This list shows a selection of faculty members who are currently looking for new graduate students. They may have specified particular projects they wish to fill. Please ensure to review the departmental profile of each faculty member to learn more about their research interests and to ensure a good fit to your intended studies at UBC.
Last name |
First name | Research Interests | Desired start dates: | Project areas |
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| Ellis | Jason | history of education, Education policy, Politics of education | Any time / year round, 2020, 2021 |
Projects related to my current research: history of education and social mobility, opportunity; education and housing markets; political economy of metropolitan schooling; policy; space and historical GIS mapping; history of immigration and education; history of educational finance and taxation. Or any project in the history of education; education policy. |
| Du | Caigan | Renal Diseases, Bioactive Molecules, Immune Reactions, Immunotherapy, Cell Therapy of Infectious and Immune Diseases, pathophysiology of Kidney disease, cell and antibody/protein therapy, Kidney transplantation and organ preservation, Technology for diagnosis of kidney disease, Peritoneal dialysis | Any time / year round |
Mesenchymal stromal cells-based therapy, antibody therapy, cold organ preservation in transplantation, Roles of clusterin in kidney disease, Novel methods for monitoring kidney damage and function |
| Dong | Xuesen | Hormone Dependent Cancers, Prostate Cancer, Endocrine Regulation, Gene Regulation and Expression, Prematurity | Any time / year round |
1) neuroendocrine prostate cancer; 2) AR driven castrate-resistant prostate cancer 3) drug screening novel DNA topoisomerase II inhibitors 4) cell free nucleotide biomarkers from liquid biopsy |
| Dollinger | Stefan | Language Contact and Linguistic Changes, Linguistic Variation and Society, Lexicography and Dictionaries, Language Interactions, Language Rights and Policies, Bilingualism and Multilingualism |
Projects revolving around the recently completed www.dchp.ca/dchp2, possibly towards a third edition. For my work, see https://ubc.academia.edu/StefanDollinger for a nearly complete list and downloadable books/papers/squibs/reviews. |
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| Doan | Quynh | Emergency Medicine, Health Services | Any time / year round, 2021 |
Dr. Doan’s research program includes projects evaluating pediatric emergency department patterns of use, quality of care, and service delivery efficiency. Through a variety of projects, the program aims to answer questions about the need for pediatric emergency care and how well the healthcare system is able to meet this need, as well as the how the quality and value of care provided to... Read More |
| Dick | Alexander | Literary or Artistic Work Analysis, Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies, Artistic and Literary Theories, Arts, Literature and Subjectivity, British Romanticism, Scottish Enlightenment, Literature and Economics, Literature and the Environment, Literature and Science, Scottish Literature | Any time / year round |
Scottish Literature; British Romanticism; Literature and Science; Literature and the Environment |
| Diamond | Adele | executive functions, prefrontal cortex, dopamine, working memory, self-control, self-regulation, cognition, COMT gene, Sex differences, stress, ACEs (adverse childhood experiences), ELS (early life stress), resilience, social determinants of health, ADHD, depression, PTSD, Physical Activity, the arts, mindfulness | 2021 |
In traumatized youth, can prefrontal cortex communication with the amygdala be restored by a stress-reduction program (e.g., Niroga’s yoga-based mindfulness program)? Are the benefits of music for improving executive functions (EFs), mood, and quality of life greater when the experience of listening to the music is socially shared? Can the benefits of listening to the spoken word be as great... Read More |
| Dennis | Jessica | Complex Trait Genetics, Genetics of Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases, Epidemiology, Mental Health and Psychopathology in Children and Youth, Bioinformatics, genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics, Precision Health, Electronic health records, Administrative health data, Machine Learning | Any time / year round |
The last decade has seen an unprecedented explosion of data. In medicine, data are increasingly being generated and linked across electronic health records, administrative databases, and biobanked samples. These resources hold tremendous promise for improving human health and achieving precision medicine, which will only be realized by thoughtful study designs and innovative analyses. ... Read More |
| Deering | Kathleen | Social Determinants of Health, Environmental Health, Community Health / Public Health, Human and Social Ecology, Sexual health inequities, Gender and health, HIV prevention, treatment and care, Sex work, Social/health geography, Gender and violence, Stigma, Community-based research, Novel methodological approaches in epidemiology | Any time / year round |
Among other potential projects, I am looking for students or postdocs to work with a five-year community-based longitudinal cohort of women living with HIV in Metro Vancouver (2014-2020), and many options for projects working with this community and these data. The study includes quantitative survey data on broad topics related to social, spatial and structural determinants of health (... Read More |
| Dee | Derek | Proteins, Enzymes and Proteins, Agri-food Transformation Products, Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms, Nanomaterials, Nutriceuticals and Functional Foods, Protein Folding, protein aggregation, Biophysics, food chemistry, protein engineering, funtional amyloid, protein nanofibrils, psychrophilic enzymes, aspartic proteases, prions, food proteins, meat analogues | Any time / year round |
1. genetic and chemical modification to engineer functional amyloid 2. examine misfolding and aggregation of prion proteins 3. conversion of plant proteins into nanofibrils for use in foods 4. mechanisms of biofilm-associated amyloid fibril formation |
| De Longis | Anita | Social Determinants of Health, Health Psychology, stress, coping, social support, couples, marriage, families, chronic illness, health |
Coping with chronic illness; family and marital stress; social support; social relationships and health; life stress |
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| Day | Susan | Plants and Forests, Landscape and Restoration, Ecology and Quality of the Environment, Environment Management and Protection, urban forestry, urban soils, urban ecology | Any time / year round |
Greeninfrastructure and urban forests, manufactured and engineered soils for urban applications, effects of urban forest structure on soil properties, building construction and greeninfrastructure, below-ground streetscape design, urban ecology related to urban forests |
| Dawes | Martin | Applied Genetics, Medication Decsision Support Software, primary care, chronic disease, pharmacogenetics | Any time / year round |
Medication decision support |
| Davies | Hugh William | Occupational Safety and Health, Community Health / Public Health, Environmental Health, Occupational Health, Exposure Assessment, Noise and Health, Antineoplastic drug hazards | Any time / year round |
Occupational Health Hazards: Antineoplastic Drugs New ways to exploit occupational exposure data |
| Daley | Denise | Complex Trait Genetics, Genetic Diseases, Asthma, Susceptibility Genes, Genetics of Aging, genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics, Epigenetics, gene-gene and gene-environment interactions | Any time / year round |
Genetics and epigenetics of common complex diseases including peanut allergy, food allergy, asthma, atopy, healthy aging, aortic valve stenosis. Longitudinal analyses of childhood birth cohorts. The lab is currently initiating several targeted whole genome bisulfate sequencing projects and we plan on integrating data from a variety of omics approaches. We are also developing genetic risk... Read More |
| Cui | Wei | Taxation, Law, Social Organization and Political Systems, tax and development, law and development, tax policy, Chinese legislative system, Chinese administrative law, Law and political economy | Any time / year round |
Research in Chinese law that focuses on the legislative and executive branches; Tax policy, especially in the areas of international taxation, VAT, and tax administration Taxation in developing countries (but not international taxation) |
| Coops | Nicholas Charles | Telemetry (Remote Sensing, Radar), Space Techniques, Forestry Technology and Equipment, Plants and Forests | Any time / year round |
Application of remote sensing technologies to forest productivity and conservation issues |
| 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 |
| Cibere | Jolanda | Arthritis / Osteo-Arthritis, early osteoarthritis, magnetic resonance imaging in osteoarthritis, biomarkers in osteoarthritis, progression of early osteoarthritis, clinical detection of early osteoarthritis | Any time / year round |
Predictors of knee osteoarthritis progression over 7 years. |
| Chrostowski | Lukas | Optics and Photonics, Micro and Nanoelectronics, Nanotechnologies, Manufacturing Processes, silicon photonics, biosensors, biophotonics, quantum computing, optoelectronics, photonics, optics, semiconductor lasers | Any time / year round |
silicon photonic device and circuit design, nanofabrication, quantum computing, single photon devices |
| Christenson | James | Resuscitation, sudden cardiac death, chain of survival, out of hospital cardiac arrest, emergency medical services | Any time / year round |
dispatch assisted CPR community engagement Bystander willingness to act mobile technologies to recognize loss of circulation |
| Chiu-Duke | Josephine | History of Major Eras, Great Civilisations or Geographical Corpuses, Chinese and Taiwanese history, political thought and institutions, liberal democracy | Any time / year round |
Traditional Chinese intellectual history or history of traditional Chinese thought and institutions. |
| 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 | 2020, 2021 |
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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| Chan | Kai | Human Ecology, Ecology and Quality of the Environment, Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection, Applied Ethics, Values and Lifestyles, Sustainable Development, Ecosystem services, sustainability science, Conservation science, cultural ecosystem services, environmental values, conservation finance, environmental assessment, social-ecological systems, resilience, payments for ecosystem services, incentive programs | ||
| Cavell | Richard Anthony | 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 |
| 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). |
| Carleton | Bruce | Pharmacogenomics, Adverse drug reactions (ADRs), Drug safety and effectiveness, Clinical pharmacology, Pharmacovigilance | Any time / year round |
There are numerous opportunities for pursuing doctoral and post-doctoral research using state of the art genotyping and sequencing platforms to identify the genetic determinants of severe adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in paediatric and adult populations. In close collaboration with the CPNDS active surveillance network, genetic association and validation studies are being performed to define... Read More |
| Campbell | Kristin | Breast Cancer, Rehabilitation, Physiology, Quality of Life and Aging, Exercise Physiology, physical function, oncology, Biomarkers |
The role of exercise and physical therapy in oncology treatment and oncology care. |
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| Camp | Patricia | Rehabilitation, Environment and Respiratory Diseases, Native Health, Rehabilitation Care and Services, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Mobility, Health Care Technologies, Telemedicine, pulmonary rehabilitation, health services delivery, Indigneous health, Mixed methods, Knowledge translation, Physical Activity, E-health | Any time / year round |
1. Indigenous lung health. Study 1 is to estimate the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in First Nations communities in north-central BC. We are also specific risk related to respiratory symptoms including indoor air quality and occupation. Study 2 is to develop a First Nations pulmonary rehabilitation program, that could include using telehealth to deliver... Read More |
| Cameron | Maxwell | Political Regimes (Democracy, Monarchy, Federalism, Parliamentarism, etc.), Social Organization and Political Systems, Comparative Politics, Latin America, Democratization, Practical wisdom | Any time / year round |
Democracy and democratization in Latin America; Global challenges of democracy |
| Byers | Michael | International Law, International Cooperation, international relations, oceans, Arctic, space, war | Any time / year round |
Governance of Outer Space |
| Burton | Cole | Ecology and Quality of the Environment, Ecological Trends, Animal, Biodiversity and Biocomplexity, Landscape and Restoration, Environment Management and Protection, Wildlife Management, Mammal Ecology, Biodiversity conservation, Ecological Monitoring, Population and Community Ecology, Landscape ecology |
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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| Bryman | Douglas | Science and Knowledge, Experimental Particle Physics, Applied physics, physics | 2020 |
Particle physics experiments at CERN, Geneva. |
| Brunham | Liam | Genetic Diseases, Cardiovascular Diseases, Lipid Disorders, Stem Cells and Organogenesis, Lipids, Genetics, Pharmacogenomics | 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... Read More |
| Brown | Carolyn Janet | Gene Regulation and Expression, Chromosomes: Structure / Organization, Applied Genetics, Epigenetic control of gene expression, X-chromosome inactivation, Long non-coding RNAs, XIST RNA, Genes escaping X-chromosome inactivation, DNA methylation |
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 |
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| Brotto | Lori | Sexual Dysfunctions, sexual dysfunction, mindfulness, sexual desire |
Eye tracking studies of women with sexual dysfunction; online RCT of mindfulness-based treatment for sexual dysfunction |
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| Brooks-Wilson | Angela | human genetics, cancer genetics, cancer families, longevity, Super seniors, genetic susceptibility | Any time / year round |
Genetics of healthy aging. Genetics of lymphoid cancers in families. |
| Brondani | Mario | Community Health / Public Health, Dental Health, Social Determinants of Health, Health Policies, Quality of Life and Aging, Adult Education and Continuing Education, Epidemiology, Dental Public Health, Health Policy, Dental Education, Dental Geriatrics, Access to care, Qualitative research, Epidemiological data | Any time / year round |
COVID-19 (priority at the moment), 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). |
| Bowers | Katherine | Arts, Literature and Subjectivity, Arts and Cultural Traditions, Arts and Technologies, Arts and Literary Policies, Russian literature, Russian culture, literary culture, genre, narrative, imagined geography, the novel, Dostoevsky, gothic fiction | Any time / year round |
Russian literary studies; comparative literary studies; literary culture; genre; narrative |
| Black | Thomas Andrew | Biometeorology, Soil physics, Microclimate modification | Any time / year round |
Measurement of greenhouse gas fluxes in agricultural systems |
| Bizzotto | Dan | Electrochemical Systems, Surface Characterization, Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Layers, Sensors and Devices, Electrochemical and Fuel Cells, Electrochemistry, interfacial analysis, biosensors, spectroelectrochemistry, electrocatalysis, self assembled monolayers, fluorescence microscopy | Any time / year round |
Characterizing modified electrochemical interfaces Electrochemical biosensors Electrocatalysis Spectroelectrochemical studies of DNA modified electrodes |
| Bigazzi | Alexander York | Transportation Systems, active transportation, bicycles, Air quality, motor vehicle emissions, travel behaviour | Any time / year round |
Please see: http://reactlab.civil.ubc.ca/ |
| Bi | Xiaotao | Biomass and Bioenergy, Multiphase Chemical Reactors, Fluidization, Particle technology, Electrostatics of Powders, Life Cycle Analysis, Green Engineering, Industrial Symbiosis, Fuel Cells Water Management |
Biomass catalytic pyrolysis and torrefaction in pilot fluidized bed reactors. |
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| Beznosov | Konstantin | usable security and privacy, mobile security and privacy, computer security and privacy, online social networks security and privacy | Any time / year round |
Security and privacy for mobile devices, privacy for online teenagers, enterprise security and privacy. |
| Bettinger | Julie | Epidemiology, Vaccination, Infectious Diseases, Health Promotion, Community Health / Public Health, Infectious disease epidemiology, vaccine clinical trials, vaccine safety, vaccine programs, Vaccine hesitancy | 2021 |
Vaccine preventable disease epidemiology, vaccine safety, vaccine hesitancy, both qualitative and quanitative methodologies. I am not seeking PhD students until 2021 or later. |
| Berlinguette | Curtis | Combinatorial Chemistry, CO2 conversion and utilization, clean energy, advanced solar cells, electrochromic windows, dynamic windows, hydrogen fuels production, catalysis, robotics and automation, machine learning / artificial intelligence | Any time / year round |
See this site for more information: https://groups.chem.ubc.ca/cberling/research/ |
| Benedet | Janine | Penal Law, Labor Standards and Laws, Human Rights and Liberties, Collective Rights, sexual violence against women, prostitution and pornography, sexual harassment in employment and education, sexual abuse of girls | 2020, 2021 |
Criminal justice system responses to sexual assault of women across the lifespan Best practices toward the elimination of the demand for the prostitution of women |
| Belliveau | George | Theatre, Arts-based research, Drama Education, Research-based Theatre, Interdisciplinary Arts |
research-based theatre, applied theatre |
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| Bedke | Matthew | Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies, Foundations of Ethics, Social Organization and Political Systems, Ethics and Fundamental Issues of Law and Justice, metaethics, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law, epistemology | Any time / year round |
The nature of normativity, expressivism, moral epistemology, moralism |
| Bedi | Robinder | Educational Counselling, The Contextual Model of Counselling/Psychotherapy / Viewing Psychotherapy as a Cultural Practice, Counselling/psychotherapy in India, Counselling/psychotherapy/mental health with Punjabi/Sikh individuals, Counselling psychology disciplinary and professional issues | Any time / year round |
Please see my websites for further information:
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