Leith Dunn

Leith Lorraine Dunn is a Jamaican sociologist, writer and academic.

Leith Dunn

PhD
NationalityJamaican
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of the West Indies
London School of Economics (PhD)
ThesisA sociological analysis of methods of organising used by women in Caribbean Free Trade zones: Implications for development. (1994)

She taught at the University of the West Indies where she focused on gender and human rights, as well as acting for a consultant to the United Nations and the Caribbean Community. In 2020, she was presented the Award for Excellence by Jamaica's National Family Planning Board.

Education

Dunn has a bachelor's degree in languages and social sciences, and a master's degree in sociology from the University of the West Indies.[1] She has a PhD in sociology and economics from London School of Economics,[1] and was an honorary research fellow at the University of Toronto.[2]

Career

Dunn taught courses on disaster risk management, gender and climate change at the University of the West Indies (UWI), where she also focused on gender equity in governance and leadership, human trafficking, human rights, trade and tourism, labour, and health.[1] She was the head of UWI's Mona Unit.[3]

In 2020, Dunn was awarded the inaugural Jamaican National Family Planning Board's Award for Excellence.[1]

She has also worked for Christian Aid;[3] the Commonwealth Observer Group as an election monitor in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Rwanda, and Malawi; and as a consultant to both the United Nations Population Fund and the Caribbean Community.[1][4][5]

Dunn's chapter in the 2016 book Men, Masculinities and Disaster pointed out how poverty, sexuality, ability were factors increasing the risk to men from climate change.[6]

Selected publications
  • Scafe, Suzanne; Dunn, Leith L., eds. (2022). African-Caribbean Women Interrogating Diaspora/Post-Diaspora. Routledge, Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780367726133. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  • Dunn, Leith (2016). "Integrating men and masculinities in Caribbean disaster risk management". In Enarson, Elaine; Pease, Bob (eds.). Men, Masculinities and Disaster. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315678122. ISBN 978-1-315-67812-2. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  • Scafe, Suzanne; Dunn, Leith (2020). "African-Caribbean women interrogating diaspora/Post-diaspora". African and Black Diaspora. 13 (2): 127–133. doi:10.1080/17528631.2020.1740471. S2CID 221062435.

References
  1. "Dr Leith Dunn | Institute for Gender and Development Studies Mona Unit". www.mona.uwi.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  2. "Integrating gender and equity in health and environment research". Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  3. "UWI's Leith Dunn among Global Top 100 on Gender Policy and Equality | Loop Jamaica". Loop News. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  4. "Leith Dunn". sta.uwi.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  5. Tummala, Pragathi. "ISPCAN 1st Caribbean Regional Conference - Keynote Speakers - Dunn". ISPCAN. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  6. "Earth Today | Men under threat in natural disasters". jamaica-gleaner.com. 2018-05-24. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
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