VICE-CHANCELLOR’S REPORT TO COUNCIL 2022—2023
MONA CAMPUS REPORT
of knowledge on Sport Science and Nutrition in a short course on its educational platform. An MOU is expected to be signed in the first quarter of 2023/2024 to formalise the partnership with Rajasthan Royals — a partnership that is expected to open the doors for delivery of short courses to a global market. Further, FSP pursued for development and offering a certificate course in sport administration management in partnership with the Pan Am Sports Organisation and CANOC and The Open Campus. The UWI Faculty of Sport also received approval for the roll-out of The Executive Master’s European Caribbean High Performance Sport Management . A grant from the Association of French Universities valued at €15,000.00 enabled development of this programme in the FOS. AGILITY Building Research Capacity To establish and maintain a Research Computing Capability, Mona Information and Technology Services (MITS) designed, implemented, and managed research computing to enable new areas of research in climate science, artificial intelligence and machine learning, renewable energy, material sciences, biochemistry, and other areas. This initiative sought to enable high impact academic research by providing advanced computing platforms, methods, and resources for faculty and research groups. MITS also provided the technical management and support of the SPARK High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) platform to drive research in several areas. Funded through the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR), a funding mechanism under the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) initiative for assisting developing countries in integrating climate resilience
within their development planning and investment agendas. The Computational Material Sciences Group attributed support for an international collaboration with Taiyuan University of Technology and ten peer- reviewed publications to computational work executed on the SPARK HPPC. The use of HPPC is also helping our students to gain invaluable expertise in the field of computational physics. The Faculty of Medical Sciences re-engineered Health Research Resource Unit (HRRU) to the Clinical Translational Research Unit (CTRU) and continues to grow from strength to strength. The Deputy Dean of Research met with all the departments and created an outline of how they should restructure themselves to ensure that research is promoted. The Unit has also been strengthened by the employment of a research manager whose responsibility it is to have overall responsibility for overseeing the research activities, ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget, while also making sure that all research activities adhere to relevant policies and standards. This new employee has a comprehensive understanding of the UWI research processes, experience in all aspects of clinical research including but not limited to regulatory, data management, coordination, fiscal and project management, budget planning and development. The new Unit has had several workshops for the Faculty over the last academic year. In one of these workshops the FMS Research Studies Toolkit – Design to Publication: A Practical Guide was launched. It is designed for use by student researchers and research supervisors as a practical guide to support the development of research work in the FMS. This document is a resource and support mechanism for students pursuing research methods courses offered in the Faculty. Additionally, members of faculty may find this document helpful in
programme for implementation in the 2023–2024 academic year. The Faculty of Humanities and Education ’s strategic focus in the reporting year was on opportunities for students to develop professional competencies. To this end, it introduced a Humanities Internship course. To align with emerging industry demands, the Faculty also engaged in ongoing efforts to develop minors in Digital Humanities and in Entrepreneurship in the Humanities, as well as an Associate of Arts degree for entrants on lower matriculation. For higher degree courses, FHE introduced the DMin Research Project; Issues in Caribbean Media and Communication: Class, Race, Gender, Ethnicity, Media, Communication, and Caribbean Society; and modified its delivery and assessment of the Institutional Translation, Financial Translation, Management of Translation Project courses, as well as The History of the Church in the West Indies. The School of Education changed the nomenclature of the MPhil/PhD in Curriculum Development to MPhil/PhD in Curriculum Instruction. The Faculty of Social Sciences introduced programmes, including its graduate course, Caribbean Cultures and Heritage: Debating Cultural Curatorship, and modified the MSc in Marketing and Data Analytics programme. In the spirit of “One-UWI”, the Department of Geography and Geology embarked on cross-campus teaching collaborations with colleagues from the Department of Geography in St. Augustine. Students from St. Augustine were able to enrol in Mona’s Applied GIS and Remote Sensing Course as part of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) minor. Rajasthan Royals gave preliminary approval for The UWI Faculty of Sport (FSP) to use the Faculty’s body
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