Dr. Joan Phillips is a senior lecturer and post graduate coordinator of Sociology in the department of Government, Sociology, Social Work and Psychology at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. She is a graduate of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, and completed her PhD at the University of Bedfordshire. She is also a recipient of a Leverhulme Post-doctoral fellowship from the University of London, Royal Holloway her research focus on the nexus between gender, race and Sexuality. Her current research interests are mobilities in the diaspora, postcoloniality and its intersection with gender. She has also undertaken research into return migration She is a skilled qualitative researcher with over thirty years of experience using a emyriad of data collection methods including in-depth interviews, focus groups and other ethnographic methods to conduct hard to reach groups or vulnerable groups.
