Prof. Ferit Serkan Öngel is a faculty member at Gaziantep University. He holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning and has an interdisciplinary academic background intersecting with communication studies and statistics. His research brings together urban studies with labour relations and social policy, focusing on the regional consequences of industrialization and deindustrialization, transformations in employment and labour regimes, local government and public policy, and labour processes and forms of organization. Öngel uses the global value chain and production network literature as a spatial lens to analyze industrial regions, labour relations, and institutional change through field research. In addition to his Turkey-focused work, he has contributed to comparative research initiatives examining labour and politics across the Indonesia–Turkey axis. He also engages in collaborative research and joint publication activities with CiTUA (Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa). He has participated as a researcher in joint reports on cooperatives, employment, and social cohesion, and has contributed to editorial and publication work on cooperatives. His teaching spans social policy, labour relations, urban politics, occupational health and safety, and public administration.