Annet Shaju

Annet Shaju
CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore,
India

Annet Shaju is currently a PhD Scholar of Psychology at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), India. Her doctoral research focuses on experiences of dating violence among emerging adults in the city of Bangalore, India, which is supported by the International Association of Relationship Research (IARR) Geographical Diversity Grant. Additionally, she is a trainee in Transactional Analysis (Psychotherapist) and holds a Diploma from the South Asian Association of Transactional Analysis. She is a former Assistant Professor of Psychology and has worked in various capacities with NGOs across the country in the areas of Child Sexual Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). Her research interests at the moment include cultural scripts of love, relationships and IPV, especially among unmarried, young adults across diverse gender identities and sexual orientations in India.

Elizabeth Thomas

Elizabeth Thomas
CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore,
India

Dr Elizabeth Thomas is an Associate Professor of Psychology at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India. She worked with the National Health Service, UK for 3 years before joining CHRIST in 2009. She is a counselor educator who has played an active role in shaping the counseling psychology program at the University for over a decade. She is the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award instituted by the University in 2024.

Her research interests include youth mental health, group psychotherapy, family studies, school counseling, and counselor education. She has participated in multiple collaborative grants with international universities, including Miami University, Ohio, and the University of New South Wales, Australia. 

She currently serves as the Director of the Human Resource Development Centre at Christ University where she spearheads the training and development of faculty and staff of the University. 

Chetan SV

Chetan SV
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India

Chetan (he/him/his) is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in Psychology and Disability Studies at the Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India working under the supervision of Dr. Shubha Ranganathan. He has also obtained an M.Phil. in Clinical Psychology from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore. His doctoral research foregrounds the experiences of neurodivergent young adults, especially with learning disabilities, in the Indian higher education context. It also explores the structures and processes in urban higher educational institutes to support students with learning disabilities. His work is informed by feminist and critical psychological frameworks, disability studies, and psychological anthropology. As a neurodivergent researcher, he prefers to use visual art (such as ethnographic drawings, single-panel comics, zines) as one of the methods of expression, analysis, and communication of his research work, with a hope to create better dialogues between academic research, clinical practice, and public education in addressing social-justice issues.

Sabrina Paiwand

Sabrina Paiwand
London School of Economics

Sabrina is a PhD student in Psychological and Behavioral Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She holds the ‘Analyzing and Challenging Inequalities’ studentship awarded by the LSE’s International Inequalities Institute and is part of the Societal Psychology lab based at the LSE and NYU Abu Dhabi.

Her research focuses on how political imagination can be fostered to improve political participation. Specifically, Sabrina investigates political imagination in the context of contemporary social discourses of depoliticization, de-democratization, and enhanced individualism and inequality in Chile and the United Kingdom.

Sabrina holds an MSc in Social and Cultural Psychology from the LSE. Before joining the PhD program, Sabrina worked as a social worker and interpreter in the German asylum system, an evaluation manager at a UK funder, and a data consultant in London. Currently, Sabrina works with evaluation teams on racially equitable research approaches.

Shubha Ranganathan

Shubha Ranganathan
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India

Shubha Ranganathan is Associate Professor in the Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. Her background is eclectic and interdisciplinary, having been trained in psychology but drawing on ethnographic approaches to questions around health, gender, and disability. Her research draws on a range of disciplines such as anthropology, gender studies, disability studies, and alternate paradigms within psychology such as critical and qualitative psychology. She has been engaged in qualitative explorations of local practices of healing among marginalized groups, as well as health and disability-related projects in India. Her work is framed by critical and social justice perspectives, focusing on lived experiences and the role of advocacy for social change. Currently, she is exploring questions about parenting and care in the context of autism as part of her engagement with the neurodiversity discourse in India.
She can be reached at: shubha@la.iith.ac.in

Sucharita Belavadi

Sucharita Belavadi
FLAME University

Sucharita Belavadi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at FLAME University in Pune, India, and is a Consulting Editor for the journal Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. She studies behavior in groups using the framework of social identity theory and is affiliated with the Social Identity Lab at Claremont Graduate University. Her research primarily focuses on examining intergroup communication within the context of contentious intergroup relations. Specifically, she studies how ethnolinguistic and religious groups engage in preservation and maintenance of social identities given perceived threat and social identity uncertainty. Another application of her research is in understanding how leaders use specific rhetoric, especially collective victimhood rhetoric, to shape social identity and intergroup relations. This research focuses on predictors of support for populist leadership. Her research mainly examines these psychological processes in the context of the Indian subcontinent, as she investigates how individuals navigate life on the cusp of constantly shifting intergroup boundaries.

Bhasker Malu

Bhasker Malu
O.P. Jindal Global University

Bhasker Malu is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Academic Affairs) at the Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences at O P Jindal Global University. He has a PhD in Social Psychology from CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India. He has published multiple peer reviewed papers in domains of perceived discrimination, prejudice, educational psychology, and emotion recognition. His doctoral research focused on understanding the regional nature of racial discrimination in India using the social identity lens. His current areas of interest are in understanding racial discrimination in India with its complex intergroup and political situation, populism, open science practices, and the impact of technology on social cognition. Apart from his academic interests, he has also looked to democratize psychology knowledge by developing three mobile applications that provide free notes, practice tests, and videos to help individuals learn about psychology. He has published two books for psychology exam preparation and two fiction novels. He is also a TEDx speaker. He is currently writing a book on social cognition from multidisciplinary perspectives with Routledge. 

Teofilo Espada-Brignoni

Teofilo Espada-Brignoni
University of Puerto Rico

 

Frances Ruiz Alfaro

Frances Ruiz Alfaro
University of Puerto Rico

Ketoki Mazumdar

Ketoki Mazumdar
FLAME University

Dr. Ketoki Mazumdar, PhD is an Assistant Professor, at the Department of Psychological Sciences, at the FLAME University, India. Her research interests predominantly lie at the intersection of gender and mental health, maternal mental health, mothering practices across cultures, work-family interface, and parenting practices. Her clinical work is oriented towards feminist, relational, and somatic therapies, with a particular emphasis on the embodiment of trauma. She is currently exploring the phenomenon of matrescence, maternal rage, and emotional competencies in mothers as well as the biopsychosocial implications of the phenomenology of perimenopause. Previously, she has led two nationwide funded projects on Mothering and its different correlates.   

Dr. Mazumdar earned her PhD and MPhil in Psychology from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. She is certified in various psychological therapies and practices, including EMDR, Brainspotting, Couple and Family Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Perinatal Mental Health, Community Mental Health, and Addiction Management. Dr. Mazumdar has received several prestigious awards, including the IACCP Conference Award (2023) and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences Research Council Fund (2020). She has also been recognized with a full BIPOC scholarship for the PostPartum Support International 2021 Annual Conference and the International Marcé Mentorship Program for 2021-2022 and 2023-2024. Her doctoral research was supported by the ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship under the Ministry of HRD, Government of India. Her commitment to ethical research and sensitivity to multiculturalism at the intersection of personal issues and social justice is a continuous process she engages in, which further enhances her meaningful contributions to the field of psychology.

Judith Gibbons

Brien Ashdown

Leonor Gaitán

Judith Gibbons
Saint Louis University

Brien Ashdown
Albizu University

Leonor Gaitán
Erasmus University

The research team consists of Judith Gibbons, Professor Emerita of Psychology at Saint Louis University, Brien Ashdown, Professor of Psychology at Albizu University, and Leonor Gaitán, a doctoral student at Erasmus University. Drs. Gibbons and Ashdown have served on the editorial boards of international journals including International Perspectives in Psychology and the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. They both conduct research on the topics of cultural and adolescent developmental psychology in the majority world, especially Guatemala. In addition, Brien Ashdown works in the area of community development and Judith Gibbons on gender issues and girls’ development. Ms. Gaitán studied at the Universidad de Valle in Guatemala and is currently a doctoral candidate at Erasmus University in the Netherlands where she is doing research on global citizenship and intercultural communication. Research assistants, Lidia and Fernando Tomín, are from the K’iche Mayan village of Semejá Segundo. 

Sudarshan Kottai

David Sirlopú
 

Claudia Pérez-Salas

David Sirlopú
Universidad San Sebastián 

David Sirlopú is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Psychology and Humanities at Universidad San Sebastián (Concepción, Chile). He is broadly interested in tolerance and respect as factors involved in intergroup processes, as well as in acculturation among Latin American immigrants who have decided to settle on the same continent and integrate into the majority society.


Claudia Pérez-Salas
Universidad de Concepción

Claudia Paz Pérez-Salas is a Full Professor in the Psychology Department at the Universidad de Concepción, Chile. She earned her Ph.D. from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and holds a Diploma in Cognitive Neuropsychology. Her current research focuses on inclusive education, school engagement, and the neuropsychological assessment of students with learning disabilities. Dr. Pérez-Salas is dedicated to advancing our understanding of these critical areas within the field of psychology.

Micaela Varela

Micaela Varela
New York University

Micaela Varela (she/her) is a doctoral student in NYU Steinhardt's Psychology and Social Intervention program. Using an intersection of social, political, and community psychology, Micaela studies intergroup relations and conflicts. Her research focuses on collective action movements and community building to achieve social change in applied settings. She is part of the Intergroup Conflict and Social Change Lab, working with Dr. Rezarta Bilali on projects related to historical narratives, collective action, social cohesion, and violence prevention in different contexts (e.g., Burkina Faso, the United States and Chile). Before pursuing her doctoral studies, Micaela graduated as a psychologist from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), and worked as a lab manager and research assistant at PUC's Social Psychology Lab.

Sarah Paz Martín

Franklin Moreno

Franklin Moreno is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice and in the Department of Psychology—both at Rutgers University. Franklin completed his PhD in Education at the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus on developmental psychology. His dissertation study on child and adolescent moral reasoning about gang violence in Honduras has been accepted and will soon be published in the journal Child Development. He adopts mixed-methods in examining child and adolescent social-moral cognitive and emotional security development associated with exposure to community violence in Central America and in the US. Currently his research focuses on the dynamics of youth’s exposure to violence committed by gangs, police agencies, and other community members in San Pedro Sula, Honduras and Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A. 

Franklin also has extensive experience on violence prevention program evaluations in Honduras. These professional experiences associated with governmental policies addressing community violence contribute to his transnational theorizing and research on child and adolescent development and exposure to violence. 

Bupe K. Mwandali

University of Cincinnati

Dante Solano Silva

César Guadalupe Mendizábal is Full Professor and member of the Universidad del Pacífico Research Center. He is Doctor of Education (EdD) and Master of Arts, Social and Political Thought; both degrees were obtained at the University of Sussex (UK). He also holds a bachelor’s degree and a Licentiate (professional license) in Sociology from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. His research work has been focused on the linkage between polity development and political culture, topic that led him to work mainly on the operation of education systems. He has been Chair of the Department of Social and Political Sciences of Universidad del Pacífico, non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution (2013-2016); Director of Publications of the Peruvian Educational Research Society (period 2017-2019) and, consequently, editor of the Peruvian Journal of Educational Research. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the International Review of Education (period 2015-2022), Associate Editor (Latin American Section) for Education Policy Analysis Archives; (2022-) and member of the International Editorial Board fro Studies in the Education of Adults; (2020-). He served as member of the National Council of Education of Peru (2014-2020) and as its chairperson (2017-2020).

Eliana Carlín Ronquillo

Eduardo De La Vega Taboada

Priya Rajkumar

Priya Rajkumar currently heads the School of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Auro University, Surat, India. She has two PhDs in Psychology and Public Administration respectively from Nagpur University, India. She has taught postgraduate and graduate psychology programs in private in reputed educational institutions in Central and Western India over the past 15 years. She has also worked as a consultant for nonprofit organizations in India and Nepal facilitating 105 project and institutional evaluations including Leprosy Mission International, Tear Fund Australia, Swedish Mission Council, Lutheran World Services India Trust among others. 

She has also worked closely with people living with HIV/AIDs and coordinated a Pune based program for Keep A Child Alive New York.

She facilitates training for social/development workers, academicians and takes up psychological testing and counseling for children, adolescents and adults, particularly from limited resource settings. She has published and unpublished research on adolescent substance use, student learning styles, adjustment in prison, and other social/community development themes.

She has travelled widely all over India and Nepal, visited Thailand, Sweden, Dubai on assignment and US /Canada as a tourist.

Chincu C.

Gayathri Suresh Babu

Gayathri Suresh Babu is a Psychologist and an independent researcher, currently working as assistant professor and head of the department of Psychology at Sacred Heart College, Chalakudy, Kerala, India. She has received best paper awards in international conferences. She conducted her postgraduate dissertation on victim blaming and perception of violence against women from a just world perspective. She has also carried out phenomenological investigation of experiences of survivors of 2018 Kerala floods and conducted studies exploring the psychological capital of transgender community. Her research interests include social cognition, stereotypes and peace psychology. She acquired masters from Central University of Karnataka and has qualified University Grants Commission - National Eligibility Test in Psychology and Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering for Social Sciences. She conducts sessions on mental health awareness, gender and life skills development in collaboration with schools, colleges governmental and non governmental organizations. She also coaches aspirants for National Eligibility Test and central university entrance exams. She is enthusiastic about the numerous possibilities of social psychological research.

Postcolonial ideologies, recognition and reparation policies, and current intergroup relations: The Mapuche in Chile
 

Ana Figueiredo

Ana Figueiredo is a psychologist, with a PhD in Social Psychology from the Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal). She is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, Universidad de O’Higgins (Chile) and an Associate Researcher at the Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES, Chile). Previously, she worked in different countries (such as Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium and Chile), always focusing on intergroup relations in postcolonial settings, by researching the role of history and collective memories for contemporary intergroup relations between majority and minority groups.

She currently serves as the PI of a project funded by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) about “Postcolonial ideologies, politics of recognition and reparation, and current intergroup relations: The Mapuche in Chile” (Nr. 11201211)”. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Social and Political Psychology (JSPP). Her main research areas are: representations of history, postcolonial contexts, historical conflicts, intergroup relations, dynamics of cultural adaptation, violence, and collective action. Ana has been a member of SPSSI since 2017.

From Suspicion to Revenge: A Multidimensional framework of Fear speech and its relationships with Sharing intentions and Truth perceptions
 

Sramana Majumdar