Presentations

Nguyen-Tu, S*., Rana, M.*, & Sinha, G.R. (2025). Exploring Associations Between Unpaid Medical Bills and Healthcare Utilization. UGA Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) conference. 

Kim, A.* (2025). The therapists who never sleep: A review of existing mental health chatbots, UGA Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) conference 

Yesare, R.* (2025). A review of the trends and causes of youth suicide in India. UGA Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) conference 

Epps, V. V.* (2025). Fear, sadness, and stigma: The struggles of mental health in Indian subreddits. UGA Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) conference 

Ravi, A.* (2025) The many faces of student loan debt: Examining users’ sentiments and emotions in Reddit’s r/personalfinance. UGA Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) conference 

Keenan, E.*, Washington, K.*, & Sinha, G.R. (2025). Mental Health Matters: Exploring awareness, barriers to access, and the use of digital tools among Indian college youth. UGA Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) conference. 

Forbes, I.* & Bics, C.* (2025). Student loan debt and suicidal struggles: Insights from users’ posts in Reddit’s r/suicidewatch. UGA Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) conference. 

Sinha, G.R., Kadiyan, L.*, Banks, L., & Setty, V. K. (2025). Scarcity in everyday life: How ADHD and student loan debt shape personal experiences. 2025 Annual Conference, American Council on Consumer Interests, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. 

Yoo, N.*, Ren, C., & Sinha, G.R. (2025). Analyzing Social Media Data for Social Work Research: Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling Using Natural Language Processing. In 29th Annual Conference Society for Social Work Research, Seattle, WA. 

Ager, M., Sinha, G.R., & Izlar, J. (2025). Financial Capabilities in Action: A Case Study of a Community-Facilitated Loan Program. In 29th Annual Conference Society for Social Work Research, Seattle, WA. 

Power, S.*, Sinha, G.R., Neel, L.*, & Larrison, C.R. (2025). A Mixed-Methods Study of Affective, Cognitive, and Behavioral Responses Among Financially Exploited Older Adults. In 29th Annual Conference Society for Social Work Research, Seattle, WA. 

Ranjani, I.*, Larrison, C.R., Birchmier, C., & Sinha, G.R. (2025). Examining Sentiments Surrounding Guaranteed Income Pilot Interventions. In 29th Annual Conference Society for Social Work Research, Seattle, WA. 

Sinha, G.R. & Gibbs, J.J. (2025). Anxiety As a Mediator between Minority Stress and Financial Stress Among Sexual Minority Men. In 29th Annual Conference Society for Social Work Research, Seattle, WA. 

Harper, M.*, Gauldin, M*., Kathpalia, V*., Lee, J.*, & Sinha, G. R. (2025). Online Anxiety Disclosures and Student Loan Debt: An Exploratory Phenomenological Study. In 29th Annual Conference Society for Social Work Research, Seattle, WA. 

Sinha, G.R., Terry, J.*, Shelton, A. D.*, Dhal, L.*, Ingram, C*. & Bics. C*. Balancing the Ledger of Well-being: Student Loan Debt and Mental Health (May 2024). American Council on Consumer Interests, Milwaukee, WI 

Mullen, S. P., Thomas, D. D., Frail, O., Ruzella, R. M., Ryono, K., Aguiñaga, S. P., Ruedas-Gracia, N., Okunoren, O., Canton, I., Adamek, J. F., Goldstein, M., Callaghan, B., Sinha, G., & Larrison, C. R. (March, 2024). Feasibility of the TIPSTART Program for First-generation college students with symptoms of mental illness. To be presented at the annual meeting and scientific sessions for the Society of Behavioral Medicine 

Sinha, G.R. & Larrison, C. R. (2024). Mental Bandwidth, Financial Anxiety, and Student Loan Repayment. 28th Annual Conference Society for Social Work Research, Washington DC 

Sun, S. & Sinha, G.R. (2024). Who Did Not Receive U.S. Pandemic Stimulus Payments? Implications for Financial Inclusion and Universal Basic Income. 28th Annual Conference Society for Social Work Research, Washington DC 

Dhal, L.* & Sinha, G.R. (2024). Depression and Student Loan Debts: A Qualitative Study of User Posts in an Online Community. 28th Annual Conference Society for Social Work Research, Washington DC 

Sinha, G. R., Sun, S., Collier, A.*, Ingram, C.*, Dhal, L.* & Terry, J.* (2024). Examining the Effects of Student Loans in Online Communities on Common Mental Health Disorders. 28th Annual Conference Society for Social Work Research, Washington DC (Symposium Organizer) 

Chen, Z., Sinha, G.R. (2024). Financial Hardships and Mental Health Crisis: An Examination of Young Adults' Covid-19 Pandemic Experience. 28th Annual Conference Society for Social Work Research, Washington DC 

Larrison, C., Birchmeir, C., Augustine, E., Ahmed, F., Schneider, W. Sinha, G., Nix, K., Kaufman, D., & Roberts, B. (2023). Impact of Stigma and Discrimination on Mental Health of Vulnerable Populations. Annual Meeting, American Public Health Association, Atlanta (GA) 

Sinha, G. R., Larrison, C., Neel, L.*, & Andres, M. (2023). Financial exploitation of older adults: Mental health implications. Annual Meeting, American Public Health Association, Atlanta (GA) 

Sinha, G.R., Power, S. R.*, Kursuncu, U., Rampuria, M. (2023) Darker effects of Covid19: Exploring the impact of pandemic on social quality of people on reddit. Annual Meeting, American Public Health Association, Atlanta (GA) 

Collier, A.*, Bics, C.*, Power, S.R.*, Terry, J.*, Ingram C.*, & Cooper, Z*. (2023). Towards Empowerment in Social Work Education-2.0: Co-creating, Co-implementing, and Co-evaluating a Course. Council on Social Work Education. Annual Program Meeting [Oct] – Contributor (Sinha, G.R.) – Student presenters 

Sinha, G.R., Larrison, C. R., Graaf, G., Lacasse, J., & Brooks, I. S. (2023). Mental Illness Status and Gender Differences in the Naturalistic Expressions on Student Loan Debts on Twitter, American Council on Consumer Interests, Washington D.C. [May] 

Sinha, G.R. & Mehta, R.C.* (2023). Mobile Banking and Mobile Financial Services Use in the United States: Factors and Patterns. American Council on Consumer Interests, Washington D.C. [May] 

Sinha, G. R., Larrison, C. R., Chen, Z., Mowbray, O., & Mullen, S. (2023). Associations among anxiety, student loan repayment and financial knowledge (Symposium: Connecting the Dots: Financial Strain, Health and Mental Health). 27th Annual Conference Society for Social Work Research, Phoenix, AZ 

Sinha, G. R., Larrison, C. R., Brisson, D., Schneider, W., Calhoun, K. H., & Augustine, E. (2023). Implementing and Researching Guaranteed Basic Income: Successes, Issues and Challenges. 27th Annual Conference Society for Social Work Research, Phoenix, AZ 

Sinha, G.R. (2021). Is it Old or New? Text Mining 90 Years of Scholarly Literature to Understand the Patterns in Student Loan Debt. American Council on Consumer Interests, Virtual 

Sinha, G. R., Larrison, C. R., Brooks, I. S., & Sinha, R. (2020). Relationship between twitter sentiments and the availability of mental health services in the United States. American Public Health Conference, Virtual 

Larrison, C. R., Sinha, G. R., Andres, M., Ortiz, D. V., & Okunoren, O. (2020). Financial exploitation of older adults in the United States: A systematic scoping review. Society for Social Work Research, Washington D.C. 

Sinha, G. R., Larrison, C. R., Andres, M. (2020). Financial exploitation among older adults: A qualitative study of university law clinic clients. Society for Social Work Research, Washington D.C. 

Zhan, M. & Sinha, G. R. (2019). Wealth building among young adults with student load debt: What factors make a difference? American Council on Consumer Interests, Washington D.C. 

Sinha, G. R., Larrison, C. R., & Andres, M. (2019). Financial exploitation of older adults in the United States. American Council on Consumer Interests, Washington D.C. 

Sinha, G., Tan, K., & Zhan, M. (2019). Patterns of financial attributes and behaviors of emerging adults in the United States. Society for Social Work Research, San Francisco, CA 

Tan, K., Sinha, G., Shin, O. J., & Wang, Y. (2019). Patterns of social-emotional learning needs among high school freshmen students. Society for Social Work Research, San Francisco, CA 

Sinha, G., Tan, K., & Zhan, M. (2018). Emerging adults and their financial attributes and behaviors. American Council on Consumer Interests, Clearwater Beach, FL 

Vishwanathan, M., Sinha, G., & Sreekumar, A. (2018). Rigorous science and public good: A case study of marketplace literacy. Marketing and Public Policy conference, Columbus, OH  

Vishwanathan, M., Sreekumar, A., & Sinha, G. (2018). Bottom-Up social innovation in subsistence marketplaces. Marketing and Public Policy conference, Columbus, OH 

Sreekumar, A. & Sinha, G. (2018). Innovation through bottom-up enterprise. The 7th Subsistence Marketplace Conference, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign