• New Zealand Commonwealth Scholarship award 2019 to obtain the Ph.D. degree in Sociology at University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
• 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 in 2011.
• SAARC scholarship award (2012-2014) to obtain an MA degree at the South Asian University, New Delhi, India