The research projects that I have been working on since joining TISS in 2003, have been in diverse areas such as mental hralth, employability, familism, support systems and quality of life, and understanding banking culture and practices. I have been a part of multi-disciplinary teams of researchers for projects. My domain knowledge for the projects have been in the areas of   psychology, human development and qualitative research.

In 2017, I completed a study on stress among students in coaching centers in Kota, Rajasthan, commissioned by the District Administration, Kota. The study was titled Stress among students in Kota, Rajasthan: A systemic analysis. In 2020, I and a colleague completed a research project with the Family Courts Mumbai on Marital dissolution though family court: Data trends and individual experiences. In 2021, I and a colleague completed a project titled Narratives Landscapes of Covid-19 – Storied Experiences of Older Adults in India. I am working with colleagues from the University College of London (UCL) on a collaborative research project titlted Cultural differences in students’ mental health and attitudes towards science coursework: A comparative study between India and the UK.

I have written and published on issues and themes of psychology and human development.

I teach courses on psychology, research methods and human development for the MA Applied Psychology students in TISS. I work on areas of:

·                     Mental health, psychological counselling and wellbeing

·                     Families, childcare and parenting

·                     Marriage, divorce and family socialization in the context of globalization and migration

·                     Social media and its impact

·                     Happiness and wellbeing

·                     Identity, religion, and spirituality

·                     Meaning making of caste and identity

·                     Culture and psychology

·                     Qualitative research

Some of my recent publicaitons are:

• Singhal, K. & Sriram, S. (2023). The experiences of attending Vipassana meditation retreat: A qualitative study. IAPS Journal of Practice in Mental Health. 1:13-26.
• Narang, A. & Sriram, S. (2023). Man to Man: A Study on Companion Choice of Homosexual Men. The International Journal of Indian Psychology. ISSN 2348 - 5396 (Online). DOI: 10.25215/1102.247, https://www.ijip.in
• Narayanan, M. & Sriram, S. (2023). An Exploration of Differentiation of Self in Indian Youth. Human Arenas. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-023-00335-9
• Sriram, S., & Bhargava, S. (In press). “Senior citizens have very little resistance power and we have little immunity from coronavirus”- Covid-19 and the health of older women in India. In Sundari Ravindran, T.K., Sivakami, M., Bhushan, A., Khan, K.S., Rasheed, S.F. (eds.) Springer Handbook of Sex, Gender and Health: Perspectives From South Asia, Springer International.
• Bhargava, S. & Sriram, S. (In press). “There was nobody else, no duniya.” – Covid-19 and the meaning of Home for Older Adults in India. Proceedings of the International Conference on “Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Long-term Societal Well-being” 25-26th March 2022.
• Singla, R., & Sriram, S. (2022). Exploring Belonging and Interconnections: Narratives from the Indian Diaspora. In Surendra Kumar Sia, Lauren Crane, Ajay K. Jain, & Shabana Bano (eds). Understanding Psychology in the Context of Relationship, Community, Workplace and Culture. Springer https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-2693-8
• Sriram S., Bhargava S. (2022) Unfurling the Potential of the Counselor. In: Zumbach J., Bernstein D., Narciss S., Marsico G. (eds) International Handbook of Psychology Learning and Teaching. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26248-8_30-1
• Bhandari, A., & Sriram, S. (2022). Novice therapist, the client and therapy: Integrating the triad. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 00, 1– 16.  https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12548
• Kothari, A., & Sriram, S. (2022). Voices of the Unheard: Women and Infertility in India. Human Arenas. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-022-00269-8
• Chaudhary, N. & Sriram, S. (2021). Toward a Culturally Grounded Human Science: Prospects of Psychology for India. In Girishwar Misra, Nilanjana Sanyal and Sonali De edited, Psychology in Modern India Historical, Methodological, and Future Perspectives. Springer Singapore.
• Narayanan, M. & Sriram, S. (2021). COVID‑19 and Depression: Prevalence and Risk Factors in Youth from Maharashtra, India. Human Arenas, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-021-00252-9
• Chaudhary, N.; Sriram, S.; Valsiner, J. (2021). “Cultural psychology and human development.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies. Ed. Heather Montgomery. New York: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199791231-0234
• Rumaney, H., Sriram, S. (2021). Not Without My Hijab: Experiences of Veiled Muslim Women in India. Human Arenas. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-021-00193-3
• Duggal, C., & Sriram, S. (2021). Locating the sacred within the therapeutic landscape: Influence of therapists’ religious and spiritual beliefs on psychotherapeutic practice. Spirituality in Clinical Practice. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/scp0000250
• Chaudhary, N., Sriram, S. (2020). Musings about Metaphors and Models: the Need to Put Psychology Together Again. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-020-09575-8

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Teaching and Administrative Work:

The School of Human Ecology (SHE) became a full-fledged School in the organizational structure of the TISS when I was heading the Centre for Human Ecology. In 2015, we moved from being an Independent Centre to become the School of Human Ecology. Since then, the School has begun many new teaching programs at the MA level, along with a taught PhD program and multiple diploma programs. The diploma programs are for practitioners to augment their skills. Under my leadership the School has just initiated two new teaching programs, which will be launched from the academic session of 2023. These are one year MA programs in keeping with the national level policy changes. The programs are MA in Global Mental Health and MA in Animal Assisted Therapy in Counselling. Both these programs address felt needs from the academics and practitioners, and the SHE is uniquely positioned to offer these programs. The one-year MA programs will be conducted along with the two-year MA Applied Psychology – Clinical and Counselling Practice program.

At the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), I teach courses in the MA Applied Psychology – Clinical and Counselling Practice, MA in Global Mental Health and MA in Animal Assisted Therapy in Counselling, and the post-graduate diploma in Patient Navigation. I coordinate the research program of the MA in Applied Psychology program. I have developed a course titled Counselling Older Adults, which is offered as a disciplinary elective for students in the Semester IV of the MA Applied Psychology – Clinical and Counselling Practice. This elective is offered along with a field practicum where students work with older adults in residential facilities.

In 2017, I was part of the team developing an innovative project on training Patient Navigators for oncology called Kevat; set up in collaboration with the Tata Memorial Centre.  We have completed two rounds of training, and the third cycle has just begun. The Kevat program has now been initiated with doctors and nurses from Indonesia on their behest.

I am on the national task force setting up national guidelines for Acanthosis Nigricans.

I worked with my fellow colleagues in the SHE to develop the integrated MPhil/PhD Program in Applied Psychology (Specialization in Clinical and Counselling Practice), offered from 2017 till 2021. The program is an innovative combination of teaching, practice and research, to develop the scarce human capital of practicing mental health professionals in the country.