It is with great pride and immense pleasure that I wish to send this
message
to
all staff and members of
the Faculty of Humanities & Sciences on the launch of this inaugural
issue
of
the SLIIT Journal. It’s
wonderful to see the youngest faculty of our university publishing its
very
own
journal which is the first
peer-reviewed research bulletin of the faculty and the second to be
issued
by
the university.
We see a gradual change in concepts and ideologies of the modern-day
university
education in comparison
to the university education system in the past era. Universities only
remained
as institutions dedicated
to academics and seen far from been engaged in social corporate
practices
and
non-committed to
community issues. Today universities and higher education institutions
have
adopted new theories and
practices to involve in ‘engagement scholarship’ and constructively
undertake
creative and innovative
research that will effectively address social issues and constructively
contribute towards overall national
development.
I am pleased that the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences has transformed
itself
to involve in engagement
scholarship and has brought out this journal, which is a remarkable
outcome
of
their first international
conference (SICASH) which was held last January.
I congratulate the Dean of the Faculty, the editorial board, the
academic
and
non-academic staff and all
others for their commitment, dedication, and hard work to bring out this
Journal, which I am confident
will be cited in international academia.
I wish you all the best.
Prof. Lakshman
Ratnayake
Chancellor
It is with great pride and enormous happiness, I send this message to
the
inaugural issue of the SLIIT
Journal of Humanities & Sciences of the Faculty of Humanities & Sciences
which
is the youngest
faculty of our university. This is the first peer-reviewed research
journal
of
the Faculty and the second
one of our University.
Gone are the days that universities remained as Ivory Towers where
disengaged
academics were
primarily concerned with their academic work and remained unconcerned
and
non-committed to
the community issues. Today universities and higher education
institutions
are
expected to involve in
‘engagement scholarship’ and constructively undertake creative and
innovative
researches that will
effectively address social issues and constructively contribute towards
overall
national development.
I am pleased that the Faculty of humanities and Sciences has transformed
itself
to involve in engagement
scholarship and has brought out this journal which is a remarkable
outcome
of
their first international
conference SICASH held in last January.
I congratulate the Dean of the Faculty, the editorial board and the
academic
and
non-academic staff
and all others for their commitment, dedication and hard work to bring
out
this
Journal which, I am
confident, will be considered by the international academic
community.
I wish you all well.
Prof. Lalith
Gamage
Vice Chancellor
It gives me immense pleasure to send this congratulatory message on
the eve
of the publication of the
first issue of the SLIIT Journal of Humanities and Sciences, which I
hope will
be the pride of the Faculty
of Humanities & Sciences (FHS) and our university. Since its inception,
FHS has
seen rapid growth and
has an excellent group of students and staff committed to pushing the
frontiers
of research.
Research is an integral component of universities, and it should be
constructive, innovative, and
supportive for national and international development. Social, economic
and
technological development
is possible only if the research outcomes are effectively disseminated
through
high-quality research
journals. I am confident that with time SLIIT Journal of Humanities and
Sciences
will become a leading
platform for local and international scholars to publish their research
findings.
SLIIT is the highest-ranked and the largest non-state higher education
institution in the country. It is a
matter of time for SLIIT to be recognized as a leading university in
Asia. SLIIT
Journal of H&S will be
another stepping stone in our successful journey towards global
excellence.
I take this opportunity to thank and congratulate the Dean of the
Faculty, the
Editorial Board and all
staff for their commitment, dedication and hard work to bring out this
first
issue of the Journal. I am
confident that the Journal will be indexed internationally in future and
serve
as a repository of cutting
edge research.
Prof. Nimal
Rajapakse
Deputy Vice-Chancellor
It is with great pleasure, I send this message to the inaugural issue
of the
SLIIT Journal of Humanities &
Sciences of the Faculty of Humanities & Sciences. Although our faculty
is the
youngest in our university,
we are proud to have commenced an annual international conference and a
journal
to promote research
and disseminate knowledge.
As SLIIT aims to become a high ranking university in the region all our
academics are encouraged
to publish their research locally and internationally. We believe that
it is
only through research, the
horizons of knowledge could be expanded.
I would like to express my appreciation to the editorial board and the
academic
and non-academic staff
for their commitment, dedication and hard work to bring out this Journal
which,
I am confident, will be
recognized and cited in international academia.
Dr. Malitha
Wijesundara
Dean/FHS
It is indeed with enormous pride and sheer enthusiasm we present the
inaugural
issue of SLIIT Journal
of Humanities and Sciences (SJHS) which is first research journal of the
Faculty
of Humanities and
Sciences, the youngest Faculty of SLIIT.
Teaching, research and dissemination of knowledge are the three integral
functions of any university,
and we are extremely happy and proud that we are publishing a journal
that will
facilitate our Faculty
to effectively disseminate the knowledge we produce from our research
and
studies. We will also make
SJHS a common forum to publish research articles from external
researches and
academics.
The eleven articles in this journal were originally among the fifty
papers
submitted in the first SLIIT
International Conference on the Advancements in Humanities and Sciences
(SICASH)
which was held
online on 26th March 2021. In his inaugural address, Dr. Malitha
Wijesundara,
the Conference Chair /
Dean of the Faculty announced of his vision of publishing a research
journal
with selected high quality
papers submitted in the conference. We are happy that the journal has
become a
reality fulfilling the
vision of the Dean.
We hope to make SJHS an annual publication of the Faculty. We will make
every
possible endeavour to
transform SJHS to be an innovative and creative journal that provides a
challenging forum to showcase
contemporary research work of the Faculty members and also to promote
healthy
academic debate and
engagement scholarship in the academic community.
First of all, we sincerely thank all the contributors for working
tirelessly to
improve the quality of their
articles to be included in this issue. We also thank the members of the
Review
Panel and the Editorial
Board for their timely support and cooperation. Our special thanks to
the
distinguished members of the
International Editorial Advisory Board for agreeing to serve on the
board amidst
their busy schedules.
Our sincere thanks to the Chancellor, Vice Chancellor, Deputy Vice
Chancellor
for their continuous
support and also for their congratulatory messages to this inaugural
issue of
SJHS. Our special thanks
to the Dean/FHS for his visionary leadership and unstinted support
without which
we are sure that this
journal would not have been a reality. Last, but not least we very
sincerely
thank all the academic and
non-academic staff of the FHS for their commitment and dedication to
make this
journey a success.
We fervently hope that SJHS will soon attract the notice of the local
and
international academic and
research communities.
Prof. Sarath
Peiris
Prof. Thaiyamuthu
Thanaraj
Joint Editors/SJHS