Please touch base with a faculty supervisor before you start the application process. We look forward to hearing about your research interests and career goals.
Amir Ardestani-Jaafari | Management | Operation Analytics Lab| amir.ardestani@ubc.ca
Research interests: AI in sustainability, closed loop supply chain, sustainable operations, decision making under uncertainty.
Adeniyi Asiyanbi | Geography | a.asiyanbi@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Political ecology; governmentality; neoliberalization of nature; forest-based climate change mitigation; REDD+, carbon removal and offsetting; wildfires; conservation and development; community engagement; Nigeria, Ghana, Canada (British Columbia and Alberta).
Jodey Castricano | English | jodey.castricano@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Eco-cultures; critical animal studies; eco-criticism – critical theory (feminist, queer, gender studies); media and digital cultures; digital humanities; virtual reality; narrative; HCI theory.
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.
Andrea Craig | Economics | andrea.craig@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Commute mode choice, residential location choice, urban economics.
Aleksandra Dulic | Creative Studies | aleksandra.dulic@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Visual art; new media; video; drawing 2D; media for social change; climate change; interactive art; experience design.
Natalie Forssman| Anthropology | natalie.forssman@ubc.ca |
Feminist science and technology studies; environmental humanities; multispecies anthropology; science communication; epistemic cultures; ethnography; embodiment and materiality; participatory methods; educational leadership.
Greg Garrard | Creative & Critical Studies | greg.garrard@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Literature and the environment; ecocriticism; human-animal studies; Anthropocene culture; cultural dimensions of environmental issues (e.g. pollution, climate change).
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), homelessness prevention research
Kevin Hanna | Geography | kevin.hanna@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Environmental impact assessment; integrated resource and environmental management; climate change adaptation policy; natural resources policy in Canada and Northern Europe; European Union environmental policy.
Min Hu | Economics | min.hu@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Health Economics, Labour Economics, Applied Microeconomics and Econometrics, with a focus on the economics of well-being of vulnerable populations (Immigrants and Indigenous peoples) in Canada, as well as the economics of cancer and social policy-related topics.
John Janmaat | Economics | john.janmaat@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Understanding the drivers of human choices that impact on and are impacted by natural systems, and identifying interventions that can move us individually and collectively to a more sustainable relationship with the non-human world. This includes the use of models that integrate biophysical and/or social processes with economic models of behaviour and analyzing data collected through surveys and related approaches.
Annamma Joy | Management | annamma.joy@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Sustainability in Art, Fashion, and Wine; Wine Tourism, Artification Process; Luxury Brand Marketing and Management; Gender, Levinas and the Ethics of recognition.
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.
Gordon Lovegrove | Engineering | gord.lovegrove@ubc.ca |
Research interests: SMARTer growth; sustainable community planning and design; sustainable transport and safety; hydrail powered, zero-emission regional passenger and freight rail; affordable housing and co-housing.
Astrida Neimanis | Feminist Environmental Humanities | astrida.neimanis@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Feminist studies (with a focus on embodiment, queer ecologies, ecofeminisms, material feminisms and intersectionality), environmental studies (with a focus on cultural studies of water, weather and climate change, and multispecies justice), everyday militarisms, interdisciplinarity, epistemologies and non-traditional research methodologies (e.g. arts-based methods, walking & swimming methods, arts-sciences collaborations).
Nikhita Obeegadoo | nikhita.obeegadoo@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Oceanic and Archipelagic Studies; Indian Ocean and Caribbean Studies; Critical Race Studies Gender Studies; Contemporary literatures from the Global South, including Africa, South Asia and Latin America; Border Theory and Creolization; Theorising the relationship between History and Literature; Environmental Humanities; Medical Humanities. Research Languages: French, Spanish, English, Hindi, Mauritian Creole.
Lael Parrott | Biology, Earth & Environmental Sciences | lael.parrott@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Ecosystems and landscapes as complex systems; incorporating complexity into natural resource management approaches; regional-scale landscape modelling; social-ecological networks; agent and individual-based modelling approaches; landscape science and scenario building.
Tim Paulson | History | tim.paulson@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Canadian history; environmental history; economic history; history of capitalism.
Nathan Pelletier | Biology, Management | nathan.pelletier@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Industrial ecology; ecological economics; sustainability measurement and management; life cycle thinking; environmental and social life cycle assessment of food, feed and biomass supply chains; sustainable food systems; green technology assessment; resource efficiency; social license and market access; trade-based externalization of environmental and social risk; climate change; reactive nitrogen.
Donna Senese | Geography | donna.senese@ubc.ca |
Research interests: geographies of sustainability, rural resilience, landscapes of tourism, wine and food; mixed, participatory, and visual methodologies; conceptions of rurality, mobility, and vulnerability; regional analysis of tourism, wine and food.
Babak Mohamadpour Tosarkani | Engineering | babak.tosarkani@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Operations & Supply Chain Management; Life Cycle Assessment & Circular Economy; Project Risk Management; Process Design & Simulation; Strategic Sustainable Development.
Rebecca Tyson | Mathematics | rebecca.tyson@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Mathematical biology and spatial ecology; mathematical models of ecological systems; the development and analysis of mathematical and computational models designed to answer questions about population dynamics, persistence and dispersal. Areas of interest include agriculture (domestic and wild bee dispersal, dispersal and control of pest insects); forestry (spread and control of the mountain pine beetle, recolonisation processes in regrowing forests); cyclic predator-prey populations; effect of climate change (lynx, great horned owl, and snowshoe hare populations).
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.
Wesley Zandberg | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chemistry | wesley.zandberg@ubc.ca |
Research interests: Analytical glycobiology: the use of modern instrumental techniques to study carbohydrates, their oligomers (glycans) and their metabolism; developing new methods to investigate carbohydrates; and using chemical and analytical tools to investigate the functions of protein-linked glycans in cells and animals.