Dr. Corin Bailey, Dr Suzette A. Haughton and Dr Lila Rao-Graham are the newest Professors at The University of the West Indies (The UWI).
The three received their appointments for promotion in February to the University’s highest academic rank. Their promotions follow a rigorous assessment process including a review of their respec¬tive distinguished and original works and professional activities, as well as their contributions to the enhancement of the University’s reputation and mission ‘to advance learning, create knowledge and foster innovation for the positive transformation of the Caribbean and the world’.
Dr Corin Bailey is a sociologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) at the Cave Hill Campus; Professor Suzette A. Haughton is a scholar in International Relations and Security Studies, who serves as Head of the Department of Government at the Mona Campus and Dr. Lila Rao-Graham whose research interests include Business Intelligence, Knowledge Management and Data Quality, is Deputy Executive Director at the Mona School of Business and Management.
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Professor Lila Rao-Graham is Deputy Executive Director at the Mona School of Business and Management since 2014 and responsible for the oversight of the MBA and DBA Programmes.
Her qualifications include a BSc in Computer Studies from The UWI, an MSc in Mathematics in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada and a PhD in Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management from The UWI.
Professor Rao-Graham’s research interests include Business Intelligence, Knowledge Management and Data Quality. She has published one co-authored refereed book, one co-edited refereed book and co-authored three chapters in this book. In addition, she has co-edited sixteen refereed journal articles; nineteen refereed conference and scientific papers; and nine papers and poster presentations at Academic conferences. She has served on editorial boards of top professional organisations and as a reviewer for several leading journals, international conferences and conference organising committees. She is also a member of the ICT Specialist Sector Committee of National Contracts Commission Jamaica, a Programme Committee Member of World Conference on Information systems and Technologies, and a member of the Ministry of Health and Wellness National COVID-19 Research Agenda Working Group.
Her expertise has also led her to be invited to present at the United Nations 2020 Big Data Forum in Trinidad and Tobago, as a panelist at the 2020 UNESCO Open Science Regional Consultation for Latin America and the Caribbean. She served as Principal Researcher on the IDRC-funded Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network project from 2015-2017, as a research team member for a 2020 International Development Research Centre project on Exploring Data Capacity Building in the Global South, and as a member of the Feasibility Study and Planning Team from 2016-2018, for a new School of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation, University of Guyana.
Professor Rao-Graham was recognised for her scholarship with the Best Research Publication Award from the Mona Campus Faculty of Social Sciences in 2013, the Principal’s 2015 Research Day Award for Project with the Greatest multidisciplinary and Cross Faculty Collaboration, and an International Award in 2016 for the Best White Paper, featuring Disaster Risk Management.
Her academic service at The UWI includes contributing to the Committee of DBA students; chairing dissertation defenses and acting as an external examiner. She has supervised final projects for students in the Computer-based Management Information Systems programme. She is the team leader for curriculum development and has led reviews of many programmes and organised a study abroad programme for MBA students in 2019.
One external assessors who reviewed her work concluded, “Dr Rao-Graham already has built an extensive and impressive portfolio of impactful professional activities very much in keeping with the rank of full professor… Dr Rao-Graham is an internationally known scholar who is closely identified with the research topics of business intelligence, data quality and decision support systems within the context of facilitating decision making in the organisational context… Dr Rao-Graham sets an outstanding example of a well accomplished, internationally recognized scholar.’
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