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The Public Scholars Initiative is designed to support UBC doctoral students as they strive for purposeful social contribution, produce new and creative forms of scholarship and dissertations, and explore diverse career pathways.
New graduate students (2019) share why they are excited to be at UBC.
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Available Research Projects
Last name |
First name | Research Interests | Desired start dates: | Project areas |
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| Brondani | Mario | Dentistry and oral health; Community Health / Public Health; Dental Health; social determinants of health; Health Policies; Quality of Life and Aging; Adult Education and Continuing Education; Epidemiology; Access to care; Dental Education; Dental Geriatrics; Dental Public Health; Epidemiological data; Health Policy; Qualitative research | Any time / year round |
Dental Public Health (Underserved-access to care, Marginalization, Community-based participatory research, Stigma and Discrimination); Health Policy; Dental Education (Community Service Learning, Reflective Journaling, Teaching Pedagogies, Social Responsibility); Dental Geriatrics (Undergraduate and Graduate Education, Frailty, Access to care), COVID-19 (vaccine hesitancy). |
| Brooks-Wilson | Angela | Bioinformatics; Clinical oncology; Genetic medicine; Genomics; cancer families; cancer genetics; genetic susceptibility; human genetics; longevity; Super seniors | Any time / year round |
Genetics of healthy aging. Genetics of lymphoid cancers in families. |
| Brotto | Lori | Human reproduction and development sciences; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Clinical psychology; mindfulness; Sexual Dysfunctions; sexual desire; treatment of sexual concerns; women's sexual health; asexuality; digital health interventions | Any time / year round |
Eye tracking studies of women with sexual dysfunction; online RCT of mindfulness-based treatment for sexual dysfunction Gynecologic cancer survivors and sexual health interventions |
| Brown | Kelly | Medical, health and life sciences; childhood rheumatic diseases; Inflammation; phagocytes | 2024 |
We are a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary team of scientists that are motivated to improve diagnosis, treatment and outcomes for children and youth with a rheumatic disease through the discovery of driving mechanisms and prognostic biomarkers. Priority rheumatic diseases are: vasculitis - which develops when blood vessels carring oxygen to critical organs in the body (inclusive of the... Read More |
| Brown | Carolyn Janet | Bioinformatics; Clinical oncology; Genetic medicine; Genomics; Health counselling; Applied Genetics; Chromosomes: Structure / Organization; DNA methylation; Epigenetic control of gene expression; Gene Regulation and Expression; Genes escaping X-chromosome inactivation; Long non-coding RNAs; X-chromosome inactivation; XIST RNA | 2023 |
X-chromosome inactivation occurs early during mammalian development to transcriptionally silence one of the pair of X chromosomes in females, thereby achieving dosage equivalence with males who have a single X chromosome and the sex-determining Y chromosome. Research in the Brown lab is directed towards understanding both the mechanisms involved in the inactivation process and the clinical... Read More |
| Brunham | Liam | Medical, health and life sciences; Lipids; Genetics; Pharmacogenomics; Cardiovascular diseases | Any time / year round |
1. SAVE BC (www.savebc.ca) is a provincial study of families with extremely premature cardiovascular disease, aimed at identifying molecular causes of this condition and reducing the burden of premature cardiovascular disease. 2. Pharmacogenomics of adverse drug reactions. We are using human stem cells to study the pharmacogenetic mechanisms of specific... Read More |
| Bryce | Benjamin | Historical studies; Argentina; Canada; Education; health; migration; Race and ethnicity; The Americas; Transnational history | Any time / year round |
Latin American history History of migration History of Argentina |
| Bryman | Douglas | Particle physics, experimental; Experimental Particle Physics; Applied physics; physics | Any time / year round |
Particle physics experiments at CERN, Geneva, TRIUMF, and the Paul Scherr Institut (Villigen, Swtizerland); advanced detector technology development; data analysis and machine learning projects. |
| Burton | Cole | Forestry sciences; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Ecological Trends; Animal; Biodiversity and Biocomplexity; Landscape and Restoration; Environment Management and Protection; Biodiversity conservation; Ecological Monitoring; Landscape ecology; Mammal Ecology; Population and Community Ecology; Wildlife Management |
Terrestrial mammal conservation; wildlife population and community modelling; animal movement simulation; cumulative environmental impact assessment; adaptive management; human-wildlife coexistence; biodiversity trends |
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| Byers | Michael | International relations; Public international law (except international trade law); international law; international relations; Outer Space; Arctic; Law of the Sea; Laws of War; International Human Rights; International Environmental Law | Any time / year round |
Governance of Outer Space; Sustainable Development of Outer Space; International Space Law; Astrophysics See: outerspaceinstitute.ca |
| Cameron | Maxwell | Political science; Political Regimes (Democracy, Monarchy, Federalism, Parliamentarism, etc.); Social Organization and Political Systems; Comparative Politics; Democratization; Latin America; Practical wisdom | Any time / year round |
Democracy and democratization in Latin America; Global challenges of democracy; political ethics |
| Campbell | Kristin | Clinical oncology; Physical therapy; Rehabilitation medicine; Biomarkers; Breast Cancer; Exercise Physiology; oncology; physical function; Physiology; Quality of Life and Aging; rehabilitation |
The role of exercise and physical therapy in oncology treatment and oncology care. |
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| Cao | Yankai | Chemical engineering; optimization; Artificial Intelligence; Renewable energy systems; Process Control | Any time / year round |
My research group focuses on the design and implementation of large-scale local and global optimization algorithms to tackle problems that arise in diverse decision-making paradigms such as machine learning, stochastic optimization, and optimal control. Our algorithms combine mathematical techniques and emerging high-performance computing hardware to achieve computational scalability. ... Read More |
| Caragata | Lea | Social oppression and marginalization; Counselling, welfare and community services; Social policy; welfare systems; Poverty; labour markets; lone mothers; social policy; youth provisioning | Any time / year round |
Current SSHRC on youth provisioning in low income lone mother led families |
| Carlsten | Christopher | Environment and Respiratory Diseases | Any time / year round |
We have several projects running at any given time (see the lab website and publications for a sense of what we do). |
| Carvalho | Rick | Other health sciences, n.e.c.; Biomaterials; materials interfaces; bonding to hard tissues; materials development | 2025 |
Development and testing of innovative materials for dental and other medical applications |
| Cavell | Richard Anthony | English language; Media and Society; Media Influence on Behavior; Media Types (Radio, Television, Written Press, etc.); media studies; media theory | Any time / year round |
Media and literature |
| Chan | Kai | Natural environment sciences; Human Ecology; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection; Applied Ethics; Values and Lifestyles; Sustainable Development; conservation finance; Conservation science; cultural ecosystem services; Ecosystem services; environmental assessment; environmental values; incentive programs; payments for ecosystem services; resilience; social-ecological systems; sustainability science | ||
| Chapman | Mary Ann | Arts and Cultural Traditions; Arts and Literary Policies; Arts and Technologies; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; Social Determinants of Arts and Letters; Artistic and Literary Marginality; Artistic and Cultural Heritage; Artist or Author Social Identity; Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles; Artistic and Literary Theories; Literary or Artistic Work Analysis; Literary or Artistic Work Dissemination or Reception Contexts; Literary or Artistic Works Analysis; Writing and Literary Experimentation; Poetry; Novel and Short Story; Essays; Gender Relationship; Audiences and Mass Media; Media and Democratization; Media and Society; Media Influence on Behavior; Civil and Social Responsibilities of Media; Stereotypes; Electoral System; Printing Art; Persuasion Strategies; Social Movements; Publics; Performance and Theatrical Productions; Social Networks; American Literature; Asian American Literature; Asian Canadian Literature; Suffrage; Public Pedagogy of the Arts; Public Humanities |
Sui Sin Far (Edith Eaton); Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton); US literature; American Literature; print culture; periodicals; suffrage literature, literature of social movements; 20th century American poetry; 19th-century American literature; race, class and gender; Asian American literature; public humanities; public pedagogy; alt-ac careers
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| Chen | Jiahua | Statistical theory and modeling; empirical likelihood; finite mixture model; sample survey; asymptotic theory; imputation | 2025 |
I have research problems related to empirical likelihood, mixture models, and survey sampling. It is up to students to explore and take adventures. |
| Chen | Jingyi | Algebraic and differential geometry; Differential Geometry, Partial Differential Equations | 2022 |
Geometric Analysis |
| Chen | Frances | Health psychology; social connection; social support; stress; coping; conflict and negotiation; hormones; Neuroendocrinology | Any time / year round |
I am currently recruiting graduate students and postdocs interested in:
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| Chiu-Duke | Josephine | Asian history; History of Major Eras, Great Civilisations or Geographical Corpuses; Chinese and Taiwanese history; liberal democracy; political thought and institutions | Any time / year round |
Traditional Chinese intellectual history or history of traditional Chinese thought and institutions. |
| Chrostowski | Lukas | Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Optics and Photonics; Micro and Nanoelectronics; Nanotechnologies; Manufacturing Processes; biophotonics; biosensors; optics; optoelectronics; photonics; quantum computing; semiconductor lasers; silicon photonics | Any time / year round |
silicon photonic device and circuit design, nanofabrication, quantum computing, single photon devices |
| Ciocca | Valter | Auditory System; Perception and Representation; Recognition of Speech; Speech and Language Development Disorders; Auditory grouping of speech and non-speech sounds, also known as "auditory scene analysis"; perception and production of normal and disordered speech | Any time / year round |
Auditory scene analysis; perception and production of disordered speech |
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Supervisor Search
Please direct prospective students to our supervisory directory at https://www.grad.ubc.ca/prospective-students/research-supervisors or to the supervisor search at https://www.grad.ubc.ca/supervisor-search.
