Decarbonizing Kidney Care Services: From Environmental Assessment to Informed Action
Meet Saba Saleem, Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering student. Saba’s research integrates healthcare decision-making and environmental considerations.
Leading Within Departments and Across Campus: Introducing the 2026 Graduate Dean’s Leadership Award Winners
Joud Jelassi, Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering student, and Scarlett MacPherson, Doctor of Philosophy in Psychological Sciences student, are shaping the graduate student experience of tomorrow.
Meet Joud Jelassi
Meet Joud Jelassi: One of our 2026 Graduate Dean’s Student Leadership Award winners. Joud’s research investigates airborne micro‑ and nanoplastics through global air sampling to better understand their sources, distribution, and implications for environmental and human health.
Cigarette smoking cessation support for people living with spinal cord injury: Co-designing a blueprint for an e-learning course for peer health coaches
Meet Parres Holliday from the Faculty of Health & Social Development. Parres is taking the next steps in the co-development of a smoking cessation intervention for individuals living with spinal cord injury.
Using nursing history to deepen our understanding of child mental health among Black children
Using nursing history to deepen our understanding of child mental health among Black children
Meet Carolyn Crawford
Psyched about Psychedelics? Investigating perceptions of psilocybin in people living with pain to inform a knowledge translation initiative.
Meet Kelsey C. Doyle
Ecological Storytelling: Indigenous-Led Filmmaking and Intergenerational Knowledge Transmission in Outer Island Micronesian Communities
Meet Rohene Bouajram
Time Remembers Her Name: How Women of Colour Transform the Future of Leadership Through Ancestral Knowledge
2025 Vanier Winner Kelsey Doyle Discusses Her Community-Led Research and the Impact that the Vanier Win Has on Her Work
Kelsey Doyle examines the role of participatory filmmaking in the revitalization of Ulithian knowledge systems.
UBC Okanagan’s Final Vanier Winners are Using Technology to Improve Weight Management Programs and to Create Media for Intergenerational Storytelling
UBC Okanagan’s 2025 Vanier winners are Sarah Craven and Kelsey Doyle. Sarah examines portable metabolism measuring devices while Kelsey uses filmmaking to enhance intergenerational storytelling and advocacy.