Researchers
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Dr. Doreen Gordon |
Doreen Gordon joined the Institute of Gender and Development Studies, Regional Headquarters, in January 2024. She brings with her over 12 years of professional experience in the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work, Faculty of Social Sciences. |
Social stratification and inequality Gender and kinship The body and beauty practices Health and wellbeing Climate change and social justice issues. |
Book: Gordon, D. 2022. Blackness and Social Mobility in Brazil: Contemporary Transformations. Palgrave Macmillan.
Book Chapter Gordon, D., Ricketts, H, Anderson, M. and Yee-Shui, M. (2023). “Unequal Pandemics: COVID 19 and Jamaica.” In COVID 19: States and Societies, edited by Federica Duca and Sarah Meny-Gibert. |
Dr. Natasha Kay Mortley |
Natasha Kay Mortley is a Research Fellow at the IGDS – RCO. She has B.Sc in Sociology; MPhil in Sociology of Development and PhD in Migration and Diaspora Studies. Her Doctoral research focused on Migration of Nurses and the Impact on Caribbean Health Care Systems. In 2010 she was one of five recipients of the Global Development Network Award for Migration and Development. |
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Dr. Dalea Bean |
Dr Dalea Bean is a Lecturer and Graduate Coordinator at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, Regional Coordinating Office at the University of the West Indies. Before working with the IGDS, she taught in the Department of History at UWI in the areas of women's history and Caribbean history. She pursued a Bachelor of Arts at UWI in African and Caribbean History and Political Science and graduated with a first class honours in 2002. She then completed her PhD in History on the topic "Jamaican Women and World Wars I and II". |
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