Sri Lanka - QUT Joint PhD Program

Sri Lankan fashion design graduates: The nexus between career trajectories and education

| Postgraduate Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences(PGIHS)

Supervisor/s	Prof. Deepthi C Bandara Department of Agricultural Biology Faculty of Agriculture University of Peradeniya
	Dr Leena Seneheweera Department of Fine Arts Faculty of Arts University of Peradeniya
Co-Supervisor/s at QUT	Prof. Laurie Buys School of Design Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology
	Dr Alice Payne School of Design Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology
Student's Name	RASC Gopura University of Moratuwa Postgraduate Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (PGIHS)
Date of Commencement of the Programme	7th September 2015
Remarks	Successfully completed IFN001 Advanced Information Research Skills (4/12/2015) and stage two (first milestone at QUT on 07/12/2015) while based on QUT, Brisbane for the first six months of the study. The confirmation of the candidature (second milestone at QUT on 29/08/2016) report and presentation was held at PGIHS, University of Peradeniya on arrival of the QUT supervisors and examiners to Sri Lanka and approved the candidature with no revisions, satisfying the Supervisory Team and Faculty of both universities. Published "Industrial Upgrading in the Apparel Value Chain and the Role of Designer in the Transition: comparative analysis of Sri Lanka and Hong Kong" (Gopura, S., Payne, A., Buys, L.) literature paper on Asia Pacific Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, Vol. 4, No. 4, November 2016. Completed the data collection of the study and currently working with supervisory team on data analysis for next publications.