The Partnership Initiative for Sustainable Land Administration (PISLM) has awarded Postgraduate Scholarships to 5 CARICOM nationals.
This initiative by means of the PISLM/CSIDS-SOILCARE Postgraduate Scholarship program, will see the students commencing their research in soil and land administration in September 2024 and January 2025, respectively.
The scholarships are tenable solely on the College of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. Nevertheless, supervision of analysis might be offered by the College of Guyana and the College of Belize.
The awards are valued between US $50,000 to US$75,000 and can cowl tuition, obligatory charges, books, and dwelling bills.
Twenty purposes have been obtained for the scholarship programme when it was launched in Could 2023.
The appliance course of was carried out by means of a web-based platform the place candidates have been required to submit a accomplished utility type and supporting paperwork. The purposes have been reviewed by a technical committee by means of a complete screening device and short-listed candidates have been subjected to an interview, after which the ultimate resolution on the recipients was made.
Below the CSIDS-SOILCARE section 1 Challenge, PISLM seeks to supply progressive options by means of capability constructing, to extend coaching on the educational stage, as a way of addressing long-term capability wants. It was in opposition to this backdrop that the scholarship initiative was conceptualized.
The 5 scholarship recipients exhibited the aptitude and competence to finish their course of research. Furthermore, they’ve exhibited exemplary dedication to their educational pursuits, group service, and future profession targets.
The 2024 PISLM Students are:
- Michelle Wilson–Howard (Barbados).
- Abidas Ash- (Belize).
- Darron Williams- (Grenada).
- Omali Dare (Guyana).
- Damian Adjodha (St Lucia).
These scholarships have been formally conferred on the sixth PISLM Excessive-level Discussion board on April 11 in Grenada.
The PISLM is assured that the chosen recipients will make vital contributions to their respective fields and international locations, within the areas of sustainable soil administration (SSM) and sustainable land administration (SLM), soil well being, soil and land evaluation/functionality, land degradation, spatial modeling, GIS, carbon seize/sequestration; or any space being addressed by the CSIDS-SOILCARE Part 1 Challenge.
