Dr. Leslie is Senior Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. She joined the Institute in 2016 in the Research Fellow capacity, but has worked with SALISES Fellows, just over ten years in various capacities including Junior Consultant and Research Assistant. Dr. Leslie’s current duties encompass extending, changing and applying knowledge acquired from scholarship to research and appropriate external activities, participating in SALISES contracted consultancies, contributing to publications, disseminating research findings using media suitable for the discipline, supervising post-graduate students at the Mona and Cave Hill campuses of The UWI, providing academic advisement, chairing the SALISES Crime Prevention and Offender Management research cluster and coordinating the Monitoring & Evaluation postgraduate course. To date she has supervised two students to successful completion of their masters as main supervisor.
Since graduating in 2008 from SALISES, Mona with a MSc. in Governance and Public Policy, Dr. Leslie has served in various capacities on consultancy projects including as project coordinator and principal investigator. She currently serves on various boards/committees/panels and in, academic posts including: Research Associate, Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island; Coordinator, Humber College Study Abroad Programme, School of Social & Community Services, Humber Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning; and, Appointed Member, Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom Alumni Advisory Panel.
Dr. Leslie’s research and publications continue to make their way into the international and regional spheres. Her personal research concentrates on the lived experiences of inmates, ex-prisoners, involuntary removed migrants and their child dependents to the intersection of her teaching focus, which is on Development Studies, with specialisation in Monitoring & Evaluation.