School of Social Sciences

Shalini Dixit is an M.Phil-PhD from Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Masters in Psychology. She received NCERT Doctoral Fellowship in the year 2009. Her doctoral work on the ‘understanding of history’ was awarded D Sinha Best Doctoral Dissertation Award by the National Academy of Psychology, India, in the year 2013. She has had years of experience in teaching and research in a number of colleges at the University of Delhi including Jesus & Mary College, Mata Sundri College for Women (Department of Elementary Education) and Kamla Nehru College (Department of Psychology) as Assistant Professor. She has also worked with the Department of Educational Psychology and Foundations of Education, NCERT; Save the Children, Finland; and James Cook University Australia, Singapore Campus. 

Research Interests:
Her disciplinary training is in the area of cognitive, social, and cultural psychology. Her primary research interest has been educational experiences of marginalised communities, identity studies, historical thinking among children and adults, and education for sustainability. She has been applying qualitative research methods and mix-methods in her interdisciplinary research endeavours