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The Annual Principal’s Research Awards 2017

Recognising and Promoting Research Excellence

Throughout Jamaica and the Caribbean, researchers at the University of the West Indies are making a difference. Through their work, we are advancing our understanding of our nation and environment, maximising benefits to our society, and enhancing the quality of life of our people. The annual awards presented traditionally on the last day of the Research Days event, are for work that embodies the best of the cutting-edge research undertaken in the academic year under review. 

Faculty of Medical Sciences

The Most Outstanding Researcher
Faculty of Medical Sciences
The Most Outstanding Researcher MED 2018

Dr Monika Asnani

Caribbean Institute for Health Research (CaIHR) 

For producing: “The Clinical Care Guidelines of the Sickle Cell Unit.” | “Pain, Sexual Activity and Partner Support in Jamaicans with Sickle Cell Disease.” | “Exploring Antecedents of Quality of Life of Sickle Cell Patients Using a Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Process Model based Framework.” | “Predictors of renal function progression in adults with homozygous sickle cell disease.” British Journal of Haematology | “Increased rates of body dissatisfaction, depressive symptoms and suicide attempts in Jamaican teens with sickle cell disease” | “Utility of paediatric quality of life and revised illness perception questionnaires in adolescents with sickle cell disease”

 

Dr Chuckwemeka Nwokocha

Department of Basic Medical Sciences

Inhibition of cytochrome P450 1 enzymes by apocynin and other Jamaican natural products: Assessing potential for chemoprevention and drug-herb interactions. In-vitro Bioassays and Chromatographic Analyses used to screen natural Products from Jamaica in the 21st century | Bioactive Plant Molecules, Sources and Mechanism of Action in the Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease | Hydroalcoholic extract and pure compounds from Senecio nutans Sch. Bip (Compositae) induce vasodilation in rat aorta through endothelium-dependent and independent mechanisms | Treatment of Rats with Apocynin has Considerable Inhibitory Effects on Arylamine N-Acetyltransferase Activity in the Liver | Hypotensive and antihypertensive effects of a hydroalcoholic extract from Senecio nutans Sch. Bip.  (Compositae) in mice: Chronotropic and negative | Synchronization in the Heart Rate and the Vasomotion in Rat Aorta: Effect of Arsenic Trioxide. Cardiovascular Toxicology | Single Adult human Equivalent Dose of Intramuscular Chloroquine did not Lower Blood Glucose Level in Fasted Wistar Rats | Effect of Vitamin C Supplementation on Platelet Aggregation and Serum Electrolytes Levels in Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetes Mellitus in Rats

 

The Research Project Attracting the Most Research Funds
Faculty of Medical Sciences
The Research Project Attracting the Most Research Funds MED 2018

Dr Tamara Thompson

Department of Medicine

 “Adherence to Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART): A Trans-Caribbean Study"

 

The Research Project with the Greatest Business | Economic | Development Impact
Faculty of Medical Sciences
The Research Project with the Greatest Business | Economic | Development Impact MED 2018

Dr Angela Rankine-Mullings

Professor Marvin  Reid

Dr Deanne Soares

Mrs Karen Aldred

Caribbean Institute for Health Research (CaIHR) 

“Prevention of conversion to abnormal transcranial Doppler with hydroxyurea in sickle cell anemia: A Phase III international randomized clinical trial.”

 

The Best Research Publication
Faculty of Medical Sciences
The Best Research Publication Law 2018

Dr Monika Asnani

Professor Marvin Reid

Caribbean Institute for Health Research

Article: “Predictors of renal function progression in adults with homozygous sickle cell disease”

 

Dr Paul Brown

Department of Basic Medical Sciences

Article: “Multiple antibiotic resistance, fitness and virulence potential in respiratory isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from Jamaica”

Faculty of Science and Technology

The Best Research Publication
Faculty of Science and Technology
The Best Research Publication SCI TECH

Professor Mohammed Bakir

Dr Peter Nelson

Department of Chemistry

Article: "Spectroscopic and electrochemical properties of di-2-thienyl ketone thiosemicarbazone (dtktsc): electrochemical reactions with electrophiles (H+ and CO2)"

 

Dr Sheena Francis

Dr Chukwuemeka Nwokocha 

Dr Rupika Delgoda 

Natural Products Institute and Department of Basic Medical Sciences

Article: Treatment of Rats with Apocynin has Considerable inhibitory effects on Arylamine N-Acetyltransferase activity in the Liver

 

Dr Andre Coy

Professor Michael Taylor

Dr Jane Cohen (and collaborator) 

Departments of Physics and Life Sciences

Article: Increasing the Accuracy and Automation of Fractional Vegetation Cover Estimation from Digital Photographs

 

The Most Outstanding Researcher/Research Activity
Faculty of Science and Technology
The Most Outstanding Researcher/Research Activity SCI TECH 2018

Professor Mohammed Bakir

Department of Chemistry

Synthesis, spectroscopic and X-ray crystallographic properties of manganese compounds of ketoandenol-coordinated di-2-pyridyl ketone benzoyl hydrazone (dpkbh). Reactions of [Mn(CO)5Br] with dpkbh. | Polymer-supported CuPd nanoalloy as a synergistic catalyst for electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide to methane | Spectroscopic and electrochemical properties of group 12 acetates of di-2-pyridylketone thiophene-2-carboxylic acid hydrazine (dpktch-H) complexes. The structure of [Cd(g3-N,N,O-dpktch-H)2] | “Spectroscopic and electrochemical properties of group 12 acetates of di-2-pyridylketone thiophene-2-carboxylic acid hydrazone (dpktch-H) complexes.

 

Dr Cónall Kelly

Department of Mathematics

Almost sure instability of the equilibrium solution of a Milstein-type stochastic difference equation | Corrigendum On the use of a discrete form of the It^o formula in the article ‘Almost sure asymptotic stability analysis of the Maruyama method applied to a test system with stabilising and destabilising stochastic perturbations' |Stochastic stability analysis of a reduced galactic dynamo model with perturbed α-effect | Stabilisation of difference equations with noisy prediction-based control | Asymptotic and Transient Mean-Square Properties of Stochastic Systems arising In Ecology, Fluid Dynamics, and System Control

 

Dr Venkateswara Rao Penugonda

Department of Physics

Influence of Sb2O3 on tellurite based glasses for photonic applications | Transport and spectroscopic properties of nickel ions inZnOB2O3P2O5 glass system | Enhancement of orange emission of Co2+ ions with Bi3+ ions in lead silicate glasses

 

Research Project Attracting the Most Research Funds
Faculty of Science and Technology
Research Project Attracting the Most Research Funds SCI TECH 2018

Professor Michael Taylor

Department of Physics 

Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR)

Faculty of Social Sciences

The Best Research Publication
Faculty of Social Sciences
The Best Research Publication SOCSCI 2018

Dr Lawrence Nicholson

Mona School of Business and Management

Book: Understanding the Caribbean Enterprise: Insights from MSMEs and Family Owned Businesses

 

Dr Eris Schoburgh

Dr Sonia Gatchair

Department of Government

Edited Collection: Developmental Local Governance: A Critical Discourse in ‘Alternative’ Development

 

Dr Delroy Chevers

Professor Evan Duggan

Mr Stanford Moore

Mona School of Business and Management

Article: An Evaluation of Software Development Practices among Small Firms in Developing Countries – A Test of a simplified software Process Improvement Model

 

Dr Trevor Smith

Mona School of Business and Management 

Article: Customer value proposition, corporate transformation and growth in Caribbean financial firms

The Most Outstanding Researcher /Research Activity
Faculty of Social Sciences
The Most Outstanding Researcher /Research Activity SOCSCI 2018

Dr Clinton Hutton

Department of Government

"Colour for Colour, Skin for Skin, Marching with the Ancestral Spirits in War Oh at Morant Bay | Leonard Percival Howell and the Genesis of Rastafari"

 

The Research Project Attracting the Most Research Funds
Faculty of Social Sciences
The Research Project Attracting the Most Research Funds SOCSCI 2018

Dr Lloyd Waller

Mr Stephen Johnson

Ms Shinique Walters

Ms Nicola Satchell 

Department of Government

Project: Jamaica Social Investment Fund Poverty Reduction Programme – Baseline Desk Study Research and Analysis

Faculty of Humanities and Education

The Best Research Publication
Faculty of Humanities and Education
The Annual Principal’s Research Awards 2017

Dr Saran Stewart

School of Education

Article: Schooling and Coloniality: Conditions underlying “extra lessons’ in Jamaica 

 

Dr Paulette Ramsay

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures 

Book: Afro-Mexican Constructions of Diaspora, Gender, Identity and Nation 

 

Professor Stafford Griffith

School of Education

Book: School-Based Assessment in a Caribbean Public Examination 

 

Dr Disraeli Hutton

School of Education

Article: Critical Factors Explaining the Leadership Performance of High-Performing Principals  

 

Dr Paulette Stewart

Department of Library and Information Studies

Article: Synchronous and asynchronous tools optimizing online learning in the English-Speaking Caribbean” 

Most Outstanding Research Activity
Faculty of Humanities and Education
Most Outstanding Research Activity 2018

Dr Saran Stewart

School of Education

Articles: A mixed-method study of extra lessons in Jamaica: Methodological experiences and reflections | Advancing a critical and inclusive praxis: pedagogical and curriculum innovations for social change in the Caribbean | An alternative approach to standardized testing: a model that promotes racial equity and college access | Speaking from the margins: the experiences of a special educator’s praxis with culturally and linguistically diverse students | Predictors of student retention at the University of the West Indies | Schooling and Coloniality: Conditions underlying “extra lessons’ in Jamaica

 

Faculty of Law

The Best Research Publication
Faculty of Law
The Best Research Publication Law 2018

Dr Shazeeda Ali

Book Chapter: "Economic crime and terror: spinning a web of greed and fear" in Research Handbook on International Financial Crime

 

Dr Celia Blake

Book Chapter: “The Legal Matrix Governing Directors and Officers of Financial Supervisors: Understanding their Role in Governance”

 

Dr Derrick McKoy

Book Chapter: “Public Sector Governance: Change, Crisis and Dysfunction”

The Most Outstanding Researcher
Faculty of Law
The Most Outstanding Researcher Law 2018

Professor Stephen Vasciannie

For producing three publications: "Arguments and Facts: Caribbean Public Law, Governance, Economy and Society” | "The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Reform and the Question of Universality" | "Constitutional Renewal in Jamaica: Republicanism?"

The Most Outstanding Research Activity
Faculty of Law
The Most Outstanding Research Activity Law 2018

Professor Gilbert Kodilinye

For producing a book on Commonwealth Caribbean Civil Procedure 

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