Natasha Mortley
Dr. Natasha Kay Mortley is a Lecturer and Research Specialist at the Regional Coordinating Office of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. She lectures in the areas of Development Studies, Gender Analysis for Development Policy and Planning and Research Methods. Her research interests and work include: migration & diaspora studies; migration, health & development; medical tourism; diaspora tourism; sports tourism; gender & leadership; gender & entrepreneurship; gender & climate change; and contemporary Caribbean masculinities.
Natasha Mortley has extensive experience in the field of Development Studies, having been engaged in a multi-disciplinary approach to key developmental challenges of particular relevance to the Caribbean region. Her disciplinary focus over the past fifteen (15) years has been dedicated to integrating a gender perspective to Caribbean social development and policy issues. She therefore considers herself a social developmentalist working in the area of gender and development studies and an advocate for gender equity and social justice.
Dr. Mortley is a member of the African-Caribbean Women’s Mobility and Self-fashioning in Post-diaspora Contexts Network (Post-diaspora Network), which consists of scholars from the UK, North America and the Caribbean, who investigate how globalization works for African-Caribbean women migrants, even while acknowledging and addressing its exclusions and production of inequalities. She is also currently Expert Advisor to the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Secretariat for the “Migration and Engaging OECS Diaspora Programme”.
