Department of Sociology

Dr. P. K. Seelagama

Senior Lecturer (Grade II)

PhD (Japan), MA (Japan), BA (Peradeniya)

Department of Sociology
Click to show email address
+94 81 239 2611

Education

PhD

Saga University, Japan

2017

MA

Saga University, Japan

2014

BA

University of Peradeniya

Current Positions

Senior Lecturer - Department of Sociology, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Positions Held

Lecturer and Head - Department of Languages at the Australian College of Business and Technology (ACBT) Kandy Campus, Sri Lanka

2018 - 2018

Lecturer (Part time) - Faculty of Economics, Saga University, Japan

2016 - 2018

Memberships

Member - Japan Society for International Economics (JSIE)

2016

Member - Japanese Association for South Asian Studies (JASAS)

2016

Awards

Monbukagakusho Scholarship (MEXT) - Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan for postgraduate Studies at Saga University, Japan

2011 - 2017

Hilmy Manzil Memorial Prize for Sociology - University of Peradeniya

2009

Mr. & Mrs Stanley G. Abeysinghe Memorial Gold Medal in Sociology - University of Peradeniya

2009

JASSO (Japan Student Services Organization) Scholarship for undergraduate studies as an Exchange Student - Saga University, Japan

2005 - 2006

Mahapola Merit Scholarship - University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

2003 – 2005

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Seelagama, P. K. (2017) “Postwar Tourism and the Institutional Paradox”, In De Silva, S. (ed.) Developmental Dynamics: Transforming Societies for Sustainable Futures, A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Piyadasa Ratnayake, The Economic Association of Saga University, Japan, pp. 261-275.

Seelagama, P., Ratnayake, P. (2016) “Tourism for Economic Development: The Invisible Hands that Hold the Pandora’s Box”. Saga University Economic Review, Vol. 48(6), pp. 39-58.

Seelagama, P., Ratnayake, P. (2015) “Impact of Formal Institutions on the Tourist Attractions subsector in Sri Lanka”. Journal of World Development Studies, Vol. 1(1), pp. 1-24.

Seelagama, P.K. (2014) “The Impact of Formal Institutions on Tourism Development: A Study on the Tourist Accommodation Sector in Sri Lanka”. Research Process, Vol. 3(1), pp. 99-114.

Seelagama, P. (2014) “Institutional Impact on Tourism Development: The Experience of Sri Lanka”. Saga University Economic Review, Vol. 47(4), pp. 1-28.

Seelagama, P. (2010) “The Importance of Gender Mainstreaming”. Praja Shakthi, Volume January-June, pp 28-32.

Shifani, A.G.F. & Seelagama, P. (2010) “Domestic Violence in the Plantation Sector in Sri Lanka”. In K. Athukorala, S. Pinnawala, T. Kamalrathne, P. Seelagama (eds.) The Plantation Sector in Transition. Department of Sociology, University of Peradeniya, pp 79-96.

Conferences

29th Annual Conference of the Japan Association for South Asian Studies

The Impact of Informal Institutions on Tourism Development in Sri Lanka

Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan

September 24th -25nd, 2016

Third Conference of Sri Lanka Japan Collaborative Research

The Interaction and Interdependence of Formal and Informal Institutions and its Impact on Development of the Tourism Sector in Sri Lanka

University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

September 18th – 19th, 2015

Third International Conference on Challenges of Development in the 21st Century: Asian Perspectives

“Institutional Impact on Tourism Development: The Experience of Sri Lanka”

International University of Japan, Niigata, Japan

May 31st – June 1st, 2014

Peradeniya University Research Sessions (PURSE Volume 15)

“Sexuality among Military Personnel”

University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

December 16th 2010

National Conference on The Plantation Sector in Transition

“Domestic Violence in the Plantation Sector in Sri Lanka”

Department of Sociology, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

May 8th 2010

Research Interests

Institutions, Tourism, Development, Gender, Early Childhood Education, Healthcare systems, Medical Sociology, Japanese Management System