Mrs. Murella Sambucharan-Mohammed has been involved in the education sector for the past 20 years both at the secondary and tertiary levels. She holds the portfolio of Lecturer in Education with the School of Education (SOE), UWI, St. Augustine Campus since 2018 and has worked as a Curriculum Officer at the Ministry of Education in Trinidad since 2012 and a Spanish/French Teacher and Head of Department, Modern Languages since 2001.

Her tertiary teaching profile includes Teacher Education, Technology Integration, Research Methods in Education and Assessment at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She chairs the Management Committee of The UWI-School of Education’s Family Development and Children’s Centre, where she maintains oversight of the strategic direction and operations of this research-based children’s laboratory with their shift to a virtual platform.

Murella has presented at conferences including The UWI SOE’s 2020 Webinar on Evidence-Informed Education Policy “Making Pedagogy and Learning Better” and The UN’s 2021 Webinar on “Putting Human Rights at the Centre of the COVID-19 Pandemic” and ICSEI’s 2021 as part of a research team on ”The Caribbean Experience of Public Examinations in a Time of Crisis.” She continues to support schools and educators across Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean in areas of curriculum development, technology use and pedagogy. Her research interests include Technology Integration, Foreign Language Pedagogy, Equity and Social Justice in Education, Assessment, Curriculum Design and Implementation, and Teacher Education.