Jenna Marshall
2013

Jenna is a second year PhD candidate in the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London. With an MRes from the School, she also holds a bilingual Honours degree from York University (Canada). Her recent work includes Assistant Curator of the Making Freedom Project in partnership with the Windrush Foundation, UK Royal Geographical Society and the Marcus Garvey Library. 

Additionally, she has undertaken the role of Teaching Assistant for the first-year undergraduate module ‘Introduction to International Relations’.

A researcher by training, she has worked on areas related to economic and social development within Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to joining the School, Jenna has held posts which include Research Fellow for the Barbados Coalition for Service Industries, Print Media Journalist and Correspondent with the United Nations Development Programme.

Her overall research interests seek to explore the impact of global civil, political and economic actors and their relations within the developmental process of small island developing states, with particular reference to the Caribbean. Successfully obtaining a Special Award from the Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development in Barbados, her current research seeks to locate education as part of a broader radical political project in the developmental process in nation- building period after constitutional independence in Barbados. She aims to identify and analyse the various political and economic actors within informed the politics of development particular in the area of education as conceptualised as a key driver of both social and economic development opposed to other variants of development approaches employed in the Caribbean region.