Günseli Naymansoy

Araştırmacı Yazar, Akademisyen

Doğum

13 Mayıs, 1954

Eskişehir

Eğitim

Chemical Engineering School of İ.T.İ.A

Burç

Boğa

KİMDİR
FOTOĞRAFLARI

Academician, lecturer, researcher and writer. She was born on May 13, 1954 in Eskişehir. She started her working life after graduating high school and worked as a civil servant, engineer, bank officer and lecturer. Although she came first in Eskişehir in the University Entrance Exam, she at continued second education at the Chemical Engineering School of İ.T.İ.A. Because she had to work.

After her graduation, she started to work as an engineer in a company that was one of the pioneers of the textile industry in Istanbul. The extremely unfavourable working conditions for female engineers in those years prompted her to pursue other pursuits. In the meantime, she graduated with a degree from the "German Program for Engineers", which was opened at the Goethe-Institut for the first time and probably for the last time.

She became a foreign exchange expert by passing the exam opened by a private bank. However, her desire to evaluate her engineering education and to convey her experiences to the women engineers who came after her led her to a new education. She graduated from Marmara University Atatürk Education Faculty English Language Teaching Department in 1993 with a degree.

She taught at a secondary school for a short time and then started to work as a lecturer at Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Department of Foreign Languages. The lecture notes she prepared on technical English were used for a long time in the department.

She wrote her first book "English for Economics and Management" in 2003 and taught it in the Industrial Engineering Department of the Faculty of Engineering. In the same year, she wrote the booklet named “What Kind of Citizen I am?”, which was published as a publication of Eskişehir Osmangazi University and used for public education.

One of the events she held at the university is the "Respect to the Atatürk Cycling Marathon", where they formed a cycling team for the first time in a university and drove 210 kilometres from Eskişehir to Ankara. She planned and implemented all the stages of this event and took part in the marathon in front of her team.

While working at Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Faculty of Engineering, she attended evening classes, studied Turkish Literature, completed her undergraduate degree and received her master's degree in this field. She did her doctorate in Ankara University DTCF Department of Philosophy, History of Science. She completed her thesis titled “Women of Science in Turkey and Their Contribution to the Development of Science” in 2009 and graduated with great success. Her thesis was the first study on this subject in Turkey. In addition, when her book "Atatürk's Engineer Daughters" was published, it was the first and only study on her subject.

She stated that Sabiha Rıfat Gürayman, first Turkish female engineer, was working as the control engineer responsible for the Anıtkabir construction and published an article about her. Later, she applied to the Chief of General Staff for a photograph of Gürayman to be placed in Anıtkabir. After her application was approved by the General Staff, the photograph was placed on the Anıtkabir Hürriyet Tower in 2008.

Naymansoy, who stated that she determined her academic purpose as "to carry out pioneering works that have not been done before" and therefore strives to improve herself constantly, recently graduated from Anadolu University Open Education Faculty Public Relations and Publicity Associate Degree Program as an Honour Student (2011). Naymansoy, who received the title of "Associate Professor" in 2018, has carried out many projects on the environment and women, and has written articles and books.

Explaining her purpose in life as "only to be a good and productive person", Naymansoy stated that she tried to be with the needy as much as possible throughout her life, that she worked as a volunteer teacher in various institutions for this purpose and even tried to make sick children in hospitals smile by being a clown.

Naymansoy, who says that if young people want to live in a better world, they must first strive to be a better person, still continues her activities and scientific studies for the benefit of society.

BOOKS:

Ben Nasıl Bir Yurttaşım?- What Kind of Citizen I am? (2003), English for Economics and Management (2003), Eskişehir’e Emek Veren Kadınlar (2007), Türkiye’de Bilim ve Kadın Kongresi Bildirileri- Proceedings of Science and Women's Congress in Turkey (2009, Editor) , Atatürk’ün Mühendis Kızları-Atatürk's Engineer Daughters (2010), Bilimde Cumhuriyet Kadınları- Republican Women in Science (2011), 50 Öncü Türk Kadını-50 Frontier Turkish Women (2012), Remziye Hisar - Türk Kimyasının Ana Kraliçesi- Remziye Hisar – the Queen of Turkish Chemistry (2012), Türk Felsefesinin Öncülerinden Tezer Taşkıra- Tezer Taşkıran, One of the Pioneers of Turkish Philosophy (2013), Eskişehir’e Emek Verenler-Those Who Work for Eskişehir (2014, 2019), Herkes Çevreciyim Der Ama…-Everyone Says I'm an Environmentalist But… (December 2014, February 2018,), 50 Öncü Türk Kadını - 50 Frontier Turkish Women (Turkish-English, 2015), Gölgeden Gerçeğe-From Shadow to the Truth (July 2019), “’Ben...’-‘I…’(September 2020)”, Korona’lı Günlerimiz-Our Corona Days (September 2020, February 2021), İnanırsan Başarırsın- If You Believe, You Will Succeed (September 2021), Anıtkabir’deki Kadın Eli-Woman's Hand in Atatürk's Mausoleum (March 2022)