Belinda Cassandra Wise
Position: Branch Office Manager of SAI, Colombo
Curriculum VitaePrior to joining SAI: Worked as a Research Assistant at the Social Policy Analysis and Research Center (SPARC), University of Colombo. Involved in a project titled “Challenges of Municipal Solid Waste Management: Learning from post-crisis governance initiatives in South Asia”
Graduated in 2019 (February) with a Second Upper class, specializing in Sociology.
Units:
- Classical, Neo-Classical and Contemporary Sociological theory
- Research Methodology
- Sociology of Medicine
- Sociology of Development
- Sociology of Industry and Formal Organizations
- Contemporary Social Issues
- Violence and Conflict related Psychological issues
- Sociology of Development
Dissertation title : An Exploratory Study of Online Interaction and Presentation of Self on Facebook. Also studied International Relations and Demography as minors in University of Colombo.
Future academic endeavors: Masters in Sociology –January 2020
Recent Publications:
An analysis of gastritis as a current morbidity- 6th Annual research Symposium
Abstracts (Submitted as joint papers)
Exploring how victims of natural disasters (floods) get conditioned to repetitive disaster risks in Ratnapura District – Submitted to the 9 th International Conference on Building Resilience, January 2020.
Identifying the influence of Dominant political parties in the patterns of voting behavior of University undergraduates: A case of University of Colombo- Annual research symposium 2019 organized by Election Commission of Sri Lanka (ARSECSL 2019).
