Shriya Dixit

Education and Professional Background

• University assistant (PraeDoc) at the Language Testing Research Group Innsbruck, Department of Subject-Specific Education, University of Innsbruck | since October 2026.
  PhD research project: How do adult migrants experience the integration process in Austria and Flanders when completing a language test for integration?

• Erasmus Mundus Master’s in Global Studies, University of Leipzig | 2023 - 2024, and University of Vienna | 2024 - 2025. 
  Specialisation: Migration studies, social mobility, international relations, global governance.
• Master of Arts in German Philology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India | 2020 - 2022.
  Areas of specialisation: Literary studies in the German-speaking world (18th–21st centuries), didactics, translation studies, intercultural communication.
• Bachelor of Arts in German Philology, Psychology and Linguistics, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India | 2016 - 2019

 

• Work Experience: Intern, Delegations Department Indo-German Chamber of Commerce | February 2023 – July 2023

Research Interests

• Migration, integration and social mobility

• Labour market integration and the recognition of qualifications

• Teaching Methodology and Foreign Language Teaching (German as a Foreign Language)

• Global Governance and International Development

Teaching

• Freelance German as a Foreign Language (DaF) Trainer and Course Facilitator | since 2018