The theme of the Annual Research Symposium (ARS) 2023 of the University of Colombo is “Research Excellence and Beyond”. While striving for excellence by maintaining academic rigour and advancing knowledge, our research should have wider applicability and relevance based on our fields of study beyond academic merit attuned to the problems and concerns of various stakeholders.
ARS 2023 will be an outlet to showcase how the university’s different faculties and institutions are unified towards research excellence yet move beyond excellence to engage in socially and practically meaningful research pertinent to their diverse research domains. In true multidisciplinary spirit and instilling a practice turn, this could for instance, encapsulate (but is not limited to) the commercialisation of university-based research, the contribution of research to policymaking, research inputs for managerial decision making, to business/financial recovery, overcoming adversities and gaining financial independence, as well as maintaining social justice, wellbeing, and the impact on people, society and environment.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS/PAPERS
THEME: "Research Excellence and Beyond”
The Submission should be made via the respective Campus/Faculty/Institute/School
GUESTS & SPEAKERS
Professor Damminda Alahakoon
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Director Research Centre for Data Analytics and Cognition
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Senior Professor (Chair) HD Karunaratne
VICE CHANCELLOR
Professor Tharusha N Gooneratne
CHAIRPERSON
ARS 2023
Professor HD Dharshani Bandupriya
CHAIR
INAUGURATION COMMITTEE
Dr K D Sandaruwan
CHAIR
IT & PUBLICITY COMMITTEE
SESSIONS
CAMPUS/ FACULTY/ INSTITUTE/SCHOOL | SESSION DATE | CONTACT PERSON | |
Faculty of Arts | 28th November 2023 | Mr KJG Ravindran | ravindran@delt.cmb.ac.lk |
Faculty of Education | 24th November 2023 | Dr DVKP Seneviratne | kumusene@dste.cmb.ac.lk |
Faculty of Graduate Studies | 24th November 2023 | Dr Rushan Abeygunawardena | rab_abey@stat.cmb.ac.lk |
Faculty of Indigenous Medicine | 08th – 10th September 2023 | Dr ND Kodithuwakku | darshi_ko@fim.cmb.ac.lk |
Faculty of Law | 09th – 10th December 2023 | Professor Rose Wijesekara | rose@law.cmb.ac.lk |
Faculty of Management & Finance | 17th November 2023 | Dr Seuwandhi Ranasinghe | seuwandhi@mos.cmb.ac.lk |
Faculty of Medicine | 04th – 07th December 2023 | Professor Ranil Jayawardana | ranil@physiol.cmb.ac.lk |
Faculty of Nursing | 12th October 2023 | Dr Thanuja Asurakody | thanuja@fnd.cmb.ac.lk |
Faculty of Science | 03rd November 2023 | Professor Mayuri Wijesinghe | mayuri@sci.cmb.ac.lk |
Faculty of Technology | 06th November 2023 | Dr Poorna Piyathilaka | poorna@et.cmb.ac.lk |
Sri Palee Campus | 20th November 2023 | Professor Ranjan Hettiarachchi | ranjanh@spc.cmb.ac.lk |
University of Colombo School of Computing | 08th – 09th November 2023 | Dr Chamath Keppitiyagama | cik@ucsc.cmb.ac.lk |
Institute for Agro Technology and Rural Sciences | 28th June 2023 | Mr LM Rifnas | rifnas@uciars.cmb.ac.lk |
Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biotechnology | 31st May 2023 | Professor Nimal Punyasiri | nimal@ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk |
Institute of Human Resource Advancement | 24th November 2023 | Ms Kamani Matotaarachchi | kamani@ihra.cmb.ac.lk |
National Institute of Library and Information Sciences | 15th November 2023 | Dr Uditha Alahakoon | uditha@nilis.cmb.ac.lk |
Postgraduate Institute of Medicine | 01st December 2023 | Dr Himani Molligoda | himani@pgim.cmb.ac.lk |
The Library | 07th November 2023 | Ms Anuja Silva | anusilva@lib.cmb.ac.lk |
CONTACT US
Assistant Registrar
Mr. S.M. Shifar
Telephone and Fax: +94 112 586712 | Ext: 7096
Email: ar@ap.cmb.ac.lk
UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO
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Colombo 03
Sri Lanka