 dr troy thomas dr troy thomas troy thomas is the director of undergraduate research at the university of guyana he holds a phd in comparative science of cultures with a focus on survey methodological issues from the university of ghent for some time now he has been involved in research on response styles in surveys with a focus on methods for and approaches to measuring and correcting for response styles while analysis survey responses apart from response styles he has been engaged in research on technology adoption in education and on social issues including institutional trust and poverty to a large extent his work in these areas has been focused on measurement and data analysis issues dr thomas also holds and msc statistics quantitative analysis in the social sciences track university of leuven and an msc in development policy and analysis a graduate diploma in education mathematics and a bsc mathematics from the university of guyana in addition to being a graduate of the cyril potter college of education at the university of guyana he teaches mathematics and statistics in the department of mathematics physics and statistics and collaborates across faculties to deliver courses such as biostatistics at the graduate level at 36 years old dr thomas has been a lecturer at the university of guyana for approximately 12 years and was a teacher of mathematics in the secondary school system of guyana for 9 years prior to fulltime employment at the university he began teaching mathematics in wakenaam where he grew up upon completion of his secondary education at the anna regina secondary multilateral school in addition to academic engagements dr thomas is active in civil society in particular he is the president of transparency institute guyana inc which is a chapter in formation of transparency international dr thomas is also a husband and a father he is father to two boys one of almost 3 years and the other of approximately one month though he works long hours even he knows when it s time to stop and play with toy cars build structures crawl through tunnels and read children s books he has developed specific expertise in repairing toys mimicking the voices of some favourite cartoon characters and giving warm baths webmaster fri 4212017 1924 troy thomas dr dean faculty of natural sciences director of undergraduate research troythomas uogedugy bsc msc phd office for undergraduate research statutory officer faculty of natural sciences 7  