Research HIGHLIGHTS
Education BRIGHTSTART Project
Visual Arts Mas Mourning
This is a project involving researchers from the Faculty of Science & Technology at the St Augustine and Mona Campuses. It aims to produce a fully functional automated reading tutor, enabling vulnerable young children to access personalised reading instruction. The main objective is to increase the number of young children that are reading before the age of 10 years. The tutor will supplement current reading instruction and provide targeted attention and feedback to underserved children who are not reached because of large class sizes and difficult socioeconomic circumstances. The automated tutor will apply speech technologies to Caribbean accents and language recognition and synthesis and will adapt to select culturally relevant learning materials. Food Production and Security Using Geospatial Data to Predict Crop Production Researchers in the Department of Geomatics Engineering & Land Management are working on a Methodology and Prototype for using Satellite Imagery, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Drones) and Remote Sensing Technology for collecting geospatial data to estimate and forecast crop production levels in Trinidad & Tobago. The project is funded by NAMDEVCO, Ministry of Agriculture, Lands & Fisheries, for TT$920,000, and runs from March 2022 to March 2023.
For those who practise the visual and performing arts, research—especially an exploration of the human condition, takes a different form. At the Department for Creative & Festival Arts (DCFA), Faculty of Humanities & Education, Level II students, representing the various department units, participated in a collaborative project titled “Mas Mourning: Becoming Wreaths.” The project was an undergraduate assignment designed by lecturer, Dr Marsha Pearce in collaboration with Vulgar Fraction, an independent carnival masquerade band led by Mr Robert Young . The project asked students to consider ideas of life and loss during the pandemic and interpret the theme “Becoming Wreaths” through costume and ritual designs. Students addressed Carnival as memorial, and embraced the project as a means of acknowledging and processing the mental and emotional challenges of the pandemic context. The catalogue of student designs can be viewed on online. Conferences and Webinars Conferences, lectures and webinars are vehicles through which universities share the wealth of knowledge and expertise that they are constantly generating. Below are just a few examples of the more than 100 such events held during the review period.
Health and Wellness Research on Respectful Maternity Care
The School of Nursing was awarded a grant to conduct a formative assessment of Respectful Maternity Care (RMC) in Trinidad & Tobago. The grant of US$58,100 is from the multi-country Global Leadership Initiative in collaboration with the Caribbean Regional Midwives Association (CRMA) and Jhpiego.
Second Annual National Health Research Conference of Trinidad & Tobago
The Caribbean Centre for Health Systems Research and Development (CCHSRD) led the planning and hosting
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