Dr. Shivananda Nayak teaches Biochemistry to Medical, Dental, Veterinary and Pharmacy students at The UWI's Faculty of Medical Sciences, St. Augustine Campus. Before joining The UWI, he held several academic positions at Kasturba Medical College of Manipal University, India. He received his Master's degree in Medical Biochemistry at Kasturba Medical College of Mangalore University, India, and PhD in Biochemistry at the Kasturba Medical College of Manipal University.
He has authored four textbooks and is actively involved in research in the area of type-2 diabetes and wound healing activity of medicinal plants. As a researcher he has published more than 50 articles in national and international peer reviewed journals. The recipient of several honours and awards for his service in the discipline of Clinical Biochemistry, research and teaching. His biography was included in the Marquies Who's Who in 2009. Dr. Nayak is a member of the Timetable and Ethics Committee, Faculty of Medical Sciences, UWI, St. Augustine.
Dr. Charlene M. L. Roach is a Lecturer at the Department of Behavioural Sciences, UWI, St. Augustine Campus. She holds a BA in History and a Post Graduate Diploma in Public Administration from The UWI and a Master's and Doctorate in Public Administration from Arizona State University, U.S.A.
Her areas of research and teaching are in Public Management/Public Human Resources Management, Organizational Behaviour/Organizational Studies for the Public Sector, E-Government and Public Policy and in the scholarship of teaching and learning. She is a foreign correspondent for an international teaching and learning journal, The Journal of Public Affairs Education, U.S.A. and a reviewer for a Caribbean teaching and learning journal. Dr. Roach is a graduate of the first cohort of The UWI Postgraduate Certificate in University Teaching and Learning.
Dr. Grace Sirju-Charran currently holds the position of Senior Lecturer and Subject Leader in Biochemistry in the Department of Life Sciences. Her research interests include not just anatomical, biochemical and molecular studies on tuberisation in the tropical root crops: cassava, sweet potato and yam bean but, interestingly, also gender and ethical issues in Science and Science Education. She has authored and co-authored over 45 peer-reviewed publications and delivered several conference and workshop presentations.
The recipient of a number of Fellowships and Awards, she has served the University as Subject Leader of Botany; Head of the Department of Life Sciences; Head of the Institute of Gender and Development Studies, St. Augustine; and Coordinator of the Women and Development Studies Group, St. Augustine Campus. She has also served on several Boards nationally and regionally
Dr. Brian Croxall, is Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellow and Emerging Technologies Librarian, Woodruff Library, Emory University. He received his M.A. in English Literature, Emory University, his B.A. magna cum laude in Humanities: English Literature emphasis and Music, Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. in English Literature and Certificate in Psychoanalytic Studies, Emory University.
He has authored two articles and reviews and developed several digital projects. He has had the opportunity to present at over 22 conferences and is the recipient of several honors and awards. He has designed and taught many courses, some of which are: Reading Media and Technology in Contemporary Literature and Theory, English, American Literature, Critical Writing about Literature, Poetry and World Literature. Some of his research projects and teaching interests are: Twentieth and Twenty-first century American fiction, American literature after 1865, technology, trauma theory and psychoanalysis, media theory, social media, electronic literature and new media, critical theory, and war fiction.
Dr. Croxall's presentation has been posted to his blog http://www.briancroxall.net/2010/10/05/five-reasons-to-use-social-media-in-the-classroom.
Dr. Croxall's extensive bio can be found on his website www.briancroxall.net.
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