Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

Awardees

Professor Surendra Arjoon. Professor of Business and Professional Ethics. Head, Department of Management Studies (2011-present, 2002-2005) and Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Social Sciences (1996-2002). Internationally recognized as one of the Leading Authors in Business Ethics Research with over 250 citations of his work including the New York Times and the Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics.

Dr. Gelien Matthews has been a member of the academic staff of the University of the West Indies St Augustine Campus from August of 2006 to the present. She read her PhD in Economic and Social History at the University of Hull, England having been the recipient of The Black Diaspora Scholarship in 1999.

She has two major publications; Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement published in 2006 by the Louisiana State University Press and History of the Church of the Nazarene Trinidad and Tobago published in 2008. She currently lectures in Caribbean, American and Gender History

Dr. Chalapathi Rao A. V., Senior Lecturer and Unit Coordinator, Department of Para-Clinical Sciences and former Associate Professor, Manipal University, India has been involved in teaching medical students and other health professionals for over twenty-five years. He pioneered the pathology museum and clerkship manual, Faculty of Medical Sciences, which has served as a teaching-learning and assessment resource for over a decade.

While holding several leadership positions at the FMS, he has made significant impact on course design and assessments in the Year III MBBS programme. Dr. Rao recently earned the professional development certificate from the University of British Columbia.

Dr. Sandra Reid is Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medical Sciences with seventeen years service at UWI. A Hubert H. Humphrey fellow and member of the Delta Omega Alpha Society in Public Health (Johns Hopkins), she has distinguished ehrself as psychiatrist, researcher and teacher.

Dr. Reid has received several international grants for research in substance abuse and HIV, gender sexuality and HIV, and addiction education, resulting in peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. She pioneered the Caribbean Regional Certificate Programme in Addiction Studies, and is Director of the Caribbean Institute on Alcoholism and other Drug Problems, the region's foremost addiction certification programmes.

Dr. Geraldine Elizabeth Skeete has been a lecturer, tutor and coordinator in the Faculty of Humanities and Education at the UWI, St. Augustine since 1999.  She holds a BA (First Class Honours) and PhD (with High Commendation) in Literatures in English, and a Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (with Distinction).  She received a Most Outstanding PhD Thesis Award 2006/2007, is the co-editor of The Child and the Caribbean Imagination, and has published in the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies and The Caribbean Teaching Scholar. Her areas of interest are Caribbean literature, literary linguistics, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Feature Speaker: Dr. Baldev Singh

Dr. Singh currently heads Strategic ICT Developments at Imagine Education Limited.  He was the head of ICT in a large secondary school in Bristol (UK) and was the recipient of the 2004 National Teaching Award for Innovation in Education.  He was involved in teacher training (both in the UK and overseas) and completed an ICT teacher training programme on behalf of the British Council in six countries in the Middle East region (NENA project) and more recently in India.

Dr. Singh is also a national judge for the Teaching Awards (UK) and is on the panel for the BETT (UK) and Education Awards, which promote technology in education. He has a strong background in research and has been involved in teaching at the University level.