Dr. Garima Rajan

Broad Areas of Research Interests and Expertise:  Positive Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics, and Psychometrics.

Currently Working On: Executive Functioning, Emotion Regulation and Well-Being Indicators of Yoga-Meditation Practitioners; Cognition, Emotion and Well-Being; Assessing Student and Faculty Well-Being in Indian Universities; Workplace Well-Being; Digital Well-Being; Adversity Quotient; Potential of Positive Psychology Interventions (PPIs) within the Indian Context; Examining Emotional Intelligence; Demystifying Happiness; and, Exploring Factors Influencing Resilience and Optimism.  

BIO

Dr. Garima Rajan is an accomplished Assistant Professor of Psychology at FLAME University, Pune, India. With a Ph.D. in Psychology from IIT Delhi, she possesses a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the field of psychology.

Dr. Rajan has a total of ten years of experience in research and teaching. Prior to joining FLAME University, she was associated with IIT Delhi, India for five years as a Teaching Assistant and also had a one-year stint at Mississippi State University, USA. In her current role, she teaches Positive Psychology, Methods of Psychological Testing, and Social Psychology to undergraduate students. Additionally, she guides psychology dissertations for students enrolled in Postgraduate Diploma in Interdisciplinary Studies & Research.

Her broad research interests encompass positive psychology, cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, and psychometrics. More specifically, she works in the area of yoga-meditation and its cognitive benefits along with other psychological benefits across several well-being indicators on different populations. She also works towards untapping the potential of Positive Psychology Interventions (PPIs) in the mainstream Indian education system and how it can help enhance student and faculty well-being. Her other areas of research include fostering strategies to help improve overall employee well-being, build resilience, prevent burnout, and boost productivity.

Her Ph.D. research focused on the psychological, affective, and cognitive benefits of yoga, meditation, and other positive practices, and involved the use of qualitative interviews, psychological assessments, cognitive tasks, and experiments. Additionally, she developed a smartphone application, PsyEx, for the purpose of data collection. She has examined executive functioning and emotion regulation in positive and negative symptom dimensions of schizophrenia for her Master’s thesis and self-conscious emotions and emotion regulation in depression and bipolar affective disorder for her Undergraduate Honours thesis. Along with her robust research aptitude, she has also demonstrated a strong scholastic orientation during her formal academic training in psychology. She has been a college topper in psychology and secured a second position at the University of Delhi. 

Dr. Rajan has published numerous research papers in reputed national and international journals and has presented her work at several conferences. She is an active member of various international and national professional organizations, including the American Psychological Association (APA), the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA), the National Positive Psychology Association (NPPA), the International Congress of Psychology (ICP), the National Academy of Psychology (NAOP), and the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology (IAAP). She is a highly motivated and dedicated individual committed to advancing the field of psychology through her research and teaching.

In her free time, Dr. Rajan enjoys singing, reading, and traveling. 

Get in touch for research collaborations, consultancy projects, guest lectures, invited talks, conducting webinars and workshops in different subfields of psychology at: 

rajan.garima@gmail.com or +91 8527513415