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Thokchom Bibinaz Devi

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Affiliation

  • Assistant Professor , School of Human Studies

Email

    bibinaz@aud.dot.ac.in

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Qualification

  • PhD in Psychology from the School of Human Studies, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi (Viva Voce Successfully Completed on 15 December 2025; Degree Awaited)
  • UGC NET passed in 2006.
  • Masters in (Clinical) Psychology from Delhi University in 2005
  • Bachelor of Arts from Lady Shri Ram college for women, Delhi University in 2003

Past Experience

  • 21st July 2010 to present: Assistant Professor at Dr. B. R Ambedkar Univerisity Delhi
  • August 2009 to 20th July 2010: Assistant Professor (Ad-hoc) at Gargi College for Women, University of Delhi

During the period 2006 - 2009, Ms. Bibinaz Thokchom was engaged in intensive field-based professional work with Delhi-based NGOs: Swanchetan – Society for Mental Health and HAQ – Centre for Child Rights. Her responsibilities included psychosocial assessment, counselling, and intervention with survivors and victims of heinous crimes, serious human rights violations, such as sexual abuse, domestic violence, marital disputes handled through CAW Cells in Delhi, human trafficking, and trauma-related cases.

She also served as a Training Officer, contributing to gender-sensitization programmes for Delhi Police personnel of Sub-Inspector rank and below and several Girls’ and Women’s colleges in Delhi University. As part of her role as a psychological counsellor working with adolescents, she undertook regular weekly professional engagement at the Juvenile Observation Home for Boys–I (Prayas, Delhi Gate) and the Adharshila Observation Home for Boys–II (Sewa Kutir Complex, Kingsway Camp). Furthermore, she collaborated with other agencies and organizations, including Salaam Baalak Trust and the Ministry of Women and Child Development. This phase of her career allowed her to work closely with marginalized and highly vulnerable populations and shaped her long-term commitment to trauma-informed, culturally sensitive practice and research.

Research interests:

Her research interests are examining the psychosocial dimensions of violence, trauma, and subjectivity within culturally and institutionally situated contexts. Drawing from her doctoral work on the psychosocial construction of sexual offending in India, she engages with clinical and critical psychology, gender and trauma studies, and psycho-legal approaches to prevention, intervention, and rehabilitation. A key area of interest also includes the psychological implications of armed conflict, particularly collective trauma, community identity formation, moral injury, and the enduring mental health consequences for affected individuals and communities. Her interdisciplinary work further explores culture and meaning, ethnographic approaches, national and youth identity formation and nationalism, gender and psychology, contemporary forms of racism, and the psychological and ethical impact of digital technologies and artificial intelligence on subjectivity, relationships, and power. With a strong interest in music, she has also supervised several postgraduate students whose research explores the intersections of music, psychology, and healing.

Training and expertise:

  • Clinical psychology
  • Cultural psychology
  • Psychodynamic Psychotherapy at Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Delhi
  • Client-centred interventions
  • Crisis interventions
  • Courses she taught include – Understanding personality, Experiments in Psychology, Social Psychology, Methods in psychology and Counselling Psychology at undergraduate level and Psychology as a Human Science, Ways of Human at the post graduate level.
  • Developed an undergraduate course titled as “Psychology of storytelling” for AUD BA Psychology programme

Post held in AUD:

  • Music society faculty convenor – 2011-2017
  • BA Psychology Programme Coordinator – 2014-2016
  • School of Undergraduate Studies Scholarship committee – 2016- 2018
  • Deputy Dean Student services, AUD – 2019-2021
  • Placement Cell committee, MA Psychology – 2020-2022
  • Nodal Officer (Social Media Champion) AUD under the direction of MHRD (AISHE) – 2019-2021
  • MA Psychology Dissertation Committee – 2017-2019 & 2021-2023
  • Interim BA Psychology Programme Coordinator – October to November 2022
  • EAC member SUS 2022-2024
  • BA Psychology Programme Coordinator – 2024-2026
  • MA Psychology Scholarship Committee – 2024-2026

Awards

Spoke on “Impact of Armed violence on the psyche of the civilians” in the first consultative conclave on ‘Northeast India Women Initiative for Peace’ at India International Centre, New Delhi on 13 June 2009.

Publications

Book chapter

  • Thokchom, B. (2015). A remote touch of iron forging technology in Kakching: Contemporary hermeneutics of cultural practices. Objects, Identities, Meanings. Ambedkar University Delhi. ISBN 978-81-929849-0-2

Research articles

  • Thokchom, B. (2022). National and racial identity politics of North-East India and ethnic identities within: A comparative analysis of Mary Kom biopic and her autobiography Unbreakable. IJFNS, 11(11A), 170. ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320 7876

Online article

Participation in International and National conferences:

  • Ms. Bibinaz Thokchom represented AUD in 3rd Edition of Career Conclave organised by Directorate of Education - GNCT of Delhi in October 2019 
  • Ms. Bibinaz Thokchom was invited as one of the key speakers on Youth Wellness Webinar on - The Art of Moving From Becoming to Being (online) organised by Unique Psychological Services with the idea of Mental health awareness and advocacy, 22nd August 2020
  • Ms. Bibinaz Thokchom was invited to conduct a training session with team of school counsellors on ‘Understanding group dynamics in Counselling’ on October 6, 2022 at Delhi Secretariat, ITO.
  • Ms. Bibinaz Thokchom was invited for a discussion session entitled "Exploring Delinquency: A Psychological Analysis of “We Need to Talk About Kevin" on 11th of October, 2023 in the Mental Health and Awareness Training Week, conducted by the Department of Psychology, Lady Shri Ram College.
  • Presented a paper on ‘Impact of armed conflict on the psyche of innocent civilians’ at North East India Women’s Initiative for peace’ held on 13th June, 2009.
  • Ms Bibinaz Thokchom chaired an Interactive Session on ‘Awareness and Revitalization of Heritage Materials: some examples’ in an international conference on ‘Oral Traditions: Continuity and Transformations, North East India and South East Asia’, 1-4 February, 2016, Shillong, Meghalaya.Ms. Bibinaz Thokchom participated in a panel discussion on “Museums as Cultural Centers and their roles in revitalising intangible cultural heritage” in an international conference on ‘Oral Traditions: Continuity and Transformations, North East India and South East Asia’, 1-4 February, 2016, Shillong, Meghalaya
  • Ms. Bibinaz Thokchom presented a paper titled, “Racial Identity Formation of North-East India: Inadequately Explored and Under-Represented Race with South East Asian Origins” in an international conference on ‘Northeast India and Southeast Asia: Exploring Continuities' Organised by North East Forum (NEF), Centre for Community Knowledge (CCK), Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) 25&26 October 2018
  • Ms. Bibinaz Thokchom Presented a paper titled 'Confessions of a convicted sex offender: Exploring remorse and guilt' in an International conference on Violence: An interdisciplinary approach in Verona, Italy. 15-16 July, 2019
  • Ms. Bibinaz Thokchom chaired the session titled "Resilience and Representation: Narratives from the Margins" at Shodhotsav 2024: National Conference for Young Researchers on the theme Rethinking Knowledge Production: Innovations, Challenges, and Global Interactions on 16th October 2024, AUD

Research article reviewed

  • September 2025 – reviewed a paper titled as "Caste without Discourse: Social Life of a Scheduled Caste Community and the Ethnic State in Northeast India" for Asian Ethnicity. 
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