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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
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.
Access to midday meals programs showing positive results in Sri Lanka – SBS Tamil (10th 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 (17th Sep 2020) – SBS Sinhala (17th Sep 2020)
Sri Lanka's plantation children - Growth impacts of access to midday meals programs - RMIT Acumen
Exploring distributional changes in growth gaps between rural and estate children in Sri Lanka- 16th 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
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
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 – 16th 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