STUDENT-CENTRED
Melony Shoye Awarded 2023
BARP Trust Scholarship
From left: Clyde Williams , Acting Secretary to the BARP Charitable Trust; Melony Shoye , MPhil student; Dr. Sharon Marshall , Trustee of the BARP Charitable Trust; and Professor Winston Moore , Deputy Principal, Cave Hill
Research into elderly affairs in Barbados is getting a major boost through the ongoing partnership of The UWI, Cave Hill and the Barbados Association of Retired Persons (BARP) Charitable Trust. T he Trust grants scholarships to Barbadian students at the Cave Hill campus who are pursuing full-time postgraduate studies related to ageing. Last July, the charity awarded Melony Shoye with the 2023 scholarship valued at BDS$5,000. She is pursuing an MPhil degree in Social Work with a focus on resilience of the elderly affected by flooding, specifically in the communities of Holetown, St. James and Belleplaine, St. Andrew. Shoye also intends to make a case for electronic mapping as a tool for disaster management during her course of study. Speaking at the scholarship
presentation ceremony held on campus at the Sidney Martin Library, she expressed her gratitude to both the university and BARP Trust for supporting her research and work in this area of elder resilience. “I am cognisant of the initiative of the university in putting forward my name and the generosity of the Trust in considering me, a part-time student, for this award. I am immensely thankful to both,” Shoye said. Deputy Principal of the campus Professor Winston Moore , who attended the presentation ceremony, used the opportunity to thank the Trust for its support of students and the university. “For donors like the BARP Charitable Trust , today we are very happy that you are helping us to provide support for our students, and you are also providing direction for our students as well. One of the requirements of the BARP Trust is to look for students who are doing research on the elderly, and I think that’s a useful initiative for support and direction for a really important issue. One of the things you might notice about the Barbadian economy is that we have a fairly elderly population where the average age is over 40. We are therefore very thankful for the role that
our donors play not only in the lives of our students but also for the university as a whole,” Moore said. Acting Secretary to the Trust Clyde Williams congratulated Shoye on being chosen for the award and wished her success in her undertakings. He added, “The Trust is pleased to share this moment with The UWI in the knowledge that we are both providing assistance to a very worthy student whose research will strengthen the capacity of professional practitioners, carers, and students of the discipline to better deal with the issues that confront them as they face the challenges of an ageing society.” Previous winners of the scholarship were Juliet Cumberbatch in 2016, Wasim Worrell in 2017 and again in 2018 when he upgraded from an MPhil to a PhD, and Jamie Hinds in 2019. The scholarship provides tangible means by which the Trust can execute one of its mandates of promoting studies in gerontology, whether medical, economic, or social and is intended to assist in covering the cost of books, others materials, and tuition. u
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