The Faculty congratulates Cynthia Barrow-Giles on her promotion to Professor. Take a look at her profile below.
Professor Barrow- Giles won a CETL/Guild Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning in 2019. She was Programme Coordinator for the B.Sc. Labour and Employment Relations programme for several years and the MSc Labour and Employment Relations programme up to academic year 2019-2020. She has supervised several students in the MSc programme and is currently supervising several MPhil students. Professor Barrow-Giles designed three taught masters programmes in her department and contributed to the development of another: E-Governance, Applied Psychology, Counselling Psychology and Integration Studies. She is currently developing the MSc and Diploma in Electoral Policy and Administration.
Professor Barrow-Giles has published more than forty publications including books, referred articles and book chapters, in addition to a substantial number of non-referred academic output and conference papers. She was awarded the Campus Award for Most Outstanding Research in 2018.
Her more recent publications include “An Examination of the Institutional Mechanisms to Promote Integrity in Barbados,” in Governance in Small States, (eds), Wouter Veenendaal, Lino Briguglio, Jessica Byron and Stefani Moncada, Routledge, (and Professor Philmore Alleyne, 2020}. “Mapping the Future of Caribbean Constitutionalism”, in The Caribbean Handbook on Caribbean Constitutionalism, (eds), Richard Albert, Derek O’Brien and Se-shauna Wheatle, Oxford University Press, 2020), and “CARICOM and the 2020 Unsettled Elections in Guyana: A Failed Political (Legal) Solution?” The Round Table, October 2020, which she authored with Dr. Ronnie Yearwood.
Over the course of her career at the University of the West Indies, Professor Cynthia Barrow-Giles has served as Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences twice and Head of the Department of Government, Sociology and Social Work.
Professor Barrow-Giles has engaged in seminal public service work that has exposed deficiencies and gaps in existing electoral laws, regulations and practices and promote greater transparency, accountability and best practices throughout the electoral process across the regional and international spaces. This work has been made possible through her regular participation in Observation Missions for the OAS and the Commonwealth in which she travelled across the Caribbean, the Gambia, Ghana, and Sri Lanka to observe various elections and electoral processes.
She was a member of the CARICOM High- Level Team for the recount of the March 2020 general and regional elections in Guyana and served as Team Leader of the CARICOM Observer Mission for the recount of the Guyana March 2020 general and regional elections. She was a member of the St. Lucia constitution Reform Commission (2006-2011) and was appointed by the government of Barbados as Advisor to the Republican Status Transition Advisory Committee (RSTAC) in August 2021. She is the recipient of the Principal’s Award of Excellence for Public Service 2019-2020, and the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Public Service 2020-2021.
