Guyana has produced many intellectuals in various fields, and Professor Jaipaul Singh, a Guyanese who has been residing abroad for many years, and who is a University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) academic, has become the first to receive the prestigious Doctor of Science degree (DSc).
After a long career based primarily at UCLan, Professor Singh was awarded the honour recently at a ceremony for his lifetime’s work on ‘Mechanisms associated with secretory and contractile responses in tissues and cells of the body in health and disease’. He is recognised as a pioneer and world-leading authority in his field, and he has had a major and enduring influence on the development in both these fields of research.
The post-doctoral award is given to persons who are considered to be world-leading authorities in their field.
Professor Singh, based in the School of Forensic and Investigative Sciences, graduated with a BSc from the University of Guyana before taking up a place for his PhD at the University of St Andrews in 1974. Upon graduating in 1978 he held four research posts at the universities of St Andrews, Dundee and Liverpool, before joining what was then Preston Polytechnic, now UCLan, in 1984. In 1993 he was awarded his Professorship.
Since 1994 he has published an astounding number of papers: more than 190. He is editor of three journals, collaborates with 16 universities on three different continents; has presented at 79 conferences and has made more than 150 visits to other institutions.
He has supervised nearly 50 research students, all of whom have been successful and for whom he has worked tirelessly arranging visits and placements in other laboratories around the world to ensure his students have outstanding CVs with which to launch their future careers.
In a 2010 interview locally, Professor Singh said the quality of doctors who graduate from the University of Guyana has been mostly exceptional, making them adaptable to practically any clinical setting. He recalled knowing trained Guyanese doctors who have migrated to the United Kingdom, did the Board Examination and have done exceptionally well. (Excerpted from uclan.ac.uk)
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