Barbara Bailey is Professor and Regional Coordinator of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies (CGDS), University of the West Indies (UWI). She was formerly specialist Lecturer in Curriculum Studies in the School of Education, UWI, Mona, Jamaica. Professor Bailey’s recent teaching and research focus has been on Gender and Education Studies, with particular emphasis on the relationship of educational outputs to outcomes in the economic, social and political spheres for both genders. She has published several related articles, including “Gender and Education in Jamaica: What About the Boys?”, published in the UNESCO monograph series, Education for All in the Caribbean: Assessment 2000 Professor Bailey has been part of the International Women’s Movement for the past two decades, participating in several related fora, including (as part of Jamaica’s delegation) the 3rd World Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, the 4th World Conference in Beijing, China and the 2000 Beijing +5 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Elsa Leo-Rhynie, Professor of Gender and Development Studies at the UWI, was appointed Pro Vice Chancellor and Chair of the Board for Undergraduate Studies at the UWI in August 2002. Prior to this, she served as Deputy Principal of the Mona Campus for six years, as Regional Coordinator of the CGDS, UWI for four years, as Executive Director of the Institute of Management and Production for five years, and as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education for ten years .  Professor Leo-Rhynie has carried out research and published extensively in the areas of gender, education and training. She has directed projects for government and international agencies, and has also successfully undertaken consultancy assignments across the Caribbean region. She sits on a number of Boards and Foundations involved in education, and chairs the Dudley Grant Memorial Trust that advocates on behalf of early childhood education in Jamaica.

Yasmeen Yusuf-Khalil, is Programme Coordinator for the Certificate Programme in Gender and Development Studies, offered by the Centre for Gender and Development Studies, Regional Coordinating Unit (CGDSRCU), University of the West Indies (UWI). Contracted to start this Distance Learning programme in January 2002 Dr. Yusuf-Khalil brought to the job her expertise in Instructional Technology and Distance Education, Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education. Prior to this, she worked as part time lecturer in Curriculum Studies with the Faculty of Education, UWI, Mona from 1996, as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Professional Studies at the Mico College for teachers for eight years, and in Primary Education for twenty years. Dr. Yusuf-Khalil has also worked with the Government of Jamaica in collaboration with different international agencies on numerous research projects conducted at the national level. She served also as evaluation specialist for the New Horizon Project 2000 – 2002. Her published works have been in the fields of teacher education, curriculum studies and gender studies.

Louraine Emmanuel: Administrative Officer

Mrs. Louraine M. Emmanuel, is the Administrative Officer in the Regional Coordinating Unit. She has worked in the Centre for Gender and Development Studies since its inception in 1993. However, her knowledge and involvement with the Centre goes back to 1986 with Dr. Lucille Mathurin Mair on a project funded by the Government of the Netherlands to sensitize and train staff to teach Women’s Studies and to formally establish a Gender & Development Studies Programme at the UWI. She was also instrumental in setting up the infrastructure of the Centre for Gender & Development Studies on the Mona Campus. Prior to this she worked in the University Library (1975-1986). She is a graduate of the University of the West Indies – B.A. (Special Hons.).

Florence Pearson: Executive Secretary

Mrs. Pearson has worked for the Centre for Gender and Development Studies since 2000. She has a First Degree from City College, NY and is currently attending courses at the University of the West Indies towards earning a Diploma in Psychology. She loves tennis and scrabble.

 

Margaret Hunter: Office Attendant

As Office Attendant Mrs. Hunter deals with the every day care of the office and assists in its operations, including photocopying of materials, and delivery of mails. Mrs. Hunter has been with the Centre since 1997.

 

Eulalee Singh : Documentalist

Mrs Singh holds a B.A. General Degree & a Diploma in Library Studies. She has worked in the Centre for Gender and Development since 1997. As the documentalist she organizes and maintains a collection of reading resources [ Reading Room] for the Centre and provides reference service. Prior to working in the CGDS, during the period 1973 – 1996, she worked at the UWI Main Library in the Medical Branch Library, Acquisitions, Loan and Reference, and the Cataloguing Departments of the West Indies and Special Collection Section. Mrs. Singh also overseas the operations of the Home Work Centre operated by the Centre for after school care for children of UWI staff members and students, under the supervision of the Regional Coordinator, Professor Barbara Bailey.

Georgia Brown : CUSO Cooperant/Research Assistant

Georgia Brown is the CUSO Cooperant/ Research Assistant working in the Centre for Gender and Development since December 2005. Ms. Brown holds a B.A in History (African Studies) with a minor in Gender Studies and is currently pursuing her M.Sc in Gender and Development Studies. Her interest in pursuing the Masters programme, and working in the Centre emanates from her understanding of gender as a tool of analysis and its potential to solve the many developmental problems that countries experience, especially developing countries. Ms. Brown has had experience in conducting research in the field of gender studies and in teaching/tutoring undergraduate students in the Faculty of Social Science and the Faculty of Humanities & Education at the UWI.

Grace Christie: Research Assistant

Ms. Christie has been employed as part-time Research Assistant in the Centre for Gender and Development Studies (CGDS), since September 1, 2005. She holds two degrees from the University of the West Indies: B.Sc. in Management Studies (1998); and M.Sc. in Gender and Development Studies (2001). Ms. Christie has worked with the Centre for Gender & Development Studies (CGDS) as Research Assistant to Prof. Barbara Bailey on various research projects since 2001. She considers her work on the production of a Gender Profile of Jamaica for the Japanese development agency, JICA in 2004/5, in which she assisted Prof. Bailey, to be her greatest accomplishment to date. Mrs. Christie has also worked in the CGDS as substitute lecturer and tutor for the women's studies course, "Introduction to Women's Studies". Other work done in gender includes Ms. Christie's employment as Women's Sector Coordinator/Coordinator for the Association of Women's Organizations in Jamaica (AWOJA) under the USAID-funded project, MSI/CIV-JAM, which closed in September 2006. In earlier employment as a CUSO Cooperant, Ms. Christie served as Project Support Officer assigned to the CIDA-funded Canada/Caribbean Gender Development Programme. She currently volunteers with three (3) women sector organizations: Women's Media Watch; Women's Crisis Centre; and AWOJA. Previous positions held by Ms. Christie include those of Information Officer at the British Council; and Pensions (FSSU) Clerk at the Bursary, UWI.

This Unit also contracts persons with specific skills related to gender and development studies to assist with various projects and programmes, including teaching in the distance education programme and the face-to-face gradate studies degree programme.