Research Projects

First Nations students engaged (and/or interested) in community based research, decolonizing practices, and process that support Indigenous authority and jurisdiction are encouraged to connect with Professor Menzies to discuss potential applications to graduate study.  Other students interested in exploring the relations of power and inequality within contemporary capitalist society and... Read More

Graduate trainees and post-graduate-level fellows are invited to express their interest in working on two funded studies involving the health of marginalized people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada:

1. The AIDS Care Cohort to evaluate Exposure to Survival Services (ACCESS): This United States National Institutes of Health-funded open observational prospective cohort... Read More

Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Emergency Response to the Opioid Overdose Crisis. Objectives: optimizing identification of people at risk for overdose (e.g., emergency department screening) and low-barrier access to harm reduction and life-saving therapies at acute care interfaces. 

Clinical and public health interventions to decrease overdose risk (opioid agonist therapies, monitoring... Read More

Medieval French literature, primarily (but not limited to) narrative literature of the 12th and 13th centuries.

Medievalism in contemporary literature.

Analysis and Diffusions on fractals, Quasisymmetric uniformization, heat kernel estimates, Harnack inequalities.

I am a socio cultural anthropologist, but am not a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology and cannot supervise students in that department. I am a faculty member in the Department of Asian studies and supervise students in the graduate programs in Asian studies. 

planetary health in healthcare

artificial intelligence in medicine and surgery and imaging

Sarcoma fusion oncogene biology, epigenomics and experimental therapeutics;

Cancer biomarker development: in situ multiplex diagnostics, nanoString profiling, immuno-oncology

Quantitative research using data from the Middle Years Development Instrument and other HELP-surveys. Topics all focus on the development of children and youth and include trajectories of wellbeing over time, associatios between social-emotional competence and academic success, differences in social-emotional and mental wellbeing among population subgroups. Examining aspects of... Read More

http://www.math.ubc.ca/~ortner/

Under the supervision of Dr. Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes, the student will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of researchers and health care providers conducting  studies on person-centered care in addiction and public health. This work is situated under the Person-Centered Care in Addiction and Public Health research program, an exciting and growing body of work that seeks to develop... Read More

Using machine learning techniques to learn heuristics for mixed integer programming.

Extending continuous optimization algorithms to work for mixed integer problems.

Designing strong mixed integer relaxations for generic integer programs. 

Some recent and ongoing research project titles and synopses listed below, you give potential graduate students, postdocs, collaborators, and research partners an idea of the types of projects we are working on in the FRESH lab. Note that we have a long queue of new (not yet launched) project ideas staged and waiting for the right people and funding to converge—reach out to Dr. Gregory Paradis... Read More

Please visit https://pavlab.msl.ubc.ca/research/ for more information on our research.

I would be glad to work with graduate students who are interested in any literary, linguistic, or metrical aspects of Latin poetry, regardless of author or time period. My aim as an advisor is to help you sharpen your own research interests and to support you in setting and meeting big goals.

Our lab is based in Victoria and connected to both the Island Medical Program and UVic Computer Science. We have a range of projects including: eHealth related projects connected to community based Electronic Medical record design and assessment of adoption; action research projects with partners related to health system improvement using EMRs in practice; consumer mHealth projects related to... Read More

Our Fitness, Aging and Stress Lab at UBC is currently actively engaged in several different laboratory and community studies. In the laboratory, we are examining the impact of different lengths and intensities of exercise on biological and psychological responses to acute stressors. We are also examining the flip side of this - how chronic and acute stress impact biological and psychological... Read More

Modern Chinese literature, cinema, cultural history, print culture, translation

Health Literacy; Food Literacy; Teacher Education: Curriculum Development; Educational Policy

Forest restoration in tropical systems

Adaptation, Speciation, Evolution of Crops and Weeds, Bioinformatics

The objective of our study is to examine the biology of lipoprotein lipase (LPL) during diabetes. To do this, we will use models of diabetes and various cellular approaches. Given the disturbing news that diabetes is rampant across the globe, and that its incidence will double in Canada by 2016, results from these studies will help in gaining more insight into the mechanism(s) by which cardiac... Read More

The overall goal of my research is to protect children from infections by improving vaccines, vaccination strategies, and building evidence-informed policy and public health initiatives. My research program encompasses laboratory, clinical, and population-based investigations in three complementary focus areas in an innovative molecule-to-population approach.

Focus 1 - Vaccine... Read More

Chronic disease management

telehealth/rehabilitation

Stroke recovery

Chronic care