Rate My Professor Julian Devonish

Julian Devonish serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus, Faculty of Social Sciences. A Barbadian by birth, he joined the faculty in 1999 and holds a PhD. His teaching responsibilities encompass key courses in Social Science, including Demography, Population & Development, Introduction to Population, and Social Demography.

Devonish's academic interests focus on population aging and the family, father involvement, student access and performance, and diversity and change in higher education. He has authored or co-authored several publications that contribute to the understanding of demographic and family issues in the Caribbean. Among his key works are "Fathering the "Outside" Child: Differences and Shortfalls among Urban Jamaican Fathers" co-authored with Patricia Anderson in Social and Economic Studies (Vol. 66, Nos. 1 & 2, 2017), which reports findings from a survey of 252 urban Jamaican fathers revealing shortfalls in interaction with non-resident children influenced by factors such as employment, education, social class, and psychological orientation to fatherhood. Other notable publications include "Correlates of Delayed Sexual Initiation among Adolescent Girls" with Sharon Priestley (Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 68, Nos. 1 & 2, 2019), "Development of a Jamaican Scale to Measure Fathering Identity: The Mandad Scale" with Patricia Anderson (2020), "Differences in Student Access and Performance at The University of the West Indies between 1983 and 2010" with Patricia Anderson and Arlene Bailey, "The University of the West Indies: Diversity and Change" (2012), and "Universal Secondary Education and the Two-Tiered School System in the English-Speaking Caribbean" (2010).