2019-2023: Visiting Fellow, Center for Women, Peace and Security, London School of Economics, UK / Member, UKRI GCRF Gender, Justice and Security Research Hub

2019: Senior Fellow, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Technical University of Dresden, Germany

2019-2020:Co-Principal Investigator, “Intimacy – negotiating proximity and distance in the digital media in Sri Lanka,” Dept. of Religious Studies University of Zurich and Dept. of English, University of Colombo

2018 Sept: Scholarly Guest Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, Austria

2017-2019: Member, Expert Panel, War, Memory and Trauma Research Project, University of Uppsala, Sweden and University of Colombo

2014-2019: Member, Scientific Steering Group, Pluralistic Memories Research Project, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

2014 : Visiting Research Fellow, Dept. of Geography and Political Geography, University of Zurich Irchel, Switzerland

2010: Visiting Scholar, Linköping University, Sweden. Full Grant from the Center for Gender Excellence, Linköping University

2009: Post-Doctoral Associate, Women, Religion and Globalization Program, Yale University, U.S.A.

2007: University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Award for Excellence in Research at the Faculty of Arts

2006 (Fall): Ford Associate in Global Women’s Studies, Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, USA.

2006: Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies, Yale University, USA.

2004: Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University, U.S.A.