Charishma Ratnam is a Human Geographer and Research Fellow at the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre at the School of Social Sciences, Monash University. Her research spans a number of areas, primarily focusing on refugee experiences, migrant resettlement, belonging, and home-making practices. Charishma is particularly interested in developing novel research approaches including visual, ethnographic, and walking methods with participants to better understand their experiences of/in/with place(s). Charishma's current research projects focus on regional migration and resettlement in Australia and Sri Lankan refugees' experiences of home-making during resettlement in Sydney. 

Charishma has recently co-edited a collection on Sri Lankan Tamils in Australia (2020). Her research has also been published in Geography Compass, Emotion, Space and Society, and Urban Geography. She is the Postgraduate Councillor of the Institute of Australian Geographers.