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The PSI Network consists of almost 400 doctoral students and PhDs from across the full range of disciplines at UBC.

Below you can navigate their profiles based on year of scholarship, faculty, theme; read about their research; and watch brief videos of their talks. 

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Rachel Moylan

United States of America

Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum Studies (PhD)

Teaching in the age of algorithms: Resisting the algorithmic order through co-created sociotechnical experiments
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Ana Laura Arrieta Zamudio

Mexico

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

Modality in San Pablo Güilá Zapotec
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Esther Roorda

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)

Developing sustainable practices in consumer electronic design and repair through community, education and technical design
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Sarinn Blawatt

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

Perceptions of social support outside of clinical care during injectable opioid agonist treatment: An explanatory sequential mixed methods study in Vancouver, BC.
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Marie Boulinaud

France

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Blaming swidden cultivation in the Philippines: evidence, consequences and understandings for Indigenous Peoples
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Laen Hershler

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Language and Literacy Education (PhD)

Exploring Holocaust Survivor Reflections Through Community-Based Performative Inquiry
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Gopal Khanal

Nepal

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Communities, carnivores and conservation: Understanding socio-ecological interactions among wildlife and livestock herders in Nepal
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Trinh Nguyen

Vietnam

Doctor of Philosophy in Library, Archival and Information Studies (PhD)

Exploring information governance in sustainable decentralized projects
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Michelle Gagnon

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD)

Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy as Experienced by Patients and Providers in Canada: A Narrative Inquiry
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Zeba Khan

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Women+ and Children's Health Sciences (PhD)

Choices for Alleviating Menstruation-Related Pelvic Pain Study - CrAMPPS
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Bulgan Batdorj

Mongolia

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Enhancing Mining Transparency and Accountability through Natural Language Processing

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Frances Macapagal Maddalozzo

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Language and Literacy Education (PhD)

Relational Listening: Podcasts as social scholarship to equip pre-service teachers with reconciliatory, decolonial, and committed listening
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Nicole (Nikki) Kaechele

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Reparations, compensation, and Indigenous governance: operationalizing reconciliation through theory and practice.
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Judith Valerie Engel

Austria

Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano (DMA)

Who is heard? Canadian Women Composers and the legacy of ‘genius’ Music
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Manvi Bhalla

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Co-Imagining Just Futures: Advancing Intersectional Environmental Justice in Canadian Environmental Health Policy-Making
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Xiaocong Guo

China

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

Heat-related illness and injury: Prioritizing at-risk workers for policy and practice in British Columbia
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Meghna Mohandas

India

Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)

Private space as sites of ‘othering’: Housing experiences of Indigenous migrant women in Bengaluru, India
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Rachel N. Stern

United States of America

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Interdisciplinary and Mixed-Methods Approaches to Extreme Heat: A Community Participatory Study of Older Adults' Heat Experiences in Metro Vancouver
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Amin Adibi

Iran

Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmaceutical Sciences (PhD)

Taking a Deep Breath: Insightful Discourses on Race and Spirometry Through Patient Engagement
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Alexa Norton

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD)

Optimizing the role of prescribed safer supply and exploring alternate dispensing models during a toxic drug crisis
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Karen Lok Yi Wong

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work (PhD)

Understand the processes of the complex healthcare systems from the experiences of Chinese people living with dementia in Vancouver: The use of a process map

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Fatimah Bahrami

Iran

Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience (PhD)

The Effects of a Child-Friendly Mindfulness Karate Program on Academic Success and Cognitive, Social-Emotional, and Motor Development
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Elaine Williamson

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD)

Empowering Haida Gwaii: Revitalizing Indigenous-Led Tourism as a Pathway to Economic Sovereignty, Cultural Sustainability and Self-Determination
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Rinni Mamman

India

Doctor of Philosophy in Rehabilitation Sciences (PhD)

Exploring public perceptions of traumatic brain injury
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Sharayu Jakhotiya

India

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

People, Policy, And Predators: Studying the impacts of policy, governments, and markets on the governance models of forest dwelling communities in Central India’s tiger reserves
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Erin Tattersall

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Towards Indigenous sovereignty in collaborative wildlife monitoring in northern Canada
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Allison Campbell

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (PhD)

Parenting behind bars: maternal-child (connection and) separation in BC's prisons designated for women
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Himani Prajapati

India

Doctor of Philosophy in Rehabilitation Sciences (PhD)

Co-creation of tailored yoga intervention to improve well-being in people with spinal cord injury (SCI-Yoga)
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Jennie Pearson

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD)

Building "Communities of care" under sex work criminalization and beyond: exploring how digital mutual aid supports the health, safety and wellbeing of sex workers in Vancouver, Canada
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Mike Stefanuk

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Fire regimes from past to future in dry interior forests of the Cariboo region, British Columbia
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Miah Godek

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Wildfire resilience and Indigenous cultural burning in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia
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Tara L. Brown

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Comparing guided and self-guided forest bathing in metro Vancouver parks: a seasonal longitudinal RCT examining health impacts and environmental factors
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Almira Zhantuyakova

Kazakhstan

Doctor of Philosophy in Women+ and Children's Health Sciences (PhD)

Comprehensive approach to ovarian cancer: from equity-oriented prevention to novel therapeutics
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Zeina Waheed

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

Identification and evaluation of implementation strategies to advance the adoption of pharmacogenomic testing to help guide antidepressant treatment for major depressive disorder
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Zana Mody

India

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Counting blue carbon for coastal communities: understanding socio-ecological contexts of nature based climate solutions and mangrove restoration
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Nicole Davies

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems (PhD)

Revitalizing Indigenous agricultural food systems through a community-led restorative research model
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Katherine Hastings

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

Co-design of a suicide care framework within an integrated youth service network in BC
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Daniel Gallardo

Mexico

Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies (PhD)

Dragging education to imagine otherwise: cultivating decolonial learning environments for Indigenous queer futures.
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Charlotte Milne

New Zealand

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Finding best practices in Canadian flood mapping to decrease risk for all
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Jonathan Easey

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies (PhD)

Harnessing community and adult learning to increase PrEP access and prevent HIV in Vancouver
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Starr Sandoval

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

Expressive meaning in Ktunaxa
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Michelle Kamigaki-Baron

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

Investigating the psycholinguistic connections between Pidgin and ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi
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Ilke Geladi

Belgium

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Galapagos birds and farmers: engaging farmers with landbird research focused in the agricultural zone of Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos
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Dane Pedersen

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Seeing the forest through the trees: collaborative climate-informed forest governance in Quesnel, British Columbia
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Wesley (Wes) Regan

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)

Planning in the infodemic: the impacts of digital misinformation and anti-government conspiracism on urban sustainability planning

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Titilope Onolaja

Nigeria

Doctor of Philosophy in Art History (PhD)

Power and policy in West African museums: a comparative analysis of Nigeria and Senegal
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Orkhon Gantogtokh

Mongolia

Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies (PhD)

Envisioning doctoral education in Mongolia
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Heather (Hezy) Anholt

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

A one health approach to investigating the ecology of East African trypanosomiasis in Malawian wildlife