Head of Montserrat UWI Campus to Host St. Patrick's Lecture Series on Wednesday

Have we as a people been making the choices that facilitate positive growth and development?

That is the question being explored at the St. Patrick's Lecture Series on Wednesday March 12, 2025 at the Montserrat Public Library starting at 6:30 PM.

Head of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Global campus on Montserrat, Gracelyn Cassell, will be hosting the lecture on the topic: “What's on My Mind: Choices, Behaviours, Policies!”

The lecture is meant to examine Montserrat’s position as the island finds itself at a cross road, 257 years after the failed slave uprising of 1768.

Now, tough decisions have to be made about an appropriate development path, constitutional change and navigating the ever changing global environment.

This interactive discourse will make use of the presenter's experiences and exposure gained from growing up in Montserrat, and working for 15 years in the public service and an additional 28 years in academia.

Miss Cassell has published and presented papers on library experiences with disasters, off-shore tertiary education and festival tourism.

Her research interests also include information technology, the creative and cultural industries and cultural heritage.

Miss Cassell is currently enrolled in the Distance Learning Doctoral Programme in Cultural Heritage at the University of Birmingham.

She hopes to complete her investigation of the potential of social media for reconstructing heritage lost as a result of disaster after she retires at the end of July 2025.