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Dr Alita Nandi Senior Research Fellow & Associate Director for Understanding Society, University of Essex

Anandi
Email
anandi@essex.ac.uk
Telephone
01206 874699
Office
2N2.6.08
Curriculum vitae

Twitter: @alitanandi

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ORCID: 0000-0002-8743-6178

Research Interests

I am a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER). I conduct empirical research primarily in the areas of ethnicity and gender, specifically investigating differences in subjective wellbeing (e.g., life satisfaction, mental health) as well as economic wellbeing (e.g., income, wages). My other research activities are (i) in the formation, measurement and impact of identity on life outcomes, (ii) causes and consequences of harassment and discrimination, (iii) in measurement of institutional characteristics in developing countries and exploring their effects.

I am the Associate Director (Outreach) for Understanding Society and have contributed to its questionnaire design, particularly to the measurement of ethnic identity and identity across other dimensions and data management activities including partnership history datasets.

Research projects:

Understanding Society

What Works Wellbeing: Work, Learning and Wellbeing

The prevalence and persistence of ethnic and racial harassment and its impact on health: A longitudinal analysis

Poverty across ethnic groups through recession and austerity

Partnership dissolution and formation: how do they affect income, employment and well-being?

Misoc Project: Identity, behaviour and wellbeing

Teaching

Books

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    Publications

    Displaying publications 1 - 15 of 82 in total

    1. Ethnic disparities in health & social care workers’ exposure, protection, and clinical management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK

      A. Kapilashrami, M. Otis, D. Omodara, et al.

      1. Labour Market
      2. Public Policy
      3. Ethnic Groups
      4. Health
      5. Caregiving
      6. Covid 19

    2. Time trend analysis of social inequalities in psychological distress among young adults before and during the pandemic: evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study COVID-19 waves

      Thierry Gagné, Alita Nandi, and Ingrid Schoon

      1. Social Groups
      2. Area Effects
      3. Psychology
      4. Geography
      5. Demography
      6. Young People
      7. Labour Market
      8. Poverty
      9. Ethnic Groups
      10. Well Being
      11. Health
      12. Life Course Analysis
      13. Covid 19

    3. Religiosity and mental wellbeing among members of majority and minority religions: findings from Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study

      Ozan Aksoy, David Bann, Meg E. Fluharty, et al.

      1. Social Groups
      2. Religion
      3. Well Being
      4. Health
      5. Social Behaviour

    4. Understanding Society COVID-19 Survey briefing note: working at home

      Piotr Marzec, Alita Nandi, and Raj Patel

      1. Geography
      2. Sociology Of Labour
      3. Demography
      4. Labour Market
      5. Households
      6. Public Policy
      7. Household Economics
      8. Ethnic Groups
      9. Health
      10. Life Course Analysis
      11. Commuting
      12. Sociology Of Households
      13. Covid 19

    5. The EU referendum and experiences and fear of ethnic and racial harassment: variation across individuals and communities in England

      Alita Nandi and Renee Reichl Luthra

      1. Politics
      2. Area Effects
      3. Crime And Justice
      4. Psychology
      5. Geography
      6. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
      7. Demography
      8. Migration
      9. Poverty
      10. Ethnic Groups
      11. Well Being
      12. Life Course Analysis
      13. Social Attitudes
      14. Sociology
      15. Social Stratification
      16. Social Behaviour
      17. Social Psychology
      18. Race Relations

    6. Understanding Society at 10 years

      Lucinda Platt, Gundi Knies, Renee Reichl Luthra, et al.

      1. Social Groups
      2. Area Effects
      3. Geography
      4. Interdisciplinarity: Social Sciences
      5. Survey Methodology
      6. Research
      7. Health
      8. Life Course Analysis
      9. Surveys
      10. Sociology
      11. Biology
      12. Genetics
      13. Covid 19

    7. Briefing note COVID-19 survey: ethnic differences in effects of COVID-19: household and local context

      Alita Nandi and Lucinda Platt

      1. Area Effects
      2. Social Networks
      3. Psychology
      4. Geography
      5. Demography
      6. Migration
      7. Households
      8. Living Standards
      9. Ethnic Groups
      10. Well Being
      11. Health
      12. Covid 19

    8. When does hate hurt the most? Generational differences in the association between ethnic and racial harassment, ethnic attachment, and mental health

      Alita Nandi, Renee Reichl Luthra, and Michaela Benzeval

      1. Social Groups
      2. Area Effects
      3. Social Networks
      4. Psychology
      5. Geography
      6. Demography
      7. Migration
      8. Ethnic Groups
      9. Well Being
      10. Social Psychology
      11. Race Relations

    9. Ethnic diversity in the UK: new opportunities and changing constraints

      Lucinda Platt and Alita Nandi

      1. Social Sciences
      2. Migration
      3. Research
      4. Ethnic Groups
      5. Surveys

    10. Unravelling the ‘immigrant health paradox’: ethnic maintenance, discrimination, and health behaviours of the foreign born and their children in England

      Renee Reichl Luthra, Alita Nandi, and Michaela Benzeval

      1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
      2. Social Groups
      3. Social Networks
      4. Migration
      5. Ethnic Groups
      6. Health
      7. Social Behaviour
      8. Race Relations

    11. The relationship between political and ethnic identity among UK ethnic minority and majority populations

      Alita Nandi and Lucinda Platt

      1. Politics
      2. Psychology
      3. Migration
      4. Ethnic Groups

    12. Religiosity and mental wellbeing among members of majority and minority religions: findings from Understanding Society, The UK Household Longitudinal Study

      Ozan Aksoy, David Bann, Meg E. Fluharty, et al.

      1. Social Groups
      2. Religion
      3. Well Being
      4. Health
      5. Social Behaviour

    13. Political and ethnic identity

      Alita Nandi and Lucinda Platt

      1. Politics
      2. Psychology
      3. Migration
      4. Ethnic Groups

    14. Prevalence and mental health consequences of ethnic and racial harassment: a briefing for the IOPC

      Alita Nandi and Renee Reichl Luthra

      1. Crime And Justice
      2. Psychology
      3. Ethnic Groups
      4. Well Being
      5. Health
      6. Social Psychology
      7. Race Relations

    15. Low income dynamics among ethnic minorities in Great Britain

      Victor Perez, Ricky Kanabar, and Alita Nandi

      1. Households
      2. Poverty
      3. Income Dynamics
      4. Ethnic Groups

    Media

    Displaying media publications 1 - 15 of 58 in total

    1. Most people working from home want to keep doing it, new analysis using Understanding Society data

      1. Geography
      2. Sociology Of Labour
      3. Demography
      4. Labour Market
      5. Households
      6. Public Policy
      7. Household Economics
      8. Ethnic Groups
      9. Health
      10. Life Course Analysis
      11. Commuting
      12. Sociology Of Households
      13. Covid 19

    2. Britain’s mixed-race population blurs the lines of identity politics

    3. Lies, damned lies and citizenship tests

    4. Why are more men filing for divorce than ever before?

    5. Separation effects: do women and children fare the worst financially after family separation?

    6. After the Pakistan school attack, we need to talk about Islam

    7. Is it time to drop the word 'ethnic' from our vocabulary?

    8. Women & children hit hardest by relationship break-ups

    9. Mothers and children suffer the most in family breakups

    10. Mothers and children suffer the most in family breakups, research suggests

    11. Women and children hit hardest by relationship break-ups as it is revealed that one in five single mothers fall into poverty after splitting with their partner

    12. Music unites UK faiths

    13. Being British. How do ethnic minorities feel when considering their Britishness?

    14. Asians feel more British than white people

    15. Non-British people more connected with British society

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