Vineet Gairola, Awards

                                                                                                              Awards

2024

1. Excellence in Research Award 2024 given by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad. Excellence in Research Award is given to Ph.D. students who have showcased outstanding academic performance in the previous calendar year. The Honorable Director gives the award on the occasion of the IIT Hyderabad Foundation Day. 

2. Emerging Psychologists’ Programme 2024 winner of the International Congress of Psychology (ICP) 2024. The Emerging Psychologists’ Programme is intended to enhance communication between Emerging Psychologists from different countries and diverse cultural backgrounds, to promote an exchange of knowledge between established and younger scientists, and to help younger scientists acquire new insights into specific fields of psychology and psychology in general. Emerging Psychologists’ Programme – ICP 2024 Congress 

3. Emerging Scholar Award 2024 by Religion in Society Research Network, USA, for the Fourteenth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society. 2024 Conference | Religion in Society Research Network  

4. Division 36 Social Justice Task Force Research Grant given by the American Psychological Association for my Ph.D. proposal on ritual journeys of devī-devtās and divine embodiment in the Garhwal Himalaya. 

2023

1. Student Diversity Award from the American Psychological Association (Division 29) for the paper titled “Linking Body, Memory, and Divine Embodiment: Two Cases of Ritual Healers from the Garhwal Himalaya.” Dr. Lillian Comas-Diaz Student Diversity Paper Award | Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy (societyforpsychotherapy.org) 

2. APS Student Research Grant by the Association for Psychological Science (APS) for my doctoral research proposal, “Analysis of Psychological Meanings, Origins, and Patterns in Spiritual Ideation and Practice in Uttarakhand Himalayas.” Grants, Awards, and Symposia – Association for Psychological Science – APS 

3. Emerging Scholar Award by Religion in Society Research Network, USA, for the Thirteenth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society. 2023 Conference | Religion in Society Research Network 

                                                                      2022

4. Excellence in Research Award by the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad for outstanding research performance.

                                                                                                                    2021

1. Asian Student Membership Scholarship by The Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies.

2. Student Research Award by the Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Division 36 of the American Psychological Association (APA) for the Doctoral Proposal on the research on the Uttarakhand Himalayas.  

3. Medal and a certificate for completing a 100 km cycling challenge organized by dare2gear.com.

4. Psychoanalytic Research Exceptional Contribution Award by the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) for the paper titled “Bhagavad Gita and Psychotherapy: A Cure for Soul?” https://www.ipa.world/en/Awards_and_Prizes/Award_Pages/Psychoanalytic_Research_Exceptional_Contribution_Awards.aspx 

5. Stephen Mitchell Award by the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology, Division 39 of the American Psychological Association (APA) for the paper titled “On Wilfred R. Bion’s Way of Being: Linking Truth, Thought, and Nostalgia”. He wrote about how Wilfred Bion is a Psychoanalytic Mystic. 

                                                                        2019

1. Awarded Junior Research Fellowship from University Grants Commission (UGC) with 99.78 percentile.

                                                                                                                       2016-2018

1. Academic Merit Scholarship in M.A. Psychology (All 4 semesters).

                                                                                                                       2013-2016

1. Academic Merit Scholarship in B.A. Psychology (5 semesters).

2. Winner of “X-Factor” and Battle of Bands, inter-university competitions organized by the Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, Delhi, India. 

1. “Best Performance Award” for dance by Greenway Modern School, Dilshad Garden.