Dr Kanchana Wickramasinghe
Research Fellow, Centre for Policy Futures
Researcher biography
Dr Wickramsinghe is an economist with extensive experience in quantitative and qualitative research on climate adaptation, disaster risk management, food security, and social protection, producing evidence that informs policy development and supports vulnerable communities.
Kanchana holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Socio-Economic Security from the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam and a PhD in Economics from Griffith University.
Publications
Book Chapters
Wickramasinghe, Kanchana and Naranpanawa, Athula (2026). Resilience and revival of sri lanka's tourism industry. Risk and Tourism Marketing in Asia. (pp. 252-268) London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003558286-18
Wickramasinghe, Kanchana and Naranpanawa, Athula (2024). COVID-19 pandemic and tourism in emerging economies: lessons from Sri Lanka. Handbook on crisis and disaster management in tourism. (pp. 204-220) edited by Bruce Prideaux and David Beirman. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781839105388.00020
Wickramasinghe, Kanchana (2022). Interlinkages between food systems, health risks and environmental dimensions in Sri Lanka: a machine learning approach. Pursuing the co-benefits for Health and Environments through food system change. (pp. 1-8) edited by Victoria Sauveplane-Stirling, Erica Di Ruggiero, Greg Hallen, Zee Leung and Daniel Sellen. Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto.
Journal Articles
Wickramasinghe, Kanchana and Naranpanawa, Athula (2023). Tourism and COVID-19: an economy-wide assessment. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 55, 131-138. doi: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2023.03.013
Wickramasinghe, Kanchana and Naranpanawa, Athula (2021). Systematic literature review on computable general equilibrium applications in tourism. Tourism Economics, 28 (6), 1647-1668. doi: 10.1177/13548166211006988
Wickramasinghe, Kanchana and Ratnasiri, Shyama (2020). The role of disaggregated search data in improving tourism forecasts: Evidence from Sri Lanka. Current Issues in Tourism, 24 (19), 2740-2754. doi: 10.1080/13683500.2020.1849049
Wickramasinghe, Kanchana (2019). Measuring environmental orientation in hotels: empirical evidence from Sri Lanka. Anatolia, 30 (3), 420-430. doi: 10.1080/13032917.2019.1613667
Wickramasinghe, Kanchana (2012). Role of social protection in disaster management in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences, 35-36 (1-2), 1-8. doi: 10.4038/sljss.v35i1-2.7297
Wickramasinghe, Kanchana (2011). Book review: Bina Agarwal, Gender and Green Governance: The Political Economy of Women’s Presence Within and Beyond Community Forestry, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010, 488 pp., ISBN: 978-0-19-806863-1. South Asia Economic Journal, 12 (2), 349-354. doi: 10.1177/139156141101200211
Wickramasinghe, Kanchana (2011). Book review: J.M. Harris and N.R. Goodwin (eds), Twenty-first Century Macro-economics Responding to the Climate Challenge, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2009, ISBN 978 1 84720 848 4, 332 pp. South Asia Economic Journal, 12 (1), 148-155. doi: 10.1177/139156141001200108
Wickramasinghe, Kanchana, Steele, Paul, Dawson, Andrew, Dharmaratne, Dinusha, Gunawardena, Asha, Senarathna, Lalith, De Siva, Dhammika, Wijayaweera, Kusal, Eddleston, Michael and Konradsen, Flemming (2009). Cost to government health-care services of treating acute self-poisonings in a rural district in Sri Lanka. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 87 (3), 180-185. doi: 10.2471/BLT.08.051920
Conference Paper
Weerahewa, Jeevika and Wickramasinghe, Kanchana (2005). Adjusting monetary measures of poverty to non-monetary aspects: an analysis based on Sri Lankan data. American Agricultural Economic Association Annual Meeting, Providence, RI, United States, 24-27 July 2005. Providence, RI, United States: American Agricultural Economic Association. doi: 10.22004/ag.econ.19294
Thesis
Wickramasinghe, Kanchana (2023). Economy-wide Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on tourism: a case study of Sri Lanka. PhD Thesis, Griffith Business School, Griffith University. doi: 10.25904/1912/4865
Research Report
Choi, Seonmi, Weingärtner, Lena, Gaile, Baiba, Cardenas, Diana, Wickramasinghe, Kanchana, Nicholson, Kit, Broermann, Shanaz, Tchané, Yacine and Steele, Paul (2023). Tracking the money for climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction Trends and experiences. London, United Kingdom: International Institute for Environment and Development.
Working Paper
Wickramasinghe, Kanchana (2019). Climate insurance for dry zone farmers in Sri Lanka. Agricultural Research Series. 200.