Teaching-related professional services, including to other universities/ organisations

Dilanthi makes an active contribution to teaching programmes and she has sustained performance at national or international level demonstrating a significant contribution to teaching, learning and assessment related activity through distinction in leadership of a major teaching team; leading teaching collaboration with other institutions; publications on teaching and learning; teaching grants and contracts secured; external examinerships; regular teaching visits to other university departments; invited presentations at national/international teaching and learning conferences, lectures, seminars and membership of professional groups; awards; membership of national or international committees relating to teaching and learning; acting as adviser/consultant and keynote addresses at teaching-related conferences. These activities demonstrate her leadership in teaching programmes including teaching and curriculum design.

  1. Couse validation exercises for programmes listed in sections 12 (i) and 12(ii) above.
  2. Level Tutor – I was a Level tutor (Level 2) within the Combined undergraduate programme at the School of Construction and Property Management between 2002 – 2004.  Level tutoring is the term used to emphasise personal tutoring arrangements and at our school, level tutoring was seen as central to the provision of effective guidance and support, with tutors working alongside and referring students, as necessary, to appropriate colleagues for counselling service, the career advisory service, the education development unit, the health centre, the student advice centre etc.   I was responsible for Pastoral care, Teaching and assessment, Admissions and Professional development of school’s level 2 undergraduate students. 
  3. Higher Education Role Analysis (HERA ) – I acted as a verifier within HERA (Higher Education Role Analysis) initiative at the University of Salford, representing School of Construction and Property Management, from 2004 to 2007. All higher education institutions were  required by HEFCE to undertake job evaluation and, to achieve this, the university decided to implement HERA. As part of this, as a verifier, I was assigned with the task of authenticating the accuracy of the role related information supplied by specific role holders.
  4. Quality Improvement Working Group. School of Construction and Property Management. I was a member of Quality Improvement Working Group of  the School of from  2003 – 2006. Aims of this group were to: develop improvement plan items; identify time targets/ implementation targets; monitor item progress, record progress/completion to appropriate monitoring/evaluation group; and manage quality improve resource implications
  5. School Spokesperson. Business Process Improvement Theme, School of Construction and Property Management. 2002 – 2007
  6. Facilitator – Business and Marketing Development Group. 2002 – 2003. School of Construction and Property Management
  7. Undergraduate Co-ordinator. I was the Undergraduate Co-ordinator at the Department of Building Economics, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka from 1995 – 1996. . As part of this role, I was responsible for: organising staff development programmes, staff appraisals, planning and implementing student counselling programmes, time-tabling, coordinating department’s undergraduate visiting lecturers, preparation of overall course work submission schedules, scheduling course work viva, time tabling, and coordination of visiting and internal lectures etc.
  8. Assistant Co-ordinator, MSc in Project Management Degree Programme at the Department of Building Economics, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in 1997. This course offered specialisation in: technological management, time management, and cost management. Some of my responsibilities included: time tabling, coordination of lectures, carrying out interviews for new post graduate students, organising interim meetings with the students etc.
  9. Year Co-ordinator. I was further appointed as the “Year Co-ordinator”, related to different Levels of the undergraduate programme of the Quantity Surveying Degree Course, as follows: Second year Coordinator – 1995; First year coordinator – 1996; Third year coordinator – 1997
  10. Research Supervisor. Final year undergraduate students. Quantity Surveying Degree Programme. Department of Building Economics. University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. 1995 – 1997
  11. Consultant Quantity Surveyor/Project Manager. (Part-time). Design Consortium Limited. Chartered Architects, Structural engineering and Quantity Surveyors, Colombo, Sri Lanka. January 1994 – October 1996
  12. Research Assistant (Part-time). Institute for Construction, Training and Development, Ministry of Local Government, Housing and Construction, Colombo Sri Lanka. I was involved in a research project titled: “Establishment of a National Cost Database for the Sri Lankan Construction Industry”, funded by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). July 1992 – June 1993
  13. International course validation for executives, in urban resilience management, 2014. Partnership with IQS Business and Engineering schools, Barcelona, in collaboration with many different institutes, intergovernmental agencies and enterprises (DRIFT, Virginia Tech, Brown, Stockholm Resilience Centre, UN HABITAT, UNESCO-IHE, CISCO, SIEMENS etc).
  14. Discipline expert in providing input to Disaster Preparedness and Response of the Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka, towards their “Institutionalising the Hospital Preparedness in Emergencies (HOPE)” initiative. This is an initiative under the “Programme for Enhancement of Emergency Response (PEER)” in collaboration with ADPC, supported by USAID. 2021 – 2022
  15. Visiting Professor, Andalas University, Padang, Indonesia. 2022 to date
  16. Professoriate appointment panel member, University of Malaya, Malaysia, 2018 – 2023
  17. External Examiner, MSc in Emerging Economies, School of Construction Management and Engineering, University of Reading, from 2012 – 2016
  18. MSc in Disasters programmes international expert and adviser – Dhaka University Bangladesh, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
  19. International Advisor to Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Centre (DPPC), Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), UTM Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2021 – 2023
  20. International Adviser, Masters of Disaster Preparedness and Reconstruction, The University of Newcastle, Australia, 2011.
  21. International Advisor on the development of disaster management teaching programmes, Department of Environmental Science and Disaster Management Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Bangladesh. 2007 – 2009.
  22. MSc Taught/by Research, MPhil examiner – Bangladesh, Malaysia, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, UK, Sri Lanka, India, Singapore, Australia etc. 2003 to date
  23. HEFCE Adviser – Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs). 2004 – 05.
  24. MSc in Commercial Management in Construction, external reviewer, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. 2009
  25. Expert Reviewer – Development of RICS Accredited BSc in Facilities Management, Department of Building Economics, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. 2006 – 2007.
  26. External consultant to the development process of RICS accredited BSc in Facilities management undergraduate degree programme. 2005, Department of Building Economics, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
  27. Member of the Strategic Review Panel. NHS Estates. 2001 – 2002.
  28. Board of Architectural Education. Sri Lanka Institute of Architects. 1996 – 1997.
  29. National Certificate of Technology Programme. Ministry of Technical Training. Sri Lanka. 1996 – 1997.
  30. National Certificate of Technology (Quantity Surveying and Civil Engineering) Programmes. Department of Technical Education and Training, Sri Lanka. 1994 – 1997.
  31. Member of validation panels (e.g. Steering Committee member, Transfer of research knowledge into teaching research project; Panel member, Academic review committee, Emerald publishing; Steering Committee member, Improving dissertation assessment project).
  32. National Industrial Training Advisory Committee for Architecture and Building Economics, 1997.
  33. Adviser (HEFCE adviser – Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs) – 2012-2013. And I was a steering committee member of the UK Higher Education Disaster Relief project and a committee member of Enhancing Learning and Research for Humanitarian Assistance (ELRHA), Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) Disaster Management initiative, UK.
  34. Expert reviewer, BSc in Building, University of New Castle, Australia. 2003 – 2004
  35. Short course on how to develop a balanced. NHS Estates in Leeds. 2001
  36. Regular Teaching visits to other Universities (e.g. University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka; RMIT University, Australia; Newcastle University, Australia; Durham University, UK). 2001- to date
  37. Board of Architectural Education. Sri Lanka Institute of Architects. 1996 – 1997
  38. National Certificate of Technology Programme. Ministry of Technical Training. Sri Lanka. 1996 – 1997.
  39. Examiner. National Certificate of Technology (Quantity Surveying and Civil Engineering) Programmes. Department of Technical Education and Training, Sri Lanka. 1994 – 1997.
  40. Examiner for Building Economics, Level V, Sri Lanka Institute of Architects (SLIA), 1997.
  41. Building Economics, 2nd year, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. 1996 – 1997
  42. Strategic Review of Undergraduate Teaching, School of the Built Environment, 2001 – 2002.
  43. MSc in Project Management conducted by the Department of Building Economics, University of Moratuwa. Sri Lanka. 1995 – 1996.
  44. Degree Programme Documentation for RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) accreditation (Initial versions). Department of Building Economics. University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. 1996 – 1997
  45. National Certificate of Technology (Quantity Surveying and Civil Engineering) Programmes. Department of Technical Education and Training, Sri Lanka. 1994 – 1997.

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