Roy McCree, Ph.D.

Senior Fellow

Focus:

Sport development, sport for development, youth, community development, policy evaluation

Research Link:

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Email:

Roy.McCree@sta.uwi.edu

Tel:

1868-6205123

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Bio

Dr Roy McCree is a Senior Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES). He first worked at the Institute as a Graduate Research Assistant from 1991 to 1995, when it was still the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER). He has been a full time member of staff since 1996. His research interests have covered the areas of sport, culture, race relations, policy evaluation and social policy in particular relation to the issues of youth, community development, suicide, social capital and gambling. He has a particular interest, however, in the study of sport and its social, political, economic, cultural and technological significance in the development of modern society. His interests in the study of sport would have been spurred in 1990 through a 6 week academic visit to Goldsmith’s College, University of London, as part of a Commonwealth Educational Exchange programme in which Professors Maureen Cain and David Silverman played an instrumental role. He also has a strong interest in foreign languages (French and Spanish), which he pursued for his BA degree and which led to a three month intensive programme in Spanish at the University of Mérida, Venezuela, in 2000.

Academic Profile

Sociologist
Senior Fellow, SALISES
Professional Affiliations:
Member of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS): https://nasss.org/
Member of the Sport Migration Network: https://www.hst.aau.dk/research-groups-centres/sport-sciences/sportmigra... President of the Caribbean Sociological Association

Education

1986-BA, The UWI, St Augustine;
1995-MSc (Sociology), The UWI, St Augustine;
2000(May-July)- Three months intensive programme in Spanish as Foreign Language at University of Mérida, Venezuela
2005-PhD (Sociology), Leicester University, UK
2010-Participant in International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 7 June-2 July 2010. Program was jointly sponsored by World Bank and Carleton University. Focus Areas: Public Private Partnerships and Building Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation Systems.

Publications

Books

2024-Roy McCree(author), The British, Soccer and Identity in the Caribbean: Class, Race and Nation, 1908-1973. London: Routledge. 288 pages.

Edited Books

1995- Selwyn Ryan, Taimoon Stewart and Roy McCree, eds. The Black Power Revolution 1970: A Retrospective. The University of the West Indies, Trinidad: Institute of Social and Economic Research.

1997-Selwyn Ryan, Roy Mc Cree and Godfrey St. Bernard, eds. Behind the Bridge: Poverty, Patronage and Politics in Laventille, Trinidad. The University of the West Indies, Trinidad: Institute of Social and Economic Research.

2023-Corin Bailey, Roy McCree, Latoya Lazarus, Nathalie Dietrich Jones, eds.2023. The Routledge Companion to Applied Qualitative Research in the Caribbean. London: Routledge.

Book Chapters
1995- "Conflict, Continuity and Change in the Organization of Sport in a Trinidad Community." In The Social Role of Sport in the Caribbean, edited by Michael Malec, 173-196. United States: Gordon and Breach.

1995- "Blackman on a White Horse." In The Black Power Revolution 1970: A Retrospective, edited by Selwyn Ryan,Taimoon Stewart and Roy McCree, 523-541. University of the West Indies, Trinidad: Institute of Social and Economic Research.

1997-"History and Development." In Behind the Bridge: Poverty, Politics and Patronage in Laventille, Trinidad, edited by Selwyn Ryan, Roy McCree and Godfrey St Bernard, 33-68. The University of the West Indies, Trinidad: Institute of Social and Economic Research.

1997-"Security and Solidarity in Laventille." In Behind the Bridge: Poverty, Politics and Patronage in Laventille, Trinidad, edited by Selwyn Ryan, Roy McCree and Godfrey St Bernard, 213-244. The University of the West Indies, Trinidad: Institute of Social and Economic Research.

1997-"Levels of Educational Achievement in Laventille." In Behind the Bridge: Poverty, Politics and Patronage in Laventille, Trinidad, edited by Selwyn Ryan, Roy McCree and Godfrey St Bernard, 295-304. The University of the West Indies, Trinidad: Institute of Social and Economic Research.

1999 - “Ethnicity and Cultural Festivals in Trinidad and Tobago.” In Race, Culture and Identity in the Caribbean, edited by Ralph Premdas, 115-142. UWI, St. Augustine: School of Continuing Studies.

1999- “Discrimination at Nightclubs: Jamming Racism in Contemporary Trinidad.” In Race, Culture and Identity in the Caribbean, edited by Ralph Premdas, 282-320. UWI, School of Continuing Studies.

2010-“Sport and Multiple Identities in Post-War Trinidad: The Case of McDonald Bailey.” In The Sociology of Sport and Social Theory, edited by Earl Smith, Chapter 15, 201-214. Human Kinetics. https://www.amazon.com/Sociology-Sport-Social-Theory-Smith/dp/0736075720

2014-“Student Athletic Migration from Trinidad and Tobago.” In Women, Soccer and Transnational Migration, edited by Sine Agergaard and Nina Clara Tiesler, 73-85. London and New York: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Women-Soccer-and-Transnational-Migration-1st-E...

2014-“Race, colour and class in Caribbean Society.” In Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class, and Gender, edited by Shirley Jackson, 233-239. London and New York: Routledge. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9780203095454.ch19

2015- “The Fight Outside the Ring: Female Boxing Officials in Trinidad and Tobago.” In Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports: Women Warriors around the World, edited by Alex Channon and Christopher Matthews, 104-118. London: Palgrave MacMillan. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137439352

2016 - "Sociology of Sport: English-Speaking Caribbean." In Sociology of Sport: A Global Subdiscipline in Review, edited by Kevin Young, 343-359. United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/S1476-285420160000009024

2017-"Caribbean Sport Sociology: The Ongoing Journey" In Reflections on Sociology of Sport: Ten Questions, Ten Scholars, Ten Perspectives Vol: 10, edited by Kevin Young, 119-133. United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1476-285420170000010008

2018-“The Boundaries of Publication: The Making of Beyond a Boundary.” In Marxism, Colonialism and Cricket: C.L.R. James’s Beyond a Boundary, edited by David Featherstone, Christopher Gair, Christian Høgsbjerg, and Andrew Smith, 72-87. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/marxism-colonialism-and-cricket

2018-“Autoethnography and public sociology of sport in the Caribbean: Engagement, disengagement and despair.” In Critical Research in Sport, Health and Physical Education, edited by Richard Pringle, Hakan Larsson and Göran Gerdin, 52-63: London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis. https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Research-in-Sport-Health-and-Physical...

2020-“High Jack: Soccer and Sport Diplomacy in the Caribbean, 1961-2018.” In Soccer Diplomacy: International Relations and Football since 1914, edited by Heather Dichter, 178-197. The University Press of Kentucky.

2023-“The Print Media and Sport Nationalism in the Caribbean: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago’s 1990 World Cup Campaign.” In Latin American Sport Media: The Making Of A Political History of Sport, edited by Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda, and Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui, 165-184. Palgrave MacMillan.

2023-“Sport Heritage, Nation-Building and Nation-Branding in the Anglophone and Dutch Caribbean.” CARIBBEAN CULTURAL HERITAGE AND THE NATION Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao in a Regional Context, edited by Alex van Stipriaan, Luc Alofs, and Francio Guadeloupe, 189-204. Netherlands: Leiden University Press.

2024-"Soccer migration from Trinidad and Tobago: the case of the NASL, 1968–1984." In Handbook on Sport and Migration, edited by Joeph Maguire, Katie Liston and Mark Falcous, 38-48. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909418.00010. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Articles in Refereed Journals

1990-"Whither Jets, Hawks and Civic? The Organization of Sport in a Community in Trinidad: The Case of Point Fortin, 1970-1986." Arena Review 14, no.1 (May-June 1990): 86-100. Centre for the Study of Sport in Society: Northeastern University, Boston, USA.

1996- “The Chinese Game of Whe Whe in Trinidad: From Criminalization to Criminalization.” Caribbean Quarterly 42(2&3) (June-September 1996):1-28. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00086495.1996.11671843

1998-“Violence: A Preliminary Look at Gangs in Trinidad and Tobago.” Caribbean Journal of Criminology and Social Psychology. 3(1&2) (January/July 1998):155-173.

2000- "Professional Soccer in the Caribbean: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago." International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 35(2) (June): 199-218. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/101269000035002005

2008-“Modern Sport, Middle Classes and Globalization in the Post -War Caribbean 1945-1952: Variations on a Theme.” The International Journal of the History of Sport 25(4) (March):472-492.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523360701814797

2009-“The Social Bases for the Exclusion of Sport from Caribbean Economic Development.” Iberoamericana: Nordic Journal of Latin American Studies 38(1-2): 154-176. https://www.iberoamericana.se/articles/abstract/10.16993/ibero.85/

2009-“Sport Policy and the New Public Management in the Caribbean: Convergence or Resurgence?” Public Management Review, 11(4) July:461-476. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14719030902989532

2010. “Female Boxing and Violence in Trinidad.” Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in Education, 2010. 4(2): 43-58.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/ssa.2010.4.2.139

2011. “The Death of a Female Boxer: Media, Sport, Nationalism, and Gender.” Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 35(4):327-349.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0193723511426290. November 11 2011.

2016-“In the Crucible of Change: Bailey, Britain and the Post-War Olympic Games.” Sport in Society. Published online 22 January 2016.
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9JzJ9ySqwD39mqxbF9Rw/full

2016-“Female Sport and Parenting in the Caribbean.” Women, Gender and Families of Color, 4(1) (Spring): 36-56. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/womgenfamcol.4.1.0036

2021-“The state and sport in Trinidad and Tobago, 1947–2019.” International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2021.1905036.

2021-"Advancing Caribbean sport scholarship: the Mandles revisited." Sport in Society, DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2021.1973435<https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2021.1973435>

Roy McCree (2021) "Netball Nationalism in Trinidad and Tobago: Content Analysis of Press Coverage Related to the 1979 World Netball Tournament." The International Journal of the History of Sport, DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2021.1996353<https://doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2021.1996353>

Book Reviews

2020-Hilary McD. Beckles, Cricket without a Cause: Fall and Rise of the Mighty West Indian Cricketers. Kingston: Ian Randle, 2017. 219 pp. Caribbean Quarterly, 66(4) December 2020: 136-139.

https://www.tandfonline.com/action/doSearch?AllField=Roy+McCree&SeriesKe...

2020- Selwyn Ryan. 2016. Selected Writings on Race, Class and Gender in Trinidad and Tobago: The Struggle for Hegemony. University of the West Indies, St Augustine: Multi Media Production Center. 246 pages. Social and Economic Studies 69(1&2) .

Videos
i. 2013-This video deals with a panel presentation at the 50th Anniversary Conference on CLR James’ Beyond a Boundary, held at the University of Glasgow, Scotland from 10-11 May 2013. My presentation was entitled, “The Boundaries of Publication: Untold Story of Beyond a Boundary.” Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYCh0wYwFMY
ii. 2016/2017-“Every Cook Can Govern..” This is a 2 hour documentary on the Life and Work of CLR James undertaken by British based company, Worldwrite. It is available at the following websites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kugTrNXCGSk or
https://filmfreeway.com/846247.

A short trailer version is also available here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/clrjames
For this documentary, I served in the roles of narrator, commentator on the book and tour guide to the family home and resting place of James in Trinidad.

Projects

1992- Dr. Rhoda Reddock and Roy Mc Cree: Race, Class and Gender in Trinidad and Tobago: A Study of Social Stratification, Social Mobility and Social Interaction. A Research report prepared for the Ford Foundation as part of "The Future of the Caribbean Project", UWI, St Augustine: Institute of Social and Economic Research.

1996- Human Development Report for Trinidad and Tobago 1996. This was prepared for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). I was responsible for sourcing, analyzing and writing up all the data for this report.

1998-“Summary of Findings from Public Consultation towards Preparation of National Sport Policy in Trinidad and Tobago.” For Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs, Government of Trinidad and Tobago. I also formulated first draft of first ever national sport policy of Trinidad and Tobago.

1999- "The Impact of Atlantic LNG on the Quality of Life in Point Fortin, Trinidad, 1996-1999."

2000-Poverty Alleviation and Public Sector Reform in the Caribbean: The Case of Guyana. For Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). I was responsible for sourcing, analyzing and writing up all the data for this country report which was part of a broader study with Professor Elsie le Franc.

2000- Poverty Alleviation and Public Sector Reform in the Caribbean: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago. For Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) I was responsible for sourcing, analyzing and writing up all the data for this country report which was part of a broader study with Professor Elsie le Franc.

2002- “The Potential Impact of Industrial Expansion in South Western Trinidad.”

2005-“The Potential Socio-Economic Impact of Highway Expansion in Trinidad and Tobago: A Sociological Profile of Nearby Communities”
2006-“Household Survey of Socio-economic Conditions in La Brea, Point Fortin and Chatham in Trinidad and Tobago” in relation to construction of Aluminum plant in southern Trinidad. National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago.

2007- Joint project with Dr. Leslie-Ann Jordan; Dr. Acolla Lewis and Mr. Prakash Ramlakhan of the UWI, St Augustine Campus.

“An Examination of the Feasibility of a Multi Skilled Training Center in Mayaro-Guayaguayare, Trinidad.” For British Petroleum Company, Trinidad and Tobago Limited. My specific role: to analyze socio-economic conditions in the community and review various social interventions to help develop the community.

2009-“Poverty and Socio Economic Conditions in the Borough of Point Fortin, Trinidad.” Commissioned by the Borough of Point Fortin. I was the lead researcher.

2012- “Socio-Economic Profile of East Port of Spain with Recommendations for Social Policy Interventions.” For Dover, Kohl and Partners Company, Miami, Florida.

2012-No Time to Quit: Engaging Youth at Risk (478 pages). Collaborator with Selwyn Ryan on investigation and report into At Risk Youth in Trinidad commissioned by the Trinidad and Tobago Government following the 2011 State of Emergency in Trinidad. Role: Designing survey instrument and analysis of data. Available at
www.ttparliament.org/documents/2197.pdf

2013-Survey of Participation in Sport and Exercise Among School Children in Trinidad and Tobago (Primary and Secondary). Ministry of Sport: Government of Trinidad and Tobago.

2017-Co-facilitator on workshop dealing with Participatory Action Research (PAR) and conduct of Focus group Workshop as part of study of poverty in the Eastern Caribbean.

Graduate Studies

Completed PhD Students:

2017-Dr Alvinelle Matthew (jointly supervised with Dr Arlene Bailey) (Social policy)

“Human Resource Development, Social Capital and Youth Problem Behaviour Prevention: A Case Study of an Urban Trinidad Community.”

2017-Nadia Jessop-“Cultural Identity as a Resource for Positive Youth Development in Majority World Contexts: A Trinidadian Case Study.” Student graduated with PhD from the University of Kansas. I served as a Member of her Advisory Committee together with Dr David Hansen (Chair); Dr. Meagan Patterson, Dr. Bruce Frey and Dr. Dorothy Hines-Datiri. For more, see

https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/26129

or https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/26129/Jessop_ku_0099D_15490_DATA_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

2021-Dr Claire Craig (jointly supervised with Dr Arlene Bailey)- Social Policy: “Stakeholders and Caribbean Internet Exchange Points: A Case Study of Curaçao And Grenada.”

2022-Dr Moriba Baker- (Sport Policy)-“Sport Policy Evaluation In Trinidad and Tobago: The Case of The Academy of Sport and Leisure Studies at The University Of Trinidad And Tobago (2007-2017).” The University of the West Indies, St Augustine.

Courses Taught

SALI 6011-Policy Analysis and Management

SALI 6012-Research Methods in the Social Sciences

SALI 7002/8002- Research Design and Management

Research Cluster

Name of Cluster: Qualitative Group

About: The qualitative research group was formed in 2017 by colleagues from Mona, Cave Hill and St Augustine. The aims of the group are to advance the development of qualitative research in the Caribbean through teaching, research, public advocacy and the mentoring of students with an interest in doing qualitative research, It is open to all qualitative researchers inside and outside of the UWI.

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