Chetan Sinha is a Professor of Psychology at OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat. He teaches critical psychology of law, psychology of education and neuroscience and law.
He is broadly interested in the social psychology of power in the educational context. He worked with primary and elementary school children from low-income marginalized communities. He is interested in their academic identification, response to identity and stereotype threats and how academic achievement and failure are socially represented. He also worked on the children of the weavers community in Varanasi and their pathways to cross the boundary of being from the working class.
Currently, he is working on the children of displaced migrant workers, the meaning of play and inclusive playgrounds.