Appointments

  • Senior Lecturer (Grade II) from 01.09.2017 to Present 07 years & 11 months of service as Senior Lecturer (Grade II)
  • Lecturer from 01.03.2010 to 31.08.2017
  • Government school teacher, Sri Lanka Teacher Service, Ministry of Education, from 01.10.2007 to 28.02.2010

Other duties/responsibilities done for the development of the faculty

  • Resource person for the preparation of the course unit 'Educational Measurement and Assessment in Primary Education' of the Bachelor of Education in Primary Education program introduced by the Faculty of Education.
  • Resource person for the preparation of the course unit 'Educational Measurement and Assessment in Primary Education' of the Postgraduate Diploma in Education in Primary Education program introduced by the Faculty of Education.
  • Resource person for the preparation of the course unit Assessment Skills of Multidisciplinary Skill Development for the Master of Education degree program introduced by the Faculty of Education.
  • Resource person for the preparation of the following course modules (Assessment of Counselling, General Psychology, Extended Essay of Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling degree program introduced by the Faculty of Education.
  • Member of the faculty curriculum committee (2022,2023,2024)
  • Member of the faculty symposium committee (2022,2023,2024)
  • Member of the sport advisory board (2013-2014) (2017-2020)
  • Marking examiner to the research module offered to two students on the student exchange program with the University of Umea, Sweden. (2018)
  • Prepare the new Postgraduate Diploma in Education ‘STUDENT HANDBOOK’ according to SLQF guidelines.
  • Coordination of preparing By-laws for the new Postgraduate Diploma in Education programme according to SLQF guidelines.

Positions

  • Head of the department (20.10.2022 –09.07.2025)
  • Acting Head of the department (2019.09.15 – 2019.09.17)
  • President of the 'Welfare Society' at the Faculty of Education from 2020 to present.
  • Senior Treasurer of the ‘Faculty of Education Students’ Union’. (2019).
  • Temporary Student Counsellor of the Faculty of Education.(2014-2018)

Collaboration with other Institutions

  • Team member for the Infoschool experiment conducted by Dr. Ruwan Weerasighe (a former Director UCSC) with Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT) Sri Lanka to integrate a component of Education in two modules (Thinking, Learning and Problem Solving and Psycho-social Skills) in the interdisciplinary preparatory programme for IT undergraduate students to the world of work.
  • Visiting Lecturer - Institute of Human Resource Advancement, University of Colombo (2018) Diploma in Counselling Psychology Subject: DCP 02 – General Psychology Responsibility: Teaching, Paper setting, Moderating, Evaluate the answer scripts, providing assignments and marking assignment
  • Visiting Lecturer - Institute of Human Resource Advancement, University of Colombo (2015) Diploma in Counselling Psychology (Higher Level) – No 04 Subject: CP 26 – Occupational Assessment and Personality Test Responsibility: Teaching, Paper setting, Moderating, Evaluate the answer scripts, providing assignments and marking assignments.
  • Visiting Lecturer – University of Vocational Technology (2015 to 2016) Degree/Diploma Programme: National Diploma in Technical Teacher Education Subjects: Assessment of Learning Responsibility: Teaching, Paper setting and marking, providing assignments and marking.
  • Visiting Lecturer – University of Vocational Technology (2014 to 2015) Degree/Diploma Programme: National Diploma in Technical Teacher Education Subjects: Assessment of Learning Responsibility: Teaching, Paper setting and marking, providing assignments and marking.
  • Guest Lecturer (University of Umea – Sweden) - In the course Digital Competence and Learning I and II in the Linnaeus-Palme project financed by the Swedish Council for Higher Education (26.08.2018 - 17.09.2018).
  • Guest Lecturer – National Institute of Education, Sri Lanka (2018) On Motivation of Educational Psychology and Instructional Methodology phases for trainee instructors of the Sri Lanka Air Force.
  • Member of the review committee of pre-service curriculum development for the National College of Education on Technology under the KOICA project (2024)
  • Member of the consultation team for B.Ed(Hons) curriculum development of the Faculty of Arts, University of Jaffna (2025)
  • Delivering a guest lecture for officers and officer under trainees at Naval and Maritime Academy, Trincomalee. (2019)
  • Member of the Curricular Development Committee – Diploma and Higher Diploma in Counselling Psychology, IHRA (2017)
  • Examiner of the project Reports of the Diploma in Drug Abuse Management Studies Examination for Marking the reports – IHRA (2021)
  • Examiner of the project Reports of the Bachelor of Labour Education (Part lll - Final) Examination for Marking the reports – IHRA (2018)
  • Examiner of the project Reports of the Diploma in Counselling Psychology, Batch No. 05 (Higher Level) Examination for Marking the reports – IHRA (2017)
  • Supervisor for the project Report supervision of the Bachelor of Labour Education Degree Programme - (2015-2016)
  • Examiner of the paper in ‘Occupational Assessment and Personality Test (CP 26) – Diploma in Counselling Psychology (2015) A34
  • External Supervisor for students’ final year research project batch – B1 – B.Ed (2018/2019). Year lll – Semester ll.
  • Examiner of the Dissertations submitted as part fulfilment of the requirement of MTL of NILIS – University of Colombo (2023).
  • Examiner of the paper in ‘DCP 1002 – General Psychology – Diploma in Counselling Psychology (2018).

Contribution to the Research field

  • Reviewer: Journal of Research and Reviews in Social Sciences (2025) - (Peer-Reviewed Journal), Kinnaird College for Women in Pakistan.
  • Session Chair at the 7th International Conference on Future Education 2024. 'Using Modern Technologies to Improve Education', July 11-12, 2024, Bangkok, Thailand. Publication year: 2024
  • Scientific committee member at the 7th International Conference on Future Education 2024. 'Using Modern Technologies to Improve Education', July 11-12, 2024, Bangkok, Thailand. Publication year: 2024
  • Evaluation Panel member at the 7th International Conference on Future Education 2024. 'Using Modern Technologies to Improve Education', July 11-12, 2024, Bangkok, Thailand. Publication year: 2024
  • Member of the advisory board: 4th EDIRS Symposium Proceedings. (2024) 4th International Research Symposium of the Faculty of Education, University of Colombo.
  • Member of the Editorial Board: 4th EDIRS Symposium Proceedings. (2024) 4th International Research Symposium of the Faculty of Education, University of Colombo.
  • Reviewer: 3rd International Research Conference on ‘Information for Development; A Way Forward to Address Current Global Challenges (2024) organized by the National Library of Sri Lanka.
  • Reviewer: Journal of Research and Reviews in Social Sciences (2024) - (Peer-Reviewed Journal), Kinnaird College for Women in Pakistan.
  • Reviewer: 3rd EDIRS Symposium Proceedings. (2023). 3rd International Research Symposium of the Faculty of Education, University of Colombo.
  • Reviewer: 1st National Research Symposium (NRSSSH-2023). 1st National Research Symposium of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Rajarata University of Sri Lanka.
  • Scientific Reviewer at the 5th International Conference on Future Education (2022)
  • Scientific Reviewer at the 6th International Conference on Future Education (2023)
  • Reviewer: 5th International Research Conference – Trincomalee Campus- EUSL (2022)
  • Expert Reviewer for the ‘SAMODANA Journal’ Volume 10, Issue l and ll, 2022 by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Rajarata University of Sri Lanka.
  • Scientific Committee member at the 4th International Conference on Future Education 2021
  • Reviewer: International Journal of Multidisciplinary studies (IJMS) -2020 (peer – reviewed journal) – Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Sri Jayawardenapura.
  • Scientific Committee member at the 3rd International Conference on Future Education 2020
  • Reviewer at the 2nd International Conference on Future Education 2019
  • Reviewer: The Research article competition (External Universities category) at ‘Sahithya Sankathana – 2019 of the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka.
  • Reviewer: International Conference on Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Research. (2024). Faculty of Graduate Studies of the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka.
  • Reviewer: Ruhunu University International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences (2021). Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ruhuna.

Coordination

  • Group Coordinator: Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Part-Time / Sinhala Medium) programme from 13.05.2017 to 25.05.2025.
  • Coordinator: Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Full-Time / Sinhala Medium) programme from 25.05.2017 to 27.06.2021.
  • Coordinator: Bachelor of Education (Part- l / Sinhala Medium) programme from 01.09.2013 to 31.08.2016.
  • Temporary Coordinator: Bachelor of Education (Part- lll / Sinhala Medium) programme from 14.12.2015 to 14.04.2016.
  • Temporary Coordinator: Bachelor of Education (Part- lll / Sinhala Medium) programme from 31.08.2015 to 18.11.2015.
  • IQAC Coordinator – Faculty coordinator of the Internal Quality Assurance Cell of the Faculty of Education from 01.02.2019 to 25.09.2020.