India

Khyati Tripathi, India

Khyati Tripathi is a Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of Delhi, India. She was awarded the Commonwealth split-site scholarship 2016-17 to spend a year of her PhD in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.

After completing her BA (H) and MA in Psychology from the University of Delhi, she completed an M.Phil. in Social Anthropology and then went on to pursue her PhD in Social and Cultural Psychology. She has been awarded Research Fellowships by the University Grants Commission as well as the Indian Council of Medical Research in India.

She has just submitted her PhD thesis which focuses on the cultural construction of the dead in Hinduism and Judaism through culture-specific death rituals and mortuary techniques.

Email: khyatitripathi27@gmail.com