Research Experience:

Ministry of Panchayati Raj, RuTag, IIT Delhi                     August, 2020 to Present

Research Assistant 

• • • Preparing video content for psycho-educational awareness

    • Total content created (11 vidoes)

    • Youtube channel link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBPQsxB23EOUKNtoqFO6y4Q

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi                                     July 2018-Present

PhD Researcher                                                                  

•  Developing psychological test for assessing positive and negative risk taking in adolescents.

• Coding of psychological experiments (for hot and cold cognition, risk taking and others) in Psychopy.

• Thematic Analysis of qualitative focus group data using NVIVO software.

•  Performing Quantitative analysis on data using SPSS, AMOS, and R.

University of Delhi:                                                                           July 2016- April 2018 

Master’s Thesis:   “Relationship between supernatural belief, existential crisis anxiety, spiritual intelligence, subjective wellbeing and quality of life among young and elderly in Delhi, NCR”  

• Research design, Data collection, Data analysis and Report writing.

• Established psychometric properties of study measures  for Indian population.

• Performed content analysis on qualitative survey data derived from 30 young and 30 elderly using NVIVO.

• Performed multivariate analysis on data of 60 young and 60 elderly using SPSS.

University of Delhi                                                                          May 2017-July 2017

Summer Master Internship Research: “Social Skill intervention for adolescents with Asperger’s Syndrome: A single case design” - Manuscript in Preparation 

• • • Prepared case history and mental status examination Report.

    • Performed psychometric assessment to identify problem areas in adolescents.

    • Complied review of literature on social skill training (on appropriate eye contact and Social communications) in adolescents with Asperger’s Syndrome.

    • Developed intervention plan for problem area (eye contact and Social communications).

    • Conducted 18 sessions of social skill training (e.g. socio-dramatic plays, prompts, group Art therapy, and real life exposure to situations).

    • Analyzed intervention results and prepared the single case design report.

Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi                          Jan 2016 -March 2016                      

Undergraduate Researcher                                  

• • • Initiated, designed, and executed the projects titled " Spiritual Intelligence & Quality of life among college going youth in India” - Published 

    • Performed data collection, compilation and analysis of data using SPSS

    • Prepared introduction, results and methodology sections of manuscript for publication

    • Presented work at local conference in front of 20+ people.

Research Project done as a part of Practicum during Postgraduate Studies (Overall 20 projects done)

Applied Psychology Unit, University of Delhi                              Supervisor: Prof S.P.K Jena

• Studied changes in cognitive performance of an individual before and after social stress condition (RPM without social stress, Hyperventilation (5 minutes); RPM under Social stress).

• Hands on training for data collection on 16 channel EEG machine (Biopac student lab system).

• Compilation and tabulation of data, Analysis of EEG data (one channel with three points FP1, F7) and Masteriod, and Report writing.

Applied Psychology Unit, University of Delhi                           Supervisor: Dr Gopal Mahakhud

• Studied effectiveness of yoga intervention (5 sessions) on abstract reasoning, executive attention, and processing speed of college going adults.

• Conducted psychometric assessment of DAT pre and post yoga sessions.

• Performed report compilation, data collection and  analysis using SPSS software

Applied Psychology Unit, University of Delhi                           Supervisor: Dr Vibhuti Gupta 

Topic: Developing  a situation specific scale for measuring Compassion.

• Item development for the domain

• Evaluation of content validity, Data collection for items, Estimating psychometric properties of the scale (EFA) using SPSS.

• Report Writing

Research Project done as a part of Practicum during undergraduate Studies (Overall 32 projects done)

 Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi                              Supervisor: Dr. Sanjay Singh

Topic: Developing a Psychological Scale on "Attitude Towards Xenotransplantation"

• Item development for the domain 

• Evaluating content validity of the items, data collection for the scale, 

• Estimating the psychometric properties of the items using SPSS

• Report Preparation 

Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi                              Supervisor: Dr. Sneh Kapoor

Topic: Understanding the lifestyle Issues of college going female population using FGD

• Preparing FGD manual (Items, Instructions and Ground rules)

• Moderation and Transcription for FGD

• Thematic data analysis  and Report writing

Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi                              Supervisor: Dr. Sneh Kapoor

Topic: Pro-environmental Intervention

• Phase 1: Survey data collection and statistical analysis (Pearson r) using SPSS

• Phase 2: Intervention development for reducing electrical consumption among paying guest college population  and intervention conduction.

• Report Writing