For example, between 2012 and 2015, she co-led a three year, European funded project, called the Academic Network for Disaster Resilience to Optimise Educational Development (ANDROID).
It was attended by early and mid-career, interdisciplinary researchers who considered the challenges caused by global mass displacement.
[8] Amaratunga was co-project lead and recipient of the 2019 Newton Prize for Indonesia, with Harkunti Rahayu from Institut Teknologi Bandung and Richard Haigh from the University of Huddersfield.
[10] In 2010, she co-founded the International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment with Richard Haigh[11] and remains co-editor.
[12] In 2021 Amaratunga was one of the top 2% Global scientists in World Critical Science Disciplines on a citation analysis by Elsevier BV Netherlands and Stanford University.