Michal Pawinski

Lecturer and Programmes Coordinator

Scholarships, Grants, Awards, and Consultancies


  • 2024: Emerging Scholars Award, Global Studies Conference, Common Ground Publishing.
  • 2024: Consultancy with Dr. Annita Montoute - New Product Development for the International School for Development Justice, The University of the West Indies. This included, but not limited to, development of marketing strategy, business motivation, establishing the programme demand, and course of study.
  • 2024: Campus Research and Publication Fund to support webinar: “Homeward Bound: Navigating Repatriation and Reintegration of Returnees from Syria”
  • 2023: Campus Research and Publication Fund to support the project: "Exploring the Radical Islamic Network (RIN) in Trinidad and Tobago: From Radicalization to Reintegration of Foreign Terrorist Fighters."
  • 2022: Subject Matter Experts Meeting, Integrated Threat Assessment Centre, National Security Council, Office of the Prime Minister, Trinidad and Tobago "Future Threat Assessment to Trinidad and Tobago."
  • 2021: "Support and Strengthening The Strategic Threat Assessment Capacity in Trinidad and Tobago" for the Integrated Threat Assessment Centre, National Security Council, Office of the Prime Minister, Trinidad and Tobago. Phase 1 Workshop: Jessica Byron and Michal Pawinski. 18 weeks in total, including five workshops on various topics, e.g. Security of Sea Lines of Communication, Intelligence Analysis and Cognitive Biases, and Human Security; Supervision of two commissioned and one policy papers.
  • 2019: Emerging Scholars Award, Global Studies Conference, Common Ground Publishing.
  • 2013 – 2017: Ministry of Education Scholarship for outstanding individuals, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
  • 2015: Conference grant awarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
  • 2015: Graduate Scholars Award, Global Studies Conference, Common Ground Publishing.
  • 2012: Rector’s Scholarship for the Best Students at Collegium Civitas.