Featured on the cover Front cover, Left to Right: Back cover, Left to Right: The monument Quaw’s Quest honours William Quaw, one of the 295 enslaved Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Mr Damani Parris (President, Guild of Students) and the persons who at emancipation occupied the lands on which Cave Hill campus is Hon. Ronald Jones M.P. , Minister of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation currently situated. with plaque which marks the breaking of the ground at the Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, November 27, 2013. Professor Eudine Barriteau, Deputy Principal, delivers lecture entitled: Cave Hill in the Contemporary: The University as a Social Space, April 18, 2013. Naming of the Leslie Robinson Building in honour of Professor Leslie Robinson first Principal (ag) of the Cave Hill Campus, October 7, 2013. (L-R) Lady Mary Beckles, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles (center) receiving the certificate of Institutional Mrs Jacqueline Wade, Dr Paul Altman (Chairman, Cave Hill Campus Council), Accreditation from BAC Chair, Ms Yvonne Walkes in the presence of BAC’s Professor Eudine Barriteau, the Most Hon P.J.Patterson (former Prime Minister Executive Director, Ms Valda Alleyne and Professor Eudine Barriteau, Chair, of Jamaica), Dr Lilieth Robinson Bridgewater (daughter of Professor L. Robinson) Cave Hill Campus Accreditation Steering Committee, July 16, 2013. and Professor Sir Hilary Beckles. Prime Minister of Barbados, the Right Hon Freundel Stuart, Q.C.; M.P. seals the Sir Keith Hunte and Professor Sir Hilary Beckles at the naming and opening of Time Capsule during the 50th Anniversary closing ceremony, December 18, 2013. the Keith Hunte Hall, November 13, 2013. Professor Emeritus Sir Woodville Marshall signing a copy of From Plantation to Mr Anthony “Gabby” Carter performing at the unveiling of Quaw’s Quest, University Campus: the Social History of Cave Hill Barbados during the book launch, March 15, 2013. November 27, 2013. Mrs Jacqueline Wade, Campus Registrar, followed by Mr William Iton, University Registrar, leading academic procession at the Inter-faith Church Service in celebration of the 50th Anniversary, February 17, 2013. The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Barbados Departmental Reports 2012–2013 The University of the West Indies MISSION STATEMENT To advance education and create knowledge through excellence in teaching, research, innovation, public service, intellectual leadership and outreach in order to support the inclusive (social, economic, political, cultural, environmental) development of the Caribbean region and beyond. These Reports, which represent the research and teaching activities of the departments and the activities of non-teaching departments at Cave Hill, are presented annually to Campus Council and to the University Council. Reports are similarly presented at Mona and St. Augustine. Contents 4 Faculty of Humanities 116 Faculty of Science and 206 Institute for Gender and & Education Technology Development Studies: 5 Dean’s Overview 117 Dean’s Overview Nita Barrow Unit 8 Cultural Studies Department 119 Department of Biological 12 Department of History and Chemical Sciences & Philosophy 130 Department of Computer Non-Teaching Departments 21 Department of Language, Science, Mathematics and 218 The Academy of Sport Linguistics & Literature Physics Cave Hill 29 Errol Barrow Centre for 136 Centre for Resource 226 The Centre For Excellence in Creative Imagination (EBCCI) Management and Teaching & Learning (CETL) Environmental Studies 33 School of Education (CERMES) 240 The Main Library 250 Office of Student Services 260 UWI HIV/AIDS Response Programme (UWIHARP) 42 Faculty of Law 152 Faculty of Social Sciences 43 Dean’s Overview 153 Dean’s Overview 61 Faculty of Law Library 155 Department of Economics 164 Department of Government, Sociology and Social Work 74 Faculty of Medical Sciences 178 Department of Management 75 Dean’s Overview Studies 100 Chronic Disease 191 Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Research Centre (CDRC) Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) 198 Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade Law, Policy and Services 4 Faculty of Humanities & Education 2012 – 2013 • Dean’s Overview • Cultural Studies • Department of History & Philosophy • Department of Language, Linguistics & Literature • Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination • School of Education DEAN Deputy Dean (Planning and Graduate Affairs) Head, Department of History & Philosophy Professor Victor Sampson Dr Richard Goodridge Professor Pedro L. V. Welch BA, MA, PhD (UWI) BA (UWI), MA, PhD (Ibadan) BA (UWI), MSc. (Bath), Cert. Ed. Admin.(UWI), PhD (UWI) Deputy Dean (Outreach) Head, Department of Language, Dr Stacey Blackman Linguistics & Literature BA, Med (UWI), PhD (Camb) Professor Curwen Best BA, MPhil (UWI), PhD (Birmingham) Director, Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination Professor Gladstone Yearwood BFA (NYU), MA, PhD (Ohio University) Director, School of Education Dr Jennifer Obidah BA (CUNY), MA (Yale), PhD (University of California) Faculty of Humanities & Education 2012–2013 5 DEAN’S OVERVIEW onsistent with the pattern of commitment that has characterized the work of the Simon Newman and Lyn Abrams of the University of Glasgow. Staff in the Cultural CFaculty of Humanities and Education (FH&E) since its establishment, our report for Studies discipline welcomed Professor John Nauright of George Mason University. There the academic year, 2012- 2013 demonstrates that staff in the Faculty continue to uphold were other visitors to the Faculty during this period, most of whom were visiting either the traditions of excellence installed by the founders. That is not to say that there have to establish new linkages or to renew established connections. We might also note that not been strong challenges to the operations of the various units that make up the academic staff members also travelled abroad to various institutions on research visits, Faculty over this reporting period. In concert with its sister Faculties, the mood that as guest lecturers or to attend various symposia and conferences. enveloped the FH&E was one of quiet optimism as every effort was made to contain the stresses and strains imposed by a severe contraction of funding by the state. It There were several important developments in the experiences of the various became clearer at the beginning of the academic year that the future would require more departments during the year. In keeping with the Faculty’s self-perception of itself as prudent management of the resources – human and otherwise, that were allocated. the “artbeat” of the campus and university, the Department of History and Philosophy In that context, there was some slow-down in the recruitment of new staff and the planned and executed several programmes and projects. For example, the Department Faculty entered a period of adjustment that sought to maintain the quality of existing organized a series of training workshops in heritage management. Staff also launched a programmes while remaining true to the objectives of the shared strategic plan of series of public lectures of which the lecture series- The Emancipation Project: 1838- the UWI. 1937 was, perhaps, the signal event. Another flagship activity in the Departments was the hosting of the CHiPs symposium by sage, Professor Ochieng-Odhiambo. The 2012 Special mention must be made of the office staff in the Faculty Office, and that of the symposium was themed as “Body, Mind, Cognition”, and this attracted participants from various departments. Administrative Assistants and stenographer clerks, as well as other several institutions across the world. ATS staff members at the various unit levels were instrumental in making suggestions for a more efficient use of resources, and in assisting with the consequent activation of the The School of Education continued its service to the Eastern Caribbean by way of a Faculty’s work plan. It might be said that these ATS staff members had bought fully into number of deep curricular changes that were intended to make their course offerings the objectives of the strategic plan and that they were fully cognizant of their roles in the more relevant to the region’s needs and to position the School as a flag-bearer of the operationalizing of various aspects of the plan. As our attention shifts to a summary of Faculty, Campus, and University. Members of staff participated in key regional meetings the achievements of the various departments, their inputs must be seen as an underlying as, for example, in the Ministers of Education meeting in St. Kitts, 2012, and the Joint matrix of the successes recorded. Board of Teacher Education (JBTE) meeting in that same year. The School also revised its undergraduate course offerings in accordance with the core guidelines of the Academic Consistent with the pattern of previous years, the various Departments hosted a Quality Assurance Unit (AQAC). It also submitted for approval a number of exciting, number of international visitors – a feature of the Faculty’s academic profile that state-of-the -art Masters’ programmes, and organized a leadership course for educators emphasizes the establishment and maintenance of international linkages as a quality in the summer of 2012 and, again, in 2013, organized, in collaboration with the Ministry benchmark of the modern academy. In the Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination of Education in Barbados, an academy of leadership for Principals. (EBCCI), there was the visit of the highly rated jazz musicians, Marcus and Joan