The UWI Mona Campus' Annual Departmental Reports 2022_2023

Presentation of Departmental Reports to The UWI Mona Campus Council for the academic year ending July 31, 2023

DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS 2022–2023 REPORT TO CAMPUS COUNCIL, MONA AND TO COUNCIL FOR YEAR ENDING JULY 31, 2023

DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS 2022–2023

REPORT TO CAMPUS COUNCIL, MONA AND TO COUNCIL FOR YEAR ENDING JULY 31, 2023

Published 2024 by Office of the Campus Registrar The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus Managing Editor: Anthia Muirhead Cover and text layout: Robert Harris Set in Minion Pro 11.2/15 x 27

Our Mission

TO ADVANCE LEARNING, CREATE KNOWLEDGE AND FOSTER INNOVATION FOR THE POSITIVE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CARIBBEAN AND THE WIDER WORLD.

Our Vision AN EXCELLENT GLOBAL UNIVERSITY ROOTED IN THE CARIBBEAN

Our Strategic Pillars ACCESS | ALIGNMENT | AGILITY

Contents

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING / 1 Dean’s Overview....................................................................................................2 FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND EDUCATION / 11 Dean’s Overview....................................................................................................12 Caribbean School of Media and Communication (CARIMAC).....................25 Department of History and Archaeology...........................................................35 Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy....................................48 Department of Library and Information Studies..............................................74 Department of Literatures in English.................................................................84 Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.........................................96 School of Education...............................................................................................115 Institute of Caribbean Studies and Reggae Studies...........................................125 FACULTY OF LAW / 137 Dean’s Overview....................................................................................................138 FACULTY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES / 143 Dean’s Overview....................................................................................................144 Department of Basic Medical Sciences...............................................................168 Department of Child and Adolescent Health....................................................188 Department of Community Health and Psychiatry.........................................203 Department of Microbiology...............................................................................213 Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology.........................................................220 Department of Pathology.....................................................................................226 Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anaesthesia & Intensive Care.................233 UWI School of Nursing (UWISON)...................................................................244 FACULTY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY / 253 Dean’s Overview....................................................................................................254 Department of Chemistry....................................................................................265

CONTENTS

Department of Computing...................................................................................277 Department of Geography & Geology................................................................288 Department of Life Sciences.................................................................................305 Department of Mathematics................................................................................316 Department of Physics..........................................................................................328 The Biotechnology Centre....................................................................................342 Natural Products Institute....................................................................................354 The Earthquake Unit.............................................................................................363 FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES / 377 Dean’s Overview....................................................................................................378 Department of Economics....................................................................................390 Department of Government.................................................................................400 Department of Sociology, Psychology & Social Work......................................406 Mona School of Business & Management..........................................................430 Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social & Economic Studies................................443 FACULTY OF SPORT / 451 Dean’s Overview....................................................................................................452 Mona Academy of Sport.......................................................................................458 INSTITUTES & RESEARCH CENTRES / 463 The Caribbean Institute for Health Research (formerly TMRI)......................464 Confucius Institute................................................................................................478 Institute for Gender & Development Studies (MCU).......................................481 Institute for Gender & Development Studies (RCO).........................................488 International Centre for Environmental & Nuclear Sciences..........................500 Mona Ageing and Wellness Centre.....................................................................507 MONA WESTERN JAMAICA CAMPUS / 517 Overview................................................................................................................. 518 THE LIBRARY, MONA / 525 Overview................................................................................................................. 526

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING Mona Year ending July 31, 2023

DR. ADRIAN LAWRENCE PH.D., M.SC., B.SC., P.E. DEAN

Dean’s Overview

T he 2022–2023 Academic Year for the Faculty of Engineering (FOE) marked the return, for the first time since the onset of Covid-19, of full face-to face delivery of lectures, laboratory exercises and practical components of courses and saw the Faculty of Engineering (FOE) continue to effect changes to the curricula of all four of its Bachelor of Science degree programmes as a part of the ongoing endeavour to continuously assess and improve course content, remain in step with industry standards, bring them in alignment with recommendations from international accreditors ABET, while maintaining the teaching and learning objectives of the Faculty. The FOE’s intent to create a world class teaching and research facility; forging strong synergies with our industrial and commercial partners is still in focus. The Faculty’s outreach and growing impact in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean region resulted in an increase in the total number of applications to the Faculty in Academic Year 2022/2023 with a total of 420 applicants versus 353 in Year 2021/2022, resulting in a 1.71% increase in the total number of new students registered when compared to the Academic Year 2021/2022. There was, however, an 11.3% reduction in the number of returning students which resulted in the total registration in the Faculty moving from three hundred and twelve (312) students in 2021/2022 to two hundred and ninety two (292) students in 2022/2023 (-6.41%). As in previous years, the Civil Engineering degree programme registered the highest number of new students of all the degree programmes. Table 1 shows a breakdown of total student registration by programme as well as a breakdown of the total registrations in terms of new students versus returning students.

Table 1: Breakdown of Student Registration

Preliminary Engineering Biomedical Engineering

47 52

Civil Engineering

107

Electrical Power Engineering

37 49

Electronics Engineering

New students

119 173 292

Returning Students Total in Programme

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The Faculty Team – administrative, technical and support staff – continued to work in tandem with lecturers to ensure that the student experience remained at a high and superior standard to that of most other institutions, and remain at the forefront in propelling growth, development and innovation in the Caribbean and the world. The following accomplishments mirrored the guiding pillars of the University.

ACCESS

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

Prizes Awarded to Students The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information continues to make the schol- arships available to Engineering students. This year, Ms. Sasha Gay-Wright, Dr. Roxann Stennett-Brown, Dr. DaVaugh Sanderson and Dr. Omar Thomas served on the panel of interviewers for the MathScience TVET Education & Engineer- ing (MSTVETT) Scholarship. Thirty-six (36) engineering students were awarded full tuition scholarships which represents a 100% increase over the eighteen (18) scholarships awarded to engineering students in Academic Year 2022/2023. Table 2 shows the distribution of the 2023/2024 awardees by programme most recent list of the number of awardees by programme is shown below:

Table 2: MSTVETT Scholarships Awarded to the Faculty of Engineering

Number of new students receiving scholarships

Programme of choice

Biomedical Engineering

Civil Engineering

Electrical Power Engineering

Electronics Engineering

Preliminary Engineering

TOTAL

Outreach-Open Day The Faculty of Engineering hosted its Open day on Thursday, March 30, 2023. Over 36 schools from across Jamaica were invited to participate and the event was adver- tised on both The UWI Mona and the Faculty of Engineering Social Media pages.

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The day started with a morning information session with over 100 students from Calabar, Wolmer’s High School for Boys, Wolmer’s High School for Girls, Meadow- brook High, Queens High, and Waterford High in attendance. Presentations were made by the Dean, Dr. Adrian Lawrence, Deputy Deans Dr. Omar Thomas, Dr. Roxann Stennett-Brown, Dr. Lindon Falconer, and Head of Biomedical Engineer- ing Ms. Sasha-Gay Wright. Prizes were awarded to participants who successfully answered questions asked about the presentations. Participants were broken down into groups to facilitate tours of the Electronics and Civil Engineering Laborato- ries, which were staggered along with lunch time, to allow everyone an opportu- nity to see the labs and ask questions. Engineering Classroom B was transformed into an Exhibit Hall, and the visitors were invited in to view the exhibits and demonstrations which were manned and managed by Engineering students. After a three year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the return of Engineering Open Day proved to be quite successful with the 2023 staging being our largest in terms of attendance. High Schools Visits The Faculty’s Outreach Team led by Dr. Omar Thomas, joined the Mona Campus’ Marketing Recruitment and Communications Team as it conducted several high school visits during the academic year. All school visits were conducted face-to-face. Some of the schools visited were: St. Andrew High School (grade 13), Wolmer’s High School for Girls (grades 12 & 13), St. George’s College, Kingston College, and Immaculate Conception High School.

TEACHING AND LEARNING

Taught Graduate Degrees The Faculty’s taught master’s degree, the M.Sc. Engineering and Management, entered its second year in Academic Year 2022/2023 with four (4) new students in addition to three returning students enrolled. The programme, which is delivered in collaboration with the Mona School of Business and Management offers practical and theoretical knowledge of modern engineering, along with a solid grounding in management techniques and their application to the field of engineering. The students sat courses in Engineering Project Management, Business Analytics, Financial & Managerial Accounting, Global Supply Chain Management, Quantitative Methods and Statistical Techniques, Strategic Human Resource Management, and discipline specific courses Digital Signal Processing, Advanced Structural Engineering, and Advanced Transportation.

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Summer School The Faculty of Engineering offered and delivered its second Summer School pro- gramme from May 29, 2023 to July 7, 2023. The courses available to the students were ENGR0120 Preliminary Engineering Mathematics I, ENGR0220 Preliminary Engineering Mathematics II, ENGR1180 Engineering Mathematics I, ENGM1180 Mathematics for Engineers I, ENGM1280 Mathematics for Engineers II, MATH2230 Engineering Mathematics II and ENGM2280 Engineering Statistics. International Accreditation The Faculty of Engineering, Mona, submitted the Self-Study document for the Electronics Engineering Program on July 2, 2023, for the ABET reaccreditation. The self-study document contains detailed information on how the Electronics Engineering Program satisfies the eight ABET accreditation criteria. The Criteria are: • Criterion 1. Students • Criterion 2. Program Educational Objectives • Criterion 3. Student Outcomes • Criterion 4. Continuous Improvement • Criterion 5. Curriculum

• Criterion 6. Faculty • Criterion 7. Facilities • Criterion 8. Institutional Support

ABET evaluators initially planned to conduct a face-to-face site visit from Novem- ber 12–14, 2023. However, after consultation with the USA Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica, the ABET team decided to conduct a virtual visit. All requested data will be available on a web portal to accommodate this virtual visit. The Electronics Engineering Programme is the only ABET-accredited programme in the Faculty of Engineering. The faculty was granted this accreditation in 2018. All the other programmes in the Faculty of Engineering are structured to operate using ABET quality assurance measures. Applications will be made to seek ABET accreditation for the other programs over the next two years. Faculty Academic Quality Assurance In an effort to improve our teaching and learning outcomes, three courses were submitted to the Faculty’s Academic Quality Assurance Committee (FAQAC) and reviewed and corrected. Each course has been submitted for cross-campus approval from St Augustine, also feedback from both CETL and OOL. These are as follows:

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• CENG 1203 – Intro to Geotechnics • CENG 2202 – Hydrology & Water Resource Engineering • CENG 1203 – Intro to Geotechnics All courses were approved on April 17, 2023.

ALIGNMENT

RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

Graduate Research Degrees In Academic Year 2022/2023, there were four (4) research focused graduate students enrolled in the Faculty of Engineering. One (1) student was pursuing a PhD and two (2) students were enrolled in MPhil programmes. The students’ area of research spanned the fields of Biomedical, Civil Engineering, Electronics and Computer Engineering, and Transportation Engineering. Students attended a total of thirteen (13) seminars for the 2022/2023 academic year. These presentations exposed graduate students to the varying research meth- odologies employed by lectures, and were introduced in an effort to broaden the scope of knowledge exchange within the Faculty which was intended to enhance the quality of the research output of the Faculty. Climate Change and Global Health Conference 2022 Dr. Roxann Stennett-Brown was invited to attend the Climate Change and Global Health Conference 2022, from November 30 to December 2, 2022, at the FIU Koven’s Convention Center, Miami, Florida. This was organized by The Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work at the Florida International University (FIU), in partnership with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Baylor College School of Tropical Medicine and the University of Wisconsin. Electric Vehicle Expo The Faculty of Engineering was one of the key stakeholders for the Electric Vehicle Expo held on The University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona Campus on November 25, 2022. This event was planned and executed by the Caribbean Centre for Renew- able Energy & Energy Efficiency (CCREE) with support from The UWI Mona as partners. For the event, Flash Motors Company donated, installed and commissioned an Electric Charging Station on the UWI Mona Campus. This donation provides significant opportunities for the university’s research and development as well as

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its promotion in the use of cleaner energy as a part of the global push to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases. The Faculty of Engineering has negotiated for depersonalized data collected from the proposed electric charger to be made available to the university, for the purpose of research. The electric charging station can also be configured to serve as an income generator for the campus. The electric charger is located outside The UWI Administration building at the centre of the campus. Published Research Published research from faculty members either addressed or were geared towards finding solutions to real problems. Publications from Faculty members were as follows: • Ellis, L.A., Leon, L.P., and Charran, A.V. (2023), “Investigating the use of Recycled Concrete Aggregates in the Construction of Structural Beams”, West Indian Journal of Engineering , Vol. 45, No. 2, January 2023, pp. 4–13; https://doi.org/10.47412/XRHG1947. • Leon, L.P., Ellis, L.A., Martin, H.H., and Fermin, B. (2023), “Dominating Fac- tors of Road Failures: Perceptions of Key Stakeholders in the Small Island Developing State of Trinidad and Tobago”, West Indian Journal of Engineering , Vol. 45, No. 2, January 2023, pp. 68–76; https://doi.org/10.47412/MGBB4897. • Ellis, L. A. and A. McPherson (2023), “Impacts of COVID-19 on project con- straints and contracts: housing development projects in Jamaica”, International LADR Workshop 2023. October 24–27, 2023 @ Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.

NATIONAL ENGAGEMENT AND OUTREACH

Outreach – August Town Youths The Faculty of Engineering hosted nine (9) youths from the August Town com- munity. Dr. Omar Thomas gave them the overall tour of the facilities. The boys’ mentors, Dr. Swane Gardener, from Kairos Network Ltd., and our Dr. Roxann Stennett-Brown were integral in facilitating this outreach activity. The boys were informed about different disciplines of engineering and were given tours of the Civil and Electronics & Electrical Power Engineering Laboratories. Thanks to our lab technician, Mr. Dennis Douglas, who gave them a tour of the Civil Engineering labs and performed laboratory demonstrations for the boys.

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AGILITY

REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION

UWI – UF Collaboration In September 2022, the Faculty of Engineering (FoE) sent off their first transfer student to the University of Florida under the UWI-UF collaboration. After com- pleting two (2) years in our Electronics programme in our Faculty, Jordan Hayden successfully transferred to the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida (UF) to pursue a B.Sc. Degree in Aerospace Engineering under the UWI – UF Collaboration. Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) Collaboration Mission Dr. Thomas was selected to participate in the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) Collaboration Mission. As a selected delegate, he travelled with the mission to British Columbia (Victoria, Vancouver, Prince George) and Ontario (Hamilton, Guelph, Toronto) from November 6–12, 2022, and attended the CBIE’s Annual Conference, which took place in Toronto from November 13 to 16, 2022. The Collaboration Mission event is sponsored by Global Affairs Canada and orga- nized by the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE). During the trip, Dr. Thomas met with key persons from other institutions with the hope to establish collaborations with their institutions. The theme of the mission was “AI & Innovation”. UPENN Collaboration 2022–2023 saw the renewal of the Faculty of Engineering’s collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania and the return of physical student interaction. A total of ten (10) second-year Biomedical Engineering students were selected to participate in the UPENN Collaboration course ENG 1400 which was offered in Semester 2. There were eight (8) Jamaican based projects, and the students (UWI/UPENN) were required to create working prototypes of their solutions to the diagnosed patient issues. Projects were assigned to groups that comprised a mix of both UPENN and UWI students. The Mona students attended classes presented by UPENN Faculty in real-time via zoom or asynchronously via access to the recordings. Five (5) UWI faculty were involved in this collaboration. Course Coordinator Sasha-Gay Wright, stakeholder for one of the projects, Dr. Davaugh Sanderson; and teaching assistants Danelle Julal, Christina Douglas and Paul Wilson.

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Visit to Binghamton University A Faculty of Engineering delegation led by the dean, Dr. Adrian Lawrence visited Binghamton University on January 25–26th 2023. Included on the team were Dr. Lindon Falconer, Head of Programme, Electronics Engineering, and Ms. Sasha- Gay Wright, Head of Programme, Biomedical Engineering. The following areas of collaboration were discussed for the: • Faculty visits and collaboration for research • Students to have access to online courses (up to 12 credits) delivered by Bing- hamton University • Delivery of course modules from BU faculty • A possible 2+2 program • Collaborative student projects • Assistance in establishing a Fabrication lab for prototype development • Seminar talks delivered by both UWI and BU faculty

• Virtual attendance to BU Research days • Micro-credential courses for UWI students.

FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND EDUCATION Mona Year ending July 31, 2023

PROFESSOR SILVIA KOUWENBERG BA., MA., PHD. UNIV. AMSTERDAM DEAN

Dean’s Overview

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR The Faculty of Humanities and Education is a Faculty of eight departments and 3 affiliate institutions, which together offer over 50 undergraduate programmes (35 B.A., 11 B.Ed., 2 B.F.A., 1 Diploma, 2 Licentiates) and 50 postgraduate programmes (23 M.A., 14 M.Ed., 10 M.Phil. & Ph.D., 2 Diplomas, 1 D.Ed.). This is by far the broadest range of programmes offered by Faculties of Humanities & Education across the three landed campuses of The University of the West Indies. These programmes returned to the classroom in the 2022/23 academic year. After several years of online learning and teaching, this much anticipated change caused unanticipated levels of anxiety on the part of both staff and students. To mitigate against continuing fear of infection, staff were mandated to require the use of facemasks in their classrooms and offices, hand sanitizing stations were placed around the Faculty, and the use of fans and open windows was encouraged to allow for good air circulation. At the time of this writing, this all seems like a distant memory. But while the fear of infection dissipated over the course of the year, social anxieties came to the fore, prompting the hosting of several events focusing on wellness and mental health. The return to the classroom also meant the possibility of a return to in-person events. Thus, signature Faculty events were held either in-person or in hybrid mode, including: Signature event Title Date

Celebrating Students’ Academic Excellence

Annual Awards Ceremony

10 November 2022

Inaugural Lecture, Professor Loraine Cook of the School of Education Inaugural Lecture, Professor Canute Thompson of the School of Education Annual Faculty Distinguished Lecture, with keynote speaker Professor Shelome Gooden of the University of Pittsburgh Annual Research Symposium, launch of the Faculty’s first Research Index, and Photovoice Research Exhibition

Differences in the classroom: Deeper than you think or see Reimaginative leadership: Its implicatons for, and applications to (educational) policymaking and the role of the University Beyond Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Lessons from Linguistics

8 December 2022

11 May 2023

26 April 2023

Rooted, Ready & Rising through Research in Humanities and Education

2 June 2023

DEAN’S OVERVIEW

The FHE management team for the 2022–2023 academic year was constituted as shown below: Deputy Deans Deputy Dean Education Dr. Therese Ferguson Deputy Dean Humanities Dr. Stanley Griffin Deputy Dean Marketing & Resource Mobilisation Dr. Sonjah Stanley-Niaah Deputy Dean Postgrad Dr. Carmel Roofe Heads and Directors Department of History & Archeology (DOHA) Prof. James Robertson Department of Language, Linguistics & Philosophy (DLLP) Dr. Vivette Milson-Whyte Department of Library & Information Studies (DLIS) Dr. Rosemarie Heath Department of Literatures in English (DLIE) Dr. Rachel Moseley-Wood Department of Modern Languages & Literatures (DMLL) Dr. Teresa Villoria Nolla Caribbean School of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) Dr. Livingston White School of Education (SOE) Dr. Marcia Rainford Institute of Caribbean Studies (ICS) Dr. Dave Gosse Faculty Committee Chairs Academic Quality Assurance Committee Dr. Sharon Bramwell-Lalor Ethics Prof. Loraine Cook Much appreciation is owed to outgoing team members Deputy Dean Dr. Nicole Plummer, Heads Dr. Enrique Okenve (DOHA), Professor Paulette Ramsay (DMLL), and Dr. Aisha Spencer (Acting, DLIE). Noteworthy is the fact that Professor James Robertson accepted the responsibility to lead the Department of History and Archae- ology in his final year before retirement with much enthusiasm. All department Heads / Directors struggled with understaffing and with the consequences of VMC decisions, which made departments over-reliant on adjuncts where filling of open positions was disallowed, or forced the overburdening of existing staff where the hiring of adjuncts for some (core) courses was disallowed, claiming that these were too small to be taught. While the rationale behind vacancy monitoring is understood, the manner in which the committee’s mandate was handled, including what appeared like a constant resetting of the goal posts, contributed to high stress levels and feelings that the Campus administration was intent on creating a hostile environment for academics. Discussions continued from the preceding academic year on general questions of the Faculty’s structure, programmes, and administrative and academic function- ing. The discussions noted the increasing interdisciplinarity of taught programmes which no longer strictly belong in any one department; the severe understaffing of all departments, exacerbated by the loss of experienced colleagues through

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resignations and retirements and the withholding of approvals to refill positions; the declining interest on the part of applicants for our programmes despite their marketability and connections with industry; and other key considerations. A consensus grew on the need to embrace radical change so as to be able to rebrand FHE with a focus on agility and interdisciplinarity. The expectation is that this process will be articulated in more detail in the 2023/2024 academic year.

ACCESS

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT SUPPORT The Faculty hosted its Undergraduate Orientation session for new students at the start of the academic year in hybrid modality, under the theme ‘Ready for an A.C.E. Year: Academics, Community, Excellence’. An additional 50 students joined our programmes in January, and a well-attended on-line orientation was held to facilitate their entry into the institution. Throughout the year, departments engaged their students in workshops focusing on academic development and success. As part of the Faculty’s strategic focus on opportunities for students to develop professional competencies, a Humanities Internship course HUMN3100 was intro- duced. The course requires a minimum two-week work placement and includes career development seminars. It is required for students in the DLIE’s B.A. Writing, Literature and Publishing, but is open also to students in other programmes which do not already include this opportunity and where staff are able to facilitate the supervision of the placement. The DLIE’s expansion into the publishing world has also formed a context for collaborations with publishers from Canada and the UK who facilitated internships, workshops, and public events. The Faculty is also engaged in ongoing efforts to develop minors in Digital Human- ities and in Entrepreneurship in the Humanities, as well as an Associate of Arts degree for entrants on lower matriculation. The constraints imposed by the response to the pandemic having been lifted, sev- eral departments took the opportunity to reintroduce field trips and in-person events. For instance, students in the Linguistics programmes had the opportunity to join a field trip to Moore Town, and organised the 2023 Undergraduate Linguis- tics Research Conference on “60 years of the King’s English”; and CARIMAC’s Journalism students showcased their professional skills by organising the annual World Television Day with a panel on “Local Content, International Value” and the DigiTimes panel on “Journalists, Activists and the People”, while the work of Film Production and Animation students was showcased in a private screening at Palace Cineplex.

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Finally, it is to be noted that the requirement for students to sit the English Language Proficiency Test was abolished for students entering the institution with a 3 in CSEC English A. These students are now able to register directly in the year-long academic literacies course ‘Critical reading and writing in the disciplines’ (FOUN1019). This is intended to ensure that the students who need it most will access their academic literacies course early, thus helping them to develop the abilities for success in academic reading and writing. AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE The Faculty’s Annual Awards Ceremony which recognizes students’ academic excellence in the preceding academic year was held 10 November 2022, with Ms Dahlia Harris as featured motivational speaker. Apart from departmental prizes awarded to undergraduate students (80 awards) and graduate students (24 awards), the following Faculty Prizes and Dean’s Awards for Excellence recognized students across the Faculty:

Level I awards for the 2021/2022 academic year Outstanding Academic Performance at Level I:

Britanya Barrett Zori Blake Courteney Lewis Eby Nelson Blaire Santos Davin Stewart

Mokimon Prize, awarded to the top part-time student at level I:

Dean’s Award for Excellence at level I:

Blaire Santos (Humanities) Kevan Williams (Education)

Level II awards for the 2021/2022 academic year Outstanding Academic Performance at Level II:

Melissa Boyne Celine Campbell Asmahani-Aza Cooke Shadaia Francis Gregory Slater

Dean’s Award for Excellence at Level II:

Asmahani-Aza Cooke (Humanities) Georgia Green (Education)

Level III awards for the 2021/2022 academic year

Amani Cooke (Humanities) Suzanne Small (Education)

Dean’s Award for Excellence at Level III:

Postgraduate awards for the 2021/2022 academic year Dean’s Award for Excellence, Postgraduate Diploma in Education: Dean’s Award for Excellence, Doctor of Philosophy with High Commendation:

Mario Goulbourne

Dr. Cynthia Allen Pearson Dr. Kishi Anderson Leachman

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QUALITY ASSURANCE REVIEWS A Quality Assurance Review (QAR) of the Asian language programme (Chinese, Japanese) offered in the DMLL found that an investment is needed to ensure that there is sufficient full-time core staff to maintain programme continuity and reduce the reliance on external partners to ensure continuity. Useful recommendations were made also regarding the content and pace of courses, and the possibility of a cross-disciplinary Asian Studies programme. Two departments presented Action Plans in response to QARs of the preceding year. The DMLL presented its Action Plan in response to the QAR of the French and Spanish programmes, including actions to improve academic advising, and to develop French and Spanish courses focusing on professional needs, i.a. The DLLP presented its response to the QAR of the Linguistics programme, which included many recommendations pertaining to teaching & learning, research & publication, and outreach. Funding and limited staff are major constraining factors in developing an adequate action plan. Two departments, the Department of Literatures in English and the Philosophy Section of the Department of Language, Linguistics & Philosophy, presented fol- low-up reports on their 2022 action plans prepared in response to QARs conducted in the preceding year. Both noted as significant challenges the pressure to undertake course and programme development without adequate resources. The DLIE had suffered the loss of three staff members who resigned during the 2021/22 academic year, leaving only three tenure-track academics, while the Philosophy Section was facing the imminent loss of two staff members (retirement and resignation), leaving only one experienced academic for the 2023/24 academic year. THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT A/C units that had been tested and found working before the start of the 2022– 2023 academic year, failed as soon as classes began, forcing adaptations including rescheduling of classes and even temporarily moving some classes back to the on-line modality. The Faculty is deeply grateful to a donation from the Joint Board of Teaching Education which allowed for some units to be replaced and normal operations to resume. Another important improvement came when well needed repairs were carried out by the Estate Management Department to the roofs of sev- eral buildings housing offices and classrooms where significant leaks had damaged furniture and equipment over time. SUPPORTING POSTGRADUATE STUDENT SUCCESS The Faculty hosted its welcome and induction ceremony for new graduate students in hybrid mode on Friday 2 September 2022. Throughout the year, several sessions

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were held on Zoom to support the work of postgraduate research students and that of their supervisors and administrators in the departments, including an information session on M.Phil. upgrade procedures, doctoral examination, and the process flow for course and programme proposals; a research seminar entitled “Connecting Philosophy with Research Production”, by Prof. Lawrence Bamikole, Professor of Value Philosophy from the Department of Language Linguistics and Philosophy; a session focussing on strategies for reading/engaging with scholarly texts, by the Deputy Dean for Graduate Matters. An M.Phil./Ph.D. taskforce was constituted for the academic year with leadership drawn from among postgraduate students in different departments. Activities of the task force included a session “Sip and Write: The Literature Review” on 4 November 2022, facilitated by Dr. Aisha Spencer of the School of Education, which was attended by approximately 30 students; the launch of a new initiative entitled “Ignite Sessions: Research in Progress”, to create a space for research students to meet to offer peer support, critique, and share ideas; and the creation of a WhatsApp group to facilitate communication among students. The Faculty’s first Postgraduate Networking Cocktail Event was held 25 Novem- ber 2022 under the theme “The Limitless Road to Success”, with speakers Natalee Murray, health and wellness coach, and Jeffrey Azan, transformational speaker and businessman. At the event, postgraduate students were highlighted who had published papers, presented at conferences, and upgraded their registration to PhD during the Academic Year 2021–2022. Three FHE postgraduate students received scholarship awards for the 2022/23 academic year: Awardee Degree programme Margaret Downer-Messias Ph.D. Theology Brittany Forsyth M.Phil. Communication Studies Shanique Taylor M.Phil. Linguistics Several students were successful in their doctoral examinations: • Dr. Kirt Henry, Ph.D. Cultural Studies, with High Commendation; thesis enti- tled “Spiritual Assemblages: Revival, Dress, Ritual and Power”. • Dr. Kamla Anderson, Ph.D. Education, with High Commendation; thesis enti- tled “Examining ICT integration in the Grade Seven curriculum of Mathe- matics, English Language, and Integrated Science at three secondary schools in Kingston & St.Andrew”. • Dr. Jacqueline Chen, Ph.D. Teacher Education; thesis entitled “An exploration of the lived first year experiences of five early childhood teachers in Jamaica: A phenomenological study”.

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• Dr. Keilah Mills, Ph.D. Literatures in English, with High Commendation; thesis entitled “The Politics and Poetics of Caribbean Ecologies in Selected Texts by Black Women Writers”. That the return to the classroom was accompanied by a requirement to cease online teaching was problematic for some students, was nowhere clearer than for postgraduate students. Many struggled or simply found themselves unable to continue to combine work and study. Several departments sought approvals for online delivery and assessment of postgraduate courses. This included courses in the M.A. Translation (French & Spanish), the Master’s in Librarianship, and some Education courses. Unfortunately, these requests were not all met with approval, forcing students in locations across and even outside the region to make costly arrangements for proctoring and couriering of scripts, and for departments to absorb some of these expenses. It is imperative that these restrictions be addressed as we increase the regional and even global reach of our programmes.

ALIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL OUTREACH The School of Education continued to strongly support teachers’ professional devel- opment at all levels of the educational system, for instance with workshops for Primary Educators held at World Teachers’ Day, 5 October 2022, on differentiating instruction, numeracy teaching, school librarianship, spelling instruction, and technological infusion in the classroom; a workshop on Inquiry-based Teaching in the Jamaican Mathematics Classroom, 13 April 2023, for primary and secondary mathematics teachers; the launch of a TVET Blended Challenge under the theme “Building resilience for sustainable development in disruptive times” and of Incep- tion Workshops for TVET educators as part of the 2023 Conference on TVET in the Caribbean. SOE also continued its collaboration with the Faculty of Science and Technology under the “Building Out Our Stem Teachers” scholarship programme, which aims to incentivize mathematics and science students to become teachers. Another department which sought to support teachers was the Institute of Carib- bean Studies which organized a Workshop on Culture and Violence in Schools on 28 April 2023. The Department of Library and Information Studies convened a Leaders Roundtable for heads of programmes, memory and information institutions, and chairs of pro- fessional associations for the purpose of building partnerships and strengthening networks on 20 October 2022. DLIS with the UWI Mona Library also organised a

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Research Forum on 4 May 2023 on ‘Data security and information services in the 21st century: exploring theory and best practice’, with keynote speaker Dr Patrick Anglin, University Data Protection Officer. In collaboration with the GO School for Information, DLIS offered a three-day income-generating summer course on “AI in information services: implications, applications and added value”. Other income-generating initiatives included translation and interpreting services and lunch hour classes offered in the DMLL. One of the most remarkable projects undertaken during the year was the UWI Mona Prison Project, a prison-to-college pipeline initiative in partnership with Bard College and the Open Society University Network and in collaboration with Department for Correctional Services. The project delivered a course in Entertainment Business to inmates and wardens in the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre. The aim of the project is to increase access to higher education and improve reintegration outcomes for incarcerated people in Jamaica. The programme is in keeping with the institution’s mission to empower and provide access to underserved popula- tions. It resulted in the award of a departmental certificate to eight inmates and two wardens, and it is to be hoped that this project will garner sufficient support from donors for its continuation. RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION IN THE HUMANITIES AND EDUCATION The Deputy Deans for Postgraduate Matters and of Marketing and Resource Mobil- isation collaborated on an initiative “Toward a 21st century researcher-led Faculty of Humanities and Education”, aimed at developing a model for collaborative, interdisciplinary research and resource mobilisation. To this end, an on-line form was developed which approximately 60% of staff completed, so that a Research Map could be compiled for the Faculty. To support the Faculty’s publication agenda, especially for early career researchers, they also collaborated on a ‘Call for Authors’ and a series of activities for the respondents, including a series of writing workshops which were attended by some 18 staff members. To increase access to research produced in FHE, the inaugural Research Index of scholarly work produced in FHE, covering the 2019/20 and 2020/21 academic years, was launched in June 2023. It presents research outputs by staff and graduate students in the Faculty under the categories refereed publications (books, book chapters, and journal articles), non-refereed scholarly output (scholarly outputs, creative works, and ICT/multimedia innovations), and PhD theses. Where relevant, abstracts are provided, and URLs and DOIs to facilitate access to the publication. Available at https://www.mona.uwi.edu/humed/sites/default/files/humed/fhe_ research_index_2023.pdf, it is expected to enhance the visibility of our scholarly work, especially to our peers within the institution.

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Departmental reports show that refereed research output in the Faculty over the 2022/23 academic year included at least 2 single-authored books, 4 edited books, 15 book chapters, 2 edited journal issues, 26 journal articles, and 1 monograph, along- side several technical reports, non-refereed articles, and non-traditional research output such as researched journalistic output and software products. Dr Ruth Baker-Gardner, whose book Academic Integrity in the Caribbean: Plagiarism Policies, Perception, Prevalence and Possible Solutions (UWI Press) was published in December 2022, was thrown into the spotlight as ChatGPT became publicly available early in 2023, causing both excitement and concern. Staff members were recognized for outstanding research by the (delayed) announce- ment of the Principal’s Research Awards covering several academic years: Principal’s Research Awards 2018–2019: Dr Françoise Cevaër (DMLL), Dr Therese Ferguson (SOE), Dr Canute Thompson (SOE), Dr Clavia Williams-McBean (SOE), Dr Zachary Beier (DOHA), and Dr Michael Bucknor (DLIE) 2019–2020: Best research publication – Dr Rachel Moseley-Wood (DLIE), Dr Vivette Milson-Whyte (DLLP); Most outstanding researcher – Prof Canute Thompson (SOE); Most outstanding research activity – Dr Zoyah Kinkead-Clark (SOE) 2020–2021: Best research publication – Dr Enrique Okenve (DOHA), Dr Françoise Cevaër (DMLL); Most outstanding research activity – Dr Lois George (SOE); Research activity generating the most funds – Dr Sonjah Stanley Niaah, Dr Deborah Hickling Gordon (ICS) 2021–2022: Best research publication – Dr Dave Gosse (ICS), Dr Isis Semaj-Hall (DLIE); Most outstanding researcher – Dr Carmel Roofe (SOE); Most outstanding research activity – Dr Stanley Griffin (DLIS); Research activity generating the most funds & with the most development impact: CCEP team, consisting of Prof Canute Thompson, Dr Schontal Moore, Camille Berry, Nadine Davis and Allison Montgomery (SOE) Also notable is that the book Education for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean by Lorna Down and Therese Ferguson was among three UWI Press books named 2022 Foreword Indies Book of the Year, and Finalist in the Education Theory and Practice category for the 2023 PROSE Awards (Association of American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence). In its 30th year of existence, the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning announced its inaugural Beryl Allen Teaching Award for Innovative Teaching, which was awarded to Chevonnese Chevers Whyte, lecturer in CARIMAC. FHE staff members recognized for student evaluation scores of 4.5 and above included 10 lecturers in the SOE, 5 in the DLLP, and one each in the DLIE and ICS. The significance of our engagement with alumni, adjuncts, and retirees was evident as their work achieves public recognition. Thus, national award recipients 2022 included two Ph.D. Cultural Studies graduates Dr. Myrna Hague-Bradshaw and Dr. Amina Blackwood-Meeks, recipients of the OD for contribution to the Jamaican Music Industry, and to the development of the Literary Arts in Jamaican Culture,

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respectively; and adjunct lecturer in CARIMAC Kevin Jackson was the recipient of a Musgrave Silver Award for his contribution to the animation and film indus- tries in Jamaica. Also notable is the work of retirees of the School of Education who continue to pursue research and produce publications in the service of their profession. FHE had the pleasure of playing host to book launches for the work of Professor Emerita Zellynne Jennings ( Re-visioning Change: Case Studies of Curric- ulum in School Systems in the Commonwealth Caribbean , 2022, UWI Press), and retirees Professors Disraeli Hutton and Austin Ezenne ( Examining Dimensions of Performance in Jamaican Schools, Improving School Leadership and Management , ITER, Mico University College). SHOWCASING WORK OF THE FHE Every DISCUS in the Faculty took the opportunity of the flexibility offered by a choice of in-person, on-line, and hybrid modalities, to organize a range of events showcasing the work of the Faculty and departments’ strategic research collabora- tions. Thus, the Faculty calendar was filled with postgraduate seminars in CARI- MAC and ICS; writing workshops and movie events in DLIE; the DLIS’s InfoTalk series; conferences and distinguished / public lectures such as the DLIS’s Inaugural Virtual Conference “That was then, this is now: Libraries adapting for the future”; the Jamaican Language Unit’s (JLU) 8th Cassidy-Le Page Distinguished Lecture with Professor Ana Deumert who spoke on “Language, Music and Liberation”; the ICS’s 24th Annual Walter Rodney Lecture with Ras Miguel ‘Steppa’ Williams who spoke on “Reclamation Groundation”; the DLIE’s 16th Edward Baugh Distinguished Lecture with Geoffrey Philp on “Garveyism in the 21st Century: Climate Change”; the DLLP’s public lecture by Professor Edwin Etieyibo on “African Philosophy and the Cultural History of Ideas”; CARIMAC’s Open Week 2023, which included the Annual Aggrey Brown Distinguished Lecture, delivered by Dr Carolyn Walcott on “The challenges of reporting on the oil sector in Guyana”; the Jamaican Language Unit’s 20th Anniversary Event, a Symposium on the Jamaican Language in honour of the work of Jamaican linguist Beryl Bailey; the ICS’s collaboration on a Photo- graphic Exhibition & Ganja Spotlight Roundtable Discussion held in the Faculty’s courtyard; the ICS’s Stuart Hall Distinguished Lecture by Prof Robert Beckford on “Windrush, Stuart Hall and Transatlantic diasporic cultures”; the DMLL’s Public Lecture in collaboration with the Quality Assurance Unit delivered by Prof Andrew Jones on “The worlds of Chinese popular music”; the DMLL’s Distinguished Gabriel Coulthard/William Mailer Lecture with Dr. Conrad James on “Nautical desires: Tourists, stowaways and other travellers in Caribbean Fiction”; and the 38 th Elsa Goveia Memorial Lecture by Prof Daive Dunkley on “The outsider within: Rastafari women and the struggle against colonialism in Jamaica”; the SOE’s hosting of the 6th International Conference on Technical and Vocational Education in Training

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(TVET) in the Caribbean under the theme “Building Resilience for Sustainable Development in Disruptive Times”, and the Caribbean Centre for Education Planning in the SOE’s hosting of conferences on “Teacher Migration in Jamaica: Exploring Push and Pull Factors and Probable Policy Options”, and “A Conversation with Jamaica’s Education Transformation Oversight Committee (EOC): Examining Progress and Engaging New Perspectives”; and the JLU’s co-hosting of the 7th International Symposium on the History of English Lexicography and Lexicology, facilitated online through a collaboration between the JLU and the Richard and Jeannette Allsopp Centre for Caribbean Lexicography at Cave Hill. INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE AND COLLABORATION The virtual environment continues to provide opportunities for international exchange, such as the virtual intercultural exchange involving students from Tot- tori University of Environmental Sciences (TUES) and Mona students of Japa- nese. A virtual symposium entitled “Social Change and Gender-Based Violence: Representation in Caribbean Literature and Performance Cultures” was held on September 22–23, 2022 as part of a UWI / University of Leicester project while the UWI/University of Leicester (UoL) International Summer School, which has been hosted at Mona in the past, was this time hosted at The University of Leicester, June 5–10, 2023, under the theme ‘Crime, (In)Justice, Human Rights’. Academic exchange is an important part of international collaboration, and the Faculty was happy to see two departments work together to host Professor Erick Barroso, Visiting Professor from the University of Guantanamo in Cuba. This was followed by visits to the Universities of Guantanamo and Havana in Cuba by Dr Villoria Nolla, Head of DMLL, over the summer of 2023.

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SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CREATIVE, CARING, ACCOUNTABLE, MOTIVATED,PROFESSIONAL (CAMP) TEAM The Faculty’s HEARTS series (Humanities and Education Achieving Resilience for Teachers and Students) resumed under Dr Nicole Plummer’s leadership with sessions on “Self-Care 101”, and “Vision Board: Your way to success”. For some time, we have recognized the importance of better engaging and moti- vating administrative, technical, and service staff in Faculty. An incentive & rec- ognition proposal for these vital categories of staff was supported in principle for implementation in the 2023/24 academic year. The initiative is envisaged to increase

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