Beril completed her DPhil (PhD) in law at the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law. Prior to joining Bristol Law School, she was a Lecturer in Digital Technology and Law at UCL STEaPP, a Lecturer in Law at New College, University of Oxford. 

Her research interests include subjects at the intersection of law and digital technologies. Her doctoral thesis offers a novel theoretical formula on the constituents of the public sphere and re-examines the public-private divide under article 6 of the GDPR (which lays down the lawfulness grounds for personal data processing) considering the transforming characteristics of the online realm. In this regard, she investigates the legitimacy of these lawfulness grounds and the public-private divide thereunder in light of the emergence of what she conceptualised as 'data dependent utilities'. 

She also worked on AI’s impact on Labour for Ada Lovelace Institute, and previously worked on the research project 'Enabling Trust, Security and Privacy for Policy Innovation in Tackling Modern Slavery' for the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, in cooperation with the Alan Turing Institute and Open Data Institute, researched the barriers to data sharing in the context of modern slavery policy interventions. 

Before her doctorate degree, she completed an LL.M. at the University of Pennsylvania Law School as a Fulbright scholar, following which she practiced law as a litigator and consultant and as a member of New York State and Istanbul Bars, with a particular focus on data protection law, administrative law, content regulations and contracts.