Prospects and Challenges for Caribbean Societies in and Beyond COVID-19 (PDF)

University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Dr. Wallace is also a Barrister who has been called to the Bar in both England and Wales and Trinidad and Tobago as well as a certified mediator with the Mediation Board of Trinidad and Tobago. Much of his work focuses on policing, gangs, violence (domestic and school), criminal justice reform and the tourism/crime nexus. He has completed several research projects on gangs in Trinidad and Tobago and is currently working on a project on policing in the Caribbean. Dr. Wallace is an active member of the Accreditation Council of Trinidad and Tobago, The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, London, the Caribbean Studies Association, and the Caribbean Child Research Conference Network.



Dr. Christine Descartes is a lecturer in Psychology in the Department of Behavioural Sciences at The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus. With specialization in Developmental Psychology, her research focuses on behavioral and psychosocial development in children and adolescents. In particular, she is currently involved in national and regional research that centers on child maltreatment and trauma, as well as the development of aggression and other behavioural problems in children and adolescents. She is keen to much needed interdisciplinary research that will promote children's rights, and advance policies that can positively impact the psychosocial well-being of children and their families. Her scholarly work has been published in both regional and international peer reviewed journals. She is presently a member of the UWI Press Editorial Committee and an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma. Dr. Descartes served as a member on the Board of Management of Children's Authority of Trinidad and Tobago from 2017-2020



.Dr. Shelene Gomes teaches courses in Social Anthropology and the Sociology of Culture at TheUniversity of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus. With research interests in migration, mobilities, cosmopolitan thought and action, postcolonial religion, and spirituality as well as the politics of race, class and gender, her monograph Cosmopolitanism from the Global South (2021), traces the linkages between African diasporic imaginings and Caribbean cosmopolitan sensibilities based on ethnographic fieldwork in urban Ethiopia. Her current interdisciplinary research centers the political economy of family and kinship with voluntary women return migrants' doing unwaged care work in Trinidad.