Jolly Roy PhD, MSW

Dr. Jolly Roy is the senior psychologist and currently the Head of Sport Psychology center at the National Sports Institute of Malaysia. Dr. Roy had served as a lecturer in Sport Psychology at ‘University Sains Malaysia’. Prior to this, Dr. Roy worked as a sport psychologist at the Sports Authority of India, lecturing in the coaching courses and providing consultations to the elite athletes. After receiving a Ph.D. from Bangalore University, Dr. Roy had advanced training in performance-related emotion dynamics from the Research Institute for Olympic Sports in Finland.

Currently, she has been offered a visiting scholar position in the sport psychology program at Florida State University, USA. Dr. Roy was awarded the ‘Young scholar development award’ at the 10th world congress of sport psychology in Greece. Dr. Roy is also the recipient of ‘Fellow of 2008’ awarded by the Sport Psychology Association of India, in December 2009. Dr. Roy has served two terms as the secretary/ Treasurer in the Managing council of the International Association of Applied Psychology-sport psychology division. She was also elected as the Asian Representative of the IAAP-sport psychology division.