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• Eda Purutçuoğlu is a doctor in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at Ankara University, Turkey. She graduated from Ms Programme at the same department with thesis titled as "The determination of consumer education needs of secondary-scho...More

  Eda Purutçuoğlu is a doctor in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at Ankara University, Turkey. She graduated from Ms Programme at the same department with thesis titled as "The determination of consumer education needs of secondary-school students" in 2003. She studied in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences at Glasgow University, UK, as a visiting student for preparing her Ph.D seminar paper titled as "Materialism as a consumer value" with Dr. Gerda Reith and Dr. Bridget Fowler during two months (02-04,2005). She completed her Ph.D thesis titled as "Investigating the relationship between demographic characteristics and materialistic orientations of university students and their attitudes and behaviours towards environment" on March 2008. She received a scholarship from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and studied in the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK with Dr. Kathrin Hörschelmann on her thesis as a visitor staff during three months (12,2006-03,2007). Her research interests include consumer education, consumer behaviour, values, materialism and environmental issues. Less

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