Nalini Bikkina is a Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, GITAM Deemed to be University, Visakhapatnam, India. Her research is interdisciplinary, connecting Psychology and Public Policy to explore areas like forced migration, climate change adaptation, sustainability, social innovation, and rural livelihoods. She recently co-edited the 2024 volume, Climate Change Adaptation: Traditional Wisdom and Cross-Scale Understanding, published by Palgrave Macmillan.