Staff Profile
Dr Mihirini Sirisena
Research Associate
- Email: mihirini.sirisena@ncl.ac.uk
- Address: Population Health Sciences Institute
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Newcastle University
Background
Mihirini is a social anthropologist and is currently working as a research associate on the evaluation of the Reading for Wellbeing project fund by NIHR ARC-NENC. She is interested in developing a comparative understanding of well-being through exploring links between ideas of personhood, embodiment and interpersonal relationships within a context of global flows of people and information. She worked as an embedded researcher and recently completed a research on arts and health in collaboration with Well Newcastle Gateshead.
Publications
- Geijer-Simpson E, Sirisena M, Redagte S, Lhussier M, Kaner E, Wildman J, Hackett S, Gray J, Rowlands G, McKean C, Wearn A, Hartley J, James B, Heslop J. A rapid realist evidence synthesis on the effectiveness of reading initiatives in promoting mental and physical health in individuals across the life course. London: National Institute for Health Research, 2021. PROSPERO 2021 CRD42021278489.
- Sirisena M. Making and meaning of relationships in Sri Lanka: An ethnography on university students in Colombo. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
- Sirisena M. Making Colombo intimate. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 2016, 39(01), 167-182.