简介
Professor Haywantee (Rumi) Ramkissoon's research interests include planetary and public health, sustainable tourism, management, marketing and applied social and environmental psychology. Her scholarship in sustainability research (e.g. business sustainability, place attachment, pro-environmental behaviour, customer engagement, gender and entrepreneurship, cultural heritage, behavior change in tourism) & healthcare (design of interventions) and pandemic research have attained particular distinction & influence with prestigious international awards. She holds 2 doctoral degrees (1) Applied Environmental Psychology (Monash University, Australia); Tourism Marketing (UTM, training at Virginia Tech University, USA). She has a Masters of Science in Tourism, Conservation & Sustainable Development (University of Greenwich, UK) a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy First Class University of Pune, India), and a Graduate Certificate in Classical Dance. Her postdoctoral experience relates to place attachment, sustainable tourism and societal innovation and behavior change on the Australian Government Corporate Research Center for Water Sensitive Cities program.
Professor Haywantee Ramkissoon is listed on the elite list - top 1% most-cited scientists 2024/2023/2022/2021- Clarivate, top 2% Stanford most-cited scientists 2025/2024/2023/2022/2021, Australia's top 40 researchers with career<10 years -2019, Australia’s best 5 performers from Business, Economics & Management (1 of the 8 main disciplines in Australia), the prestigious emerging scholar of distinction (2017) from the International Academy for the study of Tourism for her substantial contribution to ground-breaking and innovative research in tourism. She is a Fellow of the Peer Review College at the British Academy of Management, UK, a Professor at the Faculty of Business & Law, School of Management at Adelaide University, Australia. Her service & leadership roles include; Research Director; Executive co-director of research centres; Advisory and editorial board memberships; Scientific boards; Distinguished visiting professorships e.g. University of Johannesburg, South Africa and Centre for Innovation in Tourism, Taylors' University, Malaysia; Honorary Professor, Lovely Professional University, Panjab, India. Her teaching and research roles at accredited world-renowned universities: Adelaide University, Australia ((Full Professor); University of South Australia (Full Professor) University of Derby, UK (Full Professor), UiT, The Arctic University of Norway (Full Professor), Curtin University and Monash University, Australia (Associate Professor-Research) & University of Technology, Mauritius & University of Mauritius. She has been a visiting scholar/professor at world-class universities in Europe, Australasia, North America, Africa and Asia.
Professor Haywantee Ramkissoon's role involves mentoring research-active colleagues in producing and disseminating high-quality research for the benefits of individuals and society at large.
Professor Ramkissoon's latest educational experience is at the Harvard Medical School - Leading Digital Transformation in Health Care (Executive Education).
She serves as Associate Editor for Global Journal of Marketing, Associate Editor/Research Note editor for the Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management and is the Book Review Editor for Current Issues in Tourism. She serves on the editorial board of several top-tier journals in her field (e.g. Journal of Travel Research, Journal of Sustainable Tourism; The Services Industry journal) and as a reviewer and past editorial board member (Tourism Management; International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality management) for more than 90 peer-reviewed journals including several high category psychology (social psychology, environmental psychology), tourism, hospitality, public health, management - human resource management, natural resource management, environmental management, and behavioral science journals.
Professor Hawantee Ramkissoon has over 150 publications in reputable peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, co-edited special issues, conference reviews, book reviews, conference proceedings and technical reports. Her research has been published in leading Business (tourism), Management and Psychology journals. She is a successful recipient of collaborative interdisciplinary research grants. She works closely with industry partners including National Research Council of Italy, Norway Research Council, Corporate Research Center for Water Sensitive Cities, Parks Victoria, Parks Canada, Environment Protection Authority, Australia Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Australia-China Council, Indian Ocean Rim Association, and other academic institutions in Australasia, North America, Africa, Asia and Europe. She disseminates her research findings at national and international conferences, workshops and seminars.
