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Alita Nandi is a Professor at the University of Essex, affiliated with the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER). She serves as the Associate Director (Outreach) and co-Investigator for Understanding Society, overseeing user support and training activities. Her research focuses on ethnicity and gender, particularly ethnic and gender differences in mental health, wellbeing, and economic outcomes.
Key research areas include investigating the causes and consequences of harassment and discrimination, identity formation, and its impact on life outcomes. She has led projects such as the Misoc Project: Identity, behaviour and wellbeing and the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing initiative.
Alita’s publications span topics like ethnic disparities in pandemic response, social inequalities in psychological distress, religiosity and mental health, and the interplay between political and ethnic identity. Her work frequently appears in high-impact journals and policy reports.
She contributes to public discourse through media articles on hate crime, divorce trends, and pandemic-related remote work preferences. Her methodological expertise includes developing ethnic identity questions for surveys and analyzing longitudinal data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study.
