Ms. Anne Pathiranage
Senior Lecturer / HOD
Contact
- anne.k@nsbm.ac.lk
- +94 11 544 5112
- Department of Accounting and Finance
- Faculty of Business
- Google Scholar
Profile
Ms. Anne Pathiranage is a Senior Lecturer and the Head of the Department of Accounting and Finance at NSBM Green University. With over a decade of experience in higher education, she specializes in Financial Accounting, Business Statistics, Quantitative Techniques, and Computer-Based Accounting, while actively contributing to student development and professional practice initiatives within the Faculty of Business.
She is currently reading for a PhD at Stockholm University, Sweden, focusing on teachers’ digital literacy and institutional support for technology‑integrated pedagogy. Anne holds a Master’s in Business Statistics from the University of Moratuwa and graduated with First Class Honours in B.Sc. Accounting (Special) from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura. She has also completed a Diploma in Counselling and Psychology from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sri Jayewardenepura.
Her research portfolio includes multiple international and local publications in the areas of digital literacy, accounting education, and technology use in teaching and learning. Beyond academia, Anne has played key leadership roles in curriculum development, programme management, student mentoring and counselling, and various university initiatives.
Research Interests
- Digital Literacy
- Accounting Education
- Teachers Digital Behaviour
Journal Publications
- Pathiranage, A., & Karunaratne, T. (2023). Teachers’ agency in technology for education in pre-and post-COVID-19 periods: A systematic literature review. Education Sciences, 13(9), 917.
- Pathiranage, A., & Karunaratne, T. (2023). Digital Capabilities of Teachers: A Comparative Case Study. Journal of Higher Education Theory & Practice, 23(5).
Conference (Full Paper) Publications
- Pathiranage, A., & Karunarathne, T. (2022, October). Investigating Teachers’ Transition From Traditional to Online: A Case Study on Accounting Teacher Perspectives. In 21st European Conference on e-Learning ECEL 2022 (p. 348).
- Alwis, S., & Pathiranage, A. (2022) Impact of Career Indecision on University Student’s Academic Engagement: Mediating role of Hope, International conference of Business Innovation (ICOBI), NSBM Green University.
- Pathiranage, A. (2022) Aligning Student Behavior, Pedagogy and Academic Performance Thorough Learning Analytics: A systematic Methodological review, International conference of Business Innovation (ICOBI), NSBM Green University.
- Pathiranage, A. & Palagolla, N. (2018), Factors associated with the satisfaction of chartered accountancy students in Sri Lanka. International Conference of Business Innovation (ICOBI), NSBM Green University.
Ongoing Research
- Currently submitted papers on Students’ cognitive load to Springer under review and AI and Accounting Students behaviour with AI to the ICBM at Jpura
Research Committee and Roles
- A member of the Research Ethics Committee in NSBMCoordinator to the foundation programme.