Early Career Senate Award for Research Excellence – University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

New Zealand Commonwealth Scholarship award to obtain the Ph.D. degree in Sociology at University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

• SAARC scholarship award to obtain an MA degree at the South Asian University, New Delhi, India

N.D.S. Silva Memorial Prize and the Gold medal for Sociology in year 2007 batch at the General Convocation of the University of Colombo.