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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).
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.
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.
| Name | Academic Unit(s) | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Abdi, Ali | Department of Educational Studies | Decolonizing philosophies of education, Development education, Critical research methodologies,; Human rights education; Decolonizing philosophies of education, Development education, Critical research methodologies, , Human rights education |
| Ahenakew, Cash | Department of Educational Studies | Cultural studies, Higher Education, Indigenous Studies, Leadership and Organizations, Post-colonial studies, Race/ethnicity, Research methodologies, Social justice, Sociology of Education |
| Ahmed, Anwar | Department of Language & Literacy Education | Languages and literature |
| Anderson, David | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Science, technology and engineering curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Specialized studies in education; Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, etc.); Informal Learning; Long-term Memory; Metacognition; Museum Education; Nostalgia; Science Education; Visitor Studies |
| Andres, Lesley | Department of Educational Studies | Higher education; life course research; international comparative higher education; sociology of higher education |
| Beauchamp, Mark | School of Kinesiology | Kinesiology; social determinants of health; Health Promotion; Quality of Life and Aging; Mental Health and Society; Children; Exercise Psychology; Group Processes; Health Psychology; Intervention; Leadership; Older Adults; Physical Activity; Social Cognition; Sport Psychology |
| Bedi, Robinder | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Counselling psychology; Investigating counselling and psychotherapy as Western cultural healing practices; Counselling psychology disciplinary and professional issues in Canada; Heterodox issues in counselling psychology that challenge its dominant narratives and sacred ideas; Counselling/psychotherapy/mental health with Punjabi/Sikh individuals; Neglected topics in the Psychology of Men and Masculinity |
| Belliveau, George | Department of Language & Literacy Education | Humanities and the arts; Theatre; Arts-based research; Drama Education; Research-based Theatre; Interdisciplinary Arts |
| Bennett, Erica | School of Kinesiology | Sport and exercise psychology; stress, emotion, and coping; Aging; sport; chronic illness; disability; Physical Activity; community and critical perspectives in physical activity psychology |
| Blouin, Jean-Sebastien | School of Kinesiology | Kinesiology; sensorimotor integration; Motor System; robotics and automation; Trauma / Injuries; Physiology; Balance robot; Computational approaches; Head and neck; Sensorimotor physiology; Sensory virtualisation; Standing balance; Whiplash injuries |
| Boushel, Robert | School of Kinesiology, Department of Family Practice | Natural sciences; Exercise, physiology, oxygen transport, cardiovascular regulation, bioenergetics, mitochondria |
| Bredin, Shannon | School of Kinesiology | Medicine, nursing and health curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Psychology, social and behavorial aspects; Indigenous health; Physical education and development curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Health promotion and disease prevention; Motor Behaviour (Motor Expertise, Learning, and Development); Human Performance; Physical Activity; Knowledge Translation and Mobilization; Indigenous Health and Physical Activity; Long-Term Athlete Development; Childhood Development; sport |
| Bryson, Mary | Department of Language & Literacy Education | Critical studies of technology; literacies; cancer education; critical theory; Gender and Sexuality Studies; digital cultures |
| Bundon, Andrea | School of Kinesiology | Kinesiology; Social Contexts; critical disability studies; disability; Paralympics; social media; sociology; sport |
| Cannon, Joanna | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Special Education and Social Adaptation, Teacher Education, Educational Approaches, Speech and Language Development Disorders, Language Acquisition and Development, Cognition and Language, Literacy Training, Education of Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing with complex language or cognitive needs |
| Carpenter, Mark | School of Kinesiology | neural control of movement, fear of falling, Neural control of movement, postural control, fears of falling, balance disorders, Parkinson's disease |
| Charlton, Jesse | School of Kinesiology | Musculoskeletal Biomechanics; Human Motor Control; Wearable Sensing; Orthopaedic Disease; pain; rehabilitation |
| Chua, Romeo | School of Kinesiology | Other natural sciences; Human sensorimotor control; Visual-motor control; Sensorimotor adaptation |
| Clark, Penney | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | history education, Curriculum Studies Research, History Education and Historical Consciousness, History of Education, Pedagogy, Social Studies Education Research |
| Cloth, Allison | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Adolescence, Adolescent development, Child and Family Counseling in School Settings, Interventions, Mentoring, Program Evaluation, Social Justice, Young People Placed |
| Code, Jillianne | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Specialized studies in education; Educational Context; Educational Technologies; Formative assessment; Immersive learning; Learner agency; Learning and Memory; Learning design; Self-efficacy; Self-regulated Learning; Situated and embodied cognition; Virtual augmented and mixed reality for learning; Virtual learning environments |
| Cole, Peter | Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy | Indigenous Education Research; Aboriginalizing/indigenizing research methodology; Orality; Narrativity; Environmental thought; Indigenous self-determination and self-governance; Traditional Aboriginal and Indigenous technologies |
| Corella, Meghan | Department of Language & Literacy Education | Other languages and literature; Academic Discourse; Children and youth; Discourse Analysis; Language ideology; Sociolinguistics |
| Cox, Dan | Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | Counselling psychology; Motivations and Emotions; Anxiety; depression; Mental Health and Society; stress; Suicide |
| Darvin, Ron | Department of Language & Literacy Education | ESL, TESOL, LOTE and sign language curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; identity and investment in language learning; critical applied linguistics; race, ethnicity, and social class; Digital Literacies; generative AI |