Charishma Ratnam is a Human Geographer and Postdoctoral 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, inclusion, 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 Sri Lankan migrants' uses of, and encounters with, public and online spaces in Australia. 

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