Melis Kirgil
Assistant Professor in Societal Transitions and Behavior Change
TSB: Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
TSB: Department of Organization Studies
Bio
My research focuses on societal transitions and behavior change at different levels of analysis. I investigate how collective intentionality affects cooperation on the micro, meso and macro level. In another line of research, I study leadership and governance in times of crisis via computational and qualitative text analysis. I am currently interested in gender norms over time and across different social spheres (i.e. in organisations, families and networks).
I completed my PhD in Sociology at Stockholm University and was a visiting PhD student at Duke University and Utrecht University.
Courses
- Introduction to Organization Studies
- Wicked Problems 101
- Empirical Research Premaster Organ. Stud
- Introduction to Organization Studies
Recent publications
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Cooperation sustainability in small groups - Exogenous and endogenous…
Kirgil, Z. M., & Wittek, R. (2023). Cooperation sustainability in small groups: Exogenous and endogenous dynamics of the sustainability of cooperation. Rationality and Society. Advance online publication. -
Shared understanding and task-interdependence in nursing interns’ col…
Teekens, T., Giardini, F., Kirgil, Z. M., & Wittek, R. (2023). Shared understanding and task-interdependence in nursing interns’ collaborative relations: A social network study of vocational health care internships in the Netherlands. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 37(6), 999-1009. -
“Do your part: Stay apart”: Collective intentionality and collective …
Kirgil, Z. M., & Voyer, A. (2022). “Do your part: Stay apart”: Collective intentionality and collective (in) action in US governor's COVID-19 press conferences. Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts, 93. -
The advent of the COVID-19 epidemic did not affect Americans’ endorse…
Vartanova, I., Eriksson, K., Kirgil, Z. M., & Strimling, P. (2021). The advent of the COVID-19 epidemic did not affect Americans’ endorsement of moral foundations. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. -
The Role of Network Structure and Initial Group Norm Distributions in…
Kohne, J., Gallagher, N., Kirgil, Z. M., Paolillo, R., Padmos, L., & Karimi, F. (2020). The Role of Network Structure and Initial Group Norm Distributions in Norm Conflict. In Computational Conflict Research (pp. 113–140)