Hiranga Wijedasa is a permanent lecturer attached to school of nursing, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Malabe, Sri Lanka. She is coordinating the B,Sc. (hons) in Nursing (International) degree programme awarded by Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She has more than ten years of teaching experience as a teacher in higher education for diploma, higher diploma, B.Sc. in Nursing degree programmes as well as in-service educational programmes for both state and non-state sector staff nurses. Before joining SLIIT in 2019, she had worked as a permanent lecturer at South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) for more than six years.

• Master of Nursing Education (Kaatsu International University, Sri Lanka) 2020
• Master of Science in Food & Nutrition (University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka) 2018
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Honours) University of Sri Jayewardenepura) 2011
• Certificate in teaching in Higher Education upon completion of Staff developmental Programme for academics, organized by the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) under the auspices of Quality Assurance & Accreditation Council of the University Grants Commission (UGC), Sri Lanka. 2014

Best presenter award of the Nursing Track in the SLIIT International Conference on Advancements in Science and Humanities 2020

• Association Between Level of Physical Activity and Mental Health Status Among Undergraduate Students of Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, SLIIT

• Unusual presentations of tuberculosis during treatment for blood cancers

• Factors associated with self-administration of insulin among adult diabetes patients in National hospital Sri Lanka