Sharon is an incoming PhD candidate at the Australian National University, Canberra, where she will be working on temporary migration and gender. She was also a Visiting Fellow at the Nepal Institute for International Cooperation and Engagement, Kathmandu. She specializes in gender politics and non-traditional security challenges in the Indo-Pacific and South Asia. Sharon is also a short-term consultant for Borders and Broader Conversations, undertaken by the Union of Civil Liberties based in Bangkok, Thailand. She is also a reviewer for the special issue of the Journal of Peace and Justice Studies published by the University of Villanova, USA. She was a guest faculty member at Kathmandu Don Bosco College, where she taught the seminar course on the gender implications of Sustainable Resource Management in Nepal. She holds an MPhil from the University of Hyderabad and a Master's from the Central University of Kerala. She was previously working as a Research Associate with the Centre for Public Policy Research, Kochi, where she led the International Relations vertical and specialised in Indo-Pacific and nontraditional security challenges. As an ardent advocate for an increased ocean-linked outlook for India’s multilateral and bilateral approaches, she has played a significant role in organising important international dialogues based on maritime security and nontraditional security challenges in the region with partners including the Fredrich Naumann Foundation South Asia and the Japanese Consulate General in Chennai.

Sharon is passionate about gender dimensions of public and foreign policy. She produces and hosts the Southbound podcast series where she discusses gender mainstreaming from a South global perspective with experts in domains such as foreign policy, International relations, foreign trade, climate change, and so on. During her research experience at IIT-Madras and the University of Hyderabad, she worked with international communities of Tibetan refugees and Egyptian feminist CSOs, to gather primary and secondary data. She also has extensive field experience with Tibetans in exile in Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka.

Sharon has taken part in several roundtable conferences and panel discussions at national and regional levels organised by universities and consulates. She is a member of the Indo-Pacific Circle and also contributes regularly to newspapers like The Daily Guardian, Live Mint, and Financial Express.