University of Sri Jayewardenepura and Northumbria University, England signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the 14th of January, 2019. The two universities aim to encourage and develop collaborative activities in various ways, including the exchange of scholarly ideas/expertise, the support of specific discipline interaction, the development of programmes and the advanced entry to Northumbria programmes of appropriately qualified students from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura.
Currently, few PhD projects are conducted under this research collaboration.