Associate Professor
PhD (University of Madras)
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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
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.
Social Psychology, Health Psychology, Music and Sound Therapy, Mental Health and Law.
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.
Social Psychology,
Developmental Psychology
Positive Psychology
Health Psychology
Applied Social Psychology and Select Laws in india