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Nikki Shure

(she/her)
Associate Professor in Economics, UCL

Nikki Shure is Associate Professor in Economics at the UCL Social Research Institute at University College London and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). She completed her PhD in Economics as a Weidenfeld Scholar at the University of Oxford with a focus on labour economics and education economics. Her research interests include non-cognitive skills and educational outcomes, gender and ambition, international comparisons of education systems, and inequalities in access to higher education and the labour market. Nikki’s research has been funded by the ESRC, British Academy, and Nuffield Foundation and featured in The Guardian, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, and The Economist.

Experience

  • 2020–present
    Associate professor, University College London
  • 2017–2020
    Lecturer, University College London

Education

  • 2016 
    University of Oxford, DPhil in Economics
  • 2012 
    University of Oxford, MPhil in Economics
  • 2009 
    Free University Berlin, MA in Intercultural Education
  • 2008 
    Georgetown University, BSFS in International Economics