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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. 

Maya Daurio

United States of America
Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)
Mapping Against the Grain: An Ethnographic Approach to Digital Language Cartography

Bonnie Tulloch

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Library, Archival and Information Studies (PhD)
Do the ends justify the memes? Exploring the relationship between youth, internet memes, and digital citizenship

Jeffrey Hicks

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Economics (PhD)
Using large-scale administrative data to study the long-term causes and consequences of social assistance use

Jason Winikoff

United States of America
Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Ethnomusicology (PhD)
The Music of the Masks: Zambian Luvale Percussion, Makishi, and Timbral Aesthetics

Jelena Todorovic

Serbia
Doctor of Philosophy in Classics (PhD)
Disability Theatre and Roman Comedy

Lara Sarlak

Turkey
Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)
Infrastructures of the Displaced: a case study of Istanbul

Michelle Hak Hepburn

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)
Thinking with trees to see the forest: Huayruro trees and deforestation in San Martin, Peru

Leah Shipton

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science (PhD)
The governing dynamics of global health multistakeholder partnerships

Lois Evans

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Library, Archival and Information Studies (PhD)
More Zeros, Less Ones: Digital Storage Management, Big Data, and Climate Change

Benjamin Hopkins

United States of America
Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano (DMA)
Performance & Protest: The Political Pianist

Max Chewinski

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (PhD)
Public Participation and Disaster Governance: Procedural Justice in Rural British Columbia

Patrick Dowd

United States of America
Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)
Golden Letters Arranged like Stars and Planets: An Ethnography of the Contemporary Life of Tibetan Language

Gabrielle Berry

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Cinema and Media Studies (PhD)
[♪♪♪]: The Sonic Resonances of Captions

Jonathan Eaton

United States of America
Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)
Exploring Cultural Heritage as an Opportunity for Recovery in the Aftermath of Disaster

Taeh Haddock

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD)
Testing the Efficacy of Parental Intervention Workshops on Children's Social Cognition and Social-Emotional Health

Fernanda Rojas-Marchini

Chile
Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)
'Naturalezas emergentes': The Turn toward Market-based Biodiversity Conservation in the South of Chile

Yeeun Lee

Korea, Republic of
Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD)
Acts of kindness as an antidote to social disconnection: Validating an online intervention program to increase social engagement in Lower Mainland communities

Evan Koike

United States of America
Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)
Raising Smiling Fathers: The Construction of Masculinity in Japanese Nonprofit Organizations That Promote Engaged Parenting

Adriana Brodyn

United States of America
Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (PhD)
A Comparative Analysis of How the Law Affects the Family Forms and Practices of LGBQ and Straight Households

Jennifer Adkins

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (PhD)
Dismantling Racial Ideology Through Intimacy: A Cross National Investigation of Black/White Interracial Couples

Emily Logan

Canada
Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano (DMA)
The effectiveness of a psychological intervention program for University Music Students as a way to manage Music Performance Anxiety

Emily Amburgey

United States of America
Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)
The “condition” of migration: a multi-sited ethnography of belonging and transformation in Nepal, Northeast India, and New York City

Kirsten McIlveen

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)
Prison Paradox and Post-Secondary Education: Challenges to Developing Innovative Curriculum in Women’s Prisons

Denali YoungWolfe

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science (PhD)
Âhkameyihtamowin: We Rise, Mapping Indigenous Assurgency Across Turtle Island

Khia Johnson

United States of America
Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)
Investigating how Cantonese-English bilinguals produce and perceive speech sounds

Eric Simons

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)
Archaeological Contributions to Canadian Indian Residential School Reconciliation

Yujie Ji

China
Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)
Preserving the Tibetan Dialect Through the Documentation of Oral Tradition
Emily Acheson

Emily Acheson

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)
Climate change, land use change, or both? How spatio-temporal modelling of the Cryptococcus gattii fungus in the Pacific Northwest may reveal determinants of emerging infectious diseases

Alexander Held

Germany
Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science (PhD)
Essays on Civic Participation and the Quality of Democracy

Kelsey Johnson

United States of America
Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)
Social and economic geographies of blood plasma donation in the United States
Sina Fazelpour

Sina Fazelpour

Iran
Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy (PhD)
The Sense of a Possibility: The Nature and Significance of Counterfactual Imagination

Andrea Johnson

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work (PhD)
Cancer as interruption: Exploring the experiences of adolescents who have recently completed treatment for cancer

Katrina Dunn

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre (PhD)
Real Estate and Theatricality in Vancouver’s Downtown Core
Kaitlyn Jaffe

Kaitlyn Jaffe

United States of America
Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (PhD)
Experiences of Medical Research Participation among People who use Drugs: An Ethno-epidemiological Approach
Bronwyn Bragg

Bronwyn Bragg

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)
Citizenship and the city: How migrant status shapes neighbourhood life
Nina Ebner

Nina Ebner

United States of America
Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)
Working the Border: Economic Restructuring and Uneven Development on the US-Mexico Border

Kyle Loewen

United States of America
Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)
To Market: Experimentation, Labor, and the Re-structuring of Last Mile Logistics

Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)
Learning the Ancestral Language of My Children: Charting a Course to Fluency in Xaayda Kil

Lily Ivanova

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (PhD)
Institutionalizing empathy: The Role of Culture in the Representation and Interpretation of Genocide

Francois Lachapelle

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (PhD)
Two Case-Studies in the Sociology of Global Scientific Field

Sarah Fessenden

United States of America
Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)
"We just Wanna Warm some Bellies": Food Not Bombs, Anarchism, and Recycling Wasted Food for Protest

Emma Feltes

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)
The Constitution Express and the Making of Indigenous Rights in Canada

Claire Fogal

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre (PhD)
Western Canadian Evolutions of Decroux and Grotowski in Theatre Pedagogy, Practice and Performance

Teilhard Paradela

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in History (PhD)
Audiences Exposed: Communication and Discipline in the Philippines in the late 20th Century

Stephanie Nakagawa

Canada
Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice (DMA)
Canadian Opera Aria Anthology for Soprano

Gregory Gan

Russian Federation
Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)
The World in A Suitcase: Experience of Place amongst Transnational Migrants of Russian Émigrés to France, Germany and the
 United States

Alicia Luedke

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science (PhD)
Women, Peace and Security: Armed Groups and Sexual Violence in the Twenty-First Century

Kirk King

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Ethnomusicology (PhD)
Kadekaru Rinsho: His Life, His Music, and His Role in Restoring Okinawan Identity

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