Sangeeta Yadav

Associate Professor
Jindal School of Psychology & Counselling
O.P. Jindal Global University
Sonipat, Haryana, India 131001

Email: sangeeta.phdiitk@gmail.com

Dr. Sangeeta Yadav has completed her Doctoral dissertation for the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. Her doctoral work was on the Mental Health of the Unskilled Migrant Labourers in India which amalgamated both qualitative and quantitative research method to understand the above-mentioned topic. Currently she is working as an Associate Professor in Jindal School of Psychology and Counselling, Sonipat. She has a teaching experience of approximately 7 years in which she has taught many subjects of Psychology to undergraduate ad post-graduate students. She has published research papers in many nationally and internationally reputed journals, such as Qualitative Psychology (APA). She is also in the processes of publishing a book titled, Social Suffering and Healing among Migrant Labourers: A Qualitative Study of the Informal Sector, by Routledge Publishing House. Her research interest is understanding the mental health of marginalized groups from an interdisciplinary perspective. As an ethnographer, she has engaged with the lives and works of migrant labourers very closely observing their angst of “rootlessness” among often-hostile host culture. She learned through empathic understanding what it takes to work hard toward earning one’s livelihood while going through feelings of alienation and prejudice. Her methodological contributions for interdisciplinary psychology include important insights she has developed about the social suffering and healing among the some of marginalized communities in India. She continues to strive to create more humanizing spaces through her researcher endeavours to foreground the voices of the marginalized communities. lo live by.