Dr. Sherene James‑Williamson is a Jamaican geoscientist whose work advances geoheritage, geodiversity, and the development of geosites and geoparks across Caribbean Small Island Developing States. She is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) and is currently serving her second three‑year term as Head of the Department of Geography and Geology at The University of the West Indies, Mona, where she leads regional research in Earth sciences, landscape interpretation, and geoconservation. 

She has expanded heritage discourse through her work on absence heritage, exploring how loss and memory shape resilience and deepen understandings of heritage beyond traditional framings. Her research emphasizes how geoheritage and geodiversity underpin cultural identity, sustainability, and national development. Currently, her work in disaster heritage explores themes relevant to non‑economic loss and damage in the Caribbean. 

Dr. James‑Williamson is widely published in regional and international journals and contributes her expertise through service on boards and committees of the Government of Jamaica and within the University of the West Indies. She is also a dedicated mentor who has guided students at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She currently supervises two PhD and four MPhil students whose projects range from land tenure security and place attachment, environmental change, to the application of GIS, multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA), and the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) to geodiversity, geoheritage, geotourism, and circularity frameworks. 

Through her scholarship, service, and mentorship, Dr. James‑Williamson continues to shape the future of Caribbean geoscience and heritage studies, ensuring that geological landscapes are recognized as vital foundations for resilience and sustainable development.