Aman Rattan

About

Aman is currently undertaking an NIHR ARC KSS funded PhD Studentship in Migrant Mental Health at CHSS. Her ethnographic doctoral project is using Patient and Public Involvement (PPI), also known as Community Engagement and Involvement (CEI), to explore and understand the mental health perspectives of the Sikh community in Kent, between different intersectional identities, generations and health care systems. She aims to use creative audio-visual methods to disseminate her research and give back to the Sikh community.

Aman has been working as a Research Assistant, with Professor Lisa Dikomitis, who leads on a GNCA and ODA funded project, entitled, ‘Engaging local communities around perceptions and understandings of mental health interventions in South Asia (India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka)’. She is also involved in Kent and Medway Medical School mental health research with the Kent Sikh community, co-led by Professor Lisa Dikomitis and Professor Sukhi Shergill.

Aman has previously studied Psychology (BSc Hons) at the University of West London and Clinical Psychology (MSc) at Royal Holloway, University of London, whilst working as a Mental Health Assistant at The Priory Hospital, Roehampton. She then worked as an Assistant Psychologist for a private psychotherapy and personality service in Guildford, Surrey, where she received training to conduct Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) / Emotional Intensity Disorder (EID) assessments and deliver 1:1 and group Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) skills.

Aman is a fluent Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu speaker and enjoys singing, music and writing poetry. Her research interests lie in Social and Cultural Psychology, qualitative research methods, Wellbeing and Mental Health in the Sikh and Punjabi community.

Supervision

Professor Lisa Dikomitis (supervisor)
Professor Sukhi Shergill (co-supervisor)
Dr Rebecca Cassidy (co-supervisor)