Manisha Nagpal

Manisha Nagpal received her Master's in Clinical Psychology from Christ University in India. She later worked with Dharma Life Sciences LLC to develop a mobile application + tele counseling program for employees and students in India. She later received her Ph.D. in educational psychology from the Ohio State University, USA. She has developed, worked, and published on different educational approaches to enhancing child and adolescent wellbeing during her PhD program. These approaches include dialogic teaching and learning specifically through collaborative small group discussions; designing a technology enhanced curriculum for a digital civic learning program with culturally responsive teaching practices, and contemplative practices such as mindfulness and yoga to further adolescents’ social emotional outcomes and mental health. She has authored and/or co-authored eight research articles and book chapters, with several more under review, and has presented her work at several prestigious local and international conferences including the American Education Research Association Convention (AERA) and American Psychological Association (APA). Her research has been recognized with more than nine paper/poster and travel awards including the prestigious “Outstanding Graduate Student Poster Award” at the American Psychological Association (APA Division 15) Annual Convention, and the "Ray Travel Award" at The Ohio State University.

Additionally, her dissertation research that included a mindfulness-based discussion intervention to enhance adolescents’ social emotional health and wellbeing was awarded with the prestigious ‘Dissertation Research Fellowship’ and an ‘Alumni Grant for Research and Scholarship’ from The Ohio State University. .

• Ph.D. Educational Psychology
  The Ohio State University, Ohio
• MS, Clinical Psychology
  Christ University, Bangalore, India
• BA, Psychology
  Christ University, Bagalore, India

• Social emotional learning
• Adolescent wellbeing
• The experience and impacts of contemplative practices
• Mixed methods research