ARS 2025

About The ARS 2025

The Annual Research Session (ARS) is a key event on the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka (SUSL) calendar, providing a platform for the academic community to share their latest research while offering both postgraduate and undergraduate students the opportunity to present their scholarly work.

ARS promotes knowledge exchange across various disciplines, primarily within the eight faculties of SUSL. It also serves as an excellent networking opportunity for young academics who have recently completed postgraduate studies at esteemed institutions, both locally and internationally.

The event will feature oral presentations by academic staff who have completed postgraduate studies this year, university research grant recipients, graduate students from the Faculty of Graduate Studies (at the Graduate Colloquium), and poster presentations by outstanding undergraduate researchers from all SUSL faculties.

The theme for ARS 2025 is "Empowering Scholars to Shape a Human-Tech Future" The session will be held on December 01^st December, 2025, at the university premises, featuring a keynote address by a distinguished scholar.

Eligible presenters for ARS 2025

I. Academics who have completed their postgraduate studies (both local and foreign) between December 2024 and November 2025 (This has been a formal practice and compulsory for all SUSL academics since the inception of ARS).

II. University research grant holders who have completed or are conducting their research during the year 2025.

III. Postgraduates from the Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS): Oral presentations of postgraduate research from each board of studies.

IV. Undergraduates: Poster presentations of the best undergraduate research from each department within the faculty.