Ms. Vasana Kaushalya

Ms. Vasana Kaushalya

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Senior Lecturer Grade II
Room BUS 117, Sri Soratha Building (On Study Leave)
Email: vasana@sjp.ac.lk
Tele: +94 (0)11 2803472

Personal Details

I am currently reading for my PhD at the School for Business and Society, University of York, UK. I am also a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) for the BA (Hons) Business and Management Degree programme of the School for Business and Society, and for the ‘Research Design’ module offered to postgraduate students of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of York.

My research interests include organising in the digital economy; body work and body labour; gender; space and time; power relations at work; and qualitative research methods. My current research focuses on multi-sensory, physical, and digital body labour service encounters. It addresses how the processes involved in body labour bring together human and non-human bodies.

Qualifications

  • Master of Business Administration (MBA) (Merit Pass), Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM), University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.
  • Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education – Staff Development Centre, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.
  • B.Sc. Business Administration (Special) Degree (First Class), University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.
  • Foundation Course in Human Resource Management (FCHRM) (Merit Pass), Institute of Personnel Management (IPM), Sri Lanka.

Teaching (Sep 2020 – Up to date)

  • On Study Leave

Teaching (Up to 2020)– B.Sc. Business Administration (Special) Degree, University of Sri Jayewardenepura

  • Organisational Behaviour
  • Principles of Management
  • Society and Organisation
  • Managing Managerial Competencies
  • Organisational Culture and Leadership
  • Contemporary Issues in Management
  • Research Methods in Management (Qualitative Research Methods)

Supervision

  • Research Project in Management
  • Research Study in Management (Dissertation)
  • Case Studies in Management
  • Management Training

Conference Papers and Proceedings

  • Kaushalya, V. & Kodikara, P. (2022). ‘It is not just ‘a page’ — Women’s solidarity expressed on digital platforms and its contribution towards the ecosystem’, in the stream ‘Women in the changing landscape of work’, Gender, Work & Organization (GWO) – The 12th International Interdisciplinary Conference, Bogotá, Colombia (June 22 -24, 2022).
  • Kaushalya, V. & Kodikara, P. (2021). ‘Motherhood, language and othering at organisational meetings – A study on experiences of single and childless/child free men and women at workplace’, in the stream ‘Organising Childhood: Growing Up and Looking Back’, Gender, Work & Organization (GWO) – The 11th International Interdisciplinary Conference, Canterbury, UK (June 30 – July 02, 2021). (This abstract was originally submitted for Gender, Work & Organization Conference (GWO) – The 11th International Interdisciplinary Conference, Canterbury, UK (June 24 – 26, 2020), however, the conference was postponed due to Covid-19).
  • Kaushalya, V. & Ramanayake, U.B. (2019). ‘An alternative to the dominant narrative of academic career success: A case study on how gender identity matters in defining women’s career success in Sri Lankan academia’, in the stream ‘Academic failure: Challenging how academic career success is understood, and imagining alternatives’, The 11th Critical Management Studies Conference, Milton Keynes, UK (June 27-29, 2019).
  • Kodikara, P. & Kaushalya, V. (2019). ‘The (Im)Possibility of pluriversal understandings of ‘Development’: A narrative from Global South’, in the stream ‘Dispossessed presents, open futures: Deconstructing narratives of developmentalism and modernization’, The 11th Critical Management Studies Conference, Milton Keynes, UK (June 27-29, 2019).
  • Kodikara, P. & Kaushalya, V. (2019). ‘CMS managership — Is it the beginning of the end of CMS?’, in the stream ‘When critical management scholars become managers’, The 11th Critical Management Studies Conference, Milton Keynes, UK (June 27-29, 2019).
  • Bandara, H. & Kaushalya, V. (2019). ‘Mobile Information Technology Devices (MITDs) as creative capitalist tools of place making: A narrative of blurred spatial-temporal arrangement of work in the Sri Lankan apparel industry’, in the stream ‘Flexible working arrangements – boundary work or boundless work?’, The 11th Critical Management Studies Conference, Milton Keynes, UK (June 27-29, 2019)
  • Chathuranga, N. & Kaushalya, V. (2019). ‘Women at work: An empirical study on women career advancement in Sri Lankan public education system’, Asia International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research 2019 (AIMR’19), Colombo, Sri Lanka (May 10-11, 2019).
  • Bandara, M. & Kaushalya, V. (2019). ‘Managing impression at work: A comparative case study on newly hired female employees’, Asia International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research 2019 (AIMR’19), Colombo, Sri Lanka (May 10-11, 2019).

Awards and Scholarships

  • A bursary to participate in the 11th International Critical Management Studies (ICMS) Conference held at the Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom from 27 June to 29 June 2019.
  • Merit Award, in recognition of excellent performance in the Master of Business Administration Degree at Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM), University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.