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Dr. Dr. Duane Edwards
Director
Graduate School of Social Sciences
Email
duane.edwards@uog.edu.gy

Holds a Bachelor of Social Science degree in Sociology and a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (High Commendation) from the University of the West Indies. He joined the Department of Sociology in 2021. He currently serves as the Coordinator of the Commonwealth Master of Public Administration and Business Administration programs and Head of the Graduate School of the Social Science. Prior to joining the faculty he worked as a Lecturer with the Department of Government, Sociology, Social Work and Psychology at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. He has published in the field of Sociology and was part of the Planning Committee for the 2022 Conference of the Caribbean Sociological Association. 

Publications

  1. Edwards, Duane, Alana Griffith, Peter Wickham, Lisa McClean. (2023). “We’re Okay with Them but How Many More?: Trinidadians’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Perceptions of Venezuelan Migrants”. In Exodus: The Movement of Venezuelans to the Americas and the Caribbean in the 21st Century. Edt. By Wendell Wallace. Palgrave MacMillan.
     
  2. Edwards, Duane. (2023). Disrupted economy and sociality: Examining the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on urban low-income communities in Guyana. In COVID-19 and the Caribbean, Volume Two: Society, Education and Human Behavior edt. by Sherma Roberts, Halimah A.F. DeShong, Wendy C. Grenade, Dwayne Devonish. Palgrave MacMillan.
     
  3. Edwards, Duane. (2022). “Ethnogenesis, Ethnicization and Ethnopolitics: Some Analytic, Theoretical and Policy Insights for Guyana”. Social and Economic Studies (SES) Journal.
     
  4. Edwards, Duane. (2022).  “Social Structure and Institutional Incongruity: The Background to Guyana’s 2020 Elections Impasse. Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, 45,2.
     
  5. Edwards, Duane. (2019). “What happens when we stop dreaming? A critical exploration of social change in the works of Walter Rodney and Wilson Harris”. Social Epistemology, Vol. 33(3).
     
  6. Edwards, Duane. (2017). “The Renewed Relevance of the Caribbean Plantation School”. Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, Vol. 42(2):100–126.
     
  7. Edwards, Duane. (2017). “Corruption and State Capture under Two Regimes in Guyana: A Plural Society Approach”. Transition, Vol. 44(1):86–124.
     
  8. Edwards, Duane. (2016).  “Suicide in Guyana: A Parsonsian Corrective to Durkheim’s Theory of Suicide”. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 41(2):197–214.
     
  9. Edwards, Duane. (2015). “Wilson Harris’ Radical Imagination”. Caribbean Journal of Philosophy, Vol.4.

 

Conferences and Conference Proceedings 

  1. 2024 – April – “Language Barriers, Social Integration and Learning Challenges: An Exploratory Analysis of Venezuelan Migrant Families and Students in Guyana”. The Joint Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development. Panama City, Panama.
     
  2. 2022 – June – “Peter Wilson, Cultural Dialectics and Relational Ethnography”. 2nd Online Conference of the Caribbean Sociological Association (CASA).
     
  3. 2021 – Nov. – “Suicide prevention: Learning from sociocultural perspectives to create a sustainable community response”. Panel presentation with Dr. Penelope Siebert (Nottingham Trent University), Mr. Matthew Horrocks (Nottingham University) and Mrs. Ayodele Dalgety-Dean (Nottingham Trent University) at the Guyana Mental Health and Well-Being Conference,
    Georgetown, Guyana.
     
  4. 2021 – June – “Inverse Consequences: How Social Structures Affect Cross-ethnic Solidarity”. Presentation at 14th Annual Guyana Institute of Historical Research Conference, Georgetown, Guyana.
     
  5. 2020 – June – “Community Resilience, Socio-economic Partnership and Sociocultural Behavioral Change: Practical Ways to Manage the COVID19 Pandemic Crisis”. Presentation at T20
    (Think Tank for G20 Summit) Web Conference under the theme: Policy Recommendations for a Post-COVID-19 World.
     
  6. 2019 - May – “Independent Thought and Caribbean Development”. Presentation at the 20th Annual Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies Conference. Hilton, Barbados.
     
  7. 2019 - May – “Development Thinking in the Caribbean: A Computational Textual Analysis of the SALISES Journal”. Presentation at the 20th Annual Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies Conference. Hilton, Barbados
     
  8. 2018 - Mar. – “What Happens When We Stop Dreaming? Accounting for the Waning of Post�Independence Radicalism”. Presentation at the Sixth Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Middlebury College, Vermont, USA under the theme: 1968, Fifty Years of Struggle.
     
  9. 2017 - Apr. – “Rastafari, Justice, Reparations and Repatriation”. Presentation at the National Rastafari Conference on Reparation and Repatriation, University of Guyana.
     
  10. 2017 - Apr. – “What Happens when We Stop Dreaming? A Critical Exploration of Social Change in the Works of Walter Rodney and Wilson Harris”. Presentation at the Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium (CHiPS) 12th Conference, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados.
     
  11. 2016 - May – “Suicide in Guyana: A Sociological Analysis”. Presentation at the Golden Jubilee National Symposium Series, Arthur Chung Convention Centre, Guyana.
     
  12. 2016 - Mar. – “The Continued Relevance of the Caribbean Plantation “. Presentation at the 17th Annual SALISES Conference, St. Michael, Barbados.
     
  13. 2015 - Mar. – “Caribbean Reparation Thrust: A Golden Opportunity for African - African Diasporan Collaboration”. Presentation at the 8th Pan African Congress, Accra, Ghana.