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Kumar Ravi Priya
PhD (University of Delhi)
Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research Interest
Disaster Mental Health, Health Psychology, Cultural Psychology, Alternative Paradigms of Psychology, Research Methods
Office
FB-653,
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
Education
PhD, Psychology, University of Delhi, 20007
M.A., Psychology, University of Delhi, 2001
B.A. (Hons.), Psychology, University of Delhi, 1999
Selected Publications
Qualitative research on illness, well-being and self-growth: Contemporary Indian Perspectives
[Book], Ajit K. Dalal, Routledge (Taylor and Francis), New Delhi, (2014; in press)
The quest for promoting health and healing: The need for socio-historical contextualization of health psychology and community psychology in India[Book chapter], 6th Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) Survey or Psychology, New Delhi, (2014; in press)
Disaster Mental Health [Book chapter], Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Psychology [Wiley-Blackwell, USA], 2013
Trauma reactions, suffering and healing among riot-affected internally displaced children of Gujarat: A qualitative inquiry[Journal Article], Qualitative Research in Psychology [Taylor and Francis, USA], 2012
Awards & Fellowships
Awarded The Class of 1970 Young Faculty Research Fellowship 2013-2016 by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Invited and sponsored by The Chinese Academy of Sciences and the International Union of Psychological Sciences to join a Capacity Building Workshop on Disaster Mental Health at Beijing, China, 11-14 October, 2013
Invited and sponsored by The Chinese Academy of Sciences and the International Union of Psychological Sciences to join a Capacity Building Workshop on Disaster Mental Health at Beijing, China, 18-22 February, 2012
Received a Letters of Commendation from the Director, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur for teaching the Course, "PSY 454: Social Psychology" in the academic sessions 2008-2009, 2010-2011, 2011-2012 and for being tutor in the same course in the academic sessions 2008-2009 and 2011-2012
Received Junior Research Fellowship by the University Grants Commission (UGC), from 2001; it was enhanced to Senior Research Fellowship from 2003 to 2005