Research output per year
Research output per year
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Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
Open to supervise PhD students on broad issues related to Disaster resilience, Extreme Weather Events and Construction, Adaptation to Flooding, Post-disaster re-construction, Property-level flood Adaptation, Resilience of SMEs, SMEs in construction, Cost Management in Construction, Construction Project Management, Sustainable Construction. Please contact Gayan to enquire about PhD supervision.
Research activity per year
I'm a Senior Lecturer in Construction and Quantity Surveying. I initially joined Aston University as a lecturer in construction in 2013, and taught in Aston's Construction Project Management programme for 5 years. Between 2018-2020, I worked as a Senior Lecturer in Built Environment and as the Programme Leader for Quantity Surveying at Northumbria University. In my 2nd tenure at Aston University, I joined the newly established Department of Civil Engineering and am mostly involved with Construction Project Management and Quantity Surveying programmes.
I completed my PhD at the School of the Built Environment, the University of Salford for which I received a fully-funded EPSRC studentship. My thesis was on resilience of construction SMEs to extreme weather events. I have continued to undertake research on disaster resilience-related issues including post-disaster recovery, the resilience of SMEs, flood adaptation etc since then. Apart from that, my research interests include cost management in construction, construction project management and sustainable construction.
I'm a Chartered Construction Manager (MCIOB) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
My research interests include extreme weather events and construction SMEs, disaster management, the resilience of SMEs and adaptation to flooding.
Gayan regularly reviews papers related to these research areas on a number of international refereed journals including Construction Management and Economics, Disasters, and International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment and peer-reviewed international conferences.
PhD in Construction and Property Management, University of Salford, 2013.
PGCert in Professional Practice in HE, Aston University, 2015.
BSc (Hons) in Quantity Surveying, University of Moratuwa, 2007.
Member (MCIOB), Chartered Institute of Building.
Member (MCInstCES), Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors
Fellow (FHEA), Higher Education Academy.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Gayan Wedawatta (Recipient)
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Award - Appointment
Gayan Wedawatta (Editorial board member)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
Gayan Wedawatta (Reviewer)
Activity: Other activity types › Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
Gayan Wedawatta (Member)
Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
Gayan Wedawatta (Peer reviewer)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review