The University of Guyana (UG) in another three years will have a criminologist for the first time in a decade, when lecturer and sociologist Andrew Hicks returns to the institution on completion of his PhD in criminology and criminal justice.
Hicks, who has been a lecturer at the university for a number of years, was recently awarded a full scholarship by the Caribbean Pacific Island Mobility Scheme consortium to read for the three-year programme at the University of West Indies (UWI) in Trinidad. The consortium was established at UWI’s Trinidad office with funding from the European Union to administer the scholarship programme,