Rate My Professor Burcu Ozturk

Burcu Ozturk is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the School of Social Work at Wichita State University, part of the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She represents LAS Social Sciences on the university's Faculty Senate standing committees for the 2022-2025 term. Ozturk joined the faculty following her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oklahoma from 2021 to 2022. Her academic career emphasizes research in areas relevant to social work practice and policy.

Ozturk holds a PhD in Social Work from the University of Alabama School of Social Work (2020) and an MSW from Temple University (2015). Her research specializations center on domestic and relational violence, intimate partner violence survivors, particularly those from Middle Eastern immigrant communities, male survivors of domestic violence, coping strategies for gender-based violence, trustworthy traits in adults from the perspective of middle school girls, and the interplay of hope, adverse childhood experiences, and resilience within the criminal justice system, with a focus on reevaluating relationships in the Turkish context. She utilizes qualitative research approaches in her scholarship. Key publications include 'Listening to Stories of Healing From Middle Eastern Intimate Partner Violence Survivors' (Violence Against Women, 2024, with Debra Nelson-Gardell); 'Male Survivors of Domestic Violence, Challenges in Cultural Response, and Impact on Identity and Help-Seeking Behaviors: A Systematic Review' (Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 2024, with David Axlyn McLeod and others); 'Hope, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Resilience in the Criminal Justice System: Reevaluation of Relationships in the Turkish Context' (Social Sciences, 2024); 'Who Will They Turn to? The Perspectives of Middle School Girls Regarding Trustworthy Traits in Adults' (2023, with Christina R. Miller and David A. McLeod); 'Coping strategies among women exposed to Gender-based violence' (Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2022, with Z. Zonp and others); 'Domestic & relational violence' (2023, with David Axlyn McLeod); and 'Perspectives on Survivors of Violence Against Women Among Social Work Students' (2025, with B. Barut-Bektaş and others). Her work has been featured in conferences such as the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) and the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Annual Program Meeting. Ozturk's scholarship advances understanding of violence survivors' experiences, cultural responses, and help-seeking behaviors, contributing to forensic social work, immigrant issues, and family dynamics.