PI’s Profile

PI: Dr. Siddrah Irfan (AP at Department of Behavioural Sciences)

She has done PhD in Psychological Medicine from Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2020, has expertise in conducting qualitative, quantitative and mixed method research in understanding human behaviour. Her work is published in various national and international journal. She has organized NUST flagship conference ICBMASS-22 on International Conference on Wellbeing: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (ICW-22) in collaboration with Michigan State University.

Co-PIs: Dr. Sahar Nadeem Hamid & Dr. Sitwat Usman Langrial 

Lab Equipment/Resources:

Various Psychological tests (e.g. DASS, PMS and PMDD screening, Early Trauma related Questionnaire, cognitive test etc) and Interventions (Parenting Intervention for Children with Autism etc)

Lab Capabilities:

• Research Work: multidisciplinary social aspect, health and mental Health, cognition and perception, education and career counseling, experiments, intervention and Randomized Control Trails (RCCT), environment and sustainability.
• Workshops and Training in research methods and software (e.g., mixed method, qualitative, quantitative, SPSS, MAXQDA, AMOS, SMART PLS etc), psychological first aid (e.g., Employees and Students), mental health and wellbeing, therapy based trainings (e.g., ABA, mindfulness etc), behaviour modification, communication and leadership etc
• Initial Assessments & Counselling: Provide psychometric testing, career counseling, education and innovation

Projects undertaken of team

• Project on Diagnostic Journey of Parents with Neurodevelopmental Disorders (NUST)
• COVID related Trauma: Cross Cultural Study (Collaborative Project with (CTTS is an International Virtual Research Center), Affiliate of Center of Stress Trauma and Resiliency, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
• Wellbeing of Young Adults: Cross Cultural Study (Collaborative Project with Royal Holloway University, London)
• Investigated COVID and Mental Health
• A Cross cultural adaptations in therapy- collaboration with AKU
• Undertanding Disgust cross culturally a collaborative project with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam at tbirlab

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