• PhD, Kagoshima University, Japan. March 2019
• MSc, Saga University, Japan. March 2016
• BSc (Agricultural Technology & Management), University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Nov. 2010
• Level 5 BTEC i HND in Business & Management, Edexcel (UK). May 2009 

Teaching Experience: Current Academic Affiliations

• Senior Lecturer (G II), Department of Agricultural Extension, University of Peradeniya.
• Secretary, Board of study in Agricultural Extension, Post-graduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya.
• Course coordinator, Master’s Study program in Development Communication and Agricultural Extension, Board of study in Agricultural Extension, Post-graduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya.
• Teaching panel member, Master’s Study program in Integrated Water Resource Management, Board of study in Agricultural Engineering, Post-graduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya.

Full length research papers in peer-reviewed journals (2018-2022):

• Yang, A.L., Raghuram, N., Adhya, T.K., Porter, S.D., Panda, A.N., Kaushik, H., Jayaweera, A., Nissanka, S.P., Anik, A.R., Shifa, S. and Sharna, S.C. (2022). Policies to combat nitrogen pollution in South Asia: Gaps and opportunities. Environmental Research Letters. 
• Jayaweera, A., Inaoka, T. and Fujimura, M., (2022). How Sri Lankan Farm Households Intend to Reduce the Risk of Developing the Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Cause Prevalent in Their Communities. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (Vol. 995, No. 1, p. 012066). IOP Publishing.
• Anuradha, J.M.P.N., Fujimura, M., Inaoka, T., & Sakai, N. (2019). The role of agricultural land use pattern dynamics on elephant habitat depletion and human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka. Sustainability, Vol. 11(10), 2818.
• Anuradha, J. M. P. N., Fujimura, M., Inaoka, T., & Sakai, N. (2019). Role of social and human capital in household resilience: empirical evidence from an agricultural village community with exposure to significant environmental stresses in Sri Lanka. Global Social Welfare, Vol. 8(1).
• Anuradha, J.M.P.N., Fujimura, M., Inaoka, T., Sakai, N. (2018). Collective labor-intensive farming towards sustainable farm livelihoods: the experience of labor exchange practice in Mawathawewa, Sri Lanka. Journal of Environmental Sociology, Vol. 24.

Publications in conference proceedings (2018-2022):

• Jayaweera, A, and Nissanka, S.P. (2022) A comprehensive review on the fertilizer subsidy policy and its impact on nitrogen fertilizer use in Sri Lanka. Proceedings of the XXI International N Workshop, Madrid. Spain.
• D.R. Serasinghe and A. Jayaweera (2022). Effect of socio-demographic factors on advertising appeals underpinning food choice behavior of young adults in Sri Lanka. 4th International Conference of Agricultural Sciences (AgInsight 2022). University of Sabaragamuwa.
• D. Wickramarathna and A. Jayaweera (2022). An inquiry into propensity of dwellers in the Udagaldebokka isolated forest-dependent community to resettle off the forest: A cultural consensus analysis. 4th International Conference of Agricultural Sciences (AgInsight 2022). University of Sabaragamuwa.
• Ishara Senanayake, Anuradha Jayaweera, Sarath. P. Nissanka and Anastasia L. Yang (2022). Sri Lanka Fertilizer Policies, Performance of the Staple Food Sector and the Nitrogen challenge. SANH Full Meeting, Male, Maldives
• Anuradha Jayaweera, Tsukasa Inaoka & Miho Fujimura (2021). How Sri Lankan farm households intend to reduce the risk of developing the chronic kidney disease of unknown cause prevalent in their communities. Invited paper. Proceedings of the SAC-SAFSE (Sriwijaya Conference on Sustainable Agriculture, Farming system, and environment) 2021.
• Jayaweera, A., Wickramasinghe, M.R.C.P. & Wickramarathne, D. (2021). A Systematic Inquiry to Validate the Land-Use Components and Practices of the Ancient Cascaded Tank Village System in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka. Invited paper. Proceedings of the Cascade Ecology and Management 2021.
• Silva, P.S.H., Weerasooriya, S.A. & Jayaweera, A. (2021). A Systematic Review of Literature on Dry Zone Home Gardens in Sri Lanka. Cascade Ecology and Management 2021.
• Rathnayaka, R.M.M.P. and Jayaweera, A. (2021). Construction and validation of a scale to measure collective efficacy towards collective management of common pool resources in traditional agrarian communities. Cascade Ecology and Management 2021.
• Perera, L.K.D.N. and Jayaweera, A. (2021). Psycho-Social Factors Predicting the Willingness of Rural Women to Engage in Profit-oriented Self-help Groups: A Study with Reference to Farm Households in the Mahakanumulla Tank Cascade System of Sri Lanka. Cascade Ecology and Management 2021.
• J.M.P.N. Anuradha, Fujimura, M & Inaoka, T. (2019). Application of a socio-cognitive model to investigate the factors predicting the farmers’ intention to adopt long-term measures against human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka. Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Sri Lanka – Japan Collaborative Research (2019), Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
• J.M.P.N. Anuradha, Fujimura, M., Inaoka, T. & Sakai, N. (2018). Forestland encroachment and human elephant conflict in tank villages of Sri Lanka. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Asian Rural Sociology Association, 27-30 August 2018, Makassar, Indonesia.
• J.M.P.N. Anuradha & Fujimura, M. (2018). From a cherished national icon to a destructive pest: conflict between wild elephants and ancient tank village communities in the North Central Dry Zone of Sri Lanka. Proceedings of the 57th Annual Symposium of the Japanese Association for Environmental Sociology. 9 June 2018, Hiroshima, Japan