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PROMOTION TO THE RANK OF PROFESSOR D uring the 2021/2022 academic year, four of the Campus’ academics rose to the pres- tigious rank of Professor. The four new Professors are from the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Culture, Creative and Performing Arts.
Professor Corin Bailey
Professor of Sociology, Crime & Social Inequality Professor Corin Bailey is a Senior Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) at The UWI Cave Hill Campus, and has been with the Institute for almost fifteen years. He holds a BA in Geography from The UWI as well as a PhD in Social Geography, the latter through the Mona Campus in conjunc- tion with the Queen Mary College, University of London. Professor Bailey began his career with The UWI in 2005, as a Project Coordinator for the South-South Initiative. The programme was a joint effort between The UWI and the University of Cape Town, South Africa, designed to map lessons learned from crime prevention initiatives in these two active spaces. Professor Bailey is a Sociologist, who has produced multi-disciplinary cutting-edge work on crime and violence. His body of scholarship includes one authored book, two co-authored, and one co-edited book. In addition, he has written three book chapters, 17 refereed journal articles, one monograph, 13 technical reports, 29 papers presented at academic conferences and nine in response to invitations to present at distinguished academic meetings. His research work targets transformation through tech- nical assistance and policy advice, and his scholarship has received regional and international attention. Professor Bailey has been interviewed by the BBC World Service as well as regional media such as the Barbados Nation news- paper and the Jamaica Gleaner. He won the UNICEF Award for Best UNICEF Project in 2010, he was a member of the 2016 research team which won the Cave Hill Campus’ School for Graduate Studies and Research Award for Best Applied Research, he won the Principal’s 2020 Award for
Professor Corin Bailey
Excellence in Academic Research and he has earned several research grants. Professor Bailey has supervised the theses of three students for the completion of their PhDs and one MPhil student and has examined three theses for PhD students as external examiner. He is the current Editor of Caribbean Journal of Criminology, and has completed peer reviews for several professional journals. He currently chairs the SALISES Seminar Series and Policy Forum—one of the many public fora, seminars, conferences, symposia and other on crime and violence that he has organised. Professor Bailey was also a member of the Cave Hill Campus committee for Institutional Accreditation and the reaccred- itation steering committee. He is the current Officer in Charge of the University’s Institute of Criminal Justice and
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES CAVE HILL CAMPUS ANNUAL REPORT TO COUNCIL 2021/2022
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