UWI Press Editorial Committee
The University of the West Indies Press’ Editorial Committee is comprised of faculty members of the University of the West Indies. Members are appointed by the Vice-Chancellor of the University on the recommendation of the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Press. The Editorial Committee comprises 6 members drawn from the 5 campuses representing the following faculties: Humanities and Education, Social Sciences, Science and Technology, Law, Food and Agriculture, and Sport, and 2 members from the Board of Directors of the Press (a total of 8 members).
The 5 regular members shall serve a two-year term, renewable for not more than one year.
- The 2 members from the Board of Directors shall serve a two-year term, renewable for another two years.
- No member shall serve on the Editorial Committee for more than 4 years.
Ex-officio members:
The Managing Director and Acquisitions Editor who shall act as the Secretary to the Committee.
Functions of the Editorial Committee:
- To hear and confirm (or disapprove) manuscript proposals
- To advise on local and external reviewers where necessary
- To hear and confirm (or disapprove) recommendations to publish from the DPT
- To hear and confirm (or disapprove) journals to be admitted to the UWI Press Journals of the Caribbean platform
- To hear and confirm (or disapprove) series proposals
Committee Members 2022-2024
Tracy Robinson, Chair, LL.B. (UWI) B.C.L (Oxon) LL.M.(Yale)
Senior Lecturer, Deputy Dean (Graduate Studies & Research)
The University of the West Indies
Faculty of Law, (Mona)
Dr. Andrew Hunte Lecturer PhD; MSc; M Phil; BSc
Head School of Humanities and Education
The University of the West Indies
Five Islands Campus Antigua and Barbuda
Dr. Christine Descartes PhD
Lecturer in Psychology
The University of the West Indies
Department of Behavioural Sciences (St. Augustine)
Dr Nicole Phillip-Dowe, PhD
Senior Lecturer and Head of Site
The University of the West Indies Open Campus
Grenada
Dr Casey Allen, PhD, Lecturer
Environmental/Earth Science Coordinator
Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences
The University of the West Indies,
Cave Hill, Barbados
Dr. Gaius Eudoxie, (BSc., PhD. UWI)
Senior Lecturer
Department of Food Production Faculty of Food and Agriculture
The University of the West Indies
St. Augustine Trinidad, WI
Professor Funso Aiyejina (UWI St Augustine Campus)
Professor Kathleen Monteith ( UWI Mona Campus)
Christine A. Randle,
Director, UWI Press