October 2018


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Professional Recognition & New Posts

Prof. Rhoda Reddock has been elected to the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association (ISA). The Executive Council is elected for a four-year period and she is expected to serve from 2018 -2022. Prof. Reddock is the first Caribbean scholar to serve in this capacity. The ISA is a professional organisation of sociologists and social scientists founded in 1949 under the auspices of UNESCO. With a membership comprising individuals who are members of research committees and national sociological associations, its last World Congress of Sociology held in Toronto Canada in July 2018 was attended by over 5,000 participants from various parts of the world.

A long-standing member of the ISA, Prof. Reddock is a former President of Research Committee 32 – Women and Society, and is currently a member of the Board of Research Committee 05 – Indigeneity, Racism, Nationalism and Ethnicity. She hopes to use her position to strengthen the position of sociology in the Caribbean region and to support the development of this field in the Caribbean region.

Congratulations to Dr Raffie Hosein who was awarded the 2018 Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty by the regional Latin America & Caribbean arm of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPC). The regional award recognizes excellence in classroom teaching, research and significant contributions to the petroleum engineering profession. Dr Hosein received his award in June at the SPE T&T Section Energy Resources Conference. Dr Hosein is Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at The UWI, and Coordinator of the MSc Reservoir Engineering Programme. Previously he worked as a Petroleum Engineer with the Ministry of Energy in Trinidad and later, as a Senior Associate Professor in the Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University at Qatar. He received his BSc, MPhil and PhD degrees in Petroleum Engineering from The UWI, Trinidad. He is a registered CEng MEI Chartered Petroleum Engineer with the Energy Institute (EI) of London and a Fellow with the Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining (FIMMM) of London.