Awards and grants

• 2011
  Postdoctoral award to do research papers on ageing

  functional disability and long-term care in Thailand, 2011 by the Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Thailand
• 2009
  Postgraduate Award to present a paper on The impacts of transnational migration and household wealth on children’s school enrolment in Sri Lanka

  Postgraduate Award to present a paper on The impacts of transnational migration and household wealth on children’s school enrolment in Sri Lanka: 9th Asia Pacific Sociological Association (APSA) conference 13-15, June, 2009: Bali, Indonesia
• 2008
  Award to present a paper on Parents overseas migration and children left-behind in Sri Lanka

  the Workshop on Transnational Parenthood and Children- Left- Behind in Oslo, Norway 20-21 November 2008.
• 2006
  Grant for Doctoral Degree National Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (NCAS)

  Sri Lanka, 2006
• 1998
  Award for Master Degree

  Department of Economics, University of Colombo,