News & Events

The Annual Field Research Study of the Department of Political Science and Public Policy was to Sumedhankapura, Trincomalee and took place from the 8th to the 10th of January, 2020. The aim of the visit was to enable third year special students of the department to acquire knowledge about the political participation of Sinhalese in majority Tamil speaking District in […]

The Department of Political Science and Public Policy won the Dean’s Cricket Trophy 2019 which was organized by the Dean’s office, Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo on the 17th December 2019.  

The inauguration and certificate awarding ceremony of the Certificate Course in Politics and Governanceconducted by Department of Political Science & Public Policy was held on the 16th of February 2019 at 9.30 a.m. at the Political Science Auditorium, Department of Political Science and Public Policy. Certificates were awarded to the participants of the 6th batch, who successfully completed […]

The annual field trip of the Department of Political Science and Public Policy was to Embilitpitiya and took place from the 21st to the 23rd of November, 2018. The aim of the visit was to enable final year students of the department to acquire knowledge about the socio, political and economic aspects of agrarian colonization in the sample […]

Department of Political Science hold a career guidance and farewell lunch to final year political science students at Club Penthouse Resort in Bolgoda on the 9thJanuary 2019. This career guidance was led by Head of the Department Ms. Darshanie Silva and Senior Lecturer Mr. Mahaesh Senanayake. Other staff members also shared their views and experience […]

Crishni Ruwandika Silva, Lecturer, Department of Political Science, presented a paper on Intolerence in Tolerance Research:A Brief Review of Methodological Debate in the Study of Tolerance. She presented her presentation on 9th of November 2018 at the Boardroom.

Department of Political Science and Public Policy conducted a one day training workshop for the 3rd year student on how to conduct field research. This was held on the 2nd of November 2018 at Political Science Auditorium. The training workshop was conducted by the Senior Lecturer Dr. Pradeep Peiris. The objective of the training is to […]

The Department of Political Science and Public Policy had a discussion on Syllabus Review on 1st of October 2018. As the process of syllabus review, Head and the staff of Department of Political Science & Public Policy, engaged in lengthy and productive discussion to revise the syllabus according to SLQF. In this discussion, staff could […]

Anjali Korala, a Lecturer (Probationary) from the Department of Political Science and Public Policy, participated in the International Summer School (ISS), University of Oslo from June 23 – August 3, 2018. She received the full scholarship to follow International Development Studies course. Fulfilling one of her objectives in participating the summer school, she shared the knowledge […]

The inauguration ceremony of the 7th batch the Certificate Course in Politics and Governance which is conducted by Department of Political Science & Public Policy, was held on the 21st of July 2018 at 9.30 am in the Political Science Auditorium, Department of Political Science and Public Policy. Senior Professor Lakshman Dissanayake – Vice Chancellor, University of Colombo, Professor Premakumara de Silva […]