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Learning Sciences and
Educational Psychology

School of Social and
Behavioural Sciences

Thematic Areas

TEAM Members

Dr. Meltem Alkoyak-Yildiz
TAG Lead
Head of Department,
Department of Cognitive Sciences and Psychology
Research Interests: Learning Sciences, Cognitive Sciences, Compassion, Empathy, Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching, Soft and Life Skills, Learning Analytics
meltemalkoyak@am.amrita.edu

Meenu P. Prakash
Research Associate; Zonal Lead
Research Interests: Communication Skill Training for Health Care Professionals
meenupp@am.amrita.edu

⁠Gayathri P.
PhD Scholar
Research Interests: Technology-Enhanced Learning, Digital Competency of Teachers, Active Teaching
gayathri.saseendran@ammachilabs.org

Dr. Rajalakshmi S. A.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Educational Psychology, Social Psychology,
Women’s Empowerment, Counselling Psychology
College Students, Moral reasoning
sa_rajalakshmi@cb.amrita.edu

Ajay Balakrishnan
Associate Director, AMMACHI Labs
Research Interests: Learning technology for vocational skill development
ajay.balakrishnan@ammachilabs.org

Pranav Prabha
Research Project Manager
Research Interests: Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning, Robotics and AI, Human-Robot Interaction, and Computing Education
pranav.prabha@ammachilabs.org

Sandeep Murali
Lab Manager
Research Interests: Learning Experience Using Extended Reality, Haptics, and Robotics
sandeep.murali@ammachilabs.org

Arjun Venugopal
Research Assistant
Research Interests: Neuroscience, Brain Computer Interface, Computer Vision, Neurorobotics
arjun.venugopal@ammachilabs.org

Prof. Dr. Frank Fischer
Visiting professor
Professor for Education and Educational Psychology at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Munich, Germany
Research interests: Learning with digital media, collaborative learning, scientific reasoning and argumentation, use-inspired basic research and evidence based practice in education
frank.fischer@psy.lmu.de

Funded Projects

Publications 2022 – 2024

  • Frey, L. M. (2025, February 9–10). Understanding and managing the mind [Conference presentation]. International Conference on Educational Professionalism, Ettimadai, Tamil Nadu, India. 
  • Frey, L. M. (2025, January 13–17). Gender bias, letters of recommendation, and mental wellbeing: Is bias conscious or unconscious? [Workshop presentation]. Department of Science and Technology Training Program, Amritapuri, Kerala, India. 
  • Prakash, M. P., Kannan, J., Nandini, J., & Alkoyak-Yildiz, M. (2025, January 16-19). AI technology-based communication training as a preventive measure to deal with breaking bad news and healthcare violence [Conference presentation]. International Conference on Gender and Technology, Amritapuri, India. 
  • Pothancheri, G., Sankar, P., Kuriappan, B., & Ishika, I. (2025, January 16–19). AI-based TEL tools in classrooms: Exploring challenges of secondary school teachers [Conference presentation]. International Conference on Gender and Technology, Amritapuri, India. 
  • Sai, T. S., Rajalakshmi Sulur Anbalagan, Pidugu, G., & Muralidhar, S. K. (2025, January 16–19). Tele-mental health adoption among young women: Gender barriers [Conference presentation]. International Conference on Gender and Technology, Amritapuri, India. 
  • Pothancheri, G., Akshay Raj, K. P., & Shankar, S. K. (2024, August). Having a Smartphone and being enrolled in a higher education institution does not make students digitally literate!. In 2024 IEEE 5th India Council International Subsections Conference (INDISCON) (pp. 1-6). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/INDISCON62179.2024.10744329
  • Shankar, S. K., & Deepu, S. (2023). A set of evidence-based guidelines for planning authentic multimodal learning analytics situations by involving cross-disciplinary stakeholders. In B. Berral Ortiz, J. A. Martínez Domingo, D. Álvarez Ferrándiz, & J. J. Victoria Maldonado (Eds.), Investigación e innovación educativa en contextos diferenciados (pp. 23-32). Dykinson.
  • Praharsh, KP, Rajalakshmi S.A., Praveen Kumar Kalapatapu, T Asha Priya. (in press). Single parents and their adolescents’ education: Call for educational professionalism. Frontiers in Education. 
  • Mohan, R., Frey, L. M., & Coley, C. (in press). Military police suicide and mental distress challenges: An impact assessment of mental health and gender sensitisation initiatives for CRPF in Srinagar, India. 
  • Frey, L. M., Venugopal, D., & Dev, V. S. (2024). Prevalence and predictors of suicide ideation among university and high-school students during India’s 2nd wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. PLOS ONE, 19(12), e0311403. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311403  
  • Pradeep, K., Sulur Anbalagan, R., Thangavelu, A. P., Aswathy, S., Jisha, V. G., & Vaisakhi, V. S. (2024). Neuroeducation: Understanding neural dynamics in learning and teaching. In Frontiers in Education, 9, 1437418. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.1437418  
  • Rajalakshmi, S. A., Sowndaram, C. S., Ganesh, P., & Vasu, H. V. (2022). Job search during COVID-19: How online mindfulness intervention helped to reduce stress and enhance the self-esteem of the job seeker. F1000Research, 11, 955.https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.109523.2 
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