Interdisciplinary Perspectives on COVID-19 and the Caribbean, Volume 2

Sherma Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Tourism and Director (Ag.) School for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. She previously held the position of Deputy Dean Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences and was honoured to serve as the first Chairman of the Tobago Tourism Agency Limited 2017-2022. Sherma has co-edited 4 books, is the lead author of Contemporary Caribbean Tourism: Concepts and Cases and researches  and publishes in the area of sustainable tourism, community participation,  island tourism and tourism entrepreneurship.

Halimah A. F. DeShong is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies: Nita Barrow Unit, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. Her research  focuses on gendered violence, feminist methodologies, anti-colonial feminisms, and the analysis of talk and text. She is co-editor of Methodologies in Caribbean Research on Gender & Sexuality (Ian Randle Publishers 2021). She served at the Ambassadorial level at the United Nations, and has created policy and curriculum for Caribbean governments on gendered violence.

Wendy C. Grenade is a Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, St. George’s University, Grenada.  She is a political scientist who specializes in International Relations and Comparative Politics. Professor Grenade critically interrogates topics such as regionalism, democracy, governance and security.  Her publications include over twenty peer-reviewed articles and an edited volume - The Grenada Revolution: Reflections and Lessons, which was published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2015.

Dwayne Devonish is Professor of Management and Organisational Behaviour in the Sagicor Cave Hill School of Business and Management at the University of the West Indies, CaveHill Campus, Barbados.  His main research interests include organisational behaviour and psychology, work-related stress, health and wellness, human resource management, and strategic planning. In 2019, Professor Devonish was the lead author of the National Workplace Wellness Policy for Barbados which sought to inform the practice of workplace wellness programming across organisations.