Prof Malavika Kapur has a long-standing association with NIAS. Her pioneering work on research in developmental psychology has been her main contribution. Exploratory research into childcare in indigenous health care systems has been her abiding interest. At NIAS, she has brought out the Proceedings in 2012 of a seminar on Developmental Psychology Education sponsored by the ICSSR (India), NWO (Netherlands) and ESRC (UK) held in Cambridge University earlier on . She also organised a workshop for young scholars on Cross Cultural Research Collaboration in the spring of 2010. In 2016 was the member of the committee appointed by the UGC to work on the syllabus in Psychology incorporating contemporary Western and Indian psychology and it is on public domain with the UGC.
She organised a multidisciplinary brainstorming seminar at NIAS in 2013 on Public Risk Perception and brought out the proceedings of the same in 2014. She is on the Advisory Committee of WHO 11th revision on Child Psychiatric Disorders from 2011 onwards.
Currently appointed a member of Focus group on Early Child Care and Education (ECCE) for one year to prepare a position paper by the NCERT to translate the New Education Policy into action at the grassroots level.
Currently appointed a member of the Academic Council Children’s university, Gandhi Nagar Gujarat, from 29-6-2022 for a term of three years.
She has authored 9 books and has edited 7 books, has 40 book chapters and over 80 journal articles to her credit.
Areas of Research:
Western Psychology (Clinical), Developmental Psychology, Developmental Child Psychopathology, Clinical Child Psychology, School Psychology, Community Psychology for Schools. Psychological Testing, Psychological Interventions, Indian Psychology and Indigenous Health Care Systems - Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha, Tibetan Medicine, Comparative Studies on Western and Indian Psychology form her Academic Publications along with Fiction for children and adults
Urban Outreach
Prof Malavika Kapur has been running a free Child Guidance Centre (video documentary by Anuradha Rana of Prasanna Counselling Child Guidance Centre, Bull Temple Road, Bengaluru) in Bengaluru with the help of trained volunteers since 2003.
Rural Outreach
She has longstanding commitment to counselling children and promotion of psychosocial development of rural and tribal children for over two decades. She also conducts workshops and delivers keynote addresses and lectures to lay public, parents, school teachers, counsellors and the academic community. She is committed to promotion of child mental health and overall psychological development of children.
Action research on outcome evaluation of child centred, play based strategies in the promotion of psycho social development of tribal primary schools children and Science workshops SC/ST 10th graders in HD Kote , Mysore district four Ashram schools and one high school.
