Research Overview
SALISES is heir to a rich and distinguished history of research inherited from the work of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), which was established at the birth of the University College of the West Indies in 1948. Among the outstanding scholars who were either affiliated to or worked closely with ISER were MG Smith, William Demas, Lloyd Braithwaite, RT Smith, George Cumper, Lloyd Best, CY Thomas, Kari Levitt and Havelock Brewster. Together and individually they were responsible for a range of theoretical interventions as well as empirical investigations that lay the foundations for contemporary social sciences in the Anglophone Caribbean.
Featured Research
The aim of SALISES is to build on this rich heritage in order to generate a new corpus of ideas and appropriate data to address the myriad difficulties that the small states of the Caribbean face in the opening decades of the Twenty first Century. Arising out of the work in preparation for the watershed 2012 'Fifty-Fifty' conference, the decision was taken to carry forward the SALISES research agenda through a series of research clusters.
Our Researchers
Kevin Williams
Economic Development Chair:
Dacia Leslie
Crime Prevention and Offender Management Chair:
Pat Northover
Sustainable Rural Agricultural Development Chair