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Niru Perera serves as a Research Fellow at the Australian National University's Institute for Communication in Health Care, where she investigates intersections of language, health, and cultural identity within multilingual communities, with particular emphasis on Sri Lankan diaspora in Australia.
Her research program spans health communication, multilingualism, Sri Lankan languages, language migration dynamics, and heritage language maintenance, with groundbreaking work examining how religious institutions—specifically Tamil Hindu temples—function as critical spaces for preserving linguistic heritage among South Asian migrants. This focus on community-based language sustainability reflects her commitment to decolonial approaches in linguistic diversity studies.
Analysis of her publications reveals a consistent scholarly trajectory exploring institutional frameworks for language maintenance in migrant contexts, with both her 2016 and 2022 works demonstrating how religious spaces actively counter language attrition through ritual practices, intergenerational transmission, and community engagement within Australia's evolving demographic landscape.
