Diplomas
PhD in Design Thinking, Business Innovation and Transformation
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
(2015)
Master of Science, Industrial Design on Disruptive Innovation
Istanbul Technical University , Istanbul
(2009)
Bachelor of Industrial Design
Middle East Technical University, Ankara
(2005)
Experiences
Head of Msc Entrepreneurship & Innovation for Impact
Audencia Business School, Nantes
2024 - 2025
Head of major - Entrepreneurship
Audencia Business School, Nantes
2022 - 2023
Academic Consultant Researcher- GROW Citizen Science Observatory
University of Dundee, Dundee
2016 - 2019
Lecturer
NAVITAS- International College at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
2016 - 2018
Lecturer- Design thinking and Innovation
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
2016 - 2017
Deputy Manager- Retail- Communication and Interior Design
IKEA, Istanbul
2007 - 2010
Publications
Published
GULARI N., DZIUBA A., HUOPALAINEN A., (2025). Connecting Art, Maintenance, and Motherhood: How Ukeles’s Maintenance Art Shapes Our Understandings Of Maintenance.
Gender, Work and Organization, 32 (2), 544-569
GULARI N., DZIUBA A., HANNULA A., KUJALA J., (2025). Artist-led Practices for the Inclusion of Nonhuman Stakeholders.
Journal of Business Ethics, 199, 231-253
GULARI N., ZECCA C., (2021). Between Contested Opaque Territories And Spontaneous Reappropriation.
ASTRÁGALO, 29 (2021), 175-188
GULARI N., MELIORANSKI R.-H., ER O., FREMANTLE C., (2017). The Future of Design Support: What Can We Learn From Design Support Experience in the UK, Estonia and Turkey?.
The Design Journal, 20 (Sup1), 669-680
GULARI N., DOUGLAS A., (2015). Understanding experimentation as improvisation in arts research.
Qualitative Research Journal, 15 (4), 392-403
GULARI N., (2015). Metaphors in Design: How We Think of Design Expertise.
Journal of Research Practice, 11 (2)
MALINS J., GULARI N., (2013). Effective approaches for innovation support for SMEs.
Swedish Design Research Journal, 2 (13), 32-39
GULARI, N., ZECCA, C. (2023). Contested border urbanism: Learning from the Cyprus dispute. In Quazi Mahtab Zaman, Greg G. Hall (Eds.), Border Urbanism:Transdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 387-402). Springer.
GULARI N., DZIUBA A., (2025). Layered temporality of sensemaking in the extreme context of war through existentialist philosophy of absurd.
GULARI N., STERVINOU S., MOREL C., (2025). "Are you scared of falling?” Performing Alternative Organising- The Case of a Circus.
DZIUBA A., GULARI N., VESA M., (2025). How sensemaking unfolds in creeping crises: Expanding sensemaking theory through Camus’s Absurdity.
STERVINOU S., GULARI N., MOREL C., (2025). “Are you scared of falling?” Performing Alternative Organising, from Principles to Practices- The Case of a Circus.
GULARI N., DZIUBA D., (2024). Navigating Liminality In The Extreme Context Of War Through Existentialist Philosophy and Everyday Practices.
GULARI N., DZIUBA D., (2024). Ontology of remoteness: Connecting with nonhuman nature through working in collective artist residency.
GULARI N., DZIUBA A., HEIKKINEN A., KUJALA J., (2023). KNOWING THROUGH ARTIST-LED PRACTICES FOR THE INCLUSION OF NATURE AS A STAKEHOLDER.
GULARI N., DZIUBA A., (2023). Recognition of maintenance work through Ukeles’ maintenance art.
DZIUBA D., GULARI N., (2023). Navigating liminality in the context of war through theathre.
GULARI N., DZIUBA D., (2022). Inclusion of the environment as a stakeholder: An art-based approach to stakeholder engagement.
DZIUBA D., GULARI N., (2022). Collective artist residencies as sources for new ways of knowing, re-imagining the present, and re-interpreting sustainability.
GULARI N., EVANS D., (2023). Business Models and Strategic Growth in Second-hand Fashion: The Case of Faume.
Case Centre
EVANS D. S., GULARI N., (2023). Business Models and Strategic Growth in Second-hand Fashion: The Case of Faume.
Case Centre
EVANS D. S., GULARI N., (2022). Strategic Partnership in Value Creation in the Second-hand Clothing Market:.
Case Centre
Press articles
GULARI N., FREMANTLE C., (2021). Learning Arts Organisations: Innovation through a Poetics of Relation.
Arts, 10 (4), 83
Scientific activities
Reviewer for an academic journal
Journal of Cleaner Production
2013
Awards and honors
Maupertuis 2025, 2025
IABS -Best published paper runner up, 2025
Journal of Business Ethics' R. Edward Freeman Journal of Business Ethics Philosophy in Practice Best Paper Award. 2025, 2025
EURAM Best Paper Award (SIG- Business for Society), 2024
AOM-Best Paper Notification, SIM division-Runner up the Best Paper, 2023
Best Paper Award, 2009