The Research Awards Ceremony 2014 of University of Sri Jayewardenepura will be held on 18 November 2015 at 6.30 pm at Hotel Golden Rose, Boralesgamuwa. In view of promoting and strengthening research activities of the University, the Council of University of Sri Jayewardenepura has decided to initiate an award scheme to the permanent staff members attached to the University of Sri Jayewardenepura.
After evaluation, 114 awardees have been selected for this year’s ceremony. Out of these researchers, 45 are from the Faculty of Medical Sciences, 38 are from the Faculty of Applied Sciences, 18 are from the Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce and 8 are from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences while 5 researchers from the Library and the IT Center are also included. 58 research awards are presented for papers published in Indexed Journals during 2014 and 90 research awards are presented for papers published in Non-Indexed Journals.
A healthy amount of high quality scientific research, and funding available for such research, is regarded a very strong contributing factor to a high web ranking of a university. In order to attain such a status and also to sustain it in the long run, it is essentially needed to establish a strong research culture in the university. Although this is easier said than done, we firmly believe it to be an achievable challenge in the presence of proper drive and motivation. Founding of a strong research culture in the university will not only help us achieve the world class status by improving the University’s rank locally and globally, but will also open up many other channels for further advancement as a higher education institute.
It is in this light, that we reiterate the importance of promoting and strengthening the research activities in the university. A logical and positive step towards that would be to recognize, support and encourage the academics, who conduct high quality research and publish them in recognized and indexed journals. Acknowledging such distinguished individuals through a fair rewarding mechanism would not only encourage them to pursue further research of higher standards, but would also surely entice the fellow academics to follow in their footsteps. Similar award schemes have already been established by the Kelaniya and Peradeniya universities to promote and strengthen research activities and their outcome was successful with significant number index publications and reached high ranking in the university system.
Thus the Vice Chancellor and the Research Council of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura have proposed a Research Award system to recognize and appreciate the contribution of academics who have conducted and published/presented their research at national and international conferences, peer reviewed and indexed journals.
Award Categories
This Research Award system is conducted through 8 categories where eligible candidates will be given monetary awards and certificates.
An article published in abstract form in a conference proceeding or a symposium
An article published in a non refereed Journal
An article published in a refereed Journal (non indexed Journal))
An article published in a refereed Journal (indexed Journal)
Researcher having the highest citations for the year (One Award for each Faculty)
Researcher having the highest h-index for the year (One Award for each Faculty)
Early Career Research Award
Vice Chancellor’s Award for the Researcher of the Year
The researcher having the highest h-index will be awarded a special prize at faculty level, the early career research award will be awarded to the best researcher below 40 years and Vice Chancellor’s award will be awarded to the best researcher of the University following a stringent selection process.
– Hiran
