Overview
Background
Nikita is a quantitative researcher with extensive experience working with large-scale surveys, longitudinal datasets, and administrative records. Her current research helps nonprofits understand their impact and informs their program design and practice to support disadvantaged people. Her work focuses on the integration of immigrants and refugees, volunteer turnover, disaster recovery, labour market inclusion, and wellbeing.
Availability
- Dr Nikita Sharma is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours) of Economics, University of Calcutta
- Masters (Coursework) of Economics, University of Calcutta
- Doctor of Philosophy of Applied Economics, The University of Queensland
Works
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2023
Other Outputs
Doing social science in 2032: charting national research infrastructure priorities
Ceron, Isabel, Hatherly, Chris and Sharma, Nikita (2023). Doing social science in 2032: charting national research infrastructure priorities. Decadal Plan for Social Science Research Infrastructure 2023–32. Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.8173275
2023
Conference Publication
The effects of educational capital, cultural and linguistic proximity, and age of arrival on the labour market outcomes of foreign-born university graduates in Australia
Zajac, Tomasz, Tomaszewski, Wojtek, Sharma, Nikita and Western, Mark (2023). The effects of educational capital, cultural and linguistic proximity, and age of arrival on the labour market outcomes of foreign-born university graduates in Australia. ISA RC28 Spring Meeting, Paris, France, 23-26 May 2023.
2023
Conference Publication
The effects of educational capital, cultural and linguistic proximity, and age of arrival on the labour market outcomes of foreign-born university graduates in Australia
Zajac, Tomasz, Tomaszewski, Wojtek, Sharma, Nikita and Western, Mark (2023). The effects of educational capital, cultural and linguistic proximity, and age of arrival on the labour market outcomes of foreign-born university graduates in Australia. RC28 Spring Meeting 2023 'Education and Social Inequality across the Life Course', Paris, France, 24-26 May 2023.
2023
Conference Publication
Labour market outcomes of university graduates of migrant background in australia: the relevance of cultural, linguistic, and educational capital in the country of origin
Tomaszewski, Wojtek, Zając, Tomasz, Western, Mark and Sharma, Nikita (2023). Labour market outcomes of university graduates of migrant background in australia: the relevance of cultural, linguistic, and educational capital in the country of origin. XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 25 June-1 July 2023.
2022
Other Outputs
CRISP Evaluation Plan
Povey, Jenny, Cook, Stephanie, O'Flaherty, Martin, Burger, Sarah-Ann, Lee, Rennie, Liudmila Druzenko, Karlee O'Donnell, Sharma, Nikita, Lata, Lutfun Nahar, Young, Charlotte, San Martin Porter, Macarena, Hoffstaedter, Gerhard, Martin, Sean, Edwards, Ben, Baxter, Janeen and Reddel, Tim (2022). CRISP Evaluation Plan. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Institute for Social Science Research.
2021
Conference Publication
Immigrants and job satisfaction in Australia
Sharma, Nikita (2021). Immigrants and job satisfaction in Australia. Western Economic Association International (WEAI) Conference, Online, 17-19 March 2021.
2021
Conference Publication
Does quality matter? Immigrants and job satisfaction in Australia
Sharma, Nikita (2021). Does quality matter? Immigrants and job satisfaction in Australia. 2021 International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS) Conference, Online, 24-28 August 2021.
2018
Conference Publication
The economic assimilation of immigrants in Australia: a reappraisal
Sharma, Nikita (2018). The economic assimilation of immigrants in Australia: a reappraisal. The Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE) Conference, Seoul, South Korea, 13-15 December 2018.
2018
Conference Publication
The economic assimilation of immigrants in Australia: A reappraisal
Sharma, Nikita (2018). The economic assimilation of immigrants in Australia: A reappraisal. The Asia Pacific Sociological Association (APSA) Conference, Hakone, Japan, 5-7 October 2018.
Funding
Past funding
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