Dinusha Weerawardane staff profile

Dr Dinusha Weerawardane

Subject Head - Accounting and Finance
The Claude Littner Business School
dinusha.weerawardane@uwl.ac.uk

Dr Dinusha Weerawardane is the Subject Head for Accounting and Finance at the Claude Littner Business School, overseeing delivery of accounting and finance courses (UG and PG) in the UK and at overseas partner institutions. She is also a distinguished alumna of the University of West London and currently sits on ACCA’s Global Council, which is the governing body of ACCA.

  • Qualifications

    • BSc. (Hons) Applied Accounting (Oxford Brookes University) 
    • LLB (Hons) Business Law (Staffordshire University) 
    • MSc. International Business Management (University of West London) 
    • PhD. Consumer Behaviour (Cyprus Institute of Marketing)
    • Principal Fellow (Advance HE)
    • National Teaching Fellow (Advance HE)

  • Memberships

    Fellow Member – The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA UK)
    Chartered Manager - The Chartered Institute of Management (CMI UK)
    Association of National Teaching Fellows (ANTF - Advance HE)
    Member - British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA)
    Member - British Academy of Management (BAM)

Research

  • Research and publications

    Books

    Weerawardane, D. and Byrne, P., (eds) 2021. Academic Development and Employability. Harlow: Pearson 

    Weerawardane, D. (ed) 2021. Accounting for Aspiring Finance Professionals. Harlow: Pearson 

    Weerawardane, D. (ed) 2021. Essentials of Economics and Quantitative Methods. Harlow: Pearson 

    Articles

    Byrne, P. and Weerawardane, D., 2022. A multi-dimensional approach to embedding professional skills into modern degree courses. New Vistas, 8(1), p.8-13.

    Weerawardane, D., 2021. Digital Transformation of Higher Education: What’s Next? New Vistas, 7(2), p.3-7.  

    ACCA, 2020. The view from Dinusha Weerawardane [e-zine] ACCA AB Magazine (UK), December 2020. Available at: https://abmagazine.accaglobal.com/global/articles/2020/ab-dec-2020/public/the-view-from-dinusha-weerawardane.html 

    Weerawardane, D., 2018. An Era of Technological Revolution: The Future of the Accountancy Profession. ACCA Policy Insights: Commentaries from the Middle East and South Asia (Edition 08: August 2018)

    Available at: https://accaglobal.app.box.com/s/orvlgn5fyo9lcuh3ypaag1g6y875qsyd

    Weerawardane, D., 2018. Sri Lankan Labour Market: A Need for a Stronger Governance Framework ACCA Policy Insights: Commentaries from the Middle East and South Asia (Edition 07: April 2018)

    Available at: https://accaglobal.app.box.com/s/t9hk9aeys009lbmkhqhu9mg0lwvc2hs1

    Weerawardane, D., 2017. Disruptive Behaviours in Sri Lanka's Higher Education Sector. ACCA Policy Insights: Commentaries from the Middle East and South Asia (Edition 04: July 2017) Available at: https://accaglobal.app.box.com/s/8ca1ayrr67mb2snbz0eal9txls5fj2nw

    PhD thesis

    Weerawardane, D., 2018. An Empirical Study to Understand Student Choice of Higher Education and Marketing Strategies of Sri Lankan institutes PhD thesis. Cyprus Institute of Marketing. Available at: https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/5761/

  • Conferences

    Guest speaker - British Academy of Management's Development Programme for Directors of Engagement, session on "Engaging with who, why and how" (January 2023)

    "The Future of Accountancy" Virtual RoundTable (April 2020) - As one of the panellists, Dr Dinusha engaged in a discussion on some of the changes and challenges brought about to the profession as a result of Covid-19 and how accountants are evolving in order to support the future needs of the profession. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpXDNShkKRw&feature=share

    Panellist at the UWL-ACCA Encouraging Women into Finance Conference in commemoration of International Women’s Day (6th March 2020)

    Panellist at ACCA’s “Diversity and Success” event in Aberdeen, Scotland (9th March 2020)

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