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 Instiute of Building. 

Fellow (FHEA), Higher Education Academy 

• 2020 - to-date: Senior Lecturer in Construction and Quantity Surveying, School of Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Aston University.
• 2018 – 2020: Senior Lecturer in Built Environment / Programme Leader Quantity Surveying, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Northumbria University.
• 2013 – 2018: Lecturer in Construction, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University.
• 2012 – 2013: Assistant Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering Architecture and Building, Coventry University.
• 2008 – 2012: PhD researcher / Project researcher, School of the Built Environment, University of Salford.
• 2007 – 2008: Lecturer, Department of Building Economics, University of Moratuwa.
• 2007 – 2008: Lecturer (visiting), College of Quantity Surveying, Institute of Quantity Surveyors Sri Lanka.