Ms. Keisha C. Samlal

PhD. Candidate

Keisha Samlal is currently a PhD. Candidate in Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus. Serving as a teaching assistant in the Department of Behavioural Sciences, she also lectures part time with the Faculty of Engineering, UWI School of Nursing (UWISON) and the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), in the areas of Sociology, Development Studies and the Humanities. She has a multidisciplinary academic background in the fields of Communication Studies, International Relations, and Sociology and her current research focuses on the social construction and experience/s of the fat female body within Caribbean society. Other areas of research interest include mentoring in higher education, statistics education among university students, and decoloniality in higher education.