Dr Anupa Manewa is a Senior Lecturer at School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Institute of Quantity Surveyors Sri Lanka and Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors.  

Anupa’s current research interests focus on Information Systems, Life Cycle Costing, Building Information Modelling for Project Financial Management, Smart Cities and Adaptable Buildings. She has functioned as an expert for the European Commissions' Erasmus+ research bid evaluation panels and also serves as a peer reviewer for EPSRC and ESRC grants. She is a guest editor for Buildings Journal - special issue on "The Impact Engineering Practices on a Sustainable Built Environment". Anupa has secured number of research grants nationally and internationally. Recently, she has been awarded British Council's Going Global Partnership’s Industry Academia Collaboration Grant to collaborate with India.