Dr. Sumeet Jain His research contributes to the improvement of mental health outcomes by drawing on inter-disciplinary knowledge and mixed methods. His work unpacks the notion of a ‘global’ mental health and attempts to inform the development of services that account for local experiences and understandings of psychological distress. Web link: http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/social_work/jain_sumeet

Dr. Shubha Ranganathan, IIT Hyderabad Dr. Shubha Ranganathan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. Her work is broadly located at the interface of culture, gender and psychology, particularly with reference to issues of women’s health and illness. Her research is interdisciplinary, drawing on the fields of medical anthropology, gender studies, and alternate paradigms within psychology such as critical psychology. She has been engaged in explorations of local practices of healing among marginalized groups, carrying out ethnographic studies of phenomena such as spirit possession, trance, and indigenous healing. In the area of mental health and psychosocial disabilities, her research is framed by critical perspectives, focuses on lived experiences and narratives of people presumed to be ‘abnormal’ or ‘different’.