SIR ARTHUR LEWIS INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES (SALISES) Professor Neville C. Duncan, BSc, MSc UWI, PhD Manchester – Director INTRODUCTION SALISES as a multi-stringed instru-ment, continues to achieve substantial outputs in all its units and sections. This was an extremely good year both collectively and individually. As I say goodbye I must say it was a privilege to work with such a wonderful team. WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT The Institute co-hosted two major international conferences during this academic year. Dr. Aldrie Henry-Lee was Coordinator and Chair of the highly acclaimed “Caribbean Child Research Conference” financed by UNICEF, held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, October 21-22, 2008, Jamaica. Drs. Philip Osei and Eris Schoburgh, were organizers and co-chairs of a conference on Local Governance and Intergovernmental Relations in the Caribbean: Examining the Past, Assessing the Present and Predicting the Future. January 8-9, 2009. SALISES participated significantly in a conference hosted by the Centre for Gender and Development Studies, Cariforum Regional Gender and Trade Workshop and SALISES on Women’s Rights Analysis of Economic Partnership Agreements: The Implication of Trade Liberalisation, spearheaded by Dr. Leith Dunn. The Institute of Gender and Development Studies IGDS and the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) collaborated on hosting a seminar on “Establishing Common Ground: A Conversation on Reforming the Laws on Abortion in Jamaica”, at The Undercroft, UWI, Mona Campus, April 23, 2009. Dr. Henry-Lee was also Coordinator for the Teachers’ Workshop on Child Rights for Secondary School Teachers 473 held on May 19, 2009, funded by UNICEF, Jamaica; and also for the Teachers’ Workshop on Child Rights for Primary School Teachers held on June 2, 2009, funded by UNICEF, Jamaica. In these and in a number of international collaborative workshops, the SALISES Secretariat. A significant honour was bestowed on Krisitin Fox, at the PIOJ’s 20th Anniversary Conference, for her sterling contribution to the production of the Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions. Dr. Aldrie Henry-Lee received, along with Professor Julie Meeks (Caribbean Child Research Centre) the Principal’s Award (FSS) for the project with the most economic/developmental/business impact. Dr. Patsy Lewis won the Baroness Amos fellowship 2009/10, Centre for Caribbean Studies, Warwick University. MSc, MPhil, and PhD Degree Programmes The academic year 2007/2008 ended with nineteen (19) students being awarded the MSc degrees. The breakdown was as follows: Table 1: MSc Graduating Class 2007/2008 by programme and gender Governance & Economic Social Policy Public Policy Development Development TotalPolicy No. of Students 8 6 5 19(M=2; F=6) M=5; F=1) (M=2; F=3) (M=9; by Programme F+10) 2 3 1 6 Full-Time (M=1; F=1 (M=2; F=1) (M=0; F=1) 6 3 4 13 Part-time (M=1; F=5) (M=3; F=0) (M=2; F=2) MSc Governance and Public Policy (8); MSc Economic Development Policy (6); and MSc Social Policy (5). One (1) student was awarded the PhD degree in Governance and Public Policy in 2007-08. MSc Students (2008/2009) Thirty-three (33) offers were made for the MSc. programmes. Twenty-six (26) students accepted the offer and registered for the academic year 2008/2009, with thirteen (13) being part-time and thirteen (13) being full-time students. The breakdown was as follows: 474 Table 2: Registration for New MSc Student: 2008/2009 by programme and gender Governance & Economic Public Policy Development Social Policy Total Policy Development No. of Students 14 8 4 26 by Programme (M=4; F=10) M=4; F=4) (M=0; F=4) 6 5 2 13 Full-Time (M=1; F=5 (M=2; F=3) (M=0; F=2) 8 3 2 13 Part-time (M=3; F=5) (M=2; F=1) (M=0; F=2) Table 3: Returning MSc Students, 2008/2009 by programme and gender Governance & Economic Public Policy Development Social Policy Policy Development Total No. of Students 18 4 7 29 by Programme (M=3; F=15) M=1; F=3) (M=0; F=7) 2 0 1 3 Full-Time (M=0; F=2 (M=0; F=0) (M=0; F=1) 16 4 6 26 Part-time (M=3; F=13) (M=1; F=3) (M=0; F=6) Registered students (new and returning) were Governance and Public Policy, 32; Economic Development Policy, 12; and Social Policy Development, 11. New MPhil/PhD Students, 2008/2009 A total of nineteen (19) new MPhil/PhD students were registered for the academic year 2008/2009. The breakdown was as follows: Table 4: Registration for MPhil/PhD, 2008-200 by programme and gender Governance & EconomicDevelopment Social PolicyPublic Policy Policy Development Total No. of Students 7 6 6 19 by Programme (M=1; F=6) M=4; F=2) (M=0; F=6) 3 1 1 5 Full-Time (M=0; F=3 (M=0; F=1) (M=0; F=1) 4 5 5 14 Part-time (M=1; F=3) (M=4; F=1) (M=0; F=5) (Four students are to be assigned supervisors. One student was permitted to defer registration to 2009/2010). 475 Returning MPhil/PhD Students, 2008/2009 A total of forty-one (41) returning MPhil/PhD students were registered for the academic year 2008/2009. The breakdown was as follows: Table 5: Returning Cohorts –MPhil/PhD Registrations, 2008/2009 (programmes and gender) Governance & Economic Social Policy Public Policy Development Development TotalPolicy No. of Students 13 9 19 41 by Programme (M=5; F=8) M=4; F=5) (M=3; F=16) 2 4 7 13 Full-Time (M=1; F=1 (M=2; F=2) (M=0; F=7) 11 5 12 28 Part-time (M=4; F=7) (M=2; F=3) (M=3; F=9) There were sixty (60) New and Returning MPhil/PhD students registered for the 2008/2009 academic year. MPhil/PhD Theses Submissions Freda Thomas (Emerita Professor Elsa Leo Rhynie, Supervisor) and Beverley Shirley (Emerita Professor Elsa Leo Rhynie and Professor Duncan, co-supervisors) had their MPhil thesis upgraded for resubmission as a PhD thesis, which were subsequently submitted. Girjanauth Boodraj’s (Drs. Lewis and Northover, co-supervisors) after a successful Oral examination was recommended for the award of the PhD degree. Annicia Gayle-Geddes (Dr. Henry-Lee supervisor) has submitted her PhD thesis which is being examined. Paul Farquharson has submitted his thesis. An external examiner and an independent examiner have been identified and their names have been submitted to Graduate Studies and Research. Courtney Christie-Veitch’s (Dr. Gavin Chen, supervisor) PhD thesis was examined. Jennifer Henry’s (Dr. Osei, supervisor) PhD thesis was recommended for the award of the PhD degree, after a successful Oral examination. Tahzmoye Crawford’s (Dr. Osei, supervisor) thesis is being examined by a new independent examiner. Winsome Minott is presently doing extensive corrections to her MPhil thesis and will resubmit. Dwayne Vernon’s (Professor Boxill, supervisor) PhD thesis is currently being examined. SALISES’ net income from the cross-campus delivered MSc programmes for the year under review was commendable and it 476 becomes necessary that the allocations between campuses and with the UWI be resolved urgently so that the Regional Institute can proceed with its development programmes. Table 6: Net Income for SALISES’ Degree Programmes, 2008-09 Net Income J$ MSc/MPhil/PhD 5,797,803.04 DATA AND DOCUMENTATION CENTRE The DDC provided timely information and library facilities to the graduate community of the Mona Campus of the University, especially in the Social Sciences. This was done either through its own stock or by allowing access through the internet and/or the World-Wide-Web. Other local and overseas researchers also utilized the facilities, especially visiting Consortium Graduate School students from the United Kingdom and the United States. In terms of stock, the DDC worked in conjunction with the Main Library to increase our access to electronically packaged journal articles. We, nevertheless, continue to acquire relevant print documents, including copies of government documents (local and overseas), UN reports and those of other international agencies, work produced by SALISES Fellows and the other staff members of the Social Sciences Faculty, and conference papers (published and unpublished). Students and faculty have had access continuously over the last decade to hundreds of journal titles, abstracts and/or full text from several electronic journal packages through the main library’s web-page. Not all our required journals are included in the electronic packages and also to ensure continuity of service we continue to renew yearly subscriptions to approximately 100 journals. We also continue to receive a substantial number of journals through gifts and exchanges. Readings were processed for both semesters for the SALISES Graduate Programme, as well as a variety of graduate courses from all the departments in the Faculty with particular emphasis on Human Resource Development Programme (HRD) and the Department of Government. Our main database – ISERG — grew by approximately 80 records during this period, the CGS database (which lists our book and photocopy holdings for the various graduate programs) also increased by 50+ records, and substantial corrections were made to the SWTP 477 database which holds our older documents. Work was also continued on the Ministry Papers’ database (MPJ) and the more recent lists of Ministry Papers (2002-2008) were obtained from the Parliamentary Library. All data has been entered and editing of the database has begun. The web-interface which allows the databases to be accessed from any computer on campus is out of order but Mr. Richard Leach hopes to rectify this soon. Users of the DDC during this period included SALISES research staff and students, FSS faculty, and students, Mona School of Business students and overseas students. Formal orientation programmes on the use of the DDC were conducted for the 2008/9 cohort of students in Departments of Economics, Government, and SALISES. Throughout the year informal orientation sessions were done for new users of the DDC. A number of displays were mounted at the DDC by staff during the period. Research Days were held from January 29-30, 2009, the theme being Enabling Cutting Edge Research. Ms. Norma Davis and Mrs. Nadine Newman coordinated this activity and members of the academic another SALISES staff helped with the manning of the booth. Posters were also produced regarding the Child’s Research Conference co-chaired by Dr. Aldrie Henry-Lee and Mrs. Julie Meeks Gardner, for display on Research Days. SALISES obtained a double booth on this occasion so had more space for display. DEREK GORDON DATA BANK The Databank continued to provide technical services to post-graduate students, provide datasets to student and researchers both in Jamaica and elsewhere. The DGDB obtained the following data sets: the SLC 2007 and the PATH evaluation datasets. Documentation of datasets is being published online using the IHSN software – IHSN Microdata Management Toolkit. We also developed a database for tracking requests for data so that we can monitor the requests to ensure a timely response. It also serves to document demand over time. Our website has been moved to Mona domain but we still have complete control so can make changes as we see fit. This means that we have significantly more space so will be able to upgrade our website. A number of post-graduate students attended the SPSS course during the 2nd semester. This was highly successful with only one studentfailing the course. Feedback was good. The main negative related to poor availability of course material. This will be addressed. 478 Publications Unit, SES Journal, Books and Monographs Table 7: Sales Report Aug 1, 2008 – June 30, 2009 Sterling US$ JA$ 15,122.40 SES Subs 120.00 23,930.00 1,992,582.35 121,607.85 SES royalty Proquest 3,698.91 328,135.01 JAMCOPY royalties 62,642.85 Wali-in sales (SES) 10,383.00 Walk-in-sales 147.00 13,055.63(Special Books) 59,510.00 CSA Book sales 145.00 12,922.40 15,670.00 Total £120.00 $27,920.91 $2,605,768.28 (An average of J$89 to US$1 used in conversions) Social and Economic Studies (SES) Off Press: Vol. 57: 1, March 2008, general issue; Vol. 57: 2, June 2008, Special Issue on Crisis, Chaos and Change, Part 2; Vol. 57: 3 & 4 Sept/Dec 2008, general double issue Electronic Publishing – Putting SES online The process of making SES available online through the Scielo network is well underway now. Ruby McFadden produced the required files and they have been forwarded to the Scielo office through Mrs. Bandara of the Medical Library. A blog was also created for SES. PAPERS PRESENTED Benfield, Warren, Dr. • “Migration, Remittances and the Well-being of Children”, Caribbean Child Research Conference, Promoting Child Rights Through Research, October, 2008, Pegasus Hotel, Kingston, Jamaica. 479 Duncan, Neville, Professor • “Political Risks: Small States’ Responses to Build Resilience” 10h Annual SALISES conference, March 25-27, 2009, Errol Walton Barrow Conference, UWI, Barbados. • “World Hunger and Food Crises in a Chaotic Crises-Ridden World: Caribbean Needs and Responses” Arthur Lewis/George Beckford Memorial Lecture, July 6-11, 2009, Erskine Sandiford Conference Centre. Fox, Helen Kristin • “Literacy and Numeracy Levels of Adolescents 10-15 years attending primary and secondary schools in Jamaica” Caribbean Child Research Conference, October 2008, Pegasus Hotel, Kingston, Jamaica. • “High Risk Health Behaviour of Adolescents 10-15 years attending schools in 2005”, Caribbean Health Research Council’s 54th Conference, St. Lucia, April 2009. Henry-Lee, Aldrie, Dr. • “Child Rights and Natural Disasters in Haiti”, Caribbean Child Research Conference, October, 2008, Pegasus Hotel, Kingston, Jamaica. Lewis, Patsy, Dr. • “Regionalism as the route to development: the CARIFORUM/ EC EPA”, Caribbean Studies Association, 34th annual Conference, June 1-5, 2009, Kingston, Jamaica. • “Remembering the Grenada Revolution: A personal engagement”, Caribbean Studies Association, 34th annual Conference, June 1-5, 2009, Kingston, Jamaica, Friday, June 5. • “The CARIFORUM/EU EPA”, Rhyme and Reason Symposium, School of Business Administration, UTECH February 27, 2009. • “The Cariforum/EC EPA: Concerns”, The Hugh Lawson Shearer Trade Union Education Institute, UWI, Mona, September 4, 2008. 480 Northover, Patricia, Dr. • “Navigating Risks and Reframing Resilience - A Perspective on Small states suffering for space”, 10th SALISES conference, Barbados, March 25-7, 2009. • (with Michaeline Crichlow), “Small states and citizens suffering for space: Neoliberal governmentality, Democratic deficits and the Coloniality of Being” CSA Panel, Rethinking Development, Globalization and Power: Creolization on the move, Kingston Jamaica, June 2009. Osei, Philip Duku, Dr. • with Nwasike, Joan (2009) “A Study of the Contract Systems of Employment of Permanent Secretaries in Botswana, Ghana, Uganda and Zambia”. Commonwealth Association of Public Administration and Management (CAPAM) Conference, March 2-4, Arusha, Tanzania. • A Transparent Means Test-Based Social Protection System for St Kitts. Steering Committee, Institutional Strengthening for Social and Economic Development in St Kitts & Nevis. May 14, 2009, Basseterre, St Kitts. • “The Community Leadership Model and Country Ownership in Local Development in Jamaica”, Conference on Local Governance and Intergovernmental Relations in the Caribbean, January 8-9, 2009, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica. Paul, Annie • “The turn of the native: vernacular creativity in the Caribbean”, SALISES Annual Conference, Cave Hill Campus, UWI, March 25-29, 2009. • with Nicole Smythe-Johnson, “Gender Studies at UWI: An Agenda to Educate, Advocate or Postulate?” CSA Conference, Kingston, Jamaica, June 2009. 481 Robinson-Walcott, Kim, Dr. • “Bun or Fire Bun? Wily Women and Survival Slackness in Jamaican Popular Fiction.” International Conference on the Book, Washington, DC, October 2008. • “On Reading John Hearne Seriously”. CSA conference, Kingston, Jamaica, 1-5 June 2009. Tindigarukayo, Jimmy, Dr. • “An Evaluation of the Bashy Bus HIV Prevention Clinic in Jamaica”, Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID) Conference, Carlton University, Canada, June 5-7, 2009. • “A Survey of Placement Agencies for National Youth Service (NYS) Interns in Jamaica”, 10th SALISES Annual Conference, March 25-27, 2009. Wynter-Palmer, Jennifer, Dr. • “Building Resilience within Human Capital Development: Global Trends versus Local Necessities”, SALISES Annual Conference, Cave Hill Campus, UWI, March 25-29, 2009. PUBLICATIONS Books and Monographs Henry-Lee, Aldrie, Dr. * Henry-Lee Aldrie & Julie Meeks Gardner (2009) eds. Volume 2. Promoting Child Rights: Selected Papers from the Caribbean Child Research Conferences, 2007 & 2008. SALISES, Mona Campus. * Wilma Bailey, Georgiana Gordon-Strachan, Aldrie Henry- Lee, Jasper Barnet, Dillon Alleyne, Stanley Lalta (2009). An Evaluation of the Impact of User Fees for Preventive Care Services on Health Status and Coping Behaviour of Patients in Jamaica, IDRC. 482 Paul, Annie * Paul, Annie, ed. 2007. Caribbean culture: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite, Kingston: UWI Press. 43pp. * Helmut K. Anheier and Yudhishthir Raj Isar, eds. Annie Paul, assoc. ed. 2008. The cultural economy, Volume 2, the Cultures and Globalization Series. London: Sage. 688 pp. Northover, Patricia, Dr. * with Crichlow, Michaeline. 2009. Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation. Durham: Duke University Press. Paper, ISBN, 978-0-8223-4441-4, 336 pp, John Hope Franklyn Book. Osei, Philip Duku, Dr. * with Nwasike, Joan N. (2009) ‘An Analysis of the Contract System of Employment for Senior Public Service officers in the Caribbean: Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, and St Lucia’. Commonwealth Secretariat, Performance Management Series 1, The Commonwealth Secretariat, London. 44pp. Refereed Book Chapters Northover, Patricia, Dr. * with M. Crichlow, 2009. Locating the Global in Creolization: Ships Sailing Through Modern Space. Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation. Durham: Duke University Press: 15-40. * with M. Crichlow, 2009. Creole Time on the Move. Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation. Durham: Duke University Press: 41-71. Osei, Philip Duku, Dr. * Osei, Philip D. and Nwasike, Joan (2009), “A Study of the Contract Systems of Employment of Permanent Secretaries in Botswana, Ghana, Uganda and Zambia” Perspectives in Human Resource Governance, CAPAM Featured Report. Commonwealth Association for Public Administration & Management: Ottawa, Canada, 55-64, April. 483 Paul, Annie * “No space for race: The bleaching of the nation in postcolonial Jamaica”, In The African-Caribbean worldview and the making of Caribbean society, ed. Horace Levy. Kingston: UWI Press, 94-113, 2008. Robinson-Walcott, Kim, Dr. * “Small Islands and the Space in Between: Exploring the Liminal World of Andrea Levy.” In Freedom and Constraint, ed. Elizabeth Thomas-Hope, Kingston: Ian Randle, March 2009, 99-112. Refereed Journal Articles Benfield, Warren * “Determinants of Objective and Subjective Well-Being”, Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 57, No. 3. Duncan, Neville, Professor * Tazhmoye V. Crawford, Neville C. Duncan, Donovan A, McGrowder, Alexay D. Crawford, Lorenzo A. Gordon, and Paul A. Bourne, “The Implications of Utility Access on Gender: The Case of Jamaica, European Journal of Social Sciences, Vol 8, No.4 (2009), 615-625. Fox, Helen Kristin * G Gordon-Strachan, K Fox, J Dunn, DE Ashley, “Assessing the Level of Births and Birth Registration in Jamaica” in Promoting Child Rights Through Research. Selected papers from Caribbean Child Research Conference, 2006, ed. by A. Henry-Lee & J. Meeks Gardner, SALISES, Mona 2008. * “Interpersonal violence in three Caribbean countries: Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago”, Rev Panam Salud Publica, 2008 Dec; 24(6): 409-421. Osei, Philip Duku * “Managing Urban Regeneration in Jamaica: The Cluster Implementation Approach”, Local Government Studies, Vol. 35, 3. 315-334. (2009) 484 Paul, Annie * “‘Do you remember the days of slav’ry?’ Connecting the Past with the Present in Contemporary Jamaica”, Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies, Vol. 30, No. 2, June 2009, pp. 169-178. * “Regarding the South…from the South’. Catalogue essay for exhibition South-South: Interruptions and Encounters. Justina M. Barnike Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto, pp. 65-70, 2009. * “Dream it plan it chance it risk it: Kingston Logic”, Printed Project: Issue 11. Dublin, Ireland, pp. 118-123. 2009. Robinson-Walcott, Kim, Dr. * “Bun or Fire Bun? Wily Women and Survival Slackness in Jamaican Popular Fiction”, International Journal of the Book 6, issue 4 (June): 103-112. * “Deconstructing Jamaican Whiteness: A Diasporic Voice”, Small Axe 29, (June). Wynter-Palmer, Jennifer, Dr. * “Beyond Performance Appraisal – A Comprehensive Approach for Improving Employee Performance”, Caribbean Journal of Public Sector Management, Vol. 10 No. 1, Nov 2009, pp 44-57. * “The Compensation Saga in Jamaica – Pouring New Wine into Old Wineskins”, Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 57, Nos.3&4, Sept/Dec 2008, pp 231-256. Non-Refereed Paul, Annie * Review of Krista Thompson, An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, in Journeys. The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing (New York-Oxford), Berghahn Books, vol. 9 issue 1, 2008, 130-33. 485 * As Jamaican as Ackee and Saltfish: Cindy Breakspeare as Reggae Subject. Riddim magazine (Germany). December 2008. PUBLIC SERVICE Benfield, Warren, Dr. – Advisor, Government of St. Lucia under the CDB Project, Poverty Reduction Strategy Duncan, Neville, Professor – Member, National Advisory Council on Local Government Reform, GOJ – Member, Plan Advisory Group (PAG), Jamaica 2030 Development Plan – Member, Editorial Committee, Pensamiento Proprio – Member, President’s (UTECH) Research Initiative Award Selection Committee. Fox, Kristin – Member, Early Childhood Commission Research committee – Member of Steering Committee - Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions Henry-Lee, Aldrie Dr – Member, UNICEF/PIOJ Social Investment in Children Initiative – Member, Caring Ministry, Sts. Peter and Paul Church Lewis Patsy, Dr. – Member, University Hospital Board of Management – Member, Executive Committee of The Cambridge Society, Jamaica Osei, Philip Duku Dr. – Member, National Committee on Decentralisation, Government of Jamaica 486 – Board member, S-Corner Clinic and Community Development – Member, Islands and Small States Network, the University of Malta Paul, Annie – Associate Editor, Small Axe (www.smallaxa.net), Duke University Press, USA – Juror, Super Plus Under 40 Artist of the Year Competition 2008 – Board member, National Gallery Education and Publication committee – Editorial Board member and coordinator, the Caribbean Review of Books – Board member, JAMCOPY, the Jamaican Copyright Licensing Agency – Member, IFRRO (International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations) AGM 2008 local organizing committee Robinson-Walcott, Kim Dr. – Editor, Jamaica Journal – Editorial board member, Caribbean Review of Books – Consultant editor, Macmillan Caribbean – Member, Board of the Jamaica Library Service – Member, Education and Publications Committee of the National Gallery of Jamaica – Chief adjudicator, novels, annual Jamaica Creative Writing Competition, JCDC Wynter-Palmer, Jannifer Dr. – Board Chair, Church of God in Jamaica Girls’ Home, Leadership and Development Commission – Consultancy, Ministry of National Security, Policy Directorate 487