I am a doctoral researcher at the School of Psychology of the University of Birmingham. I completed my undergraduate and postgraduate with a major in Psychology. I started my career at Missionaries of Charity as a Psychologist where I was responsible for assessing patients’ behavioural and psychological needs and taking case history and mental status examinations. I was also associated with organising social events, conducting activity sessions, and providing training for carers. I also worked as a Researcher for almost 6 years at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), in Mumbai. I have been a part of several research projects, such as UNICEF Rajasthan Research Project on Access and Utilisation of Mental Health services by the Tribal, Violence against Women, and a UNFPA-funded project on holistic adolescent mental health program in India.

My PhD work is supervised by Dr Andrew Surtees and Dr Kate Woodcock. I am looking into psychological independence in autistic adults with associated co-occurring mental health difficulties from a cross-cultural perspective. More broadly, I am interested in mental health in autism across lifespan, cross-cultural studies in autism, early psychosis and personality disorders.