Overview
Dr. Yonique Campbell is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government at The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. She holds a DPhil in Human Geography from the University of Oxford, where she was a Commonwealth Scholar. Dr. Campbell has served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Ministry of Health and Wellness (Government of Jamaica) and a Policy consultant. Before attending the University of Oxford, she worked in the Office of the Cabinet in Jamaica as a Research and Monitoring Officer. She has gained tremendous policy insights from these engagements.
Dr. Campbell was also the recipient of a Canada-CARICOM fellowship, which allowed her to spend a semester conducting research and delivering guest lectures at Concordia University, in Montreal. Her previous appointments also include tutoring in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford.
She has taught a range of Public Policy topics at The UWI including regulation, how the machinery of government works, public sector reform, corruption, governance, the role of civil society organisations, security and public policy, and the intersection of law and public policy.
Dr. Campbell’s publications and educational background reflect an interest in interdisciplinary research. She pursued the MSc in Government at The University of the West Indies, achieving a distinction, before pursuing doctoral studies in Human Geography. She also studied International Relations at the undergraduate level, graduating with first-class honours. Reflecting her belief in the importance of interdisciplinary research for solving wicked societal problems and preparing students for the workforce, she has worked with scholars across a range of disciplines, including Public Policy, Sociology, Political Science, Law, Economics and Geography and utilizes a range of disciplinary perspectives to inform her lectures.
Her principal research interests are in public policy and development challenges in Small Island Developing States.
Research
Publications
Campbell, Y. 2020. Citizenship on the Margins: State Power, Security and Precariousness in 21st-Century Jamaica. Palgrave.
Campbell, Y., & Connell, J. (Eds.). (2021). COVID in the Islands: A Comparative Perspective on the Caribbean and the Pacific (p. 1). Springer.
Campbell, Y., & Johnson-Myers, T. A. (2023). Gender Inequality and Women’s Citizenship: Evidence from the Caribbean. Routledge
Campbell, Y., & Harriott, Y. (accepted). The Resort to State of Emergency Policing in Jamaica: Making the Exception the Rule. Journal of Latin American Studies
Moloney, K., Chou, M. H., Osei, P., & Campbell, Y. (2022). Methodological Americanism: Disciplinary senility and intellectual hegemonies in (American) public administration. Administrative Theory & Praxis, 44(4), 261-276.
Campbell, Y., & Harriott, A. (2021). To Comply or Not to Comply: State Resistance and Exceptions to COVID-19 Rules & Regulations in Jamaica. COVID in the Islands: A comparative perspective on the Caribbean and the Pacific, 479-493.
Wheatle, S. S., & Campbell, Y. (2020). Constitutional faith and identity in the Caribbean: tradition, politics and the creolisation of Caribbean constitutional law. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 58(3), 344-365.
Campbell, Y., & Wheatle, S. S. (2020). Contradictions in faith in the Caribbean context: postcolonialism, religion and the constitution. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 58(3), 277-284.
Campbell, Y., & Clarke, C. (2017). The garrison community in Kingston and its implications for violence, policing, de facto rights, and security in Jamaica. Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean: Subnational Structures, Institutions, and Clientelistic Networks, 93-111.
Campbell, Y. (2015). Doing'What Wisdom Dictates': Localized Forms of Citizenship,'Livity', and the Use of Violence in the'Commons'. Caribbean Journal of Criminology, 1(2).
