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

Alita Nandi
Email
anandi@essex.ac.uk
Telephone
4699
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 am a quantitative social scientist and 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). I am also interested in the causes and consequences of harassment and discrimination, formation, measurement and impact of identity on life outcomes and, measurement of institutional characteristics in developing countries and exploring their effects.

I am the Associate Director (Outreach) for Understanding Society and oversee the study’s user support and training activities. I have also contributed to the study’s Ethnicity Strand, questionnaire design and data management activities.

Research projects:

Understanding Society

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

What Works Wellbeing: Work, Learning and Wellbeing

Evolve Workplace Wellbeing

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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Latest Publications

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

  1. A. Kapilashrami
  2. M. Otis
  3. D. Omodara
  4. Alita Nandi
  5. A. Vats
    6. , et al
  1. Labour Market
  2. Health
  3. Covid-19
  4. Public Policy
  5. Ethnic Groups
  6. Caregiving

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

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

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

  1. Ozan Aksoy
  2. David Bann
  3. Meg E. Fluharty
  4. Alita Nandi
  1. Health
  2. Well Being
  3. Social Groups
  4. Social Behaviour
  5. Religion

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

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

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

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

Understanding Society at 10 years

  1. Lucinda Platt
  2. Gundi Knies
  3. Renee Reichl Luthra
  4. Alita Nandi
  5. Michaela Benzeval
    6. , et al
  1. Life Course Analysis
  2. Surveys
  3. Survey Methodology
  4. Health
  5. Covid-19
  6. Area Effects
  7. Biology
  8. Geography
  9. Research
  10. Social Groups
  11. Interdisciplinarity: Social Sciences
  12. Genetics
  13. Sociology

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

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

Ethnic diversity in the UK: new opportunities and changing constraints

  1. Lucinda Platt
  2. Alita Nandi
  1. Surveys
  2. Migration
  3. Research
  4. Social Sciences
  5. Ethnic Groups

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

  1. Renee Reichl Luthra
  2. Alita Nandi
  3. Michaela Benzeval
  1. Health
  2. Social Networks
  3. Migration
  4. Social Groups
  5. Social Behaviour
  6. Ethnic Groups
  7. Drug/alcohol Abuse
  8. Race Relations

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

  1. Alita Nandi
  2. Lucinda Platt
  1. Psychology
  2. Migration
  3. Politics
  4. Ethnic Groups

Latest Media

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

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

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

  1. Alita Nandi
  2. Lucinda Platt

Lies, damned lies and citizenship tests

  1. Alita Nandi

Why are more men filing for divorce than ever before?

  1. Mike Brewer
  2. Alita Nandi

How ethnic and racial harassment damages mental health

  1. Alita Nandi
  2. Renee Reichl Luthra

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