Where to Find Research, International Collaboration, and News on the USJ Website

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The University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ) website at sjp.ac.lk surfaces research, international collaboration, and news through three main navigation areas: Research (with Research Journals and PIM), Innovation / International in the top menu, and the News & Updates and Upcoming Events sections on the home page. All three are reachable directly from the main navigation bar without logging in.

Research: Journals and PIM

The Research menu item is the entry point for the university's research output. From there you can reach:

  • Research Journals — the listing of USJ's academic publications.
  • PIM — the Postgraduate Institute of Management, which appears as its own top-level menu item as well as within the research area.

If you are looking for a specific journal, start at Research → Research Journals rather than searching the site, since the journals are grouped under that section. PIM has its own menu entry, so postgraduate management programmes and related research are found there rather than under the general Research listing.

International Collaboration

International activity is covered in two places:

  • The International menu item, which sits alongside Innovation and Career Guidance in the top navigation.
  • The News & Updates feed, where collaboration stories are published as they happen.

Recent examples visible on the home page show the kind of content you will find: a meeting with a delegation from Southern Illinois University (USA), a collaboration with RUDN University of Russia on trade, education, and tourism, and a visit from Zhejiang Shuren University to strengthen academic collaboration. These items confirm that partnership news is announced through the news feed rather than kept in a separate international-relations archive.

News & Updates and Upcoming Events

The home page carries two distinct feeds:

Section What it contains How to use it
News & Updates Dated announcements — delegations, collaborations, certifications, convocation, staff and student achievements Scan the latest items; use "Read All News" to see the full archive
Upcoming Events Scheduled events with dates and times, e.g. IRCHSS 2027 on 16 March Check dates before planning attendance or submissions
Upcoming Courses Short courses with start dates, e.g. Diploma in Cosmetic Technology (SLQF 03) Confirm the start date and course title before applying

The news feed is chronological, so the most recent collaborations and announcements appear first. The events block is separate and shows only forward-dated items, which makes it the better place to check for conferences and ceremonies.

A Practical Route

For a typical lookup — say you want to know whether USJ has a current partnership with a particular foreign university — work in this order:

  1. Open sjp.ac.lk and scan News & Updates for the institution's name.
  2. If nothing appears, open Read All News to search older announcements.
  3. Check the International menu for any standing collaboration pages.
  4. For research-specific partnerships, check Research → Research Journals and the PIM section.

One caveat: the site presents these as separate menus, so a collaboration may be announced in News without a corresponding page under International, or vice versa. Checking both is the reliable approach.