Muttukrishna Sarvananthan

Muttukrishna Sarvananthan is pursuing intellectual excellence and integrity in research and innovation in pedagogy/andragogy/heutagogy. He is personally a Ceylonese (known as Sri Lanka since 1972) by birth and Sri Lankan by citizenship and domicile; but professionally, and in terms of work ethic, a British having been trained as a Development Economist there during completing three postgraduate degrees in England and Wales between 1987 and 1999. Muttukrishna Sarvananthan has undertaken incisive, insightful, and foresighted policy research during the past twenty-four years (1999-2023) of his post-doctoral professional research career http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6443-0358 (Research Impact Metrics h-index 12, i10-index 16 as of August 2023 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CYGaCwQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra). Muttukrishna Sarvananthan has undertaken impactful peer-reviewed research, public dissemination in peer-reviewed international journals, & public intellectual advocacy through mass media (print, electronic, & digital) in Sri Lanka & abroad. Additionally, in recent years he has gained expertise in detecting intellectual/research/scientific fraud (detection of publications in predatory journals or by predatory publishers, detecting publications from paper mills, and plagiarism) by academics in Sri Lanka thereby championing ethics in science and research integrity. A total of 55 peer-reviewed scholarly publications, among other things, have been the output during the 30 years between 1994 (first peer-reviewed publication) and 2023, which includes 37 journal articles (67%), 9 book chapters (16%), 6 books/monographs (11%), and 3 working papers (5%). His academic publications have been consistent/regular; resulting in 2 publications per year, on average, during the 24 years after earning his Ph.D. (1999-2023). Out of the 55 publications, 43 were sole-author publications accounting for 78% of the total. His articles have been published in the journals of leading global academic publishers such as Brill (Netherlands), Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group, UK), Sage Publications (USA/India), Springer (Germany), and Universities such as the University of Hawaii (USA), University of Leiden (Netherlands)/University of Massachusetts (USA), and University of Warwick (UK). He has undertaken collaborative survey-based qualitative research with the University of Edinburgh funded by the British Academy (2021-2023), University of Mannheim (2018) and University of Heidelberg (2009) in Germany, Rand Corporation in California (USA) (2017-2018), and the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) in New Delhi (India) (2000-2002). For the past seven years (2017-2023), he has been the Sri Lanka Country Collaborator for the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Programme of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden https://www.v-dem.net/. Besides, he was also a member of the international editorial board of the Contemporary South Asia journal published by Routledge from 2004 until December 31, 2016. Moreover, he has been a peer reviewer of 37 articles (as of August 2023) submitted to Contemporary South Asia (Routledge) (2015, 2014 (2), 2013, 2009, 2008 (2), 2007, 2006, 2004 (3), and 2003), Democracy and Security (Routledge) (2018), Disasters (John Wiley) (2007), Development in Practice (Routledge) (2016), International Feminist Journal of Politics (Routledge) (2019 and 2018), International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier) (2021 and 2020), International Social Science Journal (John Wiley) (2022), International Studies Quarterly (Oxford University Press) (2020), Lancet Regional Health: Southeast Asia (Elsevier) (2022), Millennial Asia (SAGE) (2020), South Asian Journal of Human Resources Management (SAGE) (2023, 2021, and 2020 (2)), South Asian Survey (SAGE) (2021, 2020, and 2018), The International Journal of Transitional Justice (Oxford University Press) (2021), Third World Quarterly (Routledge) (2013), and World Development (Elsevier) (2023, 2021, 2017, and 2015) journals during 2003-2023. https://www.webofscience.com/wos/op/peer-reviews/summary Muttukrishna Sarvananthan was an Endeavour Research Fellow at the Monash University in Melbourne from September 2011 to February 2012, and a Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University in Washington, D.C. from October 2008 to July 2009. Muttukrishna Sarvananthan earned a Doctorate in Development Economics at the Centre for Development Studies, University of Wales, Swansea in 1999, M.Sc. in Development Planning and Administration at the University of Bristol in 1991, M.Sc. (Econ) in Economic Development at the Department of Economics, University of Salford in 1989, and BA (Honours) in Economics at the Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi in 1986. Besides, he successfully completed the Teaching Skills for Graduate Tutors course at the University of Wales, Swansea.