General Area Of Academic Specialisation:

Arts-based and Collaborative Research Methodologies, Trauma, Maternal Mental Health, Adolescent Sexuality and Sexual Health.

Qualification & Granting Institutions

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work - UWI, St Augustine Campus, 2013

    Dissertation Title: “In The Silence of their Skin: Negotiating HIV Disclosure and Young Adulthood in Trinidad and Tobago

    Fields of study: Psychosocial implications of HIV; Building research partnerships with marginalised populations, Arts-based Research & Participatory Action Research Methodologies

  • Masters of Arts, New York University, 2003

    Thesis: Re-Storying the Silence: Exploring Personal Narratives Through Narradrama with HIV-Positive Children and Adolescents

    A phenomenological study explored children’s meaning-making of HIV diagnosis, family abandonment and personal histories

  • Bachelor of Science - Upper Second Class Honours, UWI, St Augustine Campus, 1999

    Major: Psychology with a minor in Human Resource Management

PUBLICATIONS

Chapters in Refereed Books

  • Rogers, T (2025) Promissory Notes and Other Forms of Consent. In T. Ghaye, R. Sørly (Eds) Learning through Social Work Stories-That-Matter: Global Perspectives (pp. 180-192) Cambridge Press ISBN:9781009386210

  • Rogers, T. (2025) Social Policy Contestations from Within the Academy – A Conversation with Dr Innette Cambridge. In D.N. Mc Fee and T. Rogers (Eds) Panoramic Public Policy: Gender, Human Security & Social Policy in the Caribbean. Palgrave Macmillan https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81592-8

  •  Rogers, T., Agard-Lewis, N and Neil, K (2025) Policy-ing Adolescent Sexuality and Sexual Health in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. In D.N. Mc Fee and T. Rogers (Eds) Panoramic Public Policy: Gender, Human Security & Social Policy in the Caribbean. Palgrave Macmillan https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81592-8

  • Rogers, T. and Rattray, A. (2025) Teaching and Being Trauma-informed in Higher Education Classrooms: A Duoethnography of Social Work Educators. In Social Equity and Social Justice. Fagbokforlaget Press

  • Rogers, T. (2009). Accepting to Live: Disclosing the truth about HIV. In Jones, A., Padmore, J., & Maharaj, P. E. (Eds), HIV-AIDS and social work practice in the Caribbean: Theory, issues, and innovation (pp 34-42). Ian Randle.

  • Mthembu, M & Rogers, T. (2009). Beyond the Counselling Room: Pushing the limits of HIV/AIDS Social Work Practice. In Jones, A., Padmore, J., & Maharaj, P. E. (Eds), HIV-AIDS and social work practice in the Caribbean: Theory, issues, and innovation (pp20-33). Ian Randle.

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Rogers, T. (2025). Brushstrokes and Footnotes: Reintroducing the Artist to the Academic Self. In The Qualitative Review Special Issue, Goodbye to All That! A Living Inquiry.

  •  Rogers, T. (2021) Social Work's Commitment to Change: Participatory Action Research as Practice with Marginalised Groups in the Caribbean, Caribbean Journal of Social Work Volume 14

  • Rhodes, P., Azim, K. A., Saab, K., Nelson, R., River, J., Rogers, T., & Cook, A. (2018). We Are Barometers of the City; Collected Poems by Psychologists. Human Arenas, 2(2), 170–185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-018-0033-7

  • Rogers, T. (2017). Silence, Invisibility and Social Policy: Putting the Pieces Together with HIV Positive Youth.  Caribbean Review of Gender Studies issues, 11, 141–180.

  • Rogers, T. (2006).  De Day We See Wind in Grenada: Community Level Incident Debriefing through Playback Theatre. Caribbean Journal of Social Work, 5, 19-28

Edited Books

  • McFee, D and Rogers, T (Editors) (2025) Panoramic Public Policy: Gender, Human Security & Social Policy in the Caribbean. Palgrave Macmillan https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81592-8

Technical Reports

  • Rogers, T. (2022) Trinidad and Tobago Central Registry on Gender-Based Violence: A Baseline Assessment. UN Spotlight Initiative/ United Nations Population Fund

  • Rogers, T. (2021) Legal Barriers that Affect Adolescent Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Trinidad and Tobago. A Qualitative Study. United Nations Population Fund/ National AIDS Coordinating Committee.

NON-REFEREED RESEARCH-BASED/SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

  • Rogers, T. (2023) COVID-19: Challenges, Opportunities & Innovations Caribbean Journal of Social Work, Vol 15.

  • Rogers, T. (2021) New Scholars, New Scholarship Caribbean Journal of Social Work, Vol 14.

Journal Articles

  • Rogers, T. (2018) Engaging Self, Otherness, and Reflexivity: A Caribbean Social Worker’s Reflections. Qualitative Inquiry in Social Work Global Perspectives Volume 1(1) 13

  • Technical Reports

  • Rogers, T. (2016) Social Mapping and Formative Assessment among Female Sex Workers in Trinidad and Tobago. National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), Washington DC & HIV/AIDS Coordinating Unit, Ministry of Health, Trinidad and Tobago. Centre for Disease Control funded national surveillance studies among Key Populations.

  • Rogers, T. (2016) Technical Review of Facilitators’ Sexual Health Manual for Training Gay and Other Men who have Sex with Men, Transgender people, and Sex Workers in Peer Education. Funded by Caribbean Vulnerable Communities/ El Centro de Orientación e Investigación Integral Vulnerabilized Groups Project 2015.

  • Amour, B., Rogers, T., Flanagan, R., Lyons. N. & Pessoa-Brandão, L. (2015) HIV Prevalence and Risk Factors among Men who have Sex with Men in Trinidad and Tobago A Biological Behavioural Surveillance Study. National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), Washington DC & HIV/AIDS Coordinating Unit, Ministry of Health, Trinidad and Tobago. Centre for Disease Control funded national surveillance studies among Key Populations.

  • Rogers, T. (2014) Formative Research among Men who have Sex with Men in Trinidad and Tobago National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), Washington DC & HIV/AIDS Coordinating Unit, Ministry of Health, Trinidad and Tobago. Centre for Disease Control funded national surveillance studies among Key Populations.

  • Rogers, T. (2009) HIV/AIDS Social and Behaviour Mapping Assessment of East Tobago HIV/AIDS Coordinating Committee Secretariat (THACCS), Tobago

PUBLICATIONS OF AN ARTISTIC NATURE

Refereed

Curricula/ Toolkits

  • Rogers, T. (2017) FOUNDATIONS Toolkit: Strengthening Prevention Approaches to Address Gender-Based Violence and HIV, UN Women Multi-Caribbean Office – Barbados

  • Rogers, T. & Chance, S., (2013).  Guidelines for Supervisors of Participatory Action Research Projects. Open Campus, UWI Online Instruction: BSc. Youth Development Work.

  • Rogers, T. (2017) GBV Curriculum for Younger Audiences (13-18): Make it Stop Youth Empowerment. Population Service International

  • Rogers, T. (2017) Youth-Friendly Evaluation Toolkit (development and pilot) Make it Stop Youth Empowerment Program v Population Services International- Caribbean.

  • Rogers, T. (2012) Boys and Girls Nature Nurture Camps, Trauma Centre of Trinidad and Tobago.  Fourteen-day intensive clinical curriculum for two specialised therapeutic camps for boys and girls (7-12) who have experienced the loss of a parent through homicide.

Special Presentations and Invited Lectures

  • Rogers, T. (March, 2024) Pedagogy is never neutral: Interrupting and Disrupting post-colonial Contexts through Trauma-Informed Social Work Education. Keynote Address for Guyana Social Work Education and Practice Conference, University of Guyana

  • Rogers, T. (August, 2023) Trauma-informed Social Work Research as a Social Justice Mandate: Beyond Institutional Review Boards and Selective Protections. Keynote Address for Conference Social Inequity and Social Justice, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway

  • Rogers, T. (August 2023) International Social Work – A Call for Collective Advocacy Guest Lecture at UiT, The Arctic University of Norway.

  • Rogers T (November 2021) Approaches to Queer Women affected by Gender-Based violence in the Caribbean: A Social Work Response, ASCWE Virtual Symposium

  • Rogers, T. (March 2021) The Essential Nature of Clinical Social Work Practice during the Pandemic. Bellevue Hospital, Jamaica

  • Rogers, T. (2021, April) Using Art/Performance to generate data: Making performance/art from data/research findings Performance Research Forum, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Jamaica

  • Rogers, T. (2021, March) Let’s Talk Fertility: Empathy and Managing Emotions in Patients with Endometriosis. In 2nd Nurses Seminar on Endometriosis – Beyond Period Pain. Happier, healthier Patients. Trinidad and Tobago Endometriosis Association, Funded by PAHO Trinidad.

  • Rogers, T. (June 2020) Am I the only one feeling like this? Will this ever end? Panel Presentation – Stress and Coping in the midst of COVID-19. UWI, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados

  • Rogers, T. (2020, June) Advanced Data Analysis Skills in Qualitative Research. Virtual Postgraduate Workshop for students in the discipline of Social Work, School of Applied Social Sciences, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa

  • Rogers, T. (2020, July) Client Resistance as Failed Colonisation. In Racism, Colonisation and Psychology: An Australian/International Dialogue Roundtable. Psychologists for social justice. Australia

  • Rogers, T. (2020, January) Mental Health and the Artist. Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Jamaica

  • Rogers, T. (2018, May) Participatory Action Research: Ethical concerns in working with children and Adolescents Chicago Professional School of Psychology, Chicago, Illinois

  • Rogers, T. (2018, June ) From Data Collection to Coding: Building an Empowering Qualitative Research Practice with Marginised Populations. Chicago Professional School of Psychology, Chicago, Illinois

Workshops and Training Sessions

  • Creating and Sustaining Trauma-Responsive Environments – Practical Tools for Trauma-informed Social Services Professionals – University of Guyana, March 2024

  • Companionship Training – Reproductive Justice Workshop, WE Change, Jamaica, March 2024

  • Doing Participatory Action Research: A 6-hour Digital Workshop - Fachhochschule Dortmund, University of Applied Sciences, Germany DAAD-funded Dortmund, December 2023

  • What happened: Stories of Queer people navigating the Jamaican Maternal Health System - Psychosocial Support Workshop, WE Change, Jamaica, November 2023

  • Building Participatory Action Research Projects with Young People Crafting Proposals & Anticipating Dilemmas. A Two-Day Workshop for Early Career Researchers, University of Limpopo, South Africa, August 2023

  • WE-CHANGE Gender Based Violence Support, A two-hour workshop Kingston Jamaica November 2021

  • Caribbean Policy Development Centre, Roseau, Dominica, September. 2010 - A Gendered Perspective – Adequate use of information to local communities where women are involved Training Workshop: Building Education and Awareness on issues related to Labour, Gender & Trade

  • Wholeness and Justice: A healing workshop for community leaders in the LGBTQI Community Gender Based Violence Advocacy Project: LGBTQI NGO Coalition & Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS), UWI funded by European Union 2017, 2018

  • Advocacy, Stigma and Discrimination Anglicans Advocating Action – HIV/AIDS Awareness, Anglican Archdiocese of Trinidad and Tobago, 2018 Funded by CARICOM

  • Data Collection and Research for Development Practice: Considering Gender and Making People Visible 2-day workshop July 2017, IGDS, UWI

  • Strong Men, Stronger Communities’ - Constructive Engagement of Boys and Young Men in the Caribbean to address Positive Male Youth Development, promote Gender Equality and eliminate Gender Violence 5 Day Capacity Building Training Workshop - UNWOMEN and Department of Gender Affairs March 31 to April 4, 2014, Antigua & Barbuda.

  • Community Violence Prevention Program Building Capacity of Group Facilitators in Trinidad and Tobago To Prevent Gender Based Violence, with a focus on Sexual Violence Among Marginalized Young Men & Boys 5 Day Workshop, Trinidad and Tobago - UNWOMEN & UNFPA October 14 -19, 2013

  • Debriefing of Mentors for the National Mentorship Program – Dolly & Associates/ Ministry of National Security, 2013

  • Gender Issues - Civilian Conservation Corps of Trinidad and Tobago – Induction Series delivered bi-annually in 6 training regional training centres, Ministry of National Security 2009 - 2013

  • Child Sexual Abuse: Definitions, Manifestations in Caribbean Communities, Research, Interventions and Innovative Practice - Break the Silence Project, IDGS, UWI – CADV, 2009

  • Managing Power, Control in Interactions and Relationships - PANCAP Vulnerable Groups (Commercial Sex Workers/ MSM) UNAIDS Caribbean Regional Support Team, 2009

  • Acts of Service: HIV/AIDS & Social Work Practice: Building Reflexivity &Strengthening Capacity for Evidence-Based Practice - A Training Programme – Social Work Unit, UWI. 2007 Tobago, Scarborough.  (Team Member)

  • HIV/AIDS Issues of Disclosure Adults, Adolescents & children –Faculty of Social Sciences, UWI, 2007

  • Understanding Life Stages a& the Impact of Development on Behaviour – Advanced Counselling for The Trinidad and Tobago Rape Crisis Society, Advanced Counselling Course 2010, 2009

  • On Becoming a Person – Understanding Adolescence – Sophia House Children Home Staff Development, 2007

  • Self-care and Peer Support for Community-Based Facilitators, Break the Silence Project, IDGS, UWI – CADV

  • Building Strong Families – Dolly & Associates Boys Nature – Nature Camp for Parents who lost their partners to homicide, 2009, 2010, 2011

Reports

  • Rogers, T. (2010) Short Paper on the Use and Efficacy of the Data Collection Methods Country Researcher, Trinidad and Tobago, CARICOM, Guyana

  • Rogers, T. (2009) Summative Evaluation of ChildLine project – 24-hour child-centered helpline; produced report for UNICEF Trinidad and Tobago

  • Rogers, T. (2009)Tobago HIV/AIDS Coordinating Committee Secretariat (THACCS), HIV/AIDS Social and Behaviour Mapping Assessment of East Tobago

Public Service

  • Board Member, HIV/AIDS Workplace Advocacy Advisory Board. Ministry of Labour and Small Enterprise Development, 2018 - 2019

  • Member, Expert Working Group – Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Sub-Committee, National AIDS Coordinating Committee, Office of the Prime Minister, June 2017 - 2019

  • Member, Women’s Institute for Alternative Development, 2016 -2019

Other Professional Activity And Experience

  • Research Associate, University of Johannesburg January 2023- present

  • Editor – Caribbean Journal of Social Work 2020-present

  • Co-Chair of the Social Work Special Interest Group - International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Urbana -Champaign, USA

  • Member, Pan-African Mental Health Research Network. This is a multidisciplinary consortium of mental health practitioners, and researchers committed to providing innovative solutions to address the gaps in mental health care for African and Caribbean populations. The UWI, Mona and the University of Guyana are the only members from the Americas. Information about the network can be found here.

  • UN Women Regional Consultant – Gender-Based Violence Prevention, Psychosocial Support & Capacity Building – Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada and Guyana. 2021-2023

  • Journal Review Committee Member - The Qualitative Report – 2015-2018 https://tqr.nova.edu/news-2015/

  • Reviewer - Frontiers Sociology Jones AD (2021) Child Sexual Abuse as Lifespan Trauma Within the Context of Intimate Partner Violence: Experiences of Caribbean Women. Front. Sociol. 6:623661. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2021.623661

  • Assessor – University Accreditation Council of Jamaica, 2021 Jamaica Theological Seminary BSW Social Work Programme – Application for reaccreditation. Co-Assessor Prof. Lynn Videka, Social Work, University of Michigan. Multisector interviews, document reviews and preparation of a final report with recommendations.

Curriculum/Programme development

  • The Intensive Online MSW Research Intensive was designed to give MSW students a head start on their preparatory work for the final requirement of the degree program—the Research Report. This course is hosted on my academic website, www.tracierogers.com, and allows students to work on their proposals during the summer break. The course consists of seven modules, by the end of which students can produce their MSW proposal. Access the course here.

  • The MSW Research Report Manual offers detailed descriptions of the types of reports that can be undertaken to fulfil the requirements for the MSW Research Report.  The guidance provided in this report coheres with OGSR regulations and the grading criteria used across the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work.  It offers explicit criteria for grading students’ work and includes five report-specific rubrics.  It serves to apprise students about the criteria for evaluating different types of reports, including empirical reports, systematic literature reviews, clinical/direct practice and technical reports.

  • The MSW Research Seminar Series lectures presented by various local, regional and international speakers addressing specific elements of the research process.  Most of the speakers were social work academics or professionals, as well as graduates of the UWI.