Charmaine Bissessar presented the findings of her doctoral dissertation at the American Society of Business and Behavioral Studies in Hawaii in 2008. She presented a workshop on Webquest, problem-based, and project-based learning for online and traditional classrooms on June 11th at the Hyatt for the elearn conference 2009. In July 2009, Charmaine Bissessar presented a comparative assessment of Trinidadian and Bermudian college students’ use of emotional intelligence at the ACHEA conference.

She has recently published a book of short stories entitled Grains of Sand. She is an adjunct faculty with UWI ROYTEC and an online facilitator for UWI Open Campus from September 2010 at the Undergraduate and Masters level. Her main interests include emotional intelligence, motivation, and transformational leadership, women in leadership and politics, and social justice.

Her first paper entitled: Authentic leadership: As exemplified by Kamla Persad Bissessar- Implications for current and potential leaders was published in Advancing Women in Leadership Online Journal, volume 30, issue 24. She presented a paper on gender differences in motivation and leadership at the University of The West Indies, Trinidad at a conference entitled Education: Maximizing the Role of Education in a Changing Society. Dr. Charmaine Bissessar presented 2 papers at a Conference on Leadership, Governance, and Empowerment in the Cayman Islands in March 2011. Dr. Bissessar presented a paper at the Contemporary Identities Paris Conference in April 2011.

Dr. Bissessar will be presenting a paper at the Caribbean Tertiary Level Personnel Associates Conference in UWI, Trinidad in June 2011. Dr. Bissessar will also be presenting 2 papers at the Association of Caribbean Higher Education Administrators conference on July 7th to 9th, 2011 in Cave Hill, Barbados. Both papers are on managing higher education and the online learning environment. Her paper entitled: Empowering future women through GATE: the way forward was published in Advancing Women in Leadership Online Journal, volume 31, issue 11.