Şule Yaylacı is a political scientist interested in peace and conflict studies, race, ethnicity and migration, as well as political psychology. She received her PhD from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She has a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Administration from the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK, and a BSc in Political Science and Public Administration from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. She was a Banting postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) at Georgetown University. She has fieldwork experience in Turkey and Peru.

At ISIM, she is conducting research on the social cohesion between Syrian refugees and their host society in Turkey, aiming to comprehend the relationship between these two groups and whether their shared experiences have brought them closer together or further apart.