UWI/Guardian Life 'Premium' Teaching Awardees 2008

Greer Jones-Woodham, B.F.A (Hons.) Pratt Institute N.Y., M.Ed, Framingham State College, Certificate SoTL in Higher Education, University of British Columbia. Greer has been an educator for may years and most recently an Assistant Lecturer at the UWI in the Department of Creative and Festival Arts in Textile Design and in 2002-2008 taught Art Studio drawing and painting; Exhibited in four one woman shows and several group shows in St. Lucia, New York, England, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago. Curator of the national exhibition for Carifesta XI in Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana’s Carifesta XII (2008); began her professional career with Republic Bank as design consultant implementing their brand Identity system, authored, designed and produced the Bank’s Corporate Identity manual. This design won an award from the International Centre for Superior Standards in Design, Brussels Belgium.  Her work in the theatre includes designing of set/costumes for Derek Walcott’s “Dream on Monkey Mountain”, Branch of the Blue “Nile,” “Steel’’, Errol Hills “Dance Bongo” Earl Lovelace’s “Jestina’s Calypso” and “Three Women” written by Belinda Barnes-Durity, Eunice Allen and Anne Louise -Tam. Greer’s recent presentation of her paper entitled “Using E-learning portfolio technology to support visual art learning” at the technology and teaching session in the IMSCI conference in Orlando (June 2008) won her best paper in the session. Her research looked at the maker as the intuitive and reflective practitioner, the making as the process in which the e-learning portfolios/journals communicate the process of learning and the eventual product, the made as evidence of that learning in light of progress made while revealing learning in action and reflecting in and on action as a self–directed learning process rooted in theories of reflection, collaboration and documentation.  She has been the recipient of the Eugene O’Neal award for theatre design (1982), Ford Foundation award New York (1982) and the Trinidad and Tobago Art Society award for painting (1984).  Recognised by the College Board Advance Placement Programme in the USA for exemplary teaching of Art/design curriculum. Her student’s design portfolio won over 22.000 submissions (2003).

Celia M. Poon-King MPH, MBBS, MFPH joined the Public Health and Primary Care Unit in the Department of Paraclinical Sciences of the Faculty of Medical Sciences (FMS) at the University of the West Indies St Augustine in 2001. Celia lectures in epidemiology and public health and coordinates the undergraduate year 2 medical students’ research programme. As coordinator, she has provided the epidemiological support and guidance for 146 research projects since 2002, as well as supervising 7 individual projects and hosting an annual medical student’s research day. A public health trained medical epidemiologist, Celia completed the Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) at UWI in Trinidad, and the Masters in Public Health (specializing in Epidemiology) at the University of Wales College of Medicine Cardiff. Dr Poon-King completed her postgraduate medical training in public health in the UK and as a Member of the Faculty of Public Health (MFPH), London now serves as the regional adviser to that Faculty for the region of the Americas.  With interests in Chronic disease and Syndrome Surveillance, Geographic Information Systems and Ethics in Research, she has completed consultancies in Surveillance and International Health Regulations (2005), and is coordinating the implementation of Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) in the FMS, UWI St Augustine.

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