VICE-CHANCELLOR’S REPORT TO COUNCIL 2022—2023
MONA CAMPUS REPORT
participation in various events and working groups related to i nternational migration and development, including attending stakeholder engagement sessions and stocktaking meetings organized by the International Organization for Migration, as well as participating in discussions on climate mobility and 2023 World Development Report (Caribbean Background Paper on Migration ); in the field of democracy research , serving as country experts for the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project, co-hosted by the University of Gothenburg and University of Notre Dame. The V-Dem project is a new approach to the conceptualization and measurement of democracy and is one of the largest social science research-oriented data collection programmes; in the field of criminal justice and corrections serving, as Technical Secretary and Chair of the Juvenile Working Group for The Bureau of Standards Jamaica’s Correctional Services Standards Technical Committee. Additionally, Fellows participated in webinars, meetings and expert panels such as the Howard League for Penal Reform and the International Corrections and Prisons Association Delphi Panel.
two lectures – a lecture on the Free and Open International Cooperation (FOIC) Framework delivered by Mr. So Umezaki, Director, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO), and a lecture on Free and Open Indo-Pacific delivered by Dr. Masami Ishida, Professor in the Department of International Development Studies at the Bioresource College at the Nihon University in Japan. • Partnership with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Jamaica Office in hosting two lectures — one on “Transformation of Global Health Governance and Japan’s Role in It” delivered by Professor Kayo Takuma from Tokyo Metropolitan University, and the other, “Educational Development in Modernization in Japan” delivered by Dr. Nobuko Kayashima, Senior Research Adviser at Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development of JICA. • The Mona School of Business and Management initiated a partnership with the Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) for final projects with graduate students. • Researchers within the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work finalized and validated a data appreciation tool for UNFPA Data Appreciation Project. • Research Fellows at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) played a significant role: • in the field of information and communication technologies in coordinating the publication of the proceedings of the AIS SIG GlobDev 2022 Workshop on ICTs and Global Development;
The Mona Library collaborated with the Office of Graduate Studies and Research and industry partnered with EBSCO Information Services and Pramoneng Engineering for the third year in a row to successfully host The Three Minute Thesis Competition: The UWI 75th Anniversary Edition. The 3MT competition is an international programme which challenges research degree students to effectively explain their dissertation/ thesis and its significance to a non-specialist audience in three minutes. The aim is to increase researchers’ academic, presentation, and research communication skills. In addition to the opportunities to promote their research project to a wider community and the academic benefits, the competitors benefited from awards and monetary prizes. Three Campuses (Mona, Cave Hill and St. Augustine) competed at The UWI Level for the coveted 3MT Trophy, cash awards and gift certificates. Mona copped both the first prize and the prize for research output of Library staff. The UWI 75th Anniversary Principal’s Research Awards Ceremony, revived after a three-year hiatus, recognized the research output of Library staff. Initiatives to increase and improve Academic/ Industry Research Partnerships The Faculty of Social Sciences increased and improved academic/industry research partnerships and collaborations through active engagements with various organizations and groups, among these: • The Department of Economics’ collaboration with the Ministry of Finance and the Public Sector to establishment a Fiscal Research Centre/Institute within the Department of Economics with the GOJ promised endowment of $200,000,000. • The Department of Government Partnership with the Embassy of Japan in Jamaica in hosting
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Restoring Financial Health to The UWI
All Departments and Faculties reviewed their operations with a view to reducing operating costs. Notably, the Faculty of Medical Sciences (FMS) saw a significant scaling down of associate lecturers at the affiliated sites, which addressed the untenable ratios of associate lecturers: students to a more acceptable
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