UOC DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

ACADEMIC STAFF

Siri Hettige - Senior Professor (Chair of Sociology)
BA, BPhil (Colombo), PhD (Monash)

Migration, poverty, education, youth and identity and politics, inequality, governance and development, community studies

sthetti@webmail.cmb.ac.lk

Premakumara de Silva - Professor , Head of the Department
BA, MA (Colombo), MSc & PhD (Edinburgh,UK)

Anthropology, Sociology, Indigenous Studies, Rituals and Pilgrimage, Sociology of Religion, Theravada Buddhism, Youth Culture, Globalization, Social Movements, Citizenship, Local Governance and Democracy, Post-colonial and Post- Marxist Theory, and Qualitative Research Methods

prema@soc.cmb.ac.lk , prema112@hotmail.com

Ramanie de. S. Jayathilaka - Associate Professor
BA, BPhil (Colombo), MPhil (Sussex), PhD (JNU)

Migration, gender issues, rural social change, disaster related issues

ramaniej@yahoo.com

I. V. Edirisinghe - Senior Lecturer
BA (Ceylon) MA (Manchester)
( Retired with effect from 09.10.2010 )

Society and culture in Sri Lanka, urban sociology, sociology of work

aishkima@hotmail.com

Subhangi M.K. Herath - Senior Lecturer
BA, MA (Colombo), PhD (Waterloo, Canada)

Gender relations, environmental sociology, social issues including ageing, suicide, crime and deviance, poverty, social inequality

subhangiherath40@yahoo.com

Gameela Samarasinghe - Associate Professor
BA, MA (Sorbonne), PhD (Brest, France)

Violence and conflict-related psychological distress and wellbeing, cultural relevance of psychosocial interventions, migration, domestic violence

gameela@col.lk

Chandrasiri Niriella - Senior Lecturer
BA, MA (Colombo), MPhil (TISS), PhD(JNU)

Sociology of urban housing, urban politics, cities and ethnicity, urban neighbourhood studies, urban policies, urban low-income communities, sociology of work and formal organizations cniriella2003@yahoo.co.uk

Chandani Liyanage - Senior Lecturer
BA, MA (Colombo), PhD (Delhi)

Sociology of medicine, sociology of development

Chandani97@sltnet.lk

W Jagath S. de Silva - Senior Lecturer
BA, MA (Colombo)

War and law affected children, family related problems of Middle East migrant workers, sociology of family, violence against women and children, political environment in Sri Lanka & policy-making for child protection
wellawatta@yahoo.co.uk

Nishara Fernando - Senior Lecturer
(Coordinator, Postgraduate Programmes)
BA, MPhil(Colombo), PG. Dip.(La Trobe Australia), PhD (Bonn)

Applied sociological research methods, poverty and livelihood security, urban and rural level relocation, natural disasters and reconstruction, Indicators and social vulnerability assessment nishara.fernando@gmail.com

Dilrukshi Abeysinghe - Senior Lecturer

BA, MPhil (Colombo), Sociology of Medicine

Mental health and social work

dilrukshiabeysinghe@yahoo.com

Farzana F. Haniffa - Senior Lecturer(Coordinator, Under Graduate Examinations)
BA, MA, PhD (Columbia)

Gender, ethnicity, media

Haniffa_fuad@sltnet.lk

Iresha M. Karunaratne - Senior Lecturer

BA (Colombo), PhD (Monash)

Education, gender, urban studies

madhavinalin@yahoo.com

Kumudu Kusum Kumara - Senior Lecturer
PhD (York, Toronto)

Social theory, politics, citizenship

M.T.M. Mahees - Senior Lecturer
(Coordinator, Undergraduate Course Units)
PhD (Peradeniya), BA (Peradeniya), MA (Colombo)

Environmental Sociology, Political Ecology, Solid Waste Crisis, Water Resource Management, Environmental Health Issues

mahees@soc.cmb.ac.lk

Anthonymuttu Robinson - Senior Lecturer BA (Jaffna) MA (Delhi), MPhil (JNU)

Youth, identity politics and nationalism and Diaspora

antonyrobinson2000@yahoo.com

Jagath Bandara Pathirage - Lecturer BA (Colombo) MSc (Edinburgh)

Athropology of Hope, Boday, Landscape, Migration, Transnationalism, Religion and Ritual, Subjectivity and Identity, Sexuality

jpathirage@yahoo.com