BIO

I enjoy teaching organisational behaviour and co-producing learning spaces through critical views on organising and managing work. I am interested in exploring embodied experiences and corporeal dynamics that unfold during the encounters we create in various forms of organising and in understanding what bodies can do during these interactions. My PhD thesis, which I recently completed, focused on the lived experiences of worker-client interactions in body work encounters. Using an affective ethnographic approach, I studied how the multiple sensory and affective experiences generated through the interactions of human and more-than-human bodies make things happen in body work. Driven by my love for poetry and entanglements with other forms of aesthetics, I experimented with various ways of “writing differently” in my thesis rather than conforming to “formal writing” standards in Management and Organisational Studies.

I was awarded a scholarship to pursue my PhD through the Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) programme, a World Bank-funded initiative by the Sri Lankan government. Additionally, I earned a grant from Funds for Women Graduates (FfWG), a UK-based educational charity dedicated to promoting higher education and broader learning opportunities for women graduates.

I have worked as a team member in the Production Department of a Sri Lankan software development and data processing company that collaborates with a global music and broadcast rights management software company in the United Kingdom. Additionally, I have five years of experience as a visiting lecturer for the New Dimensions in Management Course at the Faculty of Management Studies, the Open University of Sri Lanka. During my PhD studies at the University of York, UK, I served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA). I was involved in the Course Foundations of Business Ethics for the BA (Hons) Business and Management Degree programme offered by the School for Business and Society. The Course also involved guiding students in academic writing. Furthermore, I conducted seminars in the Research Design module for postgraduate students in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of York.