Academic Achievements/Awards

• • Excellence in Research Award 2024 from IIT Hyderabad

  • Eligibility in UGC-NET for Assistant Professorship, December 2019

  • Eligibility in Karnataka State Eligibility Test (KSET) for Lectureship, December 2014

  • First Rank in M.Sc. Psychology of Bangalore University, 2014

  • ‘Central College Gold Medal’ for the highest marks in M.Sc. Psychology from Bangalore University, 2014

  • ‘Prof. M.S. Thimmappa Gold Medal’ for the highest marks in Clinical Psychology in M.Sc. Psychology from Bangalore University, 2014

  • The ‘Best Outgoing Student (2009-12)’ Award in B.A. from Surana College, Bangalore

Grants and Fellowships

• • Researchers in Global South Grant (Fall 2024) of USD1000 for the proposal “How do you see us? and How can you see us?” A creative participatory research dissemination project on disability and neurodivergence in India’ from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), Division 9, American Psychological Association (APA) (https://www.spssi.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewPage&pageID=2700&nodeID=1)

  • Conference travel grant of INR 1,58,000 from IIT Hyderabad to present an oral paper at the 17th NNDR conference, University of Helsinki, Finland

  • 17th Nordic Network on Disability Research (NNDR) Conference 2025, Helsinki (Finland) registration fee stipend of EUR 450

  • Leeds Disability Conference 2024, United Kingdom, Bursary for campus attendance of £320 (unutilized)

  • 16th Nordic Network on Disability Research (NNDR) Conference 2023, Reykjavik (Iceland) registration fee bursary of EUR 590 (unutilized)

  • Doctoral Fellowship from the Ministry of Education (Erstwhile MHRD), Govt. of India to pursue Ph.D. in IIT Hyderabad from 2020-25