Meet our Students

UBC has more than 11,000 graduate students, including more than 2,500 international graduate students from all over the world. Some of our students have provided profiles about their research which we would like to share with you. This list is by no means complete and we do not have a profile for each country we have international students from. However, these snapshots will give you an idea of why students chose to come to UBC, what they like about Vancouver and what their career goals are.

Country

Faculty

Kyrie Vermette

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Asian Studies (PhD)

The interactions between Korean women and foreign women (predominately North American missionaries and Japanese settlers) living in Korea during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Gabrielle Berry

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Cinema and Media Studies (PhD)

[♪♪♪]: The Sonic Resonances of Captions

Khaled Ahmed

Egypt

Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)

Protecting Mobile Phone Users Against Malware

Shubham Arora

India

Doctor of Philosophy in Asian Studies (PhD)

Critical Edition and Annotated translation of a tenth-century Sanskrit sex-manual

Xueqing (Rose) Zhang

China

Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (PhD)

Health and gender inequality and social stratification

Kate Wahl

Germany

Storytelling as a tool for sharing knowledge with health policy makers

Cassandra Elphinstone

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Botany (PhD)

Arctic Plant Genomics: Climate Adaptation

Javiera Pumarino

Chile

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

Examining the role of mental health disorders on adult functioning among emerging adults with a history of foster care: A mixed methods study

Kirsten McIlveen

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Prison Paradox and Post-Secondary Education: Challenges to Developing Innovative Curriculum in Women’s Prisons

Denali YoungWolfe

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science (PhD)

Âhkameyihtamowin: We Rise, Mapping Indigenous Assurgency Across Turtle Island

Eric Simons

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)

Archaeological Contributions to Canadian Indian Residential School Reconciliation

Samuel Adeyanju

Nigeria

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

People, projects, and poverty: Investigating the effectiveness of livelihood interventions implemented in Community Resource Management Areas (CREMAs) in Northern Ghana

David Champagne

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (PhD)

Cities, Sustainability and Inequality

A. Saskia Wolsak

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD)

The History of String

Maj Britt Jensen

Germany

Doctor of Philosophy in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (PhD)

As original contribution to knowledge, I put forward the term: critical inner experience.

Daphne Ling

Malaysia

Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience (PhD)

The Neural Basis of Low-Dose versus Normal-Dose Psychostimulants on Executive Functions in Youth with Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder: A Randomised Controlled Trial