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148 Over the last decade gender and development studies has struggled for its recognition as rigorous in methodologyobjective in its content and justified in its undertaking to examine gender injustice as another form of social injustice that deserves equal attention. Gender scholars have a commitment to enhancing the lives of the people we serve inside and outside of the academy. Combining Gender and Cultural Studies The inter- and trans-disciplinarity of gender studies was the perfect setting for a scholar like myself.My disciplinary promiscuity has allowed for a combination of Gender and Development Studies and Cultural Studies. If the former is devoted to gender identity as a central category of analysis the latter investigates how culture creates and transforms individual experiences everyday life social relations and power. By treating with both areas individually I have contributed to the body of Caribbean scholarship and practices in each. By combining and straddling both areas I have introduced and expanded a gender perspective into Caribbean cultural studies in the latter more specifically contributing to the academic exploration of visual studies and visual intelligence in and of the region. Gender While I continue to develop my own research and publication in areas that pertain to Caribbean feminist thought gender and history gender and cinema and gender and development the most distinguishing research accomplishment during 2010- 2014 relates to gender and development policy and planning with international institutions regional and local governments and academic initiatives. Between 2010 and 2013 I was lead writer of two National Gender Policies in the Caribbean. The British Virgin Islands gender policy was completed in 2011 and passed by the BVI government by 2012. I also served between 2011-2012 as lead member of the Technical Committee appointed by the Cabinet of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago to redraft the 2006 version of the Trinidad and Tobago National Gender Policy. The current draft was laid before the Cabinet in 2012 and remains contentious due to reservations on the definition of gender and reactions against heteronormative sexuality. Between 2011 and 2013 I again served on a Cabinet appointed committee to examine the situation of young men and criminality in Trinidad resulting in the report httpwww.ttparliament.orgdocuments2197.pdf that was laid before the Cabinet of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago in 2013. In recognition of the above bodies of work in 2014 I was awarded the Most Outstanding Researcher Faculty of Social Sciences in the Research Awards scheme of the Office of the Campus PrincipalThe UWISt Augustine. My interest in gender and public policy as a specialization in gender has expanded over the last decade particularly through the above involvement in generating public policy documents. The experience of participating in an interna- tional project Building Global Democracy httpwww.buildingglobaldemocracy.orgcontentpatricia- mohammed organized through the University of Warwick Global Studies Programme and serving as gender peer reviewer for the Caribbean Human Development Report on Citizen Security 2013 added to this growing expertise. As a result I was invited to write three reviewed chapters for gender and public policy book publications. In these papers I analyzed the value of national gender policies to national development and examined the inclusion of gender as an index of equality and discrimination. Cultural Studies The path-breaking body of work Imaging the Caribbean Culture and Visual Translation Macmillan UK 2009 which attracted reviews by several scholars and journalists and is becoming a primary text for courses ranging from historysociologygender studies visual and creative arts was a major achievement in 2010. This print publication continued to be complemented by a documentary film series A Different Imagination which is accessible to viewers globally after it was accepted for an online Film Festival Humanity Explored in 2011. httpwww.cultureunplugged.comstorytellerPatricia_Mohamme dmyFilms. Between 2010 and 2013 I was privileged to have three major international invitations to present this body of work at public lectures panels and screenings both regionally and internationally at University of Toronto in 2010 with a book tourat University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras in March 2012 in the prestigious public lecture series Conferencias Caribeas and in November 2012 as visiting professor Rutgers University. Outputs of the latter residency include a video-taped interview What is the Caribbean which is posted online. httpswww.youtube.comwatchv5rdQrAS9hlc I have maintained a growing interest and competency in SOCIAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE FOR GENDER DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies Head Institute for Gender and Development Studies Tel 868 663 2002 ext. 83573 Mobile 868 684 3501 E-mails patricia.mohammedsta.uwi.educooliepinkandgreengmail.com PROF. PATRICIA MOHAMMED