Professor Dwayne Devonish

Dwayne Devonish is a Professor of Management and Organisational Behaviour in the Department of Management Studies under the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. Professor Devonish possesses a BSc in Psychology from the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill Campus) with First Class Honours, and MSc and PhD in Work and Organisational Psychology from the University of the Nottingham (United Kingdom) with Distinction. In 2020, he was promoted to the rank of Professor at the age of 36 – the second youngest person to attain this rank at the University of the West Indies.
He currently serves as the youngest professor at the institution. His main areas of interests and specialisation include organisational behaviour and psychology, work-related stress, health and wellness, human resource management, and strategic planning. He has published extensively on these subjects in both regional and international journals, conducted practical training workshops and engaged in diverse research-based consultancies in these same areas for various organisations.
He was the lead author of the National Workplace Wellness Policy of Barbados in 2019 (the only policy of its kind) and currently sits as a member of the National Committee on Wellness in the Workplace under the Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Third Sector.