Chathushka Kiriella

Chathushka Kiriella serves as a Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the Faculty of Business and Law, University of the West of England (UWE), bringing over a decade of higher education experience from Sri Lankan state/private universities and UK partner institutions including Salford, Gloucestershire, and Heriot-Watt Universities. She also holds visiting lecturer roles at the University of Moratuwa and serves as a registered research mentor at Oxford Brookes University.

Her educational qualifications include:

• Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) from University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka (2011)
• Master of Commerce from University of Delhi, India
• Higher National Diploma in Training and Human Resource Development
• MSc in International Human Resource Management from UWE
• Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCert)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Her research centers on cross-cultural management, specifically cross-cultural training effectiveness for expatriate adjustment, with ongoing doctoral work at UWE’s College of Education exploring acculturation impacts on international students’ academic trajectories. Additional interests include work-life balance, gender pay gap, stress at work, and recruitment dynamics within global HR contexts.

Scientific awards: None documented in available sources.

She supervises undergraduate and postgraduate (MSc/MBA/EMBA) dissertations across HRM specializations including training development, expatriate adjustment, and cross-cultural training while serving as personal tutor to business undergraduates. Her quality assurance contributions enhance UWE’s curriculum development consistency.

Active in the Human Resources, Work and Employment research group, she maintains collaborations with Oxford Brookes University and University of Moratuwa, focusing on international HR practices and student acculturation research.