Dr. Riswana B has completed her MSc in Applied Psychology from the Department of Psychology, University of Calicut and PhD in Social Psychology with contemporary Psychoanalysis from School of Psychological Sciences, Christ University, Bengaluru.  Currently working as Assistant Professor of Psychology at Government Arts and Science College, Nadapuram, Kozhikode. 

Her doctoral research was on exploration of the Inner Psyche of the Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees, which advanced contemporary psychoanalytic scholarship on forced displacement. Her work has contributed to the contemporary perspective on inner psyche, ego resilience, intergenerational collective trauma, cultural transmission in exile, and community resilience among war-displaced refugees.  Riswana’s research has been published in leading international Q1 journals, including Violence Against Women, Culture & Psychology, Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, Journal of International Migration & Integration, and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Her broader research focus integrates psychoanalytic theory, migration, displacement and war trauma from South Asian perspectives. With over seven and half years of teaching experience, she has designed curricula in different psychology papers and conducted workshops on Research Methodology. Riswana had written articles on Psychology of migration and psychological evaluations of Sri Lankan Tamil war in leading Malayalam online magazines. She served as reviewer for several Scopus-indexed Q1 journals, including the British Journal of Educational Psychology, Current Psychology, Clinical Social Work Journal, and BMC Psychology