Research HIGHLIGHTS
Research Funding The St Augustine Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (STACIE) supports research on the Campus by sourcing project funding and facilitating the development and management of Intellectual Property (IP). STACIE also serves as the portal to UWI Ventures Limited (UVL), a UWI subsidiary that, among other things, serves as a holding company for UWI spinoff companies. Research at the Campus is funded mainly through grants, consultancies, and industry-contracted research, as well as special funds such as: · The UWI/Trinidad & Tobago Research & Development Impact Fund (RDI Fund) that was established in 2012 to fund high-impact projects of a three-to-five-year duration. Although no longer funded by the Government, the RDI Fund continues to attract counterpart funding for projects a decade later. · The UWI St Augustine (UWISTA) Innovation and Technology Transfer (ITT) Fund provides grant funding to UWI staff and students to accelerate the development of intellectual property (IP).
Administrative and Professional members of staff, and research students of the Campus. During the review period, 21 staff grants were approved in the sum of TT$ 945,592.63. Thirty-four student grants were approved over the same period, totalling TT$315,781.91. The Campus Libraries Libraries are important to the research process, providing physical and virtual spaces where the knowledge created can be stored, collated, archived and accessed. The network of campus libraries continued to deliver services virtually and remotely for a greater part of the academic year, in accordance with national and campus COVID-19 protocols. For instance, library orientation, and the annual thesis bootcamp were once again held virtually, with the latter attracting 499 registrants—just 18 fewer than the previous year. The online chat reference enquiry service, LibChat was expanded during the academic year to include a wider pool of trained operators and library assistants and the service hours were also extended to 8:00 p.m. There were, however, fewer chats coming into the system compared to the previous year, falling from 1,319 to 921. The Alma Jordan Library (AJL) facilitated loans of electronic devices and print materials through a base set up at the Sir Arthur Lewis Hall of Residence, not far from the main campus, in August 2021. The service was then returned onsite at the library on the main campus in April 2022. Special Collections The number of Special Collections held at the Alma Jordan Library continued to grow with the addition of the following:
STACIE also helps researchers access external funding through grants and consultancies.
In the Campus’s financial reporting, research funding, whether derived from international, regional, or national entities - public and private - is listed under “Special Projects”. Special projects income for 2022 was TT$52.2 million - up TT$6.7 over the previous year. The School for Graduate Studies & Research oversees the administration of the Campus Research & Publication (CR&P) Fund. This fund is open to full-time Academic and Senior
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