Aman Rattan

Aman Rattan is a Sikh and Punjabi speaking NIHR ARC KSS PhD student, researching Sikh and Punjabi migrant mental health at University of Kent.

Aman has worked as a Research Assistant, Assistant Psychologist and Mental Healthcare Assistant in London, accumulating professional clinical knowledge, and working alongside healthcare professionals and researchers.
Aman completed her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at the University of West London (2021), achieving a First Class Honours. Her undergraduate thesis used quantitative survey research methods to investigate The BIG 5 personality traits relationship with Social Support, Self-Efficacy, Depression, Anxiety and Stress. She also holds a Postgraduate degree in Clinical Psychology from Royal Holloway, University of London (2022), passing with distinction. Her postgraduate thesis used qualitative methods to thematically understand the coping, adjustment and resilience of males in higher education.

Aman’s PhD research focuses on perceptions and understandings of mental health in Kent’s Sikh community. She will use ethnographic methods to investigate Sikh mental health across three interrelated sectors within many health care systems; these are the popular sector, the folk sector, and the professional sector. She aims to use creative audio-visual methods to disseminate her research and give back to the Sikh community.
Aman’s main research interests lie in Social and Cultural Psychology, qualitative research methods, Wellbeing and Mental Health in the Sikh and Punjabi community.