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Publications-book chapters

• 2020, දේශපාලන සන්නිවේදනයේ මහජන සම්බන්ධතා භූමිකාව" Book Chapter,  තිලක ලකුණ , Essays in Honour of Professor Mapa Thilakarathna , Department of Mass Communication.  University of Kelaniya.
• 2018, ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පුවත්පත් කලාව කර්මාන්තය සහ සංස්කාරක  ස්වාධීනත්වය " Book Chapter, PIYAHASARA , Professor Rohana Luxman Piyadasa Felicitation Volume , Department of Mass Communication.  University of Kelaniya.
• 2017, ජනමාධ්‍යයේ  හිමිකාරීත්ව  ආකෘතිය  " Book Chapter , සඳසර- ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ මහාචාර්ය චන්ද්‍රසිරි රාජපක්ෂ උපහාර ශාස්ත්‍රීය සංග්‍රහය, Department of Mass Communication.  University of Kelaniya.
• 2016, ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ' චිත්‍රපට මාධ්‍ය' හිමිකාරීත්වය හා පාලනය,Book Chapter, SAMPRASADANA , Essays in Honour of Professor K.M.P.Kulasekara, Department of History, University of Kelaniya
• 2013,  ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ගුවන්විදුලි මාධ්‍ය හිමිකාරිත්වය හා පාලනය,  Book Chapter, NIDAHAS MADHYA, World Press Freedom Day Journal, Department of Government Information.
• 2013. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ' මැතිවරණ හා ජනමාධ්‍යය පක්ෂපාතීත්වය,SANNIVEEDANA Journal,40th Anniversary Issue,Godage Publishers.
• 2012, ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පුවත්පත් හිමිකාරිත්වය පාලනය හා පක්ෂපාතීත්වය Book Chapter, ජනමාධ්‍ය සංස්කෘතිය විවේචනාත්මකාත්මක ඇගයීමක් , Ravaya Publications.

Newspaper Articles

Produced and directed a 30 minutes short film titled ‘Memories’.

Produced and directed a 15 minutes documentary titled ‘Food for Thought’.

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PUBLICATIONS

• Abeykoon, A, Liyanage, L & Dias, G 2020, ‘Baseline Study for EU Funded Project - Women in Learning and Leadershiphttps’, SFCG Sri Lanka,

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• Abeykoon, A 2020, ‘Scuffle over mobile phone usage between mothers and their techno savvy children in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka’, The Asian Congress to Media and Communication Journal, vol. 6, no. 1-2, pp. 7-18.
• Fernando, TA, Abeykoon, A & Ganegoda, PK 2015, 'Let the children be fed ethically: an explorative study on children’s advertising and advertising regulations in Sri Lanka', MEDIA ASIA, vol. 42, no. 1-2, pp. 106-14.
• Abeykoon, A 2017, ‘Mobile Phones, empowerment and female heads of households: Trincomalee, Sri Lanka’, PhD thesis, Deakin University Australia, http://www.dro.deakin.edu.au
• Abeykoon, A 2011, ‘Pro-development teledramas for national uplift’, Daily News, Colombo, 24,31 October.
• Abeykoon, A 2010, 'The preference of Sri Lankan television viewers for Indian soap operas: a case study', VISTAS, Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 6, pp. 1-16.

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Research

• Doctoral thesis - ‘Mobile Phones, empowerment and female heads of households: Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.’
• Undergraduate thesis - 'The preference of Sri Lankan television viewers for Indian soap operas: a case study.’

Awards

• Awarded Commonwealth government funded International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) from 2013 to 2017 from Deakin University, Australia.
• Achieved runner-up position of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition in faculty level and represented the Faculty of Arts & Education at the Deakin University final round, 2016.

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International and National Research Conference Presentations

•  ‘“Miss[ed] Calls’’: Female Heads of Households and Their Woes due to Nuisance Phone Calls in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka’, International Research Symposium, the University of the Visual and Performing Arts, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 5 – 7 December 2018.
• ‘Use of more-than-voice mobile services by the female heads of households, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka’, International Conference of Asian Congress for Media and Communication (ACMC), National Chengchi University, Taiwan, 27-29 October 2018.
• ‘Scuffle over mobile phone usage between mothers and their techno savvy children in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka’, International Conference of Asian Congress for Media and Communication (ACMC), Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 27-29 October 2016.
• ‘Greening of news hole: Green discourse of news in Australia, Japan and Sri Lanka’, International Conference of Asian Congress for Media and Communication (ACMC), Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 27-29 October 2016.
• ‘Mobile phones, empowerment and female headed households in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka’, Minor Culture conference for the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, University of Melbourne, 30 November - 3 December 2015.
• ‘Gendered practices of mobile phones by female heads of households in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka’, Asian conference on Media and Mass Communication, International Academic Forum (iafor), Kobe, Japan, 12 - 15 November 2015.
• ‘Cinematic portrayal of gender violence: a case study of three films rooted in Sri Lankan ethno-political conflict’ and ‘Let the children be fed ethically: an explorative study on advertising standards and strategies in Sri Lanka’, International Conference of Asian Congress for Media and Communication (ACMC), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, October 2012.
• ‘Have Sri Lankans maximized the potential of advertising for social cohesion?’, 20th annual conference of Asian Media Information & Communication Centre (AMIC), Hyderabad, India, June 2011.
• ‘Glocalizing power of Indian soap operas over Sri Lankan audience: a case study of Indian soap operas’ at the International Conference of Asian Congress for Media and Communication (ACMC), University Sains Malaysia, October 2010.

Research Conference Chair

Chaired the panel session ‘Ethnicity, Representation, and Media’ at the International Conference of Asian Congress for Media and Communication (ACMC), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, October 2012.

Reviewer

• Reviewer for the journal of Feminist Media Studies – 2017 to Current
• Reviewer, Asian conference on Media and Mass Communication, International Academic Forum (iafor), Kobe, Japan, November 2015
• Reviewer, International Research Symposium, University of the Visual and Performing arts, Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 2018, December 2019