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Lecture on Spectator Sports Safety & Security at UWI

For Release Upon Receipt - March 14, 2011

St. Augustine


The UWI Department of Management Studies will feature Dr. Lou Marciani, Director of the National Centre for Spectator Sports Safety and Security (NCS4) at The University of Southern Mississippi, at the St. Augustine Campus on Wednesday 16th March, 2011. Dr Marciani will deliver a feature address on Spectator Sports Safety and Security at Lecture Theatre 1 – Engineering Block 13, from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm.

Dr. Marciani’s lecture comes on the heels of this country’s premier celebration of Carnival and on the recent tragic occurrence in Japan which requires extensive disaster and emergency management.  He will use his experience in sports and event management to give insight into the issues constituting potential and actual threats and risks to the ongoing security and safety of fans  and patrons  at sporting and other special events. NCS4  focuses on emergency planning,  decision support systems for sport venues and the development and implementation of a sport risk management curriculum to include simulation modelling for stadium evacuations.  The Center provides training and has a national outreach programme which actively works in several countries throughout the world.

Persons who should find the event useful include members of the executive management team of national sporting organizations, officials of the Trinidad & Tobago Police Force, the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment and Sports Management students. This lecture forms part of The UWI Department of Management Studies’ continued efforts to develop sports management capabilities in the country and the Region.

For further information and to confirm your attendance to the lecture, contact Ms. Charisse Broome, Coordinator, Post Graduate Programmes in Sports Management at Charisse.Broome@sta.uwi.edu or at 868-662-2002 Ext. 3724 or 3296.

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Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with over 50 physical site locations across the region, serving over 20 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Pure & Applied Sciences, Science and Agriculture, and Social Sciences.

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