Vasana Kaushalya

Profile

Thesis supervisors

• Dr Carolyn Hunter
• Dr Lynne Baxter

Thesis Title

Sensory experiences and power relations in service encounters.

Biography

Biography

Vasana is a lecturer (currently on study leave) at the Department of Business Administration, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. She also has work experience as a production team member of a UK-based software development and data processing company in Sri Lanka. 

Vasana's PhD research examines workers' and clients' experiences in physical and digital service encounters and how multiple bodies get mutually involved with each other. While reading her PhD, she has worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) for one of the First Year Modules of the School for Business and Society and the 'Research Design' module offered to postgraduate students of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of York.

Research

Research Topic

Workers' and clients' experiences in service encounters

Research interests

• Organising in the digital economy
• Body work and body labour
• Gender
• Space and time
• Power relations at work

Publications

• Kaushalya, V and Kodikara, P (2022). ‘It is not just ‘a page’ — Women’s solidarity expressed on digital platforms and its contribution towards the ecosystem’, in the stream ‘Women in the changing landscape of work’, Gender, Work & Organization (GWO) – The 12th International Interdisciplinary Conference, Bogotá, Colombia (June 22-24, 2022).
• Kaushalya, V and Kodikara, P (2021). ‘Motherhood, language and othering at organisational meetings – A study on experiences of single and childless/child free men and women at workplace’, in the stream ‘Organising Childhood: Growing Up and Looking Back’, Gender, Work & Organization (GWO) – The 11th International Interdisciplinary Conference, Canterbury, UK (June 30-July 02, 2021).
• Kaushalya, V and Ramanayake, U.B. (2019). ‘An alternative to the dominant narrative of academic career success: A case study on how gender identity matters in defining women’s career success in Sri Lankan academia’, in the stream ‘Academic failure: Challenging how academic career success is understood, and imagining alternatives’, The 11th Critical Management Studies Conference, Milton Keynes, UK (June 27-29, 2019).
• Kodikara, P and Kaushalya, V (2019) ‘The (Im)Possibility of pluriversal understandings of ‘Development’: A narrative from Global South’, in the stream ‘Dispossessed presents, open futures: Deconstructing narratives of developmentalism and modernization’, The 11th Critical Management Studies Conference, Milton Keynes, UK (June 27-29, 2019).
• Kodikara, P and Kaushalya, V (2019) ‘CMS managership — Is it the beginning of the end of CMS?’, in the stream ‘When critical management scholars become managers’, The 11th Critical Management Studies Conference, Milton Keynes, UK (June 27-29, 2019).
• Bandara, H and Kaushalya, V (2019) ‘Mobile Information Technology Devices (MITDs) as creative capitalist tools of place making: A narrative of blurred spatial-temporal arrangement of work in the Sri Lankan apparel industry’, in the stream ‘Flexible working arrangements – boundary work or boundless work?’, The 11th Critical Management Studies Conference, Milton Keynes, UK (June 27-29, 2019).

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Master of Business Administration (MBA) (Merit), Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM), University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
• Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education, Staff Development Centre, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
• B.Sc. Business Administration (Special) Degree (First Class), University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
• Foundation Course in Human Resource Management (FCHRM) (Merit), Institute of Personnel Management (IPM), Sri Lanka