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Graduate Symposium 2021: Organizing Committee

 

Organizing Committee

 

General Chair: Prof. R.C. Jagessar

Vice Chair: Dr. Paulette Bynoe

Academic Committee Chair: Dr. Reeta Gobin

Academic Committee Vice Chair: Dr. Tamirand De Lisser

Financial Committee Chair: Dr. Jacqueline Murray

Financial Committee Vice-Chair: Dr. Emmanuel Cummings

Art Exhibitions and Musicals Chair: Dr. Roslin Khan

Webpage, Publicity and Zoom Chair​​​​​​​: Dr. Elroy Charles

Library Exhibition Committee Chair: Ms. Gwyneth George

Registration Committee Chair: Dr. Cecil Boston

Registration Committee Vice-Chair: Dr. Mishel Moriah

Graduate Research Student Committee Chair: Ms. Arianne Harris

Commercials Exhibitions Chair: Prof. Leyland Lucas

Awards and Prizes Committee Chair: SGSR

 
 

Committees and responsibilities

Signed interest

Academic Committee

Chair: Dr, Reeta Gobin
​​​​​​​Vice Chair: Dr. Tamirand De Lisser

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  • To issue call for Abstracts and Papers, Abstract management, review of abstracts and decide on acceptance 
 
  • To draft conference programme
 
  • KeyNote speakers invitations 
 
  • Moderators/ Rapporteurs for non-parallel and parallel sessions
 
  • To organize 3Minutes PhD Thesis competition (Australian Methodology)
 
  • Publications : responsible to prepare publication guidelines, review paper(s) to be published and decide on acceptance

 

Dr. Charmaine Bisessar

Dr. Elroy Charles

Dr. Paulete Bynoe

Dr. Reeta Gobin

Dr. Roslin Khan

Dr. Tamirand De Lisser

Prof Gomathinayagam Subramanian 

Prof. Abdullah Ansari

Prof. R.C. Jagessar

 

(support DVC-AE: Dr. Mishel Moriah, Lucy Butcher, Mr Rutheford)

 

Webpage, Publicity and Zoom

 

Chair: Dr. Elroy Charles

  • To publicise the symposium on the UG-Website
 
  • Publicity and Communication Unit-DECC to inform the University circle of symposium

 

 

Dr. Charmaine Bisessar

Public Relations

TOS

Someone from Publicity and Communications Unit DECC

(support DVC-AE: Dr. Mishel Moriah)

 

 

 

Art Exhibitions and Performances 

 

Responsibilities:

- Virtual Art Exhibition featuring the work of students and lecturers, and if possible, related to aspects of the Conference theme. To be featured/streamed at intervals during breaks/presentations and accompanied by pre-recorded instrumental music.

- Performances in poetry and storytelling, also to be presented during breaks/intervals as well as at the opening and the closing ceremonies.

- The performances will all be video-recorded and the number will be finalized when the programme is drafted and on decisions regarding the opening and closing ceremonies.

  • - It is recommended that a member of this committee be involved in the planning of the opening, closing ceremonies.

 

Faculty of Education

(support DVC-AE: Dr. Mishel Moriah)

 

Registration

 

Chair:  Dr. Cecil Boston

Vice Chair: Mishel Moriah

  • Responsible for the Registration aspect of the conference:
  • Provide dates for Early Registration, Late Registration with a Fee, Cutoff date for Registration

 

Dr. Roslin Khan

Dr. Reeta Gobin

Dr. Elroy Charles

Dr. Charmaine Bisessar

TOS 

(support DVC-AE: Dr. Mishel Moriah)

 

Financial

Chair Dr. Jacqueline Murray

Vice Chair: Dr. Emmanuel Cummings

  • Responsible for the financial aspect of the conference and solicit funding

 

Dr. Paulette Bynoe

Someone from Bursary

(support: DVC-AE Lucy, Ezi), 

 

 

 

Libraries Exhibitions Committee (books, Journals)

Chair: Ms Gwyneth George

  • Responsible for the display of books and papers written by UG researchers, selective students thesis display, Referencing Styles, APA, Editorials Commercial Exhibition, etc.

 

 

Library team

 

(support DVC-AE: Ms Lucy)

 

 

 

Commercial Exhibitions Committee

 

  • To Organize Commercial Exhibitions from local and international organizations/companies to exhibit some of their latest products, that can be of interest for Graduate Students and educators from our Graduate Programmes of both clusters of STEM and and Social Sciences such as apps, Specialized Software (Turnitin, R, Mvivo, SPSS, STATISTICS, STATS..), Materials, Equipment.
     
  • Chair: Prof. Leyland Lucas

 

 

​​​​​​​Dr. Charmaine Bisessar

Suggestions to invite 

Prof. Francis, 

Dr. Lewis, 

Dr. Pereira

Mr Sekkar, 

Mr. Malcom, 

Mr. Captain, 

 (support DVC-AE: Mr Rutheford)

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Awards and Prizes Committee
 

 

Chair: Prof. Judith Rosales

  • Sponsors of excellence awards to graduate students with the best paper
  • Sponsors for Awards of Scholarships (fees and research) to Women students with Best Graduate Projects
  • Sponsors for Awards of Scholarships (fees and research) to indigenous students with Best Graduate Projects
  • Sponsors for International Awards to allow mobility and exchange (Transport, accommodation and food) for intercultural and language Semester with universities receiving students
  • Sponsors for payment of Musicals Presentations from the School of Arts
  • Sponsors for Payment of organisers of Virtual Arts Exhibitions
  • Sponsors for payment of organisers of indigenous crafts exhibitions

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VC Prof. Paloma Mohamed

DVC-AA Dr. Melissa Ifill

DVC-AE Dr. Emmanuel Cummings

(support DVC-AE: Ms Lucy)

(support DVC-AE: Mr Rutheford)

 

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