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UWI Calendar September 2015 - January 2016

Critical Thinking Executive Development Workshops
September 10-11 & October 5-6
Institute of Critical Thinking, The UWI, St. Augustine Campus

  • September 10-11|Building organisational efficiency using Emotional Intelligence – Aligning skills, purpose and strategy. Team leaders learn strategies for improving awareness and control of their own emotions; techniques for managing workplace conflict positively; and more.
  • October 5-6 |Strategies for Handling Aggressive & Other Problem Personalities. Learn how to identify the difference between personalities who display difficult behaviours and those who thrive on conflict; implement a process for reaching balance and settling tensions between people within organisations and more.

Both workshops run from 9am to 4pm and cost TT$5000.
For more information, please visit www.sta.uwi.edu/news/ecalendar.

Human Communication Studies Conference
Identity, Context and Interdisciplinarity in Human communication Studies in the Caribbean and beyond
September 24 and 25
The UWI, St. Augustine Campus

Listen to panelists discuss subthemes such as communication studies education; communication, culture and gender; communication, culture and conflict; health communication; popular culture and critical theory and many other areas.

For further information, visit http://sta.uwi.edu/conferences/15/humancommunication/registration.asp.

Premium Open Lecture
Student Engagement – Back to Basics and Beyond the Tech Hype
September 25
Daaga Auditorium The UWI, St. Augustine Campus

The Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in association with the Guardian Group present a Premium Open Lecture by Dr. Elizabeth F. Barkley, Foothill College, Los Altos, California.

For further information, please call 662-2002 ext. 82611 or 224-3736 or email cetl@sta.uwi.edu. Or visit www.sta.uwi.edu/news/ecalendar.

The UWI Research Expo 2015: Advancing Knowledge, Impacting Lives
September 22-25
JFK Quadrangle, The UWI, St. Augustine Campus

Experience UWI research in action through interactive displays, mini workshops, networking opportunities, tours, cultural programming, fun activities for the kids and more.

For further information, please visit www.sta.uwi.edu/researchexpo

COTE 2015
Managing Development in Caribbean Economies: The Key Role of Health, Public Policy and Social Security
October 8 and 9
Learning Resource Centre, The UWI, St. Augustine Campus

The Department of Economics’ Annual Conference on the Economy (COTE 2015) will focus on sub-themes of Caribbean development like Health and Sustainable Development, Public Policy: Resource Challenges in Health, Social Security Challenges & Opportunities and many more.

For further information, visit: http://sta.uwi.edu/conferences/15/cote/index.asp.

UWI Graduation 2015
October 22 to 24

Mark your calendars! 2015 Graduation Ceremonies take place as follows:

  • October 22:
    • (AM) Faculties of Science & Technology and Food & Agriculture; Honorary Graduand and Guest Speaker; Mr. Hollis Charles.
    • (PM) Faculties of Engineering and Law; Honorary Graduand and Guest Speaker Justice; Jean Angela Permanand.
  • October 23:
    • (AM) Faculty of Social Sciences (Group 1) & ALL Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business graduands; Honorary Graduand and Guest Speaker; Mr. A. Norman Sabga.
    • (PM) Faculty of Social Sciences (Group 2); Honorary Graduand and Guest Speaker Mr. Gerard Besson
  • October 24:
    • (AM) Faculty of Humanities & Education; Honorary Graduand and Guest Speaker Dr. Marjorie Thorpe; Honorary Graduand and Guest Performer; Mr. David Rudder.
    • (PM) Faculty of Medical Sciences; Honorary Graduand and Guest Speaker Justice Ralph Narine; Honorary Graduand; Mr. Rajkumar "Krishna" Persad.

For further information, visit the St. Augustine Campus’ graduation website, closer to graduation dates at https://sta.uwi.edu/graduation/.

THE UWI SPEC International Half-Marathon
October 25, 2015
Sport and Physical Education Centre , St. Augustine Campus

Registration is open for The 12th UWI SPEC International Half-Marathon, which kicks off at 5.30am at The UWI Sport and Physical Education Centre (SPEC). Registration closes on September 25 or once the limit of 1,200 entries has been received. Registration is available at First Citizens branches.

For further information, please visit www.sta.uwi.edu/spec/marathon

The History of Investment in the Caribbean
November 4 to 8
The UWI, St. Augustine Campus

The University of the West Indies and the Caribbean Economic History Association (Asociación de Historia Económica del Caribe, AHEC) present the 3rd Annual Conference of the AHEC.

Listen to panelists discuss the evolution of investment in the Caribbean from the 15th century to the present; the movement of capital flows into and out of the greater region and the incorporation of the Caribbean into global economies and markets over the past centuries. The Conference will also address the flow of investments, its sources and destinations and the impact of these flows on the region’s economy and society, in micro and macro terms.

For further information, please visit www.sta.uwi.edu/news/ecalendar.

2nd Biennial Conference on Sport Studies and Higher Education: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Physical Literacy: Gender, Science, and Sport for Development
January 13-15, 2016
UWI St. Augustine

This conference will contribute to the development of research and scholarship on sport to support sports programmes in tertiary and higher education institutions.

Call for Papers – abstracts should be submitted by October 31, 2015 addressing sub-themes including but not limited to The Role of the State; Sexuality and Gender Identities in Sport, Anti-Doping Policy and more.

For further information, please email sportstudiesconference@sta.uwi.edu or visit www.sta.uwi.edu.