Tanvi Kothiwale
Mental health researcher with 4+ years of experience in quantitative & qualitative research, psychometrics and academic writing
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I am Mental health researcher with 4+ years of experience in quantitative & qualitative research, psychometrics and academic writing. Experienced in item construction, standardization, factor analysis, item-response analysis, SPSS, and research manual development. Recent personal project research DRONE, both qualitative & Quantitative analysis done.
Contributed to nationally published assessment tools including SEHAT and the Obstetrics & Gynaecological Distress Scale, along with publications in peer-reviewed indexed journals. Skilled in research design, data handling, statistical analysis, literature synthesis, and preparation of scientific reports and manuscripts.
Experience
Consultant Psychometrician & Researcher (Freelance) at CALIBER COMPASS (2024-08 – Present)
Consulting the firm on research, item-analysis reviewing psychometric work & its theory. In addition to that guide & consult them on statistics for standardization.
Psychometric Advisor & Senior Research Consultant at THE GRAD TRACK (2025-10 – Present)
Research & development related to Assessment making digitalization of the test on a platform. (Mainly career testing)
Psychologist (Freelance) at YUVANA WELLNESS (2022-01 – 2023-05)
Counselling employees of the Central Railways- with issues related to sleep, anxiety, stress emotional balance, family relations & general well-being. In addition to this, as a Psychologist, I took adult & adolescent counseling sessions for the organization. Mainly focused on the age group between 8 years to 15 years issues related to self-esteem, confidence and language development.
Research Associate at PRASAD PSYCHO PVT. LTD. (2023-08 – 2025-02)
Handling the psychometric projects. Tasks also involve research mainly (quantitative) and analysis via SPSS software. In addition to that in charge of the team and intern responsibilities. Co-ordination with authors & staeholders for publishing and research services.
In addition to this, I handle the research department tasks from managing interns, working on multiple projects simultaneously related to publishing & clients & lastly documentation as well. Conducted workshops for schools children related to emotional well-being and career choices for multiple schools when I was part of the organization. I was an integral team member for Dr.
Srivastava's team (Director of Prasad Psycho Pvt. Ltd.) for the development of Student's Emotional Health Assessment Tool (SEHAT) which was launched in the year 2023. I standardized SEHAT 2.0 which is currently in use.
Psychotherapist & Psychometrician (Head of Department-Psychometrics) at YUVANA WELLNESS (2021-07 – 2023-05)
As the Head of Dept. trained and guided team members on tool development related activities. Was indulged in tool development for Obstetrics and Gynecology patients. The tool mainly measures Distress in women aged between 18-60 years.
Experienced in SPSS, Data analysis, item-analysis and item making. As a Psychologist, I took adult & adolescent counseling sessions for the organization. Mainly focused on the age group between 8 years to 15 years issues related to self-esteem, confidence and language development.
Psychometric Intern at EMOTICONS INDIA (2019-01 – 2020-02)
The main focus and major exposure was on Tool development (Mindful Living Scale). Making of the items of a test, item- analysis & how to work and analyze data with SPSS.
Assistant Teacher at Kinderland (2018-04 – 2018-05)
Student Head Coordinator for Social Outreach Enabling Centre (SOEC) at Fergusson College (2019-01 – 2020-12)
Handling and coordinating 8 NGOs and their volunteers.
Student Coordinator of Akanksha Foundation (NGO) at Fergusson College (2018-01 – 2019-12)
Volunteer at Akanksha Foundation (2018-01 – 2019-12)
Completed 100 hours of volunteering as a teacher and counsellor in Pujya Kasturba Gandhi English Medium School.
Education
Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Statistics (PGDAST) in Applied Statistics – IGNOU (2025-01 – 2026-12)
MA in Clinical Psychology – Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce (2020-01 – 2022-12)
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology – Fergusson College (2017-01 – 2020-12)
