OTHER CREDENTIALS TRAINING
I. Training on Gender Equality / Equity in Sri Lankan Universities – At workshop on Training for Trainers( ToT) Sri Lanka from 25th -27th April 2016
II. Postgraduate Certificate Course and field Training on Research Methodology (Three Months) of CERES, Research School for Resource Studies for Development, Utrecht University April-June 2005, The Netherlands.
III. Resources person of GENDER SUMMIT -2012 On Strategies for Visualizing the Invisible: Women and Men at Work 04-06 September 2012, Sri Lanka (Organized by Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung, India & Sri Lanka office)
IV. Training workshop on women at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA1991-
V. Graduate Training Workshop (Ten Week Programme) on women in Profession, 1988, Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy, SRI LANKA.
VI. Training on “Building a positive work Culture to improve Productivity and quality - Feb 2016.
VII. Training on Counselling, (2011) OBT training on “Group Dynamics and Personality Development (2011), Training on Students Discipline – Anti Ragging and Anti Violence especially against female students (2011), organized by University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
VIII. Field training on GCRF South Asian Nitrogen Hub workshop in Male, Maldives, UN office Nairobi, Kanya, Kathmandu, Nepal in 2019 and Edinburg, UK, New Delhi, India in 2018
IX. Field Training on: Learning Methodology of Establishing Waste Management Actions Plans (2015) and Training on Laboratory Equipment for Environmental Analysis and GIS analysis (2014) in Saitama & Waseda University, Japan
Core Editor/ Member of Editorial Board
1. Member of Editorial Board of proceeding of the 2nd International Conference on Environmental Monitoring and Management - EMM 2020, Centre for Environmental studies , University of Peradeniya( 23rd Oct , 2020)
2. Member of Editorial Board of Handbook for BA External Degree Programme, conduct through Centre for Distance and Continuing Education, University of Peradeniya -2019
3. Member of Editorial Board of Sri Lanka Journal of Sociology, Department of Sociology , University of Peradeniya ,Sri Lanka From 2018
4. Member of the Editorial Committee and Track Chair of Social Sciences and Humanities , Peradeniya University Research Session (iPURSE) -2016
5. Member of Committees of Editorial of Sociology Day , Organized by Department of Sociology , University of Peradeniya on 8th April 2015
6. Member of Editorial Board of) Prathimana, Annual Journal Department of Sociology, University of Ruhuna 2018 onwards
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
A) Curriculum Revisions : International
1. Member ( represented Sri Lanka ) of workshop of Development of Quality Assurance Toolkit for Higher Education Open Distance Learning (ODL) institutions of in Commonwealth Asia ( Attended workshop on February 4-5 , 2019 held in E learning Centre , University of Hyderabad, India
2. Member of curriculum development team of Peace and Conflict studies Global Campus Programme at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies , March 2017 representing Sri Lanka ( Sri Lanka is one of the partner country of this programme and deliver lectures for students through the video conferring system from 2009 to date )
National
1. Resources Person for the Capacity Building Workshop for Syllabus Revision of BBA (Online) Degree (From 23 rd to 27th March, 2018) Organized by the Centre for Distance and Continuing Education (CDCE), University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka with support from the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) in New Delhi, India
2. Member of Curriculum Development of preparing of Rules and Regulation s for ODL students of CDCE in University of Peradeniya 2019
3. Member of the committee of Development of Proposed Master Degree in Women
& Gender Studies .PGIHS , University of Peradeniya 2019 onwards
4. Member of Curriculum Development of School of Technology, Colombo Attended the workshop on “Curriculum Development and Development on Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic Chemicals (PBTs) for Universities 30th January 2018 at University of Peradeniya part of the project of Environmentally Sound Management of Polychlorinated(PCB) implemented by Ministry of Mahaweli Development &
Environment ( Going on)
5. Chair of the Under Graduate Curriculum Revision of the Department of Sociology, University of Peradeniya 2017/18
6. Member of the Post Graduate Curriculum Revision of the Department of Sociology, University of Peradeniya 2015
7. Work as a resource Person of Curriculum Development workshop held on 6th March 2015
8. Member of the External Syllabus Curriculum Revision of the Centre for Distance and Continuing Education ,University of Peradeniya2013
9. Member of the Under Graduate Curriculum Revision of the Department of Sociology, University of Peradeniya 2008
10. Introduce a new course to department of Sociology in 2002 curriculum revision ((Sociology of Migration SOC 418 – four hundred level students )
B) GUEST SPEAKER
1. Guest Speaker of Environmental Degradation and sustainable Development:
Global Regional and Local Perspective , Assam in India, 3-5 February 2020 (Sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research , India )
2. Guest Speaker of Multi Disciplinary International Seminar on Gender and Development: A Global Perspective, Gossaigaon College. Assam , India 26-28 August, 2019 (Sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research , India )
3. Guest Speaker of Department of Sociology, Loyola College of Social Sciences ,Thiruvananthapuram , Kerala , India. 24th November 2009 on “Culture , Conflict, and Higher Education in Sri Lanka “,
Session Chair / Resource Person and Evaluator / Member of Scientific committee
1. Member and the panelist of the International Scientific Committee , The 2nd international Conference of the Center for Environmental Studies (CES) on
"Environmental Management and Monitoring" University of Peradeniya 2020
2. Chairperson of Session of Urban Landscape & Ecological Planning at the 10th international Conference on Structural Engineering & Construction Management (ICSECM) 2019 Held in Kandy .( 12-14, December 2019 )
3. One of the chairpersons of International Seminar on Environmental Degradation and sustainable Development: Global Regional and Local Perspective , Assam in India, 3-5 February 2020 ( to be attended )
4. One of the chairpersons of International Seminar on Gender and Development: A Global Perspective, Gossaigaon College. Assam , India 26-28 August, 2019 (Sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research , India )
5. Programme Chair of the session – Especial session on Sociology of Structural Engineering and Construction Management of ,9th International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management -2018 (7-9 December), Kandy Sri Lanka
6. Programme Chair of the session – Especial session on Sociology of Structural Engineering and Construction Management of ,8th International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management -2017 (7-9 December), Kandy Sri Lanka
7. Session Chair of Social Sciences and Humanities iPURSE, 2017, University of Peradeniya
8. Programme Chair of the session – Especial session on Sustainable Built Environment for social and Psychological wellbeing ,7th International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment -2016 December Kandy Sri Lanka.
9. Co-Chair of the Technical session of 12 International Conference of the International Institute for Infrastructures Resilience and Re – construction(IIIRR- 2016) Faculty of Engineering , University of Peradeniya
10. Chair of the session – Especial session on Solid Waste Management ,5th International Conference on Sustainable Build Environment ICSBE -12-14 December 2014, Kandy,
11. Chair of a session -All India Sociological Conference on the theme “Social Exclusion and Inclusion : Issues , Prospect and Responses” .( XXXVIth Annual Conference Organized by Kerala Sociological Association at Loyola College of Social Sciences, Trivandrum, India November 20-22 ,2009
Reviewer
12. Review of International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences , Univesity of Ruhuna (RUICHSS) 2021
13. A Reviewer of the Research Congress (RESCON) of the Postgraduate Institute of Science (PGIS), University of Peradeniya-2021
14. Reviewer of 2nd International Conference on Environmental Monitoring and Management (EMM), Centre for Environmental Studies(CES) 2020
15. Reviewer & an organizer of South Asian Symposium on Sustainable Environment Management-2016 for Environment Studies ( CES) , University of Peradeniya 2016 16. Reviewer of PhD proposal on ‘Attitude Towards women Facing Domestic Violence
among Health Care Professional , Faculty of Medicine , University of Peradeniya 2019
17. Reviewer of International Conference on Future of Women ’18 (ICFOW 2018)
“A Prospect for Greater Vision’s 6th – 7th February, in Malaysia.
18. Reviewer of International Symposium on Gender Equity and Equality (ISGEE) – 2017, Eastern University , Sri Lanka
19. Reviewer of Research Reports of SAARC Cultural Centre Sri Lanka (2017 onwards)
20. Reviewer of Jaffna University of International Research Conference (JUICE) 2016
21. Reviewer of 3rd International Conference of Social Sciences (ICOSS-2017),Bali , Indonesia
22. Reviewer of International Conference on Multidisciplinary Approach(iCMA), Facilty of Graduate Studies , University of Sri Jayawardhana 2015
23. A Reviewer of International Conference on the Humanities and Social Sciences (ICHSS)-2016 Organize by Faculty of Arts , University of Peradeniya – (Reviewed 4 Articles)
24. Reviewed an Article on Women Headed Household and Children for Eighth Academic
Sessions and Seventh Vice Chancellor’s Awards Ceremony -2010, University of Ruhuna, December 2010
25. Reviewed an Article on The Impact of Women Empowerment Programs on Tea Estate Women’s Poverty Reduction in Sri Lanka for 1st International Conference of Social Sciences(ICSSH Conference) December 16-17, held in Faculty of Arts , University of Peradeniya. December ,2011
26. Reviewed an Article on Friendship among University Students: A case study of the university of Peradeniya for Peradeniya University Research Session -2011(PURSE) on 24th November 2011, held in Faculty Veterinary Science , University of Peradeniya
Resources Person
27. Resources person / Evaluator of PGISH Research Congress 2017. 2018 , University of Peradeniya
28. Resources person of International Conference of Humanities and Social Sciences (ICHSS)-2016, 2017, 2018 Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya .
29. Resource person of Peradeniya University Research Session (iPURSE) 2016 , University of Peradeniya
30. Resource Person / Reviewer of South Asian Symposium on Sustainable Environment Management - 2016 , Centre for Environmental Studies , University of Peradeniya .
31. Resource person of Aging people and Social Development in Sri Lanka” Organized by Social service division in Central province in Sri Lanka at the District Secretariat, Kandy on 20th November 2015
32. Resource person & Discussant of Programme of Women and Violence ,Organized by Kandy Police , Women Political Win at Hindu Cultural Centre , Kandy 0n 8th June 2014
33. Resource person - Performance Development Workshop for Women Development Officers in Central province ( One day )27th June 2014 at Kandy , Sri Lanka
34. Resource person - Driver Awareness Programme on 15th May 2012 Conducted by CDCE , University of Peradeniya
35. Resource person -Seminar series of General Arts Degree Examination(External ) and First Examination in Arts (External) –Sociology 2010. 2011, 2012 Conducted by CDCE, University of Peradeniya
36. Evaluator/Judge/ Reviewer - Technical session ( Agricultural Economic and Extention) of the 23rd Annual Congress of the Post Graduate Institute of Agriculture (PGIA) held on November 17th& 18th at GRC, Gannoruwa , Peradeniya
37. Resource person -Sthree Mela, Organized byThe Association of War affected Women 3rd&4th August 2011 at Kandy City Center, Kandy
38. Resource person -Awareness programmeon Violence against Women Organized by National Women Committee of Ministry of Child Development and Women Affaires at Divisional Secretariat of Udapalatha, Gampola ,December 2010
39. Resource person -Awareness programmeon District Women Association of Kandy , Organized by National Women Committee of Ministry of Child Development and Women Affaires at Divisional Secretariat of Kandy December , 2009
40. Resource Person of Political Organization (SLFP Women’s Wing) 1997-uptodate
41. Evaluator/ Reviewer of University Research Grant application on Gender transport and women’s economic empowerment for the university Research Session
VISITING LECTURER International:
“Migration and Women” , for Post Graduate students at Masaryk University , Brno , Check Republic 2nd – 9th October, 2017
National :
Course “Society and Medicine (PM1241) , for B. Pharmacy programme, Department of Pharmacy , Faculty of Allied Health Science , University of Peradeniya ,Year 1. Semester II for the period from 1st of July , 2009 to 19th March 2010.
CONDUCTING AWARENESS PROGRAMME
Conducting awareness Programme on “Waste Management in University” at the orientation programme for the New Entrants of the Faculty of Arts 2017
OTHER SERVICES TO STUDENTS AND UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA Student welfare and other related work
Member of High level University Committees& other committees of the Faculty Related to Student Matters
1. Member of the Inquire Committee appointed by the Vice Chancellor: to investigate the issues of Faculty of Engineering& the Academic Staff Members of the Faculty – July 2018
2. Member of the Appeal committee appointed by the Vice Chancellor : to investigate Ragging of first years students of Faculty of Agriculture 2017
3. Member of Senate Admission & Request Commiittee2017-uptodate , University of Peradeniya
4. Member of the Board of Discipline of the University of Peradeniya for period of three Years from 1st September 2015 -1st September 2018 and 2019-.uptodate
OTHER COMMITTEES RELATED TO UNIVERSITY &STUDENTS
5. Member of Technical Advisory Committee for the management of Solid Waste – University of Peradeniya January 2020 – January 2022
6. Senior Treasure of Sociological Association of University of Peradeniya 2016
7. Chair of the Faculty Student Admission and Request committee for three years (2016 & 2018 -2220)
8. Chair of Student Affair and Advisory Committee , Faculty of Arts 2016
9. Senior Treasure of Vidyarthie Society ( an all university Student Society) 2014 2015
10. Warden , Hilda Obyesekara Hall, University of Peradeniya Peradeniya Sri Lanka From 2013- to present
11. Member of Committee of Prevention of Student Unrest 2014,2016 12. Member of Committee for Welfare of Special needs Students 2012 13. Chairmen of Senior Student Counselor , Faculty of Arts 2012 14. Senior Student Counselor 2010,2011,2012,2013, 2016,2017
15. One of The Signatories of Samaja Vimasuma (Department Magazine) Account, Department of Sociology , University of Peradeniya March 2010 onwards
16. Academic Sub Warden, Ramanathan Hall, University of Peradeniya,. 1987- 1990
17. Served as Acting Warden of Ramanathan Hall ( April, November , December 2014) , Ediriweera Sarchandara Hall and Gunapala Malalasekara Hall ( 8th April- 30th April) 2015
COORDINATOR POSITIONS
1. Coordinator of Global Campus Programme ( 2016-2021), University of Peradeniya
2. Coordinator of Lecture Programme for Visiting Norwegian Students , UoP ,2010 ONLINE WORK :
1. Conducting online Lectures for Post Graduate Students of Global Campus programme ( Japan, India, Kashmir, Cambodia, Afginisthan ,Pakistan, Sri Lanka Course
”Research Methodology”
2. Handled BBA (ONLINE) degree programme conducted through the Centre for Distance and Continuing Education , (CDCE) University of Peradeniya ( 2011-14&
2018- 2021 )
3. ONLINE Proctor Worked as online proctor ( Invigilator) of E Campus , Oregon State University (OSU), USA
4. Representation in the Web Committee: Represented Web Committee of UoP on behalf of Centre for Distance and Continuing Education
5. Handling of Video Conference( International )
6. Conducting and Organized Online Lectures for Global Campus Programme coordinate by Tokyo University of Foreign Studies , Japan from 2017
Other
Ability to Handling Online Academic Programme , Especial knowledge on Distance Education
