Event

The Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) presents their Festival of Seminars happening from February 4 to 6 at the SALISES Conference Room:

Check out the programme below:

Monday February 4:

• 9.30 to 10am: Opening Remarks – Dr. Hamid Ghany, Director, SALISES; and, Professor Patricia Mohammed, Chair, Campus Committee for Graduate Studies and Research, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine

• 10am to noon: Roshnie Doon, PhD candidate (assessed seminar) – Returns to Field of Study in Trinidad and Tobago.

• 1 to 2pm: Dr. Roy Mc Cree, Senior Research Fellow, SALISES – The State and Sport Policy in Caribbean.

• 2.15 to 3.15pm: Dr. Preeya Mohan, Research Fellow, SALISES – Tourism Governance and Regulation in Sub-national Island Jurisdictions: The Case of Tobago.

• 3.30 to 5.30pm: Kevin Finch, PhD candidate (assessed seminar) – Re-assessing Core Government Functions in Trinidad and Tobago.

Tuesday February 5:

• 9.30 to 11.30am: Hafeeza Shah, PhD student (assessed seminar) – Past perspectives, current protocols and future prospects of the Public Assistance Grant in Trinidad and Tobago.

• 11.45 to 12.45pm: Bephyer Parey, PhD candidate – Care Views Toward Older Persons with Disabilities Among Trinidadian Households.

• 1 to 2pm: Dr. Godfrey St. Bernard, Senior Research Fellow, SALISES – Labour and the Persistence of Unlimited Supplies – The Prospective Contribution of Futures Research.

• 2.15 to 3.15pm: Dr. Hamid Ghany, Director, SALISES – The Challenges For Ministerial Responsibility Posed By Parliamentary Requirements For Special Majority Legislation: The Effect of the Canadian Bill of Rights Model for Human Rights in Trinidad and Tobago.

• 3.30 to 5.30pm: Henry Charles, MPhil/PhD candidate (assessed seminar) – The Sociopolitical context of youth and policy development in the Caribbean: The Grenada experience.

Wednesday February 6:

• 10 to 11am: Cheryle Dubay-Tewarie, Manager, Research Funding and Business Development, St. Augustine Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (formerly Office of Research Development and Knowledge Transfer) – Industry Partnerships to Facilitate Commercialisation of Research.

• 11.15am to 12.15pm: Dr. Hamid Ghany, Director, SALISES – The Demise Of The Grenada Revolution : The Collapse of the People’s Revolutionary Government in 1983, a Declassified Look at the 1983 Anglo-American Response and the Confirmation of the Death of the Revolution in 2016.

• 1 to 2pm: Dr. Preeya Mohan, Research Fellow, SALISES – Caribbean Innovation: Lessons from Arthur Lewis.

• 2.15 to 3.15pm: Dr. Godfrey St. Bernard, Senior Research Fellow, SALISES – Supply and Demand, Tertiary Education Services and UWI at 100 – Theorizing Changes in Disequilibria.

• 3.30 to 4.30pm: Dr. Hamid Ghany, Director, SALISES – Correcting Arend Lijphart’s Hybrid VI : The Case of Guyana.

• 4.30 to 4.45pm: Closing Remarks – Dr. Hamid Ghany, Director, SALISES

For more information on the above, please visit: https://sta.uwi.edu/salises/ or call 662-2002 ext. 82391.