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Shilpa Pandit, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Shilpa Pandit

Associate Professor

PhD (University of Madras)

+91.99.62269944

[email protected]

http://www.dreampathfoundation.com/

       


Research Interests: Leveraging technology for mental health in rural India, lay counselors for health, adolescents and youth, social entrepreneurs/change makers among youth, music and the sense of surprise/wonder/awe/adbhuta, visualization and meditation, the phenomenology of being ‘present’/‘ here and now’, neuro-phenomenology of advanced meditation states, social psychology and law


Profile    

Shilpa is a Chevening Fellow (CRISP) from the University of Oxford, UK,(2018). She also received the Fulbright Fellowship to work on Music and Psychology in 2024. 

Research

Social Psychology, Health Psychology, Music and Sound Therapy, Mental Health and Law. 

 

Publications

Books:

Pandit S.A.(2025) A Textbook on Social Psychology and Law in India: A Textbook on Social Psychology and Law in India: Navigating the Intersection | SpringerLink

Pandit S.A. (2025) Introduction to Psychology: Global Outlook, Indian Perspectives (2025) - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003506249/introduction-psychology-shilpa-pandit

Pandit S.A.(2023) Decolonising Consciousness: Reclaiming the Indian Psychology of Well-being - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003336204/decolonizing-consciousness-shilpa-ashok-pandit

Journal Papers and Book Chapters

Pandit, S. A., Nanavati, A. A., Mehta, B., & Yadav, S. (2025). Distress, coping and emotional health during the gradual opening of university systems, post COVID19, in India. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 30(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2025.2455542

Pandit, S.A. (2024). Bridging the Self-Other Divide: Rasa, Self-Transformation, and Well-Being in Indian Psychology. In: Misra, G., Misra, I. (eds) Emotions in Cultural Context. International and Cultural Psychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46349-5_4

Pandit, S.A. Reclaiming Indian Psychology: Some Reflections. Psychol Stud 69 (Suppl 1), 40–45 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12646-023-00755-1

Iyer, A. V., Venkatraman, A., Pandit, S. A., & Ananthanarayanan, R. (2023, October 23). Can Consciousness cease?: A perspective from Hindu contemplative traditions. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3n8af

Pandit, S. A. (2022). Conceptualising Bhāvana: How do contemplative Hindu traditions inform understanding emotions and well-being? Culture & Psychology, (sagepub.com) 1354067X221118919.

Pandit, S.A. & Annamraju, RK (2022), Indigenous World-Views in the Post COVID-19 World: Towards a Necessary Integration of Indigenous World-Views in Development and Health Discourse. Journal of Future Studies, 27(2).

Pandit S. A. (01-2023). Rasa in Indian Wisdom Traditions: From Aesthetic experience to radical transformation of life and living. In Swapnil Chaphekar, PN Prabhavathy & Ramakrishna Pejathaya (Eds) . Sangita Sinkirtanam: Music and Bhakti . (237-249). Pune: Chinmaya International Foundation.

Pandit S.A. (2021) Advaita: Oneness as a lived reality- examining aspects of profound and a radical psychology(2021) Psychology and Developing Societies, SAGE Link Advaita: Oneness as a Lived Reality—Examining Aspects of Profound and a Radical Psychology
Pandit S.A. (2021) Risk and resilience among Indian adolescents: A community approach (2021) link: Risk and Resilience Among Indian Adolescents: A Community Approach | SpringerLink

Pandit, S. A., Vaidya, A., Shah, A., Shah, E., Iyer, I., Golani, J., ... & Dave, T. (2022). Coping resources of young people experiencing COVID-19 second wave, in India: a preliminary study. Journal of Psychosocial Research, 17(1), 189-199.: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2022.17.01.16

Special Issue Editor: Pandit, S., Raghavan, V., & Shankar, S. (2020). Indian Knowledge Traditions: Perspectives in Education, Health and Consciousness(Special Issue). Journal of Psychosocial Research, Volume 15, number 2, 370-522.

Teaching

Social Psychology,

Developmental Psychology 

Positive Psychology 

Health Psychology

Applied Social Psychology and Select Laws in india 

School of Arts and Sciences

Ahmedabad University 
Central Campus 
Navrangpura, Ahmedabad 380009
Gujarat, India

[email protected]
+91.79.61911502

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