<<BRE PhD Graduate, Dr Nimesha Sahani JAYASENA, Appointed as Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University>>
Dr Nimesha Sahani JAYASENA, a BRE PhD Graduate, was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Construction Project Management of the School of Engineering and the Built Environment at Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom in April 2025.
Dr Jayasena completed her PhD in December 2022 with a thesis on best practice public-private partnership (PPP) models for smart infrastructure, supervised by Prof. Daniel CHAN, Associate Professor of BRE and Prof. Mohan M. KUMARASWAMY, Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong and Honorary Professor at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. She then worked as a Research Associate at BRE. Dr Jayasena’s research focuses on PPP, smart infrastructure, smart cities and village development, New Engineering Contract, retrofitting, and stakeholder management. She has published 11 top-tier journal articles, 10 international conference papers and a book chapter, and has received three outstanding research paper awards
