General Notices

The Department of Behavioural Sciences is pleased to invite submissions for the in person biennial Postgraduate Research conference, Advancing Caribbean Thought, Research and Praxis on October 9-10, 2025 @ The UWI St. Augustine.

Submissions may engage with the following topics, although additional themes are welcome:

-Activism, solidarity and social movements

-Caribbean intellectual, philosophical and everyday thought

-Caribbean epistemologies and methodologies

-Caribbean youth and empowerment

-Decolonial approaches to Caribbean social problems including, those related but not limited to areas of:

-Climate justice, food security, crime

-Social justice, equity, inclusion

-Diversity

-Governance, democracy and political economy

-Health, well-being, resilience and human rights

-Ideology, technology and social change

-Multiculturalism, migration, collective memory and heritage

-Race, ethnicity, gender, class

-Social and economic planning

Submission Guidelines:

Papers, fully constituted panel submissions and hard copy poster submissions are invited.

Submissions should include:

1. For paper submissions: a title, a 300-500 word abstract, and the presenter’s name, affiliation, and contact information. Abstracts are accepted in English only. Individual papers may include collaborative/team research.

2. For panel proposals: a title, a 300-500 word abstract for the panel, a 150-200 word abstract for the individual paper, the panel chair’s name, presenters’ names, affiliations, and contact information. Abstracts are accepted in English only. Panels should consist of 3-4 papers.

3. For poster submissions: a title, a 300-500 word abstract, and the presenter’s name, affiliation, and contact information. Abstracts are accepted in English only. Poster submissions may include collaborative/team research.

Submission Deadline: 15th May 2025

Notification of Decisions: 31st May 2025

How to draft an abstract / what we would like to see:

-Brief introduction to the research/project

-Objective(s)

-Methods/Methodology

-Results (if any)

Please submit your paper and panel abstracts to: STA-Behavioural.Sciences@sta.uwi.edu and the Conference Planning Chairs, Dr. Shelene Gomes at shelene.gomes@uwi.edu and Dr. Katija Khan at katija.khan@uwi.edu with the subject heading: DOBS Postgraduate Research Conference 2025.

For questions regarding submissions, please contact us at the abovementioned addresses.

There is no cost attached to registration.

MPhil/PhD candidates at UWI campuses other than the St. Augustine campus, are encouraged to explore the conference funding offered by the School for Graduate Studies and Research on their respective campuses.

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