Jaskaran Basran

Jaskaran Basran is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Derby's College of Health, Psychology and Social Care. His research focuses on compassion-focused interventions, mindfulness, and group therapies for mental health conditions.

Dr. Basran's work explores therapeutic applications of compassion in clinical and community settings, including compassion-focused group therapy for bipolar disorder, music-based compassion interventions, and cross-cultural validation of compassion scales. His recent studies examine psychological responses to collective stressors like the COVID-19 pandemic.

Analysis of his 15 most recent publications shows consistent focus on developing and validating psychological instruments for compassion and mindfulness, along with interventions targeting mood disorders and social connectedness. Temporal trends reveal increasing methodological sophistication including multinational studies, physiological measurements, and clinical trials.

He collaborates extensively with international teams on cross-cultural validation of psychological scales and multi-country studies on trauma responses. Dr. Basran contributes to advancing measurement methodologies in clinical psychology through item response theory and multilevel modeling approaches.