In September 2023 The UWI and the University of Glasgow welcomed the first cohort of students in the double degree MA/MSc in Reparatory Justice, a joint programme with the Glasgow-Caribbean Centre for Development Research, which was established in 2019.

The taught double degree master’s programme targets current and emerging social activists, CARICOM citizens, and members of the Caribbean and African diaspora.

The programme’s unique features include a partnership between The UWI and U of G for teaching, research and education. The programme is focused on the Caribbean and the reparations movement but draws on case studies from the wider global context. It also offers collaboration with research centres in Europe, the Americas and Africa. Students will graduate with both a degree from The UWI and the University of Glasgow.

This alliance between the two universities represents one of the earliest triumphs in the quest for reparatory justice, as the U of G has acknowledged that it had been supported and funded by the profits from slavery in the past.

Dr. Christine Whyte, a lecturer in global history and co-founder of the Beniba centre for slavery studies at Glasgow University, has said that the programme aims to “uncover and explore the historical legacies that lead to claims for reparations, investigate the legal, political and social means of making those claims, and give students the skills to go out and try to redress historical injustices”.