The College of the West Indies (The UWI) is happy to announce the appointment of its two latest professors, famend consultants in incapacity research and gender and sexuality.
Dr Floyd Morris, the Director of The UWI Centre for Incapacity Research, has been promoted to the place of Professor of Incapacity Research and Politics and Dr Karen Carpenter, the Head of the Institute for Gender and Growth Research at The UWI Mona Campus, has been promoted to the place of Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Psychology. The promotions took impact from Might 29, 2024.
Each people had been elevated to the College’s highest tutorial rank following an intensive evaluation that included an analysis of their analysis amount and high quality, publications, instructing, and general skilled endeavours by inner and exterior assessors. Professors Morris and Carpenter had been recommended by their assessors for conducting useful analysis that contributed to coverage improvement and offered sensible instruments for inquiry and advocacy inside their respective fields.
Extra concerning the Professors
Professor Floyd Morris
Professor Floyd Morris is the primary particular person with a visible incapacity to be promoted to this most senior rank at The UWI.
Director of The UWI Centre for Incapacity Research (UWICDS), he’s a world chief in incapacity, human and civil rights, a politician, and an individual with a lived expertise of incapacity. Assessors notice that in a area primarily dominated by students within the world north, Professor Morris’ Incapacity Research analysis, which focuses on Jamaica and the Anglophone Caribbean, is important and wealthy in concepts and conceptual frameworks. His analysis has influenced incapacity discourse and coverage in Jamaica, the broader Caribbean and the world.
Professor Morris’ work has produced the ‘Morris Accessibility Scale for Cities’, a sensible instrument for assessing boundaries and alternatives associated to entry to housing, roads, public areas, workplaces and public amenities. Commenting on Professor Morris’ revealed analysis, one exterior assessor famous that “he makes useful suggestions to governments but additionally recognises the roles of the enterprise sector and non-governmental organisations in accelerating social change in a approach that meaningfully contains and democratically empowers individuals with disabilities.”
Professor Morris has authored three refereed books: ‘Cultural Inclusion: The Case of Individuals with Disabilities in Jamaica’ (2022); ‘Inclusive Training: The Key to Social Transformation (2021) and ‘Political Communication Methods in Put up-Independence Jamaica’ (2020). He has additionally revealed six ebook chapters, 11 referred journal articles, a number of useful technical studies and different manuals for CARICOM, UNESCO, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Jamaican Authorities. Internationally, he has introduced at conferences in Antigua-Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, Chile, Canada, Kenya, Trinidad and Tobago, the UK and the USA. His contributions embrace public training items in Jamaican dailies, The Gleaner, and The Observer. As an instructional, Professor Morris has supervised 4 graduate college students, lectured extensively and championed incapacity consciousness and coverage on the College.
Via the UWICDS, Professor Morris has mobilised over JA $110 million in grant funding since 2009. This contains funding from the Commonwealth Secretariat for analysis in well being care within the Caribbean and from UNESCO for coaching on the UN Conference on the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities. From 2021-2024, he served as an elected Professional Member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities. On June 11, 2024, he was re-elected for a second time period on the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities.
For his glorious contributions, Professor Morris has been awarded The Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Public Service (2020); he was honoured as an ANSA Caribbean Laureate for Excellence in Civic and Public Service by the Sabga Basis (2021), and he obtained the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Incapacity Coverage and Legislative Reform (2012) from the Authorities of Jamaica.
Professor Karen Carpenter
Gender, sexuality and academic psychology skilled, Professor Karen Carpenter is the Head of the Institute for Gender & Growth Research, Mona Campus Unit. In keeping with assessors, the UWI alumna is a gifted thought chief who works with a variety of private and non-private sector organisations “addressing a number of the most intellectually and emotionally difficult points in what remains to be a comparatively new and rising area.”
Professor Carpenter was additional recommended for establishing herself as a distinguished researcher and top-of-the-line and brightest students within the area. She has co-authored the ebook ‘Language, Race and the International Jamaican’ (2020), edited ‘Interweaving Tapestries of Sexuality & Tradition within the Caribbean’ (2017), and in 2007 revealed a brief monograph titled ‘Full Bilingual Training in a Creole Language Scenario: The Jamaican Bilingual Main Training Challenge’. Professor Carpenter’s publication document additionally contains six ebook chapters, 11 journal articles and a number of other technical studies. These have included various studies for the Jamaican Authorities and a UNICEF report, ‘A Situational Evaluation of Youngsters Orphaned or Made Weak attributable to HIV & AIDS in Jamaica’ (2009). She has raised US $140,000 in grant funding for her analysis and has produced, for business use, “wanted instruments for inquiry and advocacy,” in line with certainly one of her assessors.
Professor Carpenter has served as a reviewer for Palgrave McMillian Publishers and Springer Publishers out of London; the Caribbean Journal of Training; and The UWI Press. She has introduced her work extensively in Jamaica and at worldwide conferences in St. Kitts, Barbados and India, and has featured as a relationship Columnist for Buzz Caribbean Life-style Journal, JN Journal and the Jamaica Gleaner. She has labored to extend the visibility of the IGDS Mona by way of strategic media partnerships and appearances.
As a pacesetter in academia, Professor Carpenter has demonstrated her administration abilities and affect. She has supervised 26 graduate college students, together with 15 MPhil/PhD candidates. She has taught undergraduate and graduate programs throughout schools and departments and she or he oversaw the revision of the undergraduate Diploma in Gender and Growth Research. She additionally just lately led the event of a workforce of PhD Coaches in a one-year teaching initiative with the Workplace of Graduate Research and Analysis, geared toward enrolling as much as 25 college students throughout UWI schools to help the completion of their analysis.
Demonstrating “glorious working relationships” with large exterior stakeholder teams, as recommended by accessors, Professor Carpenter has performed skilled consultancies with UNICEF, the US Embassy, Jamaica, and JFLAG – Equality for all Basis, Jamaica.
