Research & Grants

Research Interests

  • Depression
  • Student mental health and development of services
  • Mental well-being, humaneness
  • Wisdom and wise-reasoning

Research Grants

  • Testing new Approaches in Sri Lanka and the Philippines, Templeton World Charity Foundation Inc., 2019-2021, Grant of USD 231,679 (Role: Principal Investigator)
  • World Bank funded Sri Lanka Government Operation, 2019-2022, Grant of Rs 39,996,960 (Role: Deputy Coordinator of Project and Lead Coordinator of component examining mental health outcomes of a culturally relevant meditation-based intervention and Supervisor of PhD candidate working on project)
  • Small Research Grant from the University of Colombo, 2017-2018 (Role- Principal Investigator)
  • Collaborative Research Grant from the University of Colombo, 2017-2018 (Role: Co-investigator and Supervisor of MPhil candidate working on project)