Appraising the Outstanding Performance of RUSL Researchers

These awards are to recognize, appreciate, encourage, and honour the academic staff members in the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka who are excelling in research, innovation, and scholarly works. Through these awards, the university expects to motivate the staff members to actively engage in teaching and research activities. Furthermore, these recognitions will create junior staff members to follow, be encouraged, and get involved in research activities that will uplift the university’s ranking nationally and internationally. Moreover, these recognitions will increase and encourage collaborative research activities within and outside the institute. Sixteen (16) awards will be presented to the eligible applicants at the university and faculty levels, as elaborated below.

RUSL Research Excellence Gold Award

The RUSL Research Excellence Gold Award is the most prestigious research award offered by the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka. The awardee will be able to receive this award only once in his academic carrier at the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka. The applicant’s lifetime research/scholarly work with RUSL affiliations is considered for this award.

RUSL Excellence Awards

RUSL Excellence Award is categorized into six categories. Most outstanding senior researcher and Most outstanding young researcher, and Top Ten Researchers with the highest number of indexed journal articles and highest H-index and highest number of citations, and Top Ten Researchers with the highest H-index, and Top Ten Researchers with the highest number of citations and Best Inventor.

Vice Chancellor’s Awards at each Faculty and Library

Vice Chancellor’s Award at each faculty and Library is categorized into nine categories. Most Outstanding Senior and Young researcher in faculty and Most Outstanding researcher in library, Top Three Researchers with the highest number of indexed journal articles and highest H-index, and highest number of citations, and Department having the highest number of indexed journal articles published.

The Programme