URD 2016 SIGNATURE EVENT
Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work
The SPSW Derek Gordon Research Seminar - "Re-thinking Caribbean Futures: Perspectives from the Social Sciences"
Overview: This seminar will feature a keynote presentation, art exhibition, and 3 panels exploring issues in regional
development, research challenges, and the work of social scientists with people and communities.

Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work
The SPSW Assessment Centre
Overview: The Dept will offer the following services:
(i) A battery of tests and activities to determine your suitability for a range of jobs;
(ii) Intelligence and occupational interest tests to suggest suitable academic programme and career choices
(iii) Help with improving your CV (iv) Workshops on staffing organisations, performance management, employee training and dressing for success.

Department of Government
Department Book Launch Book
Title: Colour for Colour Skin for Skin: Marching with the Ancestral Spirits into War Oh at Morant Bay.
Author: Dr. Clinton Hutton
Overview: This book examines the social, economic, spiritual and ideological bases of the Morant Bay Uprising.

Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work
The SPSW Assessment Centre
Overview: The Dept will offer the following services: (i) A battery of tests and activities
to determine your suitability for a range of jobs; (ii) Intelligence and occupational interest tests
to suggest suitable academic programme and career choices and (iii) Help with improving your CV
(iv) Workshops on staffing organizations, performance management, employee training and dressing for success.

Department of Economics
Interactive Economic Model and Presentations
Overview: 'Why not pay the civil servants more? Why not lower interest rates rapidly and dramatically?
Why not pump more money into subsidies and tax incentives? This interactive model allows the audience
to see the impact of the changes in the macroeconomic variables that they have long been considering.
The user will use the keyboard to input the policy changes he/she desires, and an output screen will highlight

The UWI Community Film Project Office and CTPR Office
Film Project and Studio Tours
Overview: Visitors to the exhibition are invited on a guided tour of the project office and studio facilities.
Experience firsthand the process behind creating films and observe a studio setting.

Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work
SPSW Visit a Lecture Series:
Title: Performance Management: Theories and Practice
Overview: Performance Management is about the design and implementation of successful performance
management systems. Participants will be made aware of the processes involved in identifying, measuring
and developing the performance of individuals and teams and aligning their performance with the strategic goals of the organization.

Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work
SPSW Visit a Lecture Series:
Title: Programme Planning, Management and Evaluation
Overview: The lecture focuses on how to develop a programme hypothesis (etiology and intervention strategies).
Presenter: Dr. Sandra Chadwick-Parkes

Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work
SPSW Visit a Lecture Series:
Title: Social Policy and Administration II Lecture Topic: Definition and Importance of Social Protection for
national development, economic growth and labour market efficiency; Types of Social Protection Systems
Presenter: Dr. Heather Ricketts

Department of Chemistry
Parking Lot/ Chemistry Gardens Demonstration
Overview: A special demonstration will be shown of the reaction of concentrated acid with an organic compound.