Faculty of Nursing, University of Colombo

ICN nursing congress and ICN nursing conference 2023 was organized by the international council of nurses which was held in Montreal ,Canda from 29th June to 5th July 2025 under the theme of “Nurses together, a force for global health” .

Professor Sudath Warnakulasuriya, Dean Faculty of Nursing university of Colombo and the president Sri Lanka Nurses Association(SLNA) participated this event as an invited speaker and made a speech on “Psychosocial and political determinants of nurses’ migration in Southeast Asia and its impact on countries’ health systems” in the southeast Asian regional session on “Nursing leadership in crisis situation in Southeast Asian Region”

Vice Chancellor’s Awards for Research Excellence 2020
Professor SSP Warnakulasuriya
Faculty of Nursing

Prof. Sudath Shirley Pathmasiri Warnakulasuriya is the Professor in Nursing and Dean of the Faculty of Nursing of the university of Colombo. He entered the nursing profession in 1987. He holds a BSc with second class upper division Honours in Nursing from the Open University of Sri Lanka, a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Adelaide in Australia, and a PhD from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura.
Professor Warnakulasuriya holds several firsts in the field of nursing. He is the first Sri Lankan nursing professional to hold a PhD from a Sri Lankan University. He is the first Sri Lankan Nursing Professional to have been appointed Professor on merit. He is also the first Sri Lankan nursing professional to have been elected a Dean in a Faculty.
His academic life Prior to joining the University of Colombo included service in the National Institute of Health and Social Sciences in the Republic of Seychelles from 2003 to 2005 and in the Faculty of medical sciences in the university of Sri Jayewardenepura for 12 years.
Prof. Warnakulasuriya has received 16 research awards including three Presidential Awards for research from the government of Sri Lanka and three professional awards for his contribution to the nursing profession from professional associations including the prestigious “Florence Nightingale Lifetime Award” awarded by the Sri Lanka Nursing Association. He has an h-index of 10 and his work has been cited more than 800 times.
He is the current President of the Sri Lanka Nurses Association (SLNA) and he represents the higher education sector in the Sri Lanka Nursing Council (SLNC). He had been an exco-member of OPA from 2008 to 2018. He is a member of two scientific steering committees established by the International Council of Nurses (ICN), in Geneva, Switzerland. His research interests are nursing education, aged care, and work and health.

https://www.res.cmb.ac.lk/nursing/sudath
https://cmb.ac.lk/vice-chancellors-awards-for-research-excellence-2020

The Annual Research Symposium (ARS) 2023 of the University of Colombo is scheduled to take place on 2nd November 2023, at the Prof. V K Samaranayake Auditorium, UCSC.
The theme of the ARS 2023 is “Research Excellence and Beyond”. While striving for excellence by maintaining academic rigour and advancing knowledge, our research should have wider applicability and relevance based on our fields of study beyond academic merit attuned to the problems and concerns of various stakeholders.
ARS 2023 will be an outlet to showcase how the university’s different faculties and institutions are unified towards research excellence yet move beyond excellence to engage in socially and practically meaningful research pertinent to their diverse research domains. In true multidisciplinary spirit and instilling a practice turn, this could for instance, encapsulate (but is not limited to) the commercialisation of university-based research, the contribution of research to policymaking, research inputs for managerial decision making, to business/financial recovery, overcoming adversities and gaining financial independence, as well as maintaining social justice, wellbeing, and the impact on people, society and environment.
For further details, visit: https://cmb.ac.lk/ars-2023
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https://nursing.cmb.ac.lk/inc-2023/

Vice Chancellor’s Awards for Research Excellence 2021
Dr Gnanaselvam Kisokanth
Faculty of Nursing

Vice Chancellor’s Awards for Research Excellence 2021
Dr Gnanaselvam Kisokanth
Faculty of Nursing
https://cmb.ac.lk/vice-chancellors-awards-for-research-excellence-2021
Dr Gnanaselvam Kisokanth entered the University of Sri Jayewardenepura in 2015 as an undergraduate in the BSc Nursing Degree program (First Batch Sri Lanka) and obtained Second Class, Upper Division. Then, he joined to Faculty of Health Care Sciences, Eastern University Sri Lanka as an academic till 2019 and then continue his career at the Faculty of Nursing, University of Colombo. Dr G Kisokanth received his PhD Degree in 2017 from the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Sri Jayewardenepura.
At present, Dr G Kisokanth serves as a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department, at the Department of Clinical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, and has been appointed to several academic and administrative positions. Further, Dr Kisokanth’s expertise includes Diabetes Nurse case management and Diabetes Education. He has published several books and also numerous research articles in locally and internationally reputed journals. In addition, He received several research awards, including Senate Awards for Research Excellence under the Early Career Category for consecutive 3 years.

Master Of Philosophy/Doctor Of Philosophy (MPhil/PhD) 2023 SLQF Level 11/12

https://nursing.cmb.ac.lk/higher-degrees/

https://nursing.cmb.ac.lk/neurocare-project/

Those who have been already invited for the nEurocare Conference please be their at the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo. (35/30, Prof. Stanley Wijesundara Mawatha, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka)

Advanced Certificate In Health Research

https://nursing.cmb.ac.lk/certificate-courses/

Stanford University recently released the list of the World’s Top 2% of Scientists in the updated Science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators on the 10th of October 2022. The analysis was prepared by a team of experts led by Professor John P.A. Ioannidis from Stanford University, and 40 Sri Lankan scientists including 9 researchers affiliated with the University of Colombo have been ranked on this list.
In the year 2021 list of the top 2% scientists, Emeritus Professor Kamini Mendis, Professor Senaka Rajapakse, Professor Saroj Jayasinghe, Professor Nadira D. Karunaweera, Professor K. M. Nalin de Silva, Professor Priyanga Ranasinghe, Professor Ranil Jayawardena and Dr. Umesh Jayarajah have been included.
Emeritus Professor W D Ratnasooriya, Emeritus Professor Kamini Mendis, Professor Senaka Rajapakse and Professor Nadira D. Karunaweera are on the Career-long top 2% of scientists list.
This career-long database and single-year dataset considered 195,605 scientists and 200,409 scientists respectively from 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields. The selection is based on the top 100,000 scientists by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field. Calculations were performed using all Scopus author profiles as of September 1, 2022. The database of top-cited scientists provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator (c-score).
https://cmb.ac.lk/worlds-top-2-percent-scientists

The full paper and the full datasets can be viewed here:
https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw
Read More about UOC Rankings & Reputation: https://cmb.ac.lk/rankings

4th Annual Research Symposium – 2021 is organized by Faculty of Nursing, University of Colombo, under the theme “New Dimensions in Nursing, Creating a Sustainable Health Care and Safety Net for All”.

https://nursing.cmb.ac.lk/ars/