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Our Vision
To bring together Sri Lankan scholars,
academics and professionals from diverse
disciplines living anywhere in the world, to
carry out multidisciplinary research. |
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Our Mission
Establish strategic partnerships
Work with people who will benefit from
research
Influence policy makers
Facilitate multidisciplinary research
Promote a bureaucracy less environment to
carry out research. |
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Who are we ?
We are a
group of concerned professionals who wish to see an
overarching research culture in Sri Lanka.
Although
high impact research takes place in our country, it
is fragmented and rarely transferred into policy and
practice. Therefore we are working to achieve a
paradigm shift in the thinking pattern and actions of the
scientific and scholarly community to create a new
strategic alliance among academics, scholars,
professionals and the public to build a new
research culture in Sri Lanka, so that the power of
knowledge in science & technology could be mobilized
to address the problems of the society using an
evidence-based approach, which in turn is crucial
for the sustainable development of the country. In
short, our slogan is 'Research for development and
policy impact'.
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Our
history
During initial years of conceptualization, we
realized that an initiative with a different focus
and emphasis was needed to rectify the contradictory
gaps existing in Sri Lanka; even with a high
literacy rate in the region, Sri Lanka lacked an
overarching research culture. Therefore, we decided
to bring all our activities under one organization.
Initially The Forum for Research and Development (FRD) was incorporated as a non profit, independent,
academic institution and a professional network.
Then it was converted into Institute for
Research & Development, through a parliamentary act. |
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Our Progress
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Our starting
point all those years ago. |
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Private office was turned into FRD office. |
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Then this house became our office. |
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Next we moved
to this house. |
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Then we moved
to this office premises in 2005. |
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Finally we
moved to our new office premises in 2009. |
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