prizes. Three Campuses (Mona, Cave Hill, and St Augustine) competed at The UWI Level for the coveted 3MT Trophy, cash awards and gift certificates. UWI, Mona capped both the first prize and the prize for research output of Library staff. Sponsorship for the prizes and awards came from industry partners.
Post-graduate research courses
Strategic initiatives aimed at driving the Campus’s research agenda were evident in new post-graduate courses, among them: • The Faculty of Science and Technology’s Faculty-wide research methods course titled, Research Method for the Sciences, approved for implementation in September 2024. The course will be a requirement for all new graduate students. • The School of Education’s change of the nomenclature of the MPhil/PhD in Curriculum Development to MPhil/PhD in Curriculum Instruction .
RESEARCH OUTPUT’S ALIGNMENT WITH DEVELOPMENT NEEDS
The research output of the UWI, Mona continues to demonstrate our university’s commitment to addressing pressing development issues in all sectors of our national and regional economies. In the review year, the Faculty of Medical Sciences produced some 211 refereed journal articles, made 208 research presentations at conferences and scientific meetings, published a book and seven book chapters, and submitted 17 technical reports to advance knowledge in medicine. And, contributing to the development of Sports, the most recently established University Faculty of Sport (FSP) published three peer-reviewed articles and more than 40 articles in two leading regional newspaper columns, Sport Matters and Sport Pulse , in the Trinidad Guardian and the Jamaica Gleaner , respectively. A significant accomplishment for the Department of Geography and Geology was getting the Late Cretaceous Rudist Bivalves of the Caribbean Province, Jamaica listed 38th among the First 100 International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) Heritage Sites. More than 250 specialists from 40 nations and ten international organisations participated in the collaborative process of selecting The FIRST100 IUGS sites. The IUG listing comprises geological sites from around the world that are iconic and recognized by the global geoscience community as a reference for their impact in understanding the Earth and its history. The Jamaican site is in the Rio Minho watershed of Clarendon and is the most diverse and thickest limestone succession with abundant rudist bivalves within the Caribbean Faunal Province. The first 100 International IUGS heritage sites are based on scientific classification derived from their geology. Jamaica’s site is within the sites classified under Paleontology. The nomination was prepared by Professor Simon Mitchell (Former Head, Department of Geography and Geology) and Dr Sherene James- Williamson (Head, Department of Geography and Geology). Dr James-Williamson presented the Jamaican site “to the world” at the IUGS Conference hosted in October 2022 in Zumaia (Basque Coast UNESCO Global Geopark), home of one of the most impressive stratigraphic outcrops on earth in Spain.
Communication Improvement efforts
The Mona Library collaborated with the Office of Graduate Studies and Research, EBSCO Information Services, and Pramoneng Engineering for the third year in a row to successfully host The Three Minute Thesis ( 3MT ) Competition: The UWI 75th Anniversary Edition . The 3MT competition is an international programme which challenges the research-degree student 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
The 3MT Advertisement 2023
Ms Allison Facey, winner (front), left to right , Mrs Pauline Nicholas (Librarian), Professor Marcia Roye (Director, GRS), Professor Dale Webber (Principal) and Mrs Jessica Lewis Marshall (Deputy Campus Librarian)
19 UWI MONA ANNUAL REPORT 2022/2023
18 UWI MONA ANNUAL REPORT 2022/2023
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