Message from the Vice-Chancellor
The mandate of any university worthy of that name must include both the dissemination of knowledge (i.e., teaching) as well as the generation of new knowledge (i.e., research). As a leading national university in Sri Lanka, the University of Kelaniya seeks to conduct high quality research in all academic disciplines offered by the University, and to support all members of the University community in this endeavour.
The Research Council was established in 2014 to promote a culture of high quality research within the University. Since then, the Research Council has identified several strategies to fulfil this mandate and facilitated their implementation. The outcome has been a remarkable improvement in our University’s research output, as evidenced by a steady increase in the number of papers published by our academics in peer-reviewed journals that are indexed in internationally reputed databases.
As our University continues to grow, and we need to ensure that our international reputation also improves. In order to do so, we must ensure that our research output also continues to grow, both in terms of the number of research publications as well as their quality. The Research Council has a major role to play in enabling and encouraging this journey towards excellence in research.