Vindhya Weeratunga

Dr Vindhya Weeratunga is a Lecturer in the School of Business at UNSW Canberra, combining her extensive HR practitioner/CEO experience with academic research. As a mixed-methods researcher, she investigates human resource management, systems thinking applications to complex organizational problems, and adaptive leadership frameworks.

• PhD in Management, UNSW Canberra
• MBA (Merit), University of Sri Jayewardenepura
• BSc (Magna Cum Laude), Goldey-Beacom College

Her research focuses on enhancing employee outcomes through analyzing flexible work arrangements, hybrid working productivity, employee engagement metrics, and worker well-being across demographic groups. Current projects include studying hybrid work knowledge workers' productivity and facilitating adaptive leadership workshops.

From 2020-2024 publications, her work spans flexible work implementation, pandemic work practices, cross-cultural HR adaptations, and systems thinking applications in public sector organizations. Key research trends include job demands-resources theory, data-driven HR decision making, and cultural dimensions affecting engagement.

• 2024 O'Leary Prize for Gender and Public Administration Scholarship

She supervises research in human resource management, future of work, and employee well-being areas while teaching courses ZBUS8314 People and Systems, ZBUS8315 Driving Performance, and ZBUS1101 Organizational Behaviour.