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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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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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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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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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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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Kevin Kuchinski

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PhD)

Sequencing avian influenza genomes in mud from wild bird habitats to prevent outbreaks and prepare for pandemics
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Dana Johnson

Canada

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

Co-constructing a mutualistic city: Envisioning future scenarios to support people and nature in urban landscapes
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Sarah-Louise Ruder

Canada

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

Food sovereignty, data justice, and the politics of novel agri-food technologies in Canada

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Sammy Iammarino

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD)

Complex health systems and power: responding to the toxic drug poisoning crisis through harm reduction and overdose prevention and response in nursing practice.
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Emily Tilton

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy (PhD)

Knowing across difference
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Steven Bristow

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Plant Science (PhD)

Precision irrigation under a changing climate: Preparing BC growers to monitor plant-water relations.
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Daniel Lipshutz Forrest

Canada

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

Co-constructing a mutualistic city: Envisioning future scenarios to support people and nature in urban landscapes
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Tetiana Povshedna

Ukraine

Doctor of Philosophy in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PhD)

Healthy aging in women living with HIV: The relationship(s) between chronic/latent viral infections, inflammation, cellular aging, chronic pain, and comorbidities
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Alysha Deslippe

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Human Nutrition (PhD)

EATing in a GENdered world (EatGen): How teens involved in high school sports can be empowered to make informed food choices
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Fabiola Bazo

Peru

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

Exhibition: Feminist and queer interventions in contemporary urban popular music in Peru
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Keisha Maloney

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)

Navigating transitions: Remaking the planning engagement table with/by/for Indigenous peoples in Toronto (Tkaronto)
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Rachel Ramsden

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

Participatory planning with young children: A mixed methods approach to planning outdoor play environments
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Zitao Chen

China

Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)

Making machine learning reliable, secure and private
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Olivia Dreisinger

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in English (PhD)

Diagnosis grad school: A podcast series
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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
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Erik Post

Netherlands

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Projects of life and death: Extractivism, climate justice, and decolonial futures in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico
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Jo Fitzgibbons

Canada

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

Co-constructing a mutualistic city: Envisioning future scenarios to support people and nature in urban landscapes
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Ace Chan

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

Primary prevention of cancers-related to tobacco and alcohol use in gender diverse communities across Canada
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Laura Brass

Romania

Doctor of Philosophy in Language and Literacy Education (PhD)

Immigrant women language teachers’ identities
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Sabina Staempfli

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD)

Long-term care reform in action: A realist review and evaluation of nursing care delivery to improve quality of life for Canadian long-term care residents
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Julia Nakamura

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD)

Volunteering with the Canadian Red Cross: recruiting, training, engaging, and promoting health and well-being of Canadian volunteers
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Debbie Pierce

United States of America

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

The impact of land rights and deforestation on women in the Colombian Amazon
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Lianne Cho

Canada

Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy (MDPhD)

Community Brain Art
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Icíar Fernández Boyano

Spain

Doctor of Philosophy in Genome Science and Technology (PhD)

Redefining preeclampsia in the placenta
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Bri Watson

United States of America

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

Expanding the catalog: renaming and redescribing indigenous, Black, Queer, Disabled and communities of color in Galleries, Libraries, Achieves, Museums, and Special Collections (GLAMS)
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Alejandra Botia

Colombia

Doctor of Philosophy in Counselling Psychology (PhD)

The role of peer support in eating disorders recovery
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Rapichan Phurisamban

Thailand

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

Relationalities and River Flows: Toward a Socially-Equitable and Bioculturally-Conscious Environmental Flow Management
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Denise Fong

Hong Kong

Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD)

Beyond Museum Walls: Storytelling Pacific Canada through Participatory Curation
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Catherine Liao

United Kingdom

Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD)

Burn injury in underserved communities in BC. A Mixed-Methods study
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Verónica Relaño-Ecija

Spain

Doctor of Philosophy in Oceans and Fisheries (PhD)

Socio-ecological management in San Antonio Marine Protected Area (MPA), Argentina
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Ismália De Sousa

Portugal

Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD)

Towards equitable stroke care: learning from young women's experiences