Research Projects

Antiracist and justice-oriented language education

Spinal cord injury rehabilitation, spinal cord stimulation, autonomic nervous system dysfunctions, blood pressure control.

The lab's primary focus is suicide (including theory, motivations, warning signs, improved measurement of key risk and protective factors). Secondary lab interesets include metascience, psychological/clinical assessment, and emotion.

Energy Efficient Comminution, Sensor Based Sorting, Sensors

Biomass conversion; Lignin chemistry; Green solvents

I am currently working on projects in multiple areas:

- Gender self-determination in early childhood and elementary education

- Trans pedagogy as practiced by trans educators outside formal schooling environments

- The experiences of transgender workers in PK-12 schools

I am most interested in working with students whose scholarship would contribute to or expand... Read More

The major research focus of my lab revolves around acute myeloid leukemia, and preleukemias referred to as myelodysplastic syndromes. Within this context we are interested in various posttranscriptional mechanisms that drive these cancers, how aging increases the risk of developing leukemias, and how to potentially target genomic and epigenomic vulnerabilities.

Dermatoepidemiology; Examining the epidemiology of skin cancer in the general population and identifying high risk population groups Skin cancer prevention; Using national surveys conducted by Statistics Canada, I have examined skin cancer prevention behaviours practiced by Canadians; Spectoscopy; Using imaging to differentiate skin cancer from benign lesions. Photobiology to study properties... Read More

I am looking for graduate students (MSc or PhD) to contribute to the development of the Lifetime Exposures and Asthma outcomes Projection (LEAP) model. LEAP is a whole disease model of asthma in Canada, which is currently being developed to evaluate the impact of climate change-related increases in air pollution and the value of climate-adaptation measures. This project has been supported by... Read More

New ways of assessing hearing aid outcomes; encouraging older adults to seek and use hearing health care services; acoustic and behavioural assessment of hearing aid processing.

Communication between audiologists and patients.

1) New finite element analysis techniques for advanced structures;

2) Development of optimization algorithms for structural optimization; 

3) Machine/deep learning methodology for reduced order modeling of mechanical systems.

Projects include

• elucidating virus host interactions such as antiviral innate immunity and viral proteins that modulate cellular processes
• identifying host protein substrates by viral proteinases
• non-canonical protein synthesis mechanisms used by viruses and cellular mRNAs
• mRNA therapeutics

Approaches include biochemical, molecular and cell... Read More

Please see: https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~irwin/irwinlab/

global migration, occupational science, francophone minority communities

I am particularly interested in students who are developing projects on LGBTQ+ politics, especially in the Global South and on transgender rights. I am also interested in students working on issues in Bolivia.

• Cultural impacts and barriers of decarbonization
• Sociological study of emotions and polarization over climate change
• Understanding how engagement in environmentalism is related to social class, political ideology, and gender

Our research interests include:

• Integration of metabolomics with other ‘omics’ (epigenomics, genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics) data for the systems-level interrogation of biological problems
• Application of state-of-art metabolomics technologies in various biological challenges, such as mechanistic understanding of cancer metabolism and disease biomarker discovery... Read More

My implementation science research program focuses on improving (virtual) health services and care for equity-deserving groups in rural, remote, and other isolated communities. My research involves studying the implementation processes of health innovations in real-world settings from different perspectives. To maximize the quality and impact of my work, I meaningfully engage research users as... Read More

Sport development pathways, women's and men's soccer, action observation and prediction, observational learning of perceptual motor skills, optimizing practice conditions through practice manipulations and instructions, motor skill expertise and associated processes

Wall Opera Project - Does Opera Training sculpt the brain. Does the study of opera performance change the brain function for students with learning disabilities ? Does it have positive effects for all students studying opera. If there are positive effects to be found how could this help people who have other brain disfunctions or have succombed to diseases or stokes affecting the brain?

See https://phas.ubc.ca/~hearty/ 

Please see www.edges.ubc.ca and www.watergoveranance.ca for ongoing research efforts. There are currently funded research opportunities with the decolonizingwater.ca project on Indigenous water governance issues (in Canada and elsewhere) and there may be upcoming support for analysis of non material dimensions... Read More

Our work focuses on the early development of moral cognition and action in infancy.

Materials innovations have sparked most of the major technological advances across the millennia – from the stone, bronze, and iron ages through to the current silicon age. Science now stands on the precipice of a new era: the age of quantum materials – materials with extraordinary electronic and magnetic properties that rely on quantum mechanical effects. In the Hallas group, we use state-of-... Read More