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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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Erin Tattersall

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Towards Indigenous sovereignty in collaborative wildlife monitoring in northern Canada
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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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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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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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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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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
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Hallie Dau

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

The social and economic impact of cervical cancer on women and children in Uganda
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Stephen Oppong

Ghana

Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre (PhD)

21st century receptions of classical greek theatre in Africa.
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Mahashewta Bhattacharya

India

Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)

Home-ing as (auto)biography: Tracing the materialities and sensorialities of multi-sited homes among rural to urban women migrants of Eastern India
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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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Andrea Kampen

Canada

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

Information sharing practice of artist-researchers
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Risa Tonita

Canada

Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano (DMA)

The pianist's self: Political action in piano performance as a relational practice
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Olivia Maracle

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD)

Home-Away-From-Home (A Missing): Indigenous Nurse Identity And Belonging
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Anna Santo

Canada

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

Inclusive public consultation about large predator recovery in the North Cascades Ecosystem
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Lisa Ritland

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

Intersectoral and placed-based approaches to fostering equity in children's development

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Younus Mushtaq Ahmed

India

Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)

Sanitizing ‘sanitation’: Caste, infrastructure, and the politics of development in Chennai’s slums
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Tanzoom Ahmed

India

Doctor of Philosophy in Asian Studies (PhD)

Understanding Muslim Women in urban marginalized spaces of South Asia
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Cheyanne Connell

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)

Naachin of Past and Present
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Annie Lalande

Canada

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

Food as medicine: Transforming hospital food to improve patient satisfaction, health, and the environment
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Sydney Lines

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in English (PhD)

Romancing the empire: Race, ethnicity, and nationalism in the writings of Winnifred Eaton and Laura Goodman Salverson
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Winy Vasquez

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Food security in the Amazon: an investigation of the food security and nutrition of the Asháninka peoples living inside the Protected Forest San Matias-San Carlos
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Aram Bajakian

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Ethnomusicology (PhD)

Navigating nostalgias: Musical identities in the Armenian diaspora
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Romina Tantalean-Castaneda

Peru

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

Working collaboratively with an Indigenous women's grassroots federation of the Peruvian Amazon, my research focuses on the Rights of Mother Nature from a strongly pluralist paradigm, while centering Indigenous women's leadership, knowledge, and voices
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Neha Suvindran

India

Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering (PhD)

MELMET: A stable and sustainable Neural Interface (NI) to help neuroscientists understand the workings of the human brain and develop potential cures in chronic brain disease studies
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Parboti Roy

Bangladesh

Doctor of Philosophy in Asian Studies (PhD)

Violence against Indigenous women in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh: the lived experiences of Adibashi women and their navigational mechanisms to address violence
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Leilani Forby

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD)

Getting to know you: The frequency, intentionality, and content of mind wandering in autistic individuals