Dr. Purnima Awasthi

Dr. Purnima Awasthi is a post graduate in Psychology (with specialization in Clinical Psychology, Psychopharmacology, and Health Psychology), and Ph.D. in Health Psychology.

She was a lecturer in Heritage Collage of Nursing in Varanasi, India from 2001 t0 2002. Thereafter, she served as an Asst. Professor at University of Asmara, Eritrea, North East Africa from the year 2002 to 2005. With 23 years of national and international experience in teaching, training and research, currently, she is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. She is also a visiting professor at Indian Institute of Management, Rohtak, Haryana, and Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania. She has been immensely contributing to the profession by her own research works as well as by encouraging and guiding others. She has produced 8 Ph.D's till date and many are under completion under her supervision.

She is considered as an expert and authority on employee wellbeing and mental Health. She has conducted more than 65 of programmes on Emotional Intelligence, Stress Management, Communication skills, Mental health etc. for industries and other institution at IIMs and other institutions. She has been awarded with IAMH (Indian Academy of Mental Health) ICON AWARD 2023, Department of Kayachikitsa, IMS, BHU, Varanasi and also the Distinguished Teacher Award by Professor Harihar Nath Tripathi Foundation in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the area.

Dr. Purnima is a health psychology expert and has published more than 80 research papers in the journals of national and international repute and presented more than 50 conference/ seminar papers. Dr. Purnima has effectively completed a research project funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) at national level. Her research publications have earned many national and international level recognitions. To cite a few, she received appreciation Award for the Best Paper at Amity University Lucknow Campus, Amity Institute of Behavioral & Allied Sciences (International Level), Prof. Deepak Bhatt Best Paper Award, Indian Academy of Applied Psychology (IIAP) (International Level), and Best Paper Award at the 4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Cognition and Health, Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University.

The major areas of research interest of Dr. Purnima Awasthi include Health Psychology, Cross cultural Psychology, Rehabilitation Psychology, Positive Psychology, Communication skills and Personality Development. She is very active in her professional field and well connected with professionals across the globe by her associations with national and international professional bodies such as the National Academy of Psychology, Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, Indian Academy of Health Psychology, Community Psychology Association of India and American Psychological Association.

She is also the co-author of the books titled 'Write Your Script', “Power of Emotional Intelligence: Incredible Tool to Become Healthy and Wealthy”, and “Leadership”.