Faculty Profile

Dr. Kumar completed his PhD in Humanities and Social Sciences from IIT Roorkee and his M.A. in Applied Clinical Psychology from TISS, Mumbai. He has more than four years of full-time teaching experience and has worked in diverse educational institutes such as IMS Unison University, Dehradun, and Amity University, Kolkata. He has also worked as a counselling psychologist at an NGO dedicated to working with survivors of human trafficking, and as a school counsellor. Dr. Kumar's doctoral thesis and subsequent research have aimed at exploring the dynamics of interpersonal relationships. He has published several articles in Scopus, Web of Science, and peer-reviewed journals. 

• PhD IIT Roorkee (2022)
• MA in Applied Psychology with specialization in Clinical Psychology - TISS, Mumbai (2015)
• B.Sc. in Psychology (H.) - Sikkim University (2013)

• IMS Unision University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand (2022 -23)
• Amity University, Kolkata, West Bengal (2023-24)
• St. Xavier's University (2024 - continued)

• Kumar, R. M. (2021). The Many Faces of Grief: A Systematic Literature Review of Grief during COVID Pandemic. Illness, Crisis, & Loss. 31(1)
• Kumar, R. M. & Singh, R. M. (2024). From Strangers to Spouses: Exploring Dyadic Effects of Insecure Attachment and Responsiveness on We-ness in Indian Arranged Marriages. Interpersona: An international journal on personal relationships. 18(2) pp. 155-173.
• Kumar, R. M. & Singh, R. M. (2022). Couple Identity in Indian arranged marriages: Perceived Partner Responsiveness as the Mediator of Attachment Styles and Couple Identity. Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice.
• Kumar, R. M. (2021). Assessing the psychometric properties of Hindi version of Relationship Structure (ECR-RS) scale among young adults. Journal of Psychological Research, 03(3), 51-57.
• Tamang, S. & Kumar, R. M. (2024). A Systematic Literature Review of Empathy in Psychopathy and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Is it Same or Different? Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology 50(4), pp. 87-98.

• CO-PI in ICSSR funded research project titled