Event

The Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) continues their three-part panel discussion series with this week’s Women Speak: Young Women’s Experiences of the School Environment in 2016 – Challenges, coping strategies and opportunities in memory of Mark Richards, Denelson Smith and Salim Dalzell & in commemoration of International Women’s Day, March 2016.

This and future panels take place from 9.30am to noon at the School of Education Auditorium.

To view the IGDS Facebook Event’s Page, please click here.

About School of Education 

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About IGDS  

The Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS), St. Augustine Unit (SAU), formerly known as the Centre for Gender and Development Studies (CGDS), the IGDS has its origins in the work of the Women and Development Studies Group (WDSG) at The UWI. Our mission is to produce and disseminate knowledge on gender-related issues in the Caribbean in support of The UWI's mission and to enhance Caribbean development. At the St. Augustine Unit, we offer disciplinary and interdisciplinary courses in gender studies across faculties within The University of the West Indies at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. We initiate collaborative research projects that address the relationship of gender to all areas of society. We pursue a programme of outreach activities that includes seminars, workshops and networking events.

In Memoriam

Mark Richardson and Denelson Smith were students of Success Laventille Secondary School murdered on their way home from school on January 21, 2016.  Salim Dalzell was murdered outside the school gate of the Success Laventille Secondary School in November 2014.  

For additional information, please contact, IGDS, St. Augustine Unit | 662 2002 exts. 83573/83577/3549 | Email: igds@sta.uwi.edu |www.sta.uwi.edu/igds/.

School of Education Library | 662-2002 exts. 83718, 83338, 83339 | www.libraries.sta.uwi.edu/soe/

For information about the final panel discussion on March 10, please click here.