Awarded International Excellence in Teaching & Research in Financial Management – 2020.

Gold Medal awarded for the best paper titled 'Impact of Business Operators' Planning Competencies on Business Performance of Small Scale Enterprises in the Vavuniya District, Sri Lanka' presented at Annual Research Conference - 2010 at University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka (15/10/2010).

Best Research Paper Award for the paper titled 'Board structure and cash holdings: A study on listed manufacturing companies' at 7^th International Conference on Social Science Research for Sustaining Business & Economy in Global Market orgnized by Sai Ram Institute of Management Studies, Chennai -44, Tamil Nadu, India.(20^th & 21^st September 2017).

Best Research Paper Award with INR 2000 cash prize for the paper titled 'Factors influencing share prices of listed commercial banks in Sri Lanka' at a two day International Conference on 'Strategy, System and Service for Sustainability and Scalability of Business' organized by Department of Management Studies, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India.(23^rd & 24^th March 2018).

Best Research Paper Award for the paper titled 'Factors Influencing Investment Decisions in Stock Market: Evidence from Individual Investors in Northern Province of Sri Lanka’ at 1st Asia Pacific Symposium on Academic Research -APSAR 2019 organized by Asia Pacific Institute of Advanced Research, which was held on 2^nd and 3^rd of February, 2019 at Royale Chulan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Best Research Paper Award for the paper titled ‘Factors determining the Growth of SMEs: Evidence from registered SMEs in Sri Lanka’ at 9^th International Conference on Education, Advance Management and Technology for Sustainable Development organized by SaiRam Institute of Management Studies, Chennai -44, Tamil Nadu, India.(25^th & 26^th February 2020).

Awarded University Research Grant 2016 (Grant number: URG/2016/DSCE/04) for the research project entitled ' A Survey on Corporate Finance in Sri Lanka: Confronting Theory with Practice' by University of Jaffna.

Awarded University Research Grant 2018 (Grant number: URG/2018/DMCSCE/22) for the research project entitled ' Factors influencing investor behaviour: Evidence from individual investors in Colombo Stock Exchange' by University of Jaffna.

Awarded University Research Grant 2019 (Grant number: URG/2019/DMCLSE/36) for the research project entitled ' Determinants of Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises: Evidence from Northern Province of Sri Lanka' by University of Jaffna.

Award of Scholarship for the MPhil/ PhD Programme under the Higher Education for the Twenty First Century (HETC) project, Ministry of Higher Education, Sri Lanka (29/03/2011)

National Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities & Social Sciences (NCAS) Grants, (under the Ministry of Higher Education, Sri Lanka) (partial funding) awarded for the PhD Study at the Kingston University, London (2011).

Mahapola Higher Education (Merit) Scholarship for the best performance in Advanced Level Examination in 1996 awarded by the Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship Trust Fund, Sri Lanka.