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Notes on the Media in Guyana

Notes on the Media in Guyana

A collection of scholarly essays which attempt to analyze the state of Guyana through the lens of media history and media effects. The articles which represent primary research conducted by the author over the past 15 years offer a fascinating view of the evolution of the country in tandem with the evolution of the media there.

Communication, Power and Change In the Caribbean

Communication, Power and Change In the Caribbean

Media Trends: Representations of ...

Media Trends: Representations of ...

Media Trends: Representations of Women and Children in Guyanese Media. This report was derived from the media monitoring project by the Ministry and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) designed to address the question of under reporting or negative reporting on women and children.

Intelligent Design

Intelligent Design

Intelligent Design: Creating Effective Messages in Health Communication Campaigns. A Manual for Practitioners in Substance Abuse Prevention. CARICOM/ EU. (Unpublished). April 2010.

Listen Up

Listen Up

Listen Up: A Sourcebook on the Environment for Secondary school Students. (Georgetown, PRIMA-IADB. 2004.)

What Every Woman in Public Life

What Every Woman in Public Life

What Every Woman in Public Life Should Know: Networking, Media Handling and Basic Communications for Agenda Setting

Condoned by Our Silence

Condoned by Our Silence

Condoned by Our Silence: Issues Impacting The Abuse of Children in Guyana, (Georgetown, UNICEF, 2000)

Telecommunications Today (VHS), for the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company Ltd., (GT&T), 1991. 

 

150 Years of Insurance in Guyana (VHS), written and directed for the Guyana/Trinidad Mutual Fire Insurance Company Ltd., 1991. 

FILMS

2012: Promotion to rank of Senior Lecturer, and academic tenure awarded.

 

2011: University of Guyana letter of commendation for work above and beyond the call of duty (2nd).

 

2010: UNESCO IPDC Grant US$40,000 to boost radio production at the Centre for Communication Studies at the University of Guyana.

 

2009: University of Guyana letter of commendation for work above and beyond the

call of duty.

 

2009-2011: USAID Higher Education Grant to Strengthen Mass Communications in Guyana US$ 378,000. Administered through the University of Guyana and Ohio

University.

 

2007-2008: USAID Democracy and Governance Project grant of US$76,000 to upgrade the studio facilities at the Centre for Communications Studies at the University of Guyana. 

 

OTHER GRANTS & COMMENDATIONS AWARDED  

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

 

Benign Beast- The BBC and the Unmaking of Guyana (1930-1970). 

 

Strategic Advocacy Campaigns in Changing Outcomes for Out of School Youth (Guyana. July. 2010).

 

On Women and Children in the Caribbean (June, 2010).

 

Telling Tall Tales: Reporting Scientific Information for Mass Publics. (May 2010).

 

Race, Politics and Media in Guyana -A Preliminary Analysis. (April 2009)

 

The Media as Social Worker: Towards a Conception of the Role of the Media in Social Work. (July 2009)

 

 

Research

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