Received Sylff fellowship in 2023
Academic supervisor : Keir James Cecil Martin
Current affiliation : University of Oslo
Meghna Roy is a Doctoral Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at
the University of Oslo. Her research explores the expansion of
psychotherapy in India and its entanglement with middle-class
aspirations, moral economies of care, and global mental health
discourses. Drawing on a year of ethnographic fieldwork in
Bengaluru, India, she examines how counselling psychology trainees
navigate questions of morality, professional identity, and selfhood in
a rapidly changing society. Meghna’s broader interest lies in
epistemologies of healing, and she holds MPhil, MA, and BA degrees
in Sociology.
Academic Achievements, Social Engagement Initiatives
Meghna developed the podcast series 'Mind the Culture' with
colleagues at the European Network for Psychological Anthropology
(ENPA) and hosted its inaugural episode. She is a two-time recipient
of the SYLFF Fellowship, most recently in 2025. She received the
2025 Anthropology of Mental Health Interest Group (AMHIG)
Graduate Student Paper Prize from the American Anthropological
Association. She received the inaugural Lightning Fellowship from
the Kakar Centre for Psychoanalysis and Culture to write a paper on
the maternal ambivalent drawing from her ethnographic fieldwork in
India.
Recent publication:
Roy, Meghna. 2025. ‘Does India Need Saving from Psychotherapy?’
Anthropology Today 41 (5): 7–10. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.70028.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/meghna-roy/
