PhD student of UWI cops one of two international journal awards

Navida Bachan, a student at The University of the West Indies (The UWI), has been awarded the renowned Routledge/Round Table Commonwealth Studentship Award for the 2020-2021 academic year. Just two studentships are accessible every year; one assigned for a UK-enrolled student and the other for one student from other Commonwealth nations, which was given to Navida.

Established in 1910, the Round Table is the most seasoned English-language foreign relations journal and commentary and critique from research on all parts of foreign relations. The journal is the significant hotspot for the inclusion of the strategic issues concerning the contemporary Commonwealth and its function in foreign relations, with periodic articles on topics of authentic intrigue. Navida, who is reading for a PhD in Governance at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) at The UWI St. Augustine Campus, has zeroed in her exploration on researching wellbeing framework administration and its effect on the presentation of wellbeing frameworks in Trinidad and Tobago and the UK. She has an uncommon enthusiasm for the precepts of participatory administration in the wellbeing area and how they have been applied in Commonwealth settings that have encouraged improved wellbeing results for populaces.

Navida's expert work as a specialist in the Trinidad and Tobago wellbeing segment, both at the public and sub-public levels, has contributed fundamentally to her bits of knowledge about wellbeing framework administration and its connection to wellbeing framework execution, and along these lines medical care conveyance. She plans to utilize the Routledge/Round Table Commonwealth Studentship towards understanding key administration parts inside the UK's National Health Service (NHS). In particular, her investigation of the NHS will start with a survey of key enactment, and come full circle in interviews with wellbeing authorities. She imagines her discoveries being converted into strategy quantifies that contribute towards the general reinforcing of the Trinidad and Tobago wellbeing framework just as those of creating nations all in all. She holds a BSc in Economics and a MSc in Development Statistics with a specialization in Social and Demographic Statistics, both from The UWI.

In 2017 she was additionally the beneficiary of the Jack Harewood Award for 'Most Outstanding Student' in her MSc in Development Statistics program at SALISES, St. Augustine and spent a semester at the University of Alberta as a meeting graduate understudy; there, she extended her insight into blended techniques research for her PhD while upgrading her abilities through International House's Global Leadership Development program.