Menaka Abeyratna

Ms.Menaka Abeyratna is a Programme Leader for BSc (Hons) Business Management and BSc (Hons) Business Management Top-Up programmes, and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Greater Manchester Academic Centre, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Management at the National University of Malaysia.

She holds a Master of Science in Management from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura Sri Lanka and a First-Class Honours Bachelor of Science in Management from University College Dublin, National University of Ireland. Her professional qualifications include a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher and Professional Education (UK) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM–UK). She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (ACIM).

With over 12 years of experience in higher education, she has an established track record in teaching, programme leadership, curriculum design, and research supervision across both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the UAE and Sri Lanka. She teaches modules in leadership and management, human resource management, strategic management, marketing, entrepreneurship, and the psychology of digital consumer behaviour.

Her research spans organisational psychology, human resource management, and leadership behaviour, together with consumer psychology, consumer behaviour, and contemporary marketing, particularly in digital contexts. Her work has been disseminated through peer-reviewed journal publications, scholarly book chapters, and international conference proceedings.

She is committed to delivering student-centred, research-informed teaching and fostering meaningful connections between academic theory and real-world practice.