Sophie Ma Zhu
Doctor of Philosophy in Measurement, Evaluation and Research Methodology (PhD)
Validity evidence for self-report psychological measures based on participants' response processes
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The Faculty of Education at UBC is advancing educational research and understanding in ways that celebrate diversity, equity, and innovation, and welcomes international collaboration in an increasingly borderless world.
UBC’s Faculty of Education, one of the world’s leading education faculties, has served the local, national, and international education community through leadership in research, teaching, service and advocacy for more than 60 years. As the largest Faculty of Education in British Columbia, it plays a critical and influential role in the advancement of education in the province, shaping and participating in education’s possibilities and potential as a social good.
Today, the Faculty of Education creates conditions for transformative teaching, innovative learning, and leading-edge research guided by the highest standards of scholarship and the principles of collaboration, social justice, inclusion and equity. Offering undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as professional development opportunities, the Faculty of Education enrolls thousands of students each year on two campuses and ranks 10th in the world, according to QS World University Rankings (2021).
UBC’s Faculty of Education prepares more than 45% of the elementary and the majority of secondary educators in British Columbia, and a significant proportion of British Columbia’s school counsellors, administrators, special education professionals, and school psychologists. With more than 57,000 alum located in 100 countries, the UBC Faculty of Education truly is a global entity.
The Faculty of Education is home to four departments (Curriculum and Pedagogy, Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, Educational Studies, and Language and Literacy Education) and two schools (the School of Kinesiology and the Okanagan School of Education).
Mission
To advance education's role in the well-being of people and communities.
Research Centres
- Centre for Culture, Identity and Education (CCIE)
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration in Autism (CIRCA)
- Centre for Sport and Sustainability (CSS)
- Centre for the Study of Teacher Education (CSTE)
- Psychological Services and Counselling Training Centre (PSCTC)
- Centre for Early Childhood Education & Research (CECER)
- Institute for Veterans Education and Transition (IVET)
Research Facilities
We provide outstanding research facilities for faculty and graduate students that promote leading-edge research. Our Education Library is a specialized resource with access to all of UBC’s research and special collections, including the X̱wi7x̱wa Library with materials produced by Indigenous organizations, tribal councils, schools, researchers and publishers.
The Faculty’s Education Research and Learning Commons at Ponderosa Commons features technology-enhanced teaching and learning spaces and also informal learning spaces. A number of faculty manage their own research labs, situated throughout campus.
Many of our PhD students have been selected as UBC Public Scholars and have received other honours.
Research Highlights
https://ivet.educ.ubc.ca/Notable strengths are in literacy education and multilingualism; struggling and marginalized youth; Indigenous education, decolonization, and research; transformational program and curriculum design and inclusive pedagogies for schools, community organizations and higher education; sexual orientation and gender-identity inclusive education; social-emotional learning and well-being; autism; exercise physiology, socio-cultural aspects of health; neuromechanical studies; and multidisciplinary research in diversity, health, early childhood education, and digital media. The School of Kinesiology ranks 1st in Canada and 4th in the world by QS World University Rankings (2021).
UBC’s Faculty of Education is the national leader in the number of education graduate student fellowships received from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Additionally, the Faculty of Education is home to six Canada Research Chairs, one CIHR chair and nine donor-funded research chairs and professorships.
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Graduate Degree Programs
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| Name | Academic Unit(s) | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Norman, Moss | School of Kinesiology | Kinesiology; Community and public health; Critical weight studies; Indigenous Studies in Kinesiology; Indigenous physical cultures; Masculinities; Socio-Cultural Studies |
| Norton, Bonny | Department of Language & Literacy Education | education, ESL, international perspectives, literacy, teacher research |
| O'Donoghue, Donal | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Art Education, Curriculum Studies, Gender, History of Education, Sociological Issues |
| Park, CJ | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Vocational psychology; Career counseling; diversity and social justice; critical consciousness; international and cross-cultural psychology; interventions |
| Perry, Nancy | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | motivation and self-regulated learning in young children; social perspectives on teaching and learning, reading and writing; accommodating individual difference in general education classrooms; learning disabilities; special education, Metacognition, motivation, and self-regulated learning in elementary school children Social perspectives on teaching and learning, including social cognitive and sociocultural theories, Teacher development, Individual differences, Learning disabilities |
| Petherick, Leanne | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Curriculum Studies Research; Children & Youth; Feminist Studies; Pedagogy |
| Phelan, Anne | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Curriculum Studies, Feminist Studies, Pedagogy, Philosophy, Teacher Education |
| Pinar, William | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Education Systems; History |
| Puterman, Eli | School of Kinesiology | Kinesiology; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Acute exercise; cellular aging; chronic stress; Exercise interventions; Health Psychology; Physical Activity; Physical literacy; Stress physiology; telomeres |
| Rajagopal, Harini | Department of Language & Literacy Education | Multiliteracy and multimodality; Bilingual/Multilingual education; Decolonizing pedagogies and knowledges |
| Renwick, Kerry | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Specialized studies in education; Critical Pedagogy; Educational Policy; Familial Contexts; Health Education; Home Economics; Human and Social Ecology; Public health; teacher education |
| Rocha Perkerwicz, Samuel | Department of Educational Studies | Educational policy; Specialized studies in education; Philosophical Traditions in Education; philosophy of education |
| Rogers, Theresa | Department of Language & Literacy Education | Children's literatures; Other languages and literature; Children's and Adolescent Literature; Digital Literacies; Education; Educational Approaches; Literacy; Youth Studies |
| Roman, Leslie | Department of Educational Studies | Ethnography, Cultural studies, Disability studies, Sociology of Education |
| Ross, E. Wayne | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Specialized studies in education; Critical Pedagogy; Curriculum Studies; Educational Approaches; Political Contexts; Social Contexts; Social Justice in Education; Social Studies Education; teacher education |
| Ruitenberg, Claudia | Department of Educational Studies | History and philosophy of education; Political science and policy administration; Environmental education and extension; Environmental philosophy and education; philosophy of education; Political education |
| Sam, Johanna | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Education; Psychology, social and behavorial aspects; Human Development; Adolescence; technology; Indigenous Education; Digital Pedagogy |
| Schanding, Thomas | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Social and Emotional Learning; Universal Screening; Behavioral/Mental Health Interventions; Autism Spectrum Disorders; LGBTQIA+; Youth Social Justice |
| Schnellert, Leyton | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Community Research; Teacher Education Research; Teacher Professional Development; Rural Education; Inclusive Education; Pedagogy; Self-regulated Learning; Middle Years Education; Literacy Education; Practitioner Inquiry |
| Shan, Hongxia | Department of Educational Studies | Other education, n.e.c.; Immigration and adult education and learning; Lifelong learning; Gender and work; Prof. learning |
| Shapka, Jennifer | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Affective and Emotional Development; Cognitive Development; New Technology and Social Impacts; Technology, Media, Social Media, Adolescents, Cyberbullying, Self-regulation, Online Privacy |
| Sheel, William | School of Kinesiology | Animal physiology, exercise; Kinesiology; airways, exercise, hypoxia, pulmonary physiology, respiratory muscle |
| Sinner, Anita | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Artwork Scholarship; Creative Research Methodologies; a/r/tography; Artistic Research; Public Art and Pedagogy; Museum Education; International Art Education |
| Sork, Tom | Department of Educational Studies | Adult education, Lifelong learning, Teaching and Practice |
| Stack, Michelle | Department of Educational Studies | Adult and continuing education, and community education; Educational policy; Media studies (except social media and digital media); Community Engaged Research; Knowledge translation; Cooperatives and Social Solidarity Economies; University Rankings and Equity; Disability studies; anti-racism; media education |
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Recent Publications
This is an incomplete sample of recent publications in chronological order by UBC faculty members with a primary appointment in the Faculty of Education.
Recent Thesis Submissions
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Indigenizing : one heart at a time (EDST - PHD)
Doctoral Citations
A doctoral citation summarizes the nature of the independent research, provides a high-level overview of the study, states the significance of the work and says who will benefit from the findings in clear, non-specialized language, so that members of a lay audience will understand it.
| Year | Citation | Program |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Dr. Khan examined the meaning of home for people who experienced turbulence and unexpected dislocation in refugee situations, and how their understanding of home may shift once they leave refugee camps and resettle in new places. The study reflected on the concept of home as associated with a sense of belonging, security, and hope. | Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership and Policy (EdD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Sah examined how policies for English-medium education are created and implemented in multilingual schools. He showed that policymaking processes are not always educational but ideological and political, which perpetuate injustice and inequalities for minority groups. The research highlights implications for a multilingual education policy. | Doctor of Philosophy in Language and Literacy Education (PhD) |
| 2022 | What role do universities play in society beyond education and research? Dr. Wood critically examined the relationship between society and UBC's health faculties, departments and schools. Her research highlights the social contract between the university and society and its potential to play an advocacy role toward its improvement. | Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership and Policy (EdD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Kanagasingam interviewed social justice-oriented clinicians and their patients to examine how social justice is understood, enacted, and experienced in weight-related clinical care. The study presents an alternative to the dominant approach of treating obesity and offers practice-oriented insights for weight-inclusive and equitable care. | Doctor of Philosophy in Kinesiology (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Munro examined relational processes between sexual and gender minority youth and their parents, and how these processes contribute to the youth's identity formation. Findings show a dynamic and goal-oriented identity construction process and provide insight into complex relationship processes that facilitate youth identity construction. | Doctor of Philosophy in Counselling Psychology (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Wolf developed an affective conception of thinking through the work of Gilles Deleuze as a new theory and practice of an education for thinking. Especially in relation to Matthew Lipman's philosophy for children approach, the pedagogical consequence is a thinking that is more inclusive and sensitive to context leading to a richer sensibility. | Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development, Learning, and Culture (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Glick examined how public mass gun violence (PMGV) is linked to histories of colonization. She illustrates how PMGV does not begin the moment the trigger is pulled and provides alternative social practices that could alleviate the violence and promote peace. | Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Kluttz studied decolonial learning that takes place in the climate justice movement as non-Indigenous activists work with Indigenous communities in opposition to the fossil fuel industry. She found it to be a process of learning to think, be, and do differently that can only take place in relationship with others and through social action. | Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Ryoo studied the question of what it means to act for amor mundi, the love of the world, at the intersections of art, aesthetics, education, philosophy,and politics. Her study invites us to examine commonly held conceptions in these disciplines and in our daily lives to understand our ethical, educational, social, and political responsibilities. | Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum Studies (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Rice examined the developmental trajectories of young athletes to understand multi-sport vs. single sport approaches to sport. He found that athletes value and are trying to participate in multiple sports through seasonal specialization, but greater cooperation and harmonizing of messaging is needed between sport bodies. | Doctor of Philosophy in Kinesiology (PhD) |