Dr. Burcu Özgün

Burcu Özgün is a research and teaching fellow in the Economic Policy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (EPIE) group, since June 2021. Burcu completed her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Economics at Middle East Technical University (METU), and her Ph.D. at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, at Utrecht University (NL), where she is Assistant Professor of Geosciences, Human Geography and Spatial Planning and Economic Geography.

Her research interests are economic geography, urban and regional studies, and text mining. Her current research focuses on the regional dimension of news media. She investigates how the frequency, sentiment and topics of the news in a region affects and is affected from the regional socio-economic characteristics. 

Buenstorf, Guido; Hindiyeh, Alana; Koenig, Johannes; Neumann, Liam Paul; Ozgun, Burcu (2026): From green thesis to green invention: tracing the contribution of PhDs to green technology transfer of german universities. Scientometrics [Online First]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05736-5.

Bünstorf, Guido; Hindiyeh, Alana; Neumann, Liam Paul; Ozgun, Burcu (2026): Projekt TRAFO2: Transformativer Wandel durch Transfer nachhaltigkeitsorientierter Forschung und universitäre Nachhaltigkeitsprofilierung? In: Ulrich Schmoch, Alexander Eickelmann, Justus Henke, Bastian Krieger, Jelena Spanjol, Giuseppe Strina, Fiona Witzigmann (Eds.): Erfolgreiche Gestaltung von Wissenstransfer an Hochschulen: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, 37–41. https://doi.org/10.24406/publica-7414.

Ozgun, Burcu; Grashof, Nils; Graf, Holger; Broekel, Tom (2026): Authenticity or strategy? How universities communicate the Sustainable Development Goals. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 13 (1), Article 740. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-026-07714-x.

Ozgun, Burcu; Broekel, Tom (2022): Assessing press releases as a data source for spatial research. REGION 9 (2), 25–44. https://doi.org/10.18335/region.v9i2.379.

Ozgun, Burcu; Broekel, Tom (2022): Saved by the news? COVID-19 in German news and its relationship with regional mobility behaviour. Regional Studies 58 (2), 365–380. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2145012.

Ozgun, Burcu; Broekel, Tom (2021): The geography of innovation and technology news - An empirical study of the German news media. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 167, Article 120692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120692.

Bloh, Johannes von; Broekel, Tom; Ozgun, Burcu; Sternberg, Rolf (2020): New(s) data for entrepreneurship research? An innovative approach to use big data on media coverage. Small Business Economics 55 (3), 673–694. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-019-00209-x.