Research Projects

The introduction of information technology in medicine has enabled a transformational change in recent decades. The coronavirus pandemic further accelerated the introduction of virtual care and digital health solutions. Thus, most of my work focuses on designing, implementing, and evaluating ways that leverage technology to improve patient-relevant outcomes.

Clinical... Read More

Most projects centre on the neural circuits underlying taste processing and feeding in the fly brain. Potential projects include looking at circuit mechanisms underlying taste integration, hunger, feeding, taste memories, chemosensory integration, and taste circuit development.

I am looking for post-doctoral fellows. Trainees will be actively involved in the translational research effort pertaining to understanding the physiological and/or pathophysiological role(s) of the serine protease family, granzymes, in the context of skin or vascular inflammation regeneration, in aging, autoimmune and/or chronic disease. Granzymes are a family of 5 serine proteases in humans... Read More

Understanding the inequality of the economic impacts of Human Wildlife Conflict in India and Africa---especially snake bites. 

Evaluating the impact of behavioural and economic interventions in reducing human bear conflict in British Columbia.  

Mathematical analysis (e.g. energetics, stability and dynamical behaviour) of topological solitons in ferromagnets.

Mathematical analysis (e.g. energetics, stability and dynamical behaviour) of solitons of nonlinear Schrodinger equations.

Mathematical theory (e.g. well-posedness, long-time behaviour) of geometric dispersive equations.

Currently my research focuses on supporting older adults and their caregivers as then engage in managing cancer treatment and survivorship. I am looking to develop patient-oriented research partnerships in BC.

Global Surgery (multiple topics)

Health Professions Education (multiple topics)

Surgical Education (multiple topics)

Healthcare Simulation (multiple topics)

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

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

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

See https://phas.ubc.ca/~hearty/ 

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?

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

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

neonatology, pediatrics, occupational therapy, measurement, rehabilitation

Indigenous literatures of Quebec

Quebec Studies

Cinema studies of Canada

Environmental humanities of Quebec and Canada

Franco-Canadian Cultural Studies

1) Luminescent materials design for applications in organic electronics.

2) Fluorescent polymer nanoparticles for biological sensing with high sensitivity.

3) Ultrastable fluorophores for catalysis, electroluminescence, and two-photon fluorescence.

Robotics and digital health for dementia care

I supervise students with backgrounds in sociology or socio-cultural studies. Students under my supervision typically conduct research in the areas of aging, gender, health, illness, body image, embodiment, disability, physical activity, sexuality, and assistive or information technologies.

German studies; comparative literature; cultural studies; media theory; media history; critical theory; film studies 

1. Antiviral strategies and antiviral therapeutics for WHO-priority viruses

2. Comparative phenotypic profiling and genomic analysis of emerging and re-emerging human enveloped pathogenic viruses

3. Discovering broad-spectrum therapeutics  for human viral diseases

4. Discovering novel broad-spectrum antiviral agents from natural product... Read More

Anything related to digital culutres and education. 

Surface integrity in vibration assisted machining process.
Surface texturing process.
Chip formation stability in high-speed machining process.

Bioinformatics Cancer Genomics