research committee. Alongside her academic work, she continues to write sociological fiction, among these is the published story Chronicles of Constrained Negotiations.