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IGDS Engagement and Expertise in
Gender, Politics and Leadership

 

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Publications

2016. Hosein, Gabrielle. A Will to Power: The Anglophone Caribbean Struggle to Advance Women’s Political Leadership” in Negotiating Gender, Policy and Politics: Feminist Strategies, Masculinist Resistances and Transformational Possibilities in the Caribbean. Eds. Gabrielle Hosein and Jane Parpart. Rowland and. Littlefield

2012. Reddock, Rhoda. ‘The Effectiveness of Parliament as an Organ of State in Scrutinising Executive Action’, in The Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago (ed.) Evolution of a Nation: Trinidad and Tobago at Fidy, London, Hansib. 2012.

2011. Reddock, R. ‘Constitutional Change and the New Nationalist Politics’ in V. Shepherd (ed), Engendering Caribbean   History:   Cross-­‐Cultural   Perspectives,   Kingston:   Ian   Randle   Publishers,   pp.663-­‐688.   ISBN 978-­‐976-­‐637-­‐252-­‐1 (pbk). 2011.

 

Graduate Student Research | Thesis

2013. Sabrina Mowlah--Baksh, MSc in Gender and Development. “Margin to Centre: Pathways to Political Power by Elected Women in Trinidad and Tobago”. Supervisor: Dr. Gabrielle Hosein, IGDS

 

Research Projects

2011-2014. Politics, Power and Gender Justice in the Anglophone Caribbean: Women’s Understanding of Politics Experiences of Political Contestation and the Possibilities for Gender Transformation. Project Team: Dr Gabrielle Hosein, Professor Jane Parpart, and Ms. Tisha Nickenig. 
This study was conducted over a period of 24 months.  Data collection took place in Dominica, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago in partnership with IGDS, UWI Mona Campus and Cavehill Campus.  It sought to analyze the experiences of women’s political leadership, electoral quota systems, national gender policies, and women’s transformational leadership and their effectiveness of achieving gender justice.

 

Conferences | Symposia | Public Fora

2017. Lunchtime Seminar. Joanne Kilgour Dowdy, Professor, Kent State University, Ohio. “Minding Their Own Business: Five Female Leaders from Trinidad and Tobago” 

2015. Lunchtime Seminar. Ms. Jennifer Jones Morales, Ph.D Candidate, The UWI, STA “Gender and Leadership in Management”.

2012. Dr Gabrielle Hosein presented, ‘The Woman in the State: Trinidadian Feminism and the State Under a Woman Prime Minister’, at the 111th Annual American Anthropological Association Meeting, San Francisco. November 14th.

 

Outreach | Workshops

2016. Reflecting on Gender and Politics in the 2015 General Election Campaign.

2015. IGDS/PLOTT Panel Discussion. Panel discussion in collaboration with Powerful Ladies of Trinidad and Tobago (PLOTT) for Global Entrepreneurship Week 2015. The theme of the initiative was - “Using Strategic Alliances to Strengthen Female Entrepreneurship”.

2014. IGDS Public Forum, “Women and Political Power: A Right to Lead” on March 19 2014. This panel critically engaged with the issue of gender and leadership with particular focus on the current discourse surrounding women in positions of political leadership in Trinidad and Tobago, their right to political office and their ability to access political positions. It was attended by a number of national and media figures including Pennelope Beckles-Robinson, the female candidate whom then was contesting Keith Rowley for leadership of the PNM party. Chaired by Indira Rampersad, Lecturer, Behavioural Sciences, UWI. Panelists were Sunity Maharaj, Managing Director, Lloyd Best Institute; Gabrielle Hosein, Lecturer, IGDS, UWI, Paula Morgan, Senior IGDS STA UNIT Lecturer, Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies, UWI and Winford James, Lecturer, School of Education, UWI. 

2012. The IGDS held a Two-day Workshop titled, “Politics, Power and Gender Justice in the Anglophone Caribbean Presentation of Findings”, which took place on 15th and 16th March 2012. Four researchers who were hired to conduct the regional and historical reviews on gender policies, women’s leadership in politics, quota systems and feminist movement building presented a summary of their draft chapters. At the meeting researchers, Project team members and select members of the Project Advisory Team provided feedback to the researchers, as well as strategized on how the chapters can inform the future research work for the Project. The final chapters are scheduled to be complete by September 2012.

 

Professional | Public Service

2012. Conceptualizing Global Democracy: Gender and Global Democracy. Led by the Centre for Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, The University of Warwick, Coventry, this project was a five-year $1.5 million initiative to explore how ‘rule by and for the people’ can operate when addressing global challenges of the present age. The work took an interregional, intercultural and interdisciplinary approaching addressing this vital issue. The programme orientation further espoused diversity, empowerment, and practitioner-researcher interchange. Prof. Patricia Mohammed of the IGDS SAU covered the theme ‘Gender and Global Democracy’ of this project. 

2011-2012. Dr. Piya Pangsapa- Consultant to United Nations Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Aruba, Curacao, Saint Maarten for the project to promote women’s political participation of the Office of the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago which began in December 2011.

2011. Dr Piya Pangsapa- Consultant to Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM), Organization of American States (OAS)’s Strategic Plan for 2011-2016: Democracy Women’s Political Citizenship for Democracy and Governance, Human Rights- Promotion of the Rights of Women, Security- Gender Responsive Multidimensional Security, and Development- Economic Security and Citizenship for Women, November 2011.

 

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