Dr Bean joins the Mona Unit after over 15 years of stellar service to The University of the West Indies and IGDS as Senior Lecturer and Graduate Coordinator at the IGDS Regional Coordinating Office.

Dr Bean has researched extensively in the areas of women and gender in Caribbean history, women in conflict situations, gender and education, women in the hotel and tourism industries as well as other critical areas. A proud Historian by training, she holds a PhD in History from the University of the West Indies, has taught at the tertiary level for over 20 years and has been trained in online and face to face instruction, research supervision and education for change from the University of the West Indies and the University of Toronto. Dr Bean has also been involved in programme and curriculum development at The UWI, and has conducted numerous regional and global training exercises and research projects. She has served on many UWI Boards and committees and has also been the recipient of visiting fellowships such as the Xavier-Tulane Partnership for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (XUTULAC) and Erasmus+ staff mobility award to the University of Iceland’s Gender Equality Studies & Training Programme (GEST) Programme.

Dr Bean has published on many aspects of gender and development, including 2 books and over 20 refereed book chapters, journal articles and training manuals. Her first single-authored book: Jamaican Women and the World Wars: On the Front Lines of Change was published in 2017 by Palgrave MacMillan. Along with Professor Verene Shepherd, she is co-editor of the forthcoming collection: Gender Based Violence in the Caribbean: Historical Roots, Contemporary Continuities, being published by The University of the West Indies Press. She was also invited by the RJR Gleaner Communications Group to write Jamaican Women of Distinction: Holding up Half the Sky in 2020 celebrating 60 phenomenal women, and is co-author of the forthcoming historical manuscript With Eyes on the Skies and the Prize: Celebrating 50 years of the Airports Authority of Jamaica with Professor Andrew Spencer, being published by Ian Randle Publishers.

Dr Bean actively contributes to the region’s secondary education through Caribbean Examination Council as Assistant Chief Examiner for CSEC History and was recently appointed to the Board of the National Education Trust (NET). A passionate gender and youth advocate, she serves as Distinguished President of the Kiwanis Club of Young Professionals Kingston and is also co-founder (with Alia Wedderburn) of the foundation I Have Pretty Hair focusing on empowering youth to be proud of, and loving towards, their natural hair.

Email: dalea.bean02@uwimona.edu.jm