Researchers

Researcher	Biography	Research Interests	Publications
Dr. Halimah DeShong	Dr. Halimah DeShong is Senior Lecturer and University Director of the Institute for Gender & Development Studies (IGDS) at The University of the West Indies (UWI). She was previously Head of IGDS, Nita Barrow Unit at The UWI, Cave Hill Campus. An experienced feminist researcher and former Vincentian Ambassador to the UN, Dr DeShong specialises in sexual and gendered violence, feminist methodologies, anti-colonial feminisms, and qualitative research.	Sexual and Gendered Violence Anti-colonial/anti-racist Feminism Feminist Methodologies Caribbean Men and Masculinities Studies Qualitative Research (with emphasis on the analysis of talk and text) Gender and climate change	Books: Roberts, Sherma, DeShong, Halimah A.F., Grenade, Wendy and Dwayne Devonish. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on COVID-19 and the Caribbean, Vol 1: The State, Economy and Health. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. doi.org/10.1007/9 Roberts, Sherma, DeShong, Halimah A.F., Grenade, Wendy and Dwayne Devonish. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on COVID-19 and the Caribbean, Vol 2: Society, Education and Human Behaviour. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31119-2
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.	*Academic interests* Migration and diaspora studies Gender-based violence Caribbean masculinities Gender and climate change Gender and leadership *Outreach interests*	Books St. Lucian Women on the Move: The Impacts of Gender Relations on Migration Decisions. November 2009. VDM Verlag Publishing House Ltd.