From left: Jennine Knight , Librarian, Faculty of Medical Sciences and Chair of the Organising Committee; Gloria Haynes , second-place winner; Ireka Jelani , competition champion; Dexter Alleyne , third-place winner; Judith Toppin , former Officer-in-Charge, Sidney Martin Library; and Prof. Winston Moore , Deputy Principal, Cave Hill Campus
Cultural Researcher Wins Thesis Competition
walked away with the People’s Choice award and went on to place second in the cross- campus competition which involved other UWI campuses. The students each had three minutes to deliver a convincing orated summary of their research and its significance in a language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. The overarching aim was to increase the academic, presentation, and research communication skills of researchers, according to The University of Queensland that first developed the research communication competition in 2008. The competition was adopted by The University of the West Indies, Mona in 2021, and the following year, it invited sister campuses Cave Hill and St. Augustine to participate. In the 9 June 2023 competition hosted
by Cave Hill, five students entered and were judged by Dr. Korah Belgrave (Chief Judge), Senator Dr. Kristina Hinds , Dr. Thea Scantlebury-Manning , and Lt. Col. Junior Browne . The other two competitors each represented the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies ( SALISES ) and the Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES). The victorious Jelani , whose research topic is “Bush Medicine: The Curative Powers of Sacred Herbal Remedies” said she is passionate about her area of focus. “I’m appreciative and I’m humbled. I want to thank everyone who had a part in organising the treatment of this competition, and I’m happy they thought it worthy enough for me to be judged the winner, especially with it being the first three-minute
PhD students from the Faculty of Culture, Creative and Performing Arts and the School of Education emerged as the top winners in the inaugural Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition hosted by the Cave Hill campus. Ireka Jelani of the Faculty of Culture, Creative and Performing Arts earned the top spot while Gloria Haynes and Dexter Alleyne of the School of Education placed second and third respectively. Haynes also
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