Dr Udeni De Silva Perera

Working Papers:

• De Silva Perera, U. and Inder, B., Midday Meals as an Early Childhood Nutrition Intervention: Evidence from Plantation Communities in Sri Lanka (2020)

• Posso, A., De Silva Perera, U. and Mishra, A., Community Level Health Programs and Child Labour: Evidence from Ethiopia (2020)

• De Silva Perera, U. and Inder, B., Exploring Distributional Changes in Growth Gaps between Rural and Estate Children in Sri Lanka (2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3704217

• How Much Are They Hurting? The Psychosocial Wellbeing Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Domestic and International Higher Education Students (2020) – RMIT College of Business and Law COVID-19 Research Grant

Publications

• De Silva Perera, U. and Inder, B. A. (2019). Exploring distributional changes in growth gaps between rural and estate children in Sri Lanka. (Abstract). Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Business Management (ICBM)

• Dobele, A. R., Thomas, S. and De Silva Perera, U. (2017). What were they thinking? Motivations of at-risk students. The Business & Management Review, 9(2), 267-273.

• De Silva, D. B. U. S. and Sooriyarachchi, M. R. (2012). Generalized Cochran Mantel Haenszel Test for Multilevel Correlated Categorical Data: An Algorithm and R Function. J.Natn.Sci.Foundation Sri Lanka, 40 (2), 137-148.

• De Silva, D. B. U. S. and Sooriyarachchi, M. R. (2012). Generalized Linear Multilevel Models for Ordinal Categorical Responses: Methods and Application to Medical Data. Sri Lanka Journal of Applied Statistics, 12 (Special Issue: International Statistics Conference 2011), 83-99.

Media

• Access to midday meals programs showing positive results in Sri Lanka – SBS Tamil (10^th Sep 2020)

Individual Interview , Feature Program

• Tears in the cup of tea’: Udeni, who researched the nutrition of children of plantation workers in Sri Lanka from Melbourne speaks to SBS Sinhala radio – SBS Sinhala (17^th Sep 2020) – SBS Sinhala (17^th Sep 2020)

• Sri Lanka's plantation children - Growth impacts of access to midday meals programs - RMIT Acumen

Conference Presentations and Reports

• Exploring distributional changes in growth gaps between rural and estate children in Sri Lanka- 16^th International Conference on Business Management (ICBM)

• Critical analysis of narratives about women’s safety on public transport (Invited session)- Gender Accounting and Accountability Research Workshop 2019

• Gender lensing in practice: A webpage analysis of Australian higher education institutions- Session on Gender Lensing in Academia: Policies, Progression and Self-Promotion: 11th Annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies 2019

• A Tsunami Story: Two Years Since (Effects on Child Health- Evidence from Sri Lanka)- Conference on Human Capital, Food Security and Economic Development in South Asia 2017

• Generalized Linear Multilevel Models for Ordinal Categorical Responses: Methods and Application to Medical Data- Contributed Speaker-International Statistics Conference on “Statistical Concepts and Methods for Modern World”-Sri Lanka 2011

• Graduand Employment Study 2012- Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Higher Education for the Twenty first Century (HETC) Project - Report

• Graduand Employment Study 2012- University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka, Higher Education for the Twenty first Century (HETC) Project - Report

Teaching Experience

Course Development

• Subject Expert in the development of RMITO Postgraduate Certificate Course

Subject: Blockchain and the Crypto Economy

Project partners Wiley, IBM

Teaching

• Quantitative Research Method (RMIT University) - 2017

• Business and Economics Statistics (Monash University) - 2015, 2016

• Data Modelling and Marketing Research (Monash University) - 2015, 2016

Grants and Awards

Grants

• RMIT College of Business COVID-19 Research Grant (AU $ 3 500) 2020

• RMIT College of Business Staff Doctoral Completion Grant (upto AU $20 000 paid to academic unit) 2020

• Monash University Research Overseas Travel Grant 2015

• Deans Excellence Award for Research – Monash University 2014

Awards

• Best Student Paper Award – 16^th International Conference on Business Management 2019

• Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarship 2014-2017

• Monash Faculty of Business and Economics Dean’s Postgraduate Research Excellence Award 2014-2017

• Monash Graduate Scholarship 2014-2017

• Gold Medal for Best Final Year Research Project in Statistics (University of Colombo) 2010