UWI/Guardian Life 'Premium' Teaching Awardees 2000

Dr. Jonas Innies Addae is a Senior Lecturer in Human Physiology at the Department of Pre-Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences. He is a graduate of the University of Ghana Medical School and the university of London, where he obtained the MB ChB (1981) and PhD (1986) respectively. Attracted to the Problem Based Learning (PBL) Curriculum at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, he joined the academic staff there for his first appointment in 1986. He has since then been involved in the design, organisation, teaching, and examination of courses in the Basic Medical Sciences, a Systems Approach: Organism and Health, Cardiovascular and Renal, Neuroscience and Behaviour, and Musculo-Skeletal. He organises seminars in Neurophysiology for the Doctor of Medicine in Psychiatry.

Dr. Dennis Brown is a Lecturer in the Department of Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences. He is a graduate of The UWI, Mona Campus where he received the BSc (1975) in Sociology, the Diploma in Population Studies (1986), the MSc (1987) in Sociology – specialising in Demography, and the PhD (1994) which incorporated one year of study at the London School of Economics. He lectures in Development Studies, a popular area, to class sizes of just under 100 students, and in Industrial Sociology, the latter to postgraduate students only. Dr. Brown has developed an Internet website for all the courses that he teaches. Through this technology, he monitors student attendance and participation, provides students with lecture notes, tutorials and assessment, remaining constantly in contact with them. He also conducts a development course through distance education to the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College in St. Lucia.

Dr. David Dolly is a Lecturer in Agricultural Extension, Faculty of Science and Agriculture. He has fulfilled his early ambition to be an ardent Tropical Agriculturist. He obtained the BSc (1973) in Agriculture at The UWI, the MSc (1978) in Continuing and Vocational Education at the University of Wisconsin, and the PhD (1983) in Agricultural Extension back home at The UWI, St. Augustine. In between studies, he taught in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, pioneering the teaching of Agricultural Sciences in secondary schools there. He also worked as a Training Consultant, and initiated a training department for the maintenance and landscape agency that upkeeps government buildings and institutions in Trinidad. At The UWI, he has taught at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has organized with training institutions in Canada and Costa Rica to mount training in software applications and video production for use in Extension. He pioneered provocative electives and courses on Gender Issues in Agriculture.

Dr. Kim Mallalieu is a tenured Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering where she leads the academic, commercial and outreach programmes in Communication Systems. She is a Fulbright Fellow and a graduate of UCL and MIT.

Kim is the developer and coordinator of the Master's degree in Telecommunications Regulation and Policy, MRP (Telecommunications), the first online programme to be delivered from UWI, St. Augustine. She has been described as a trail-blazing pioneer in engineering education and is the recipient of local, regional and international teaching awards as well as other awards of recognition.

 She has authored many academic papers and book chapters and has been invited to deliver a number of keynote addresses at home and abroad. She has served on various boards, including the Board of the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago and has also sat on the advisory council to the Boards of academic journals, including the International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education.

 Kim is an active member of a Latin American and Caribbean academic network, Diálogo Regional sobre Sociedad de la Información (DIRSI), engaged in research on ICT regulatory intervention for poverty alleviation.

Dr. Godfrey Steele, Lecturer and Coordinator of the Communication Studies Section in the Department of Liberal Arts of the Faculty of Humanities and Education, is the holder of a Teachers Diploma (1981) from the Valsayn Teachers College, the BA (1982) in English, the Diploma in Education (1987), the MA (1995) in Education, all from The UWI. In 1999, he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation entitled The Teaching of English for Communication Purposes in a Medical Context here at The UWI. His teaching experience includes 19 years in the secondary school system. In 1993, he developed and taught the first Business Communication course for the Department of Management Studies, UWI. He also introduced and taught Communication Skills for Health Personnel and Communication Skills for the Health Professions (1995-2004) – courses that he designed for prospective medical doctors, dentists, veterinarians, and pharmacists of the Faculty of Medical Sciences. He was awarded a Salzburg Seminar Fellowship in 2002 on the basis of his work in medical education. In addition, he also delivers courses in the Communication Studies programme in the Department of Liberal Arts. He is known for his multimedia presentations, the high level of structure and comprehensiveness that accompany his course delivery, and has a keen interest in interdisciplinary collaboration. Dr. Steele’s teaching experiences are documented in his research and peer-reviewed publications. His research interests include health communication, communication studies education, and communication and conflict management. He has supervised over 70 communication research theses between 2001 and 2006, taught a graduate course in oral communication for mediation students since 2003, introduced a major in Communication Studies (2004), and is developing a graduate programme in Human Communication Studies and completing a book on health communication.