Leith Dunn
{{Short description|Jamaican sociologist}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = Leith Dunn
| thesis_title = A sociological analysis of methods of organising used by women in Caribbean Free Trade zones: Implications for development.
| thesis_url = http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1289/
| thesis_year = 1994
| alma_mater = University of the West Indies
London School of Economics (PhD)
| nationality = Jamaican
| honorific_suffix = PhD
}}
Leith Lorraine Dunn is a Jamaican sociologist, writer and academic.
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.{{Cite web |title=Dr Leith Dunn {{!}} Institute for Gender and Development Studies Mona Unit |url=https://www.mona.uwi.edu/igds/dr-leith-dunn |access-date=2022-04-17 |website=www.mona.uwi.edu}} She has a PhD in sociology and economics from London School of Economics, and was an honorary research fellow at the University of Toronto.{{Cite web |title=Integrating gender and equity in health and environment research |url=https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/institutes/centre-for-global-health/pursuing-the-co-benefits-for-health-and-environments-through-food-system-change/integrating-gender-and-equity-in-health-and-environment-research/ |access-date=2022-04-17 |website=Dalla Lana School of Public Health |language=en-CA}}
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. She was the head of UWI's Mona Unit.{{Cite web |title=UWI's Leith Dunn among Global Top 100 on Gender Policy and Equality {{!}} Loop Jamaica |url=https://jamaica.loopnews.com/content/uwis-leith-dunn-among-global-top-100-gender-policy-and-equality |access-date=2022-04-17 |website=Loop News |language=en}}
In 2020, Dunn was awarded the inaugural Jamaican National Family Planning Board's Award for Excellence.
She has also worked for Christian Aid; 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.{{Cite web |title=Leith Dunn |url=https://sta.uwi.edu/crgs/june2019/leithdunn.asp |access-date=2022-04-17 |website=sta.uwi.edu}}{{Cite web |last=Tummala |first=Pragathi |title=ISPCAN 1st Caribbean Regional Conference - Keynote Speakers - Dunn |url=https://www.ispcan.org/caribbean2018/keynote-speaker-dunn/ |access-date=2022-04-17 |website=ISPCAN |language=en-US}}
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.{{Cite web |date=2018-05-24 |title=Earth Today {{!}} Men under threat in natural disasters |url=https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20180524/earth-today-men-under-threat-natural-disasters |access-date=2022-04-17 |website=jamaica-gleaner.com |language=en}}
Selected publications
- {{Cite book |title=African-Caribbean Women Interrogating Diaspora/Post-Diaspora |url=https://www.routledge.com/African-Caribbean-Women-Interrogating-DiasporaPost-Diaspora/Scafe-Dunn/p/book/9780367726133 |access-date=2022-04-17 |year=2022|publisher=Routledge, Taylor & Francis |language=en |isbn= 9780367726133 |editor-last1=Scafe |editor-first1=Suzanne |editor-last2=Dunn |editor-first2=Leith L. }}
- {{Cite book |last=Dunn |first=Leith |editor-first1=Elaine |editor-first2=Bob |editor-last1=Enarson |editor-last2=Pease |chapter=Integrating men and masculinities in Caribbean disaster risk management |date=2016 |chapter-url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315678122-22/integrating-men-masculinities-caribbean-disaster-risk-management-leith-dunn |title=Men, Masculinities and Disaster |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9781315678122 |isbn=978-1-315-67812-2 |access-date=2022-04-17}}
- {{cite journal|url=https://openresearch.lsbu.ac.uk/item/89153 |doi=10.1080/17528631.2020.1740471 |title=African-Caribbean women interrogating diaspora/Post-diaspora |year=2020 |last1=Scafe |first1=Suzanne |last2=Dunn |first2=Leith |journal=African and Black Diaspora|volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=127–133 |s2cid=221062435 |doi-access=free }}
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Category:Jamaican sociologists
Category:Jamaican women sociologists
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century Jamaican women writers
Category:21st-century Jamaican writers
Category:Alumni of the London School of Economics
Category:University of the West Indies alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of the West Indies