Laurette Bristol (PhD) currently serves as the Director, School of Education and Chair, Eastern Caribbean Joint Board of Teacher Education, at The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. She has over twenty-five years of service in the areas of primary education, teacher education, education administration and education policy in the Caribbean and internationally.

From 2018 - 2023, Dr. Bristol served as the Programme Manager, Human Resource Development at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat Headquarters in Guyana. Dr. Bristol is a narrative researcher and postcolonial scholar with over forty peer-reviewed, single-authored and co-authored books, book chapters and journal articles. Her research explores the intersection between history and educational practices and considers such educational matters as education transformation, mentoring and educational leadership.

In 2017, Dr. Bristol won the Accreditation Council of Trinidad and Tobago (ACTT) Quality in Tertiary Education (QuiTE), Excellence in Applied and Academic Research (Individual Category) Award. In 2015, she won the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Caribbean and African Studies in Education (CASE) Outstanding Research Paper Award for her paper: “Reflective Leading: A Case of a Principal’s Practice in a Small Urban Primary School.” This was a co-authored submission.

Dr. Bristol is currently serving as the Chair- Caribbean and African Studies in Education, Special Interest Group within the American Educational Research Association.

Dr. Bristol has served as a visiting scholar at the Finnish Institute for Educational Research (FIER), University of Jyväskylä, Finland (2017, 2015 and 2013) and the University of Venda and the Central University of Technology, South Africa in 2024.