Dr. Gavin Daley is a Lecturer in Research Methods at the University of the West Indies, Mona-Jamaica (UWI). He received his Ph.D. in Political Science at the UWI and was awarded the 2012 Caribbean-Pacific Island Mobility Scheme (CARPIMS) Scholarship, which afforded him the opportunity to complete a mobility doctorate in Development Studies at the University of the South Pacific, Laucala-Fiji.

In fifteen (15) years of study, learning, and teaching at the University of the West Indies and in collaboration with a number of colleagues at the UWI, he has written several technical reports for government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), private sector companies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs); two academic articles and his Ph.D. thesis entitled: The politics of public policy in Jamaica: An Analysis of the Implications of a Change of Government on the Sustainability of Local Government Efficiency.

Dr. Daley also lectures in criminology and mathematics.