Overview
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.
Research
Publications
Daley, G. (2023). Civil Society Organizations in Democratic Societies: A case study looking at the impact of the Jamaica Debates Commission the 2020 General Elections. Rethinking Democracy and Good Governance: Prospects and Paradoxes for the 21st Century. Routledge.
Waller, L., Walters, S. Satchell, N., Johnson, S., Daley, G., Reid, H. (2023). Promoting Democratic Governance among the Jamaican youth through Civic Education: The Experiences of the UWI-Mona Department of Government’s Governance Society. Rethinking Democracy and Good Governance: Prospects and Paradoxes for the 21st Century. Routledge.
Waller, L., Johnson, S. Satchell, N., Gordon, D., Daley, G., Reid, H., Fender, K., Llewellyn, P., Smyle, L.,Linton, P., and Fender, K. (2022). Woe is the dark web: The potential challenges faced by Caribbean Societies combating crime facilitated by the dark web. Journal of Transforming Government: People,Process and Policy.
Waller, L., Daley, G., Satchell, N., Gordon, D. (2020). The Possibilities of Internet Voting in Jamaica: Moving from convenience to fixing the problem of Voter Apathy among the Youth. The Electronic Journal of e-Government (EJEG).
Waller, L., Daley, G., Satchell, N., Gordon, D., Johnson, D., Walters, S., Johnson, S. (2020). Political Victimization in 21st Century Jamaica: Existence, Experience and Implication. Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, Volume 45, No. 2, December 2020 open access online issue.
Waller, L., Johnson, S., Gordon, D., Reid, H., Daley, G. (2024). Using Wacker's Framework for Theory Building to Theorizing Digital Transformation. Rii Forum 2024: Advancing Research on Technology, innovation, education and their social impact.Conference Proceedings. Springer.
