BIOGRAPHY

Ishara Senanayake, currently serves as an Assistant Librarian at the Faculty of Nursing, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Mrs. Senanayake entered the Faculty of Medical Sciences, Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ) in 2013 as an undergraduate. She was awarded the Linnaeus- Palme scholarship and got the opportunity to enter the Kristianstad University in Sweden where she specialized the subject areas of Applied Clinical Nursing and Global Health in 2017. She continued her association with the University of Sri Jayewardenepura by joining as a Temporary Demonstrator after obtaining an upper second class for her first degree, Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Special) in 2017.
She continued her working as a Temporary Demonstrator by joining The Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL), Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing in 2018. She has experienced in lecturing Primary Health Care subject for Nursing undergraduates while been a co-author and a desktop publisher for OUSL Nursing guide books. Mrs. Senanayake is a Registered Nurse (RN) since 2018. She also completed the Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education (CTHE) at USJ in 2019 & Certificate in Postgraduate Research at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo in 2020. Further, she is a member of Graduate Nurses’ Foundation of Sri Lanka and a Life Member of Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science.
She joined University of Colombo as an Assistant Librarian in November 2020. Her current research interests are in the areas of Public health, Health education, Health care systems, Information needs and Information seeking behavior.

Qualifications, Fellowships and Certifications

  • BScN (Special) 2017

    BSc. (Special) in Nursing

    University of Sri Jayewardenepura

  • CTHE 2019

    Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education

    University of Sri Jayewardenepura

  • CPPR 2020

    Certificate in Postgraduate Research

    Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo

  • Applied Clinical Nursing 2017

    Applied Clinical Nursing

    Kristianstad University, Sweden

  • Global Health 2017

    Global Health

    Kristianstad University, Sweden

Positions

  • Present2020

    Assistant Librarian

    Faculty of Nursing, University of Colombo

  • 20202018

    Temporary Demonstrator

    The Open University of Sri Lanka

  • 20182017

    Temporary Demonstrator

    University of Sri Jayewardenepura

  • Present2018

    Registered Nurse

    Sri Lanka Nursing Council