Kent Law School is delighted to share that Danushka Medawatte passed her PhD viva on Tuesday 10th November.
Danushka’s thesis is entitled: Unlocking Justice in Transition: Women, Ethnicity, and Gender in Post-war Sri Lanka.
Danushka’s work was examined by Professor Mohammad Shahabuddin (University of Birmingham) as External Examiner and Dr Josipa Šarić as Internal Examiner.
The examiners praised the thesis as “a superbly written piece of work with a lucid, elegant, and persuasive writing style”, noting that Danushka had “carefully crafted the theoretical framework and effectively rationalised its purpose”. They also commended its important contribution to scholarship on transitional justice, particularly its examination of women’s experiences of seeking redress following ethnicity-based civil wars and the necessity of intersectional and postcolonial perspectives.
Danushka’s PhD was supervised by Dr Rose Parfitt and Professor Suhraiya Jivraj.
Well done DOCTOR Danushka Medawatte and warmest wishes for the future.