Research in Progress

Professor Cynthia Barrow-Giles

• Challenges to Constitutional Fidelity in the Caribbean 
• Electoral Law and Democratic Impulses
• Judicialisation of Politics in the Caribbean and the visible crown in the Caribbean
• Prominent Women in Caribbean Politics: Ongoing
• Women’s Political Representation: Agenda Setting
• Gender, Political Violations and Political Party Financing in the Commonwealth Caribbean: Ongoing.
• General Elections and Voting in the Commonwealth Caribbean: Ongoing
• Constitutional Reform in the Commonwealth Caribbean - Please see webpage for details.
• Money and Politics in the Caribbean: Ongoing

Dr. Cheryl Cadogan-McClean

• Psychocultural Factors Influencing Wellness
• Communication Anxiety and Student Academic Stress
• Factors Influencing the Effectiveness of Caribbean Workplace Wellness Programmes
• The Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on Women
• Healthy Work Organization Project

Dr. Wendy Grenade

• Governance and Multidimensional Security Threats in Small Developing States
• COVID-19 Implications for the Caribbean
• Caribbean Politics and Governance
• Comparative Regionalisms (CARICOM, OECS, Latin America, European Union)
• Politics in Grenada
• Regionalism and Governance: A Comparative Study of CARICOM and the OECS

Dr. Alana Griffith

• Attitudes towards Irregular Migration to Trinidad by Venezuelans
• Cannabis in CARICOM: Controversies, Challenges and Changing Drug Policy
• A Duty to Pay Taxes: Social Responsibility & Failed Social Citizenship
• In/security & Welfare in Haiti
• No Market for the Older Worker: The Conundrum of 'Retirement' & Public Pension in CARICOM

Dr. Kristina Hinds

• Caribbean Civil Society & Governance
• Caribbean thought as international relations theorizing 
• Voter behaviour in the Caribbean
• Comparative research on civil society activism in the African Union and the Caribbean Union. This project included a research visit to African Union Headquarters in Ethiopia in December 2012 and employs computer based textual analysis.
• Research on civil society use of social media and Web based technologies. Initial survey conducted 2011-2012.

Dr. Tennyson Joseph

• Ongoing work on the Political Thought of C.L.R. James. Existing Research being converted into a book for publication.
• General Elections in the Caribbean in the 21^st Century. The aim is to produce a special Edition of a Journal on General Elections in the Caribbean from a collection of papers presented at CSA 2013 on Elections in the Caribbean.
• Ongoing work on the Political Thought of W.A. Lewis.
• Ongoing work on Peasant Revolts and Political Change in St. Lucia