Pavitar is a part-time Research Associate. Her interests are in multi-disciplinary qualitative work involving literature, language, health communication and chronic disease. She is drawn to the use of narrative analysis as a means of understanding the concerns of the chronically ill.
She worked at the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation as a Researcher/Producer previously. She is now undertaking a part-time PhD in Health Research with the Institute of Health Research at Lancaster University, UK, and her research topic is "Living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Coping Mechanisms in a Singaporean Population". Pavitar graduated at the top of her class for the BA (English) final exams at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur and subsequently pursued an MA in Linguistics at the University of Leeds, UK.