School of Education

Research Interests

Petra’s research interests cut across three fields: Literature, Librarianship and Gender Studies at the School of Education (SOE), St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad. As the Indexer/Documentalist of its Caribbean Educational Research & Information Service (CERIS) Unit and editor of its Caribbean Curriculum journal, her research interests include Postmodern Literature, User Training, Online Information Retrieval, Library Management, and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). Her publications that also reflect scholarship in post-modern reality can be found in her UWIScholar Profile. 

Scholarly Publications

• Pierre-Robertson, P. (2023). "#SuperLibrarian: The evolving role of librarians in technology spaces", Digital Library Perspectives, 39(4), pp. 620-627. https://doi.org/10.1108/DLP-04-2023-0026

• Pierre-Robertson, P. (2022). “Book Review of The Morning After the Night Before: Recollections of My Journey, A St. Joseph Son,” The Journal of Adventist Education, 84(4),  34,35. https://doi.org/10.55668/jae0030  

• Pierre-Robertson, P. (2021. “Literature as an Agent of Change”. In Gender and Domestic Violence in theCaribbean. Editors Anne Marie Bissessar and Camille Huggin, (pp. 87 –103). Palgrave McMillan. 

• Pierre-Robertson, P. (2017). “And Man is Becoming: Exploring what it means to be human against thebackdrop of Avatar, Ghost in the Shell and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”. In Caribbean Musings:Narratives of Identity. Editors Nicole Bengochea, Shelly Lyons, Meredith Montrichard and FayWhite, (pp. 166 – 177). Bamboo Talk Press.  

• Pierre-Robertson, P. (2007). Librarian and Lecturer in partnership: A Caribbean Experience. In C. Peltier Davis and S. Renwick (Eds.), Caribbean Libraries in the 21st Century: Changes, Challenges and Choices. Information Today (pp. 269-277)."

Creative Works / Literary Publications

• Pierre-Robertson, P. *The Sixth Day. Bamboo Talk Press. 2019 (130p) ISBN 978 10815600171 

• Pierre-Robertson, P. Lost in the Hills: Bamboo Talk Press. 2019 (109p) ISBN 978 1097439188 

• Pierre-Robertson, P. *Second Chances. Bamboo Talk Press. 2017 (337p) ISBN 978 976 95610 7 6 

• Pierre-Robertson, P. *The Uncontrollable Flame. Lifegate Publishing. 2016 (219p) ISBN 978 1941632 06 2 

• Pierre-Robertson, P. *No Guarantee Lifegate Publishing. 2015 (397p) ISBN 978 1 941632 05 5 

• Pierre-Robertson, P. “Dogs”. In Moko Magazine: Caribbean Arts and Letters. (Online Journal) 2013, http://mokomagazine.org/wordpress/fiction-by-petra-pierre-robertson/

Selected Publication Impact

Petronetta Pierre-Roberson presents on the contextualization of “Second Chances” that reflects post-modern reality in this interview with Prof. Morgan  (September, 2017): https://www.facebook.com/petr0st/videos/504508896680384/ (click to view video)
 

Petronetta presenting "Second Chances" novel to local School Principal after delivering the gradaution ceremony's feature address (July, 2018) 
 

Petronetta presents "No Guarantee" and "The Uncontrollable Flame" novels at our local National Library and Information System (NALIS) - World Aids Day 2016

Presentations

• Pierre-Robertson, P. (2022). So, I have published... what next? ART (Advertise your Research with Technologies). Presentation [online] done at Emerald's publishing workshop. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWhVBbkvxj8&t=1211s
• Pierre-Robertson, P. (2022). #SuperLibrarian - The Evolving Role of Librarians Navigating Technology Spaces. Keynote Speech at Network of Inter- American Adventist Librarian Symposium, October 2022.

• Pierre-Robertson, P. (2022). Writing For Effective Publication. Facilitator at The UWI School of Nursing, August 4, 2022.

• Pierre-Robertson, P. (2022). So, I have published...What next? ART: Advertise Your Research with Technologies. Presentation at Emerald Webinar, June 2022.

• Pierre-Robertson, P. (2022). Discourses of Love, Romance and Intimate Partner Violence. Presentation at IGDS Regional Graduate Symposium, May 2022.

• Pierre-Robertson, P. (2022). Librarian as Creator. Presentation at DLIS Symposium, March 2022.

• Pierre-Robertson, P. (2021). Librarian and Lecturer A Partnership? From Then Until Now: 2005-2020. Presentation at ASDAL Conference, June 2021.

• Pierre-Robertson, P. (2000). Librarians and Censorship. Presentation at ASDAL Conference, June 2000.

• Mrs. Pierre-Robertson reading from one of her novels, 'Second Chances' at the Alma Jordan Library, UWI at Campus Literature Week in 2019.