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Jeannette Armstrong | Indigenous Studies | jeannette.armstrong@ubc.ca|
Research interests: Indigenous philosophies; Okanagan Syilx thought and environmental ethics coded into Syilx literatures.
Shelly Ben-David | Social Work | shelly.ben-david@ubc.ca |
Research interests: youth mental health (e.g. clinical high-risk to psychosis, first-episode psychosis, anxiety, depression); early intervention in mental health; identity development and mental illness; cultural, relational, and community-based approach to early psychosis; digital divide among youth; mental health service use decision-making equity; and youth engagement in research.
Joan Bottorff | Nursing | joan.bottorff@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Gender and health behaviour; gender-sensitive approaches to support health and wellbeing; healthful lifestyles across diverse groups and communities, qualitative research.
Michael Burgess | Southern Medical Program | michael.burgess@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Bioethics; biotechnology and ethics; culture and ethics; democracy and ethics; ethics of health policy; genetics and ethics; genomics and ethics; health care ethics; public engagement and ethics; research ethics.
Jon Corbett | Geography | jon.corbett@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Geography; ethnobiology; cartography; exploration, facilitation and promotion of community and ecosystem-based models of land and resource use in communities in Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines and British Columbia, Canada.
Michael Evans | Anthropology | michael.evans@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Urban Aboriginal Issues; Métis history and contemporary issues; Tonga, trans-national migration and globalization; regional food systems; Indigenous methodologies; participatory action research; community based research; Island studies.
Alanaise Ferguson | Indigenous Studies | alanaise.ferguson@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Indigenous mental health and wellbeing; Qualitative Research Methods; Trauma repair and recovery; Career decision making; Indigenous community and cultural revitalization; Indigenous methodologies; Indigenous psychology.
Sue Frohlick | Anthropology, Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies | susan.frohlick@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Tourism sound and noise; experimental and multi-sensory ethnography; reproduction and tourism; anthropology of sound, hearing, and listening; critical tourism studies; feminist and anti-colonial methodologies; whiteness
David Geary | Anthropology | david.geary@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Religion, transnationalism, diaspora; the spatial politics of UNESCO World Heritage; tourism imaginaries and urban redevelopment; Buddhism, modernity and South Asia.
Judy Gillespie | Social Work | judy.gillespie@ubc.ca |
Research interests: The role of communities and their social, physical, and political infrastructures in the promotion of child welfare; the role of place in well-being; the interactions of person and place, including the ways in which professional practice is shaped by place.
Anita Girvan | English and Cultural Studies | anita.girvan@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Cultural Studies; Environmental Humanities; Political Ecology and Environmental Justice; Black and Indigenous Feminist Ecological Thought; Stories, Metaphor; Critical Canadian Studies.
Allison Hargreaves | English | allison.hargreaves@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Indigenous literature and theory; Indigenous feminisms; anti-violence discourse; settler studies/reconciliation.
Rachelle Hole | Social Work | rachelle.hole@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Socio-cultural practices that promote social inclusion and equity; community based participatory research methods; critical disability studies; community living and intellectual disability.
David Jefferess | English | david.jefferess@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Postcolonial literature and theory; humanitarian/development discourses; alter-globalization/decolonization; settler studies/reconciliation.
Elizabeth Keys l Nursing l Elizabeth.Keys@ubc.ca
Research interests: Pediatric sleep; Parent-child interactions; Infant and parental mental health; eHealth and precision health; Community engagement; Community and public health nursing; Mixed methods; Knowledge synthesis; Integrated knowledge translation and implementation science
Ruthann Lee | Cultural Studies | ruthann.lee@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Media and digital cultures; postcolonial imaginaries; media activism; queer and feminist film/video; race, identity and representation.
Gabrielle Legault | Indigenous Studies | gabrielle.legault@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Contemporary place-making, Métis and urban Indigenous identities, Indigenous-led research, Métis traditional knowledge revitalization, belonging and wellbeing.
Virginie Magnat | English & Cultural Studies | virginie.magnat@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Performance Studies; Culture, Creativity and Health & Well-Being; Cultural Anthropology; Qualitative Research; Arts-Based Inquiry; Indigenous Epistemologies and Methodologies.
Fiona McDonald | Anthropology | fiona.mcdonald@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Visual anthropology; anthropology of art; sensory ethnography; material culture; curatorial studies; museum studies; textiles; oral history; contemporary Indigenous art; informal science learning and the environment; anthropocene; water rights; open access and digital publishing; North America & Aotearoa New Zealand.
Laura Meek | laura.meek@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Pharmaceuticals; Counterfeits; Embodiment; Sensoriums; Feminist Science and Technology Studies; Medical Anthropology; Leprosy; Critical Global Health; Ontological Politics; Dreams; Temporality; Tanzania; East Africa; Indian Ocean Worlds; Hong Kong; Fugitivity; Black Studies; African Studies; Postcolonial Theory; Ethnography
Lise Olsen | Nursing | lise.olsen@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Health promotion for children and youth; active, safe and inclusive play for children; parent perspectives about risk and safety for children; role of equity related factors in active, safe play: gender, income, disability, chronic illness; injury prevention and activity promotion experiences of families and children living with autism.
Barbara Pesut | Nursing | barb.pesut@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Populations: Advanced chronic illness; Palliative Approaches: Integrated knowledge translation and Community-based research; Topics: Navigation models of care and Rural palliative care
Matt Rader | Creative Writing | matthew.rader@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Disability aesthetics; access poetics; collaborative pedagogies; embodied poetics; poetics of the Okanagan.
Christine Schreyer | Anthropology | christine.schreyer@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Linguistic anthropology; First Nations language and culture; land claims and Aboriginal Title; ethnolinguistics, ethnohistory, social memory, oral history, landscape and traditional land use studies; works with First Nations communities on language issues such as language maintenance and revitalization of endangered languages.
Sana Shahram | Nursing | sana.shahram@ubc.ca
Research interests: Health Equity; Critical Population Health; Health Systems Transformation; Anti-colonial & anti-racist public health systems; Public Health; Mental Health and Substance Use; Maternal & Child Health; Complex Systems Change; Community- & Indigenous Nation- Led Research
Laura Struik | laura.struik@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Nicotine dependence; cancer prevention; tobacco control; youth and young adults; health promotion and gender-sensitive approaches; behavior change using digital technologies.
Roger Sugden | Management | roger.sugden@ubc.ca
Research interests: Economic organisation and development in the context of globalisation; prospects for public initiatives that might stimulate socio-economic democracy; organising, leading, and managing universities; the role of universities in communities and societies; the strategic choice approach to the theory and impact of organisations.
Carlos Teixeira | Geography | carlos.teixeira@ubc.ca
Research interests: Urban and social geography with an emphasis on migration processes; community formation, housing, and neighborhood change; ethnic entrepreneurship and the social structure of Canadian cities; gentrification; racialization in the city; class segregation; urban form.
John Wagner | Anthropology | john.wagner@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Environmental anthropology; political ecology; water, food security and food sovereignty; local ecological knowledge; conservation and development; language documentation; Okanagan Valley; Columbia River Basin; Papua New Guinea.
Shannon Ward| Anthropology | shannon.ward@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Linguistic Anthropology; language acquisition and socialization; language shift and endangerment; children and childhood; greater Tibetan and Himalayan communities.
Katrina Plamondon | Nursing | katrina.plamondon@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Connecting knowledge to action for health equity. I ground my work in equity-centred principles, critical pedagogy, and relational theory. I use dialogue and arts-informed methods to bring people together to grapple with complex ideas in ways that cultivate mutual understanding, reciprocity, and shared pathways forward.
Eric Li | Management | eric.li@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Global consumer culture; multicultural marketing and consumption; consumer well-being; online consumer privacy; visual consumption; food consumption; fashion and culture; digital marketing and consumption.
Chanda Carey | Creative & Critical Studies | chanda.carey@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Global Contemporary Art History; Performance Art and it’s Mediation; Contemporary Art and Transculturation; Geographies of Art; Digital Humanities.
John Graham | Social Work | john.graham@ubc.ca |
Research interests: social policy, diversity and social work, spirituality and social work, multicultural social work, and employee well being/ subjective well being (happiness)
Jennifer Davis | Management | jennifer.davis@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Clinically applied health economics, health related quality of life, patient reported outcome measures. Applied clinical areas: healthy aging, falls, mobility, cognition.
Lawrence Berg | Geography| lawrence.berg@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Critical studies of neoliberalism; geographies of academic knowledge production; place and the politics of identity; postcoloniality; white supremacy.
Onyx Vanessa Sloan Morgan | Geography | onyx.sloanmorgan@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Critical human geography; resource extraction; sexuality and gender; political ecology; settler colonialism; youth-led research and social movements; modern treaties
Sarah Dow-Fleisner | Social Work | sarah.dow-fleisner@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Development trajectories and resilient functioning of children and families in high-risk contexts; Parent-child and sibling relationships in families experiencing parental mental illness and substance use; Intervention and prevention programs for families and children; Utilization of advanced statistical methodology to examine complex social phenomenon.
John Lyon | Nsyilxcn Language Fluency | john.lyon@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Language structure and documentation (Nsyilxcn, St’át’imcets, Secwepemctsin); Interior Salish Linguistics; Comparative linguistics of Interior Salish languages; language education and revitalization; language documentation methods; exploring respectful ways of working with elder speakers and communities on language; language-teaching strategies and curriculum development; language and social change.
Braden Te Hiwi | Indigenous Studies | braden.tehiwi@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Indigenous Health, Indigenous peoples sport and physical activity, Indigenous History, Community based research, Diabetes, Indian Residential School System, Indigenous policy.
Paul van Donkelaar | Health and Exercise Sciences | paul.vandonkelaar@ubc.ca |
Research interests: public health, gaining a better understanding of traumatic brain injury (TBI) due to sports concussion or intimate partner violence.
Shawn Wilson | Indigenous Studies | shawn.wilson@ubc.ca |
Research interests: application of Indigenous Research Methodologies into applied Indigenous community contexts, including the revitalizaton of traditional methodologies and practices.