Our Faculty

Invited Talks/Sessions

• Chair and Reviewer for the International Conference on (Re)thinking Vulnerability organized by the Department of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, held at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Bengaluru, India.
• Speaker in the panel discussion on “Careers after PhD – Industry Experts”, conducted at the International Summit on Methodological Excellence in Social Sciences Research, held at Christ University, Bengaluru, on March 21-22, 2025.
• Speaker in the roundtable discussion on “The Future of Psychology Education in India”, conducted at the ASIA PLAT conference 2024, on the “International Perspectives on Psychology Learning and Teaching”, held at Christ University, Bengaluru, on 1-3 August 2024.

• Application Number – 202441046758, “Invention Title – “Model To Measure Social Entrepreneurial Cognition Among Higher Education Students”, Publication Number 27/2024, Inventors: Parvathy Viswanath, Aneesh Kumar P.

• Viswanath, P. “Exploring the Factors Affecting Social Entrepreneurial Intention among Higher Education Students in India: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach” at the 6th International Conference on Entrepreneurship for Sustainability and Impact (ESI), held at Qatar University on October 17-19, 2023.
• Viswanath, P. “Cognitive Appraisal of Social Entrepreneurs: A Qualitative Study”, presented at the 2nd International Conference on Social Work and Law: Building Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for a More Sustainable and Resilient Society at Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) in collaboration with Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII) and ICSSR, July 29-30, 2022.
  Award: Best paper presentation
• Vaish, A., Chai, Q., Viswanath, P., Bernard, C., Chakraborty, U., Kumar, A. “The development of children’s understanding of gratitude in two cultures”, presented at European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 2026.
• Viswanath, P. “Gender and Vulnerability in Children’s Play” at the International Conference on (Re)thinking Vulnerability organized by the Department of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, held at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Bengaluru, India.
• Viswanath, p. “Development of a Scale to Assess Opportunity Recognition and Motivating Factors among College Youth”, presented at the National Conference on Youth Development at the Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development (RGNIYD), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India on March 23 and 24, 2023.
  Award: Best research paper
• Viswanath, P. “Social Entrepreneurial Cognition and Pre-Entry Intention among Higher Education Students” at the 33rd Annual Convention of National Academy on Psychology on the theme of Psychology for Sustainable Development: Empowering the Future, held by GITAM University, Visakhapatnam on February 14-16, 2024.