Hermione C. McKenzie, Sociologist and Senior Lecturer in the UWI Mona’s Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work, is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Brandeis University. She has published widely on issues relating to gender, family, family planning, education and social development policies. She has prepared numerous reports for Government, Statutory and Private Sector Organisations on issues ranging from family planning and community development to socio-economic development in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean. She has also presented many papers at local and international conferences and symposia, served on many University Committees and contributed to public service in Jamaica. She has served as a member of several organisations such as the Jamaica Council of Voluntary Social Services. She has contributed significantly to the women’s movement in the Caribbean, serving as a member of the Jamaican delegation to the UN’s ‘End-of-Decade Conference’ on Women in Nairobi in 1985 and as former Convenor of the Women’s Studies Working Group at the UWI, Mona.

Abstract: Shifting Centres and Moving Margins: The UWI Experience