Dr Natalie Dietrich Jones from SALISES explores contemporary issues concerning migration in the Caribbean and its diaspora. Her focus on migration and border studies have led to research in the areas of intra-regional migration in the Caribbean, managed migration, geographies of the border. Dr Dietrich Jones recently assisted in editing the Handbook of Governance in Small States.

Dr. Claudette Crawford-Brown from SPSW is the first academic to use the term barrel children, to describe children who are left behind when their parents migrate. Dr Crawford-Brown’s work has explored this phenomenon, by examining areas such as the Impact of Migration on Children in the Caribbean, The Socio-Cultural Context of Migration on Caribbean Children and Families, as well as the impact of migration on the rights of children and families in the Caribbean.

Dr Nadine McCloud from the Department of Economics conducts research on econometric theory, and her work includes research on foreign direct investment. For example, Dr McCloud has examined the relationship between foreign direct investment and growth, the effects of foreign direct investment on government size, domestic interest rate and foreign direct investment under institutional uncertainty, as well as foreign capital inflows, exchange rates, and government stability.

Professor David Tennant, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, specializes in the areas of financing development in emerging markets, fiscal management, financial crises, financial sector development, as well financing the growth and development of micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME). Professor Tennant’s work in the field of international financial flows includes two refereed books Sovereign Debt and Credit Rating Bias and Debt and Development in Small Island Developing States.

Dr Marie Freckleton from the Department of Economics has research interests in Caribbean Economic Development and International Trade Policy. Her work includes areas such as economic growth in Jamaica, foreign direct investment, export development policies in CARICOM, as well as North-South Free Trade Agreements and their implications For CARICOM.