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Microsoft Office Skills
August 18 to November 3
FSS Computer Laboratory
The Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) Computer Laboratory invites you to register for
its upcoming Microsoft Office Intermediate 2016 course which costs $3,000.
For more information on the course, please email
or call 645-7856, 662-2002 ext.83559
COTE 2018
October 10 to 11
Learning Resource Centre (LRC)
St. Augustine Campus
The UWI St. Augustine’s Department of Economics hosts their annual Conference
on the Economy (COTE 2018) under the theme, Economic Development challenges:
Looking Towards 2030. This year’s conference honours Professor Emeritus Patrick
Watson.
For more information, visit the Campus Events Calendar at
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Call for Papers
Third Regional Mixed Methods Research Conference
Deadline: October 31, 2018
The UWI, St Augustine Campus
The Mixed Methods International Research Association-Caribbean Chapter (MMIRA-
CC) together with the Schools of Education (Cave Hill, Mona and St. Augustine), Sir
Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), Schools of Nursing
(Mona and St. Augustine), Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business, Centre for
Language Learning, Faculty of Medical Sciences (St. Augustine) and the Department
of Government (Mona) present the 2019 Mixed Methods Conference in Trinidad and
Tobago. They have issued a Call for Papers with the deadline of October 31, 2018.
Registration for the conference opens August 15, 2018 and the conference takes
place on March 26 to 28, 2019.
For more information, please visit
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Climate Change Impacts on Food
and Nutrition Security Conference
November 12 to 16
Radisson Hotel
Port of Spain
The Faculty of Food and Agriculture (FFA) hosts the Climate Change Impacts on
Food and Nutrition Security Conference which aims to collate and share new
research experience and findings in sustainable agriculture and climate change
through interactions and publications.
For more information, visit the Conference’s website:
13th Annual Caribbean
Child Research Conference
November 15 to 16
St. Augustine Campus
The Caribbean Child Research Conference is an annual regional conference which
shares research on children and examines the status of children and child rights in the
Caribbean. This year’s theme is, Leaving No Child Behind: The 2030 Agenda. Children
can attend and make presentations. It is a partnership of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute
of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), the Institute of International Relations (IIR)
and the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS).
For more information, please visit
UWI LIFE 2018
Orientation Programmes
August 29
The UWI SPEC
The UWI St. Augustine invites incoming students and their supporters to their
official first welcome The UWI family. This is part of the First Year Experience (FYE)
year-long programme consisting of a series of orientation activities aimed at
helping students transition to UWI Life. The theme for this year’s FYE is Direct Your
Story. UWI Life is by invitation only. Times are as follows:
• UWI Life Student | 9am to noon
• UWI Life Support | 6 to 8pm
Invites are sent via email and via a personal letter to invitees mailing address.
EU-CARICOM Law Conference
September 26 to 27
University Inn and Conference Centre
St. Augustine
The UWI St. Augustine’s Faculty of Law, Brunswick European Law School of Ostfalia
University and Coventry Law School presents the EU-CARICOM Law Conference:
Present and Future Challenges.
The conference will feature topics on International Economic Law, UN Agenda 2030,
EU and CARICOM issues of developing and how to foster trade relations in times
of evolutionary development of regional cooperation and their related aspects to
other communities.
For more information, visit the Campus Events Calendar at
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Caribbean Energy Policy, Societies and Law Conference
8.30am to 4.30pm
October 4
University Inn and Conference Centre
St. Augustine
This multidisciplinary conference brings participants from diverse academic and
practitioner backgrounds for discussions on: Laws and Policies for Sustainable
Oil and Gas Development in the 21st Century; Gender, Energy and local Content/
Workforce Issues; Environmental Law and Ethics, and more.
For more information, visit the Campus Events Calendar at
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UWI
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AUGUST – NOVEMBER 2018
