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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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Kohle Merry

Canada

Master of Physical Therapy and Doctor of Philosophy in Rehabilitation Sciences (MPTPHD)

Promoting sustainable telerehabilitation: co-development of a novel telerehabilitation system for repetitive strain injuries
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Shayda Swann

United States of America

Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy (MDPhD)

Investigating the role of reproductive hormones in healthy aging for women living with HIV: A community-collaborative cohort study
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Callista Ottoni

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD)

Loneliness and social connection: A community-engaged study with older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic using visual and traditional methods
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Nick Middeldorp

Netherlands

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Territories in dispute: repression and protection in Indigenous struggles in Northern Cauca, Colombia
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Rena Del Pieve Gobbi

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD)

Mental Health Disability in higher Education: Images of stigma and resilience
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Henry John

United Kingdom

Doctor of Philosophy in History (PhD)

Mapping the war in the woods
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Megha Kalia

India

Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)

Making Augmented Reality Feasible for Robot Assisted Surgery
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Nance Cunningham

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental Medicine (PhD)

Untold Stories of True Strength: Bringing voices of patients into health professionals' education
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Fiona Beaty

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology (PhD)

Marine resilience in the Anthropocene: understanding the adaptive capacity of marine socio-ecological systems to change
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Roger Yu-Hsiang Lo

Taiwan

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

From annotation to assessment: Tools for sign language phonetic and phonological research
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Verena Rossa-Roccor

Germany

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

Academics as activists? Leveraging political knowledge-to-action strategies to improve ecological determinants of health through climate policy
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Natalie Payer

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Shining a Light on Energy Injustice: Solar Energy Access and Urban Energy Poverty in the United States
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Maya Daurio

United States of America

Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)

Mapping Against the Grain: An Ethnographic Approach to Digital Language Cartography
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Saguna Shankar

Canada

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

Caring for Information Practices: An Inquiry into Visions of Data, Digital Technologies, and Migration
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Preetish Kakoty

India

Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD)

Impacts of M9 Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes and Basin Amplification on the Seismic Risk of Vancouver’s Tall Reinforced Concrete Shear Wall Buildings and Implications on Community Resilience
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Gabriela Barragan Altamirano

Ecuador

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Planning forests for the future: incorporating multiple goals in forest restoration initiatives
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Kalysha Closson

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

Unpacking gender and relationship power inequities to advance sexual and reproductive health among young South African women and men in the time of COVID-19 : A youth-engaged study
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Kate Kysow

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD)

Clean-outs as a strategy for community agencies to address hoarding
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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
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Anne Bertrand

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

The grammar of scalarity in Ktunaxa
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Cristina Rubino

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Rehabilitation Sciences (PhD)

Uncovering unseen links between visual and motor impairment after stroke.

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Sarah-Nelle Jackson

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in English (PhD)

Getting (Virtually) Medieval: Live-Streaming as Public Scholarship
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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
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Amanda Johnson

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Bioplastic from agroforestry waste: end-of-life management
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Esteban Morales

Colombia

Doctor of Philosophy in Language and Literacy Education (PhD)

Reimagining violence on social media: promoting critical media literacy and peace education in Colombia
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Ine Beljaars

Netherlands

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

Toward a cultural politics of Afro-Latin partner dancing in the Netherlands
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Jennifer Murray

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

Conducting community-based research to investigate risk factors associated with a high rate of preterm birth in a First Nations community in British Columbia (BC)

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Michael Schwan

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

Gitksan Neologism Formation: The Future of Gitksan With Roots in the Past
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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
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Shota Iwasaki

Japan

Doctor of Philosophy in Asian Studies (PhD)

Fostering Awareness of Marginalized People through Literature: A Case Study of Critical Literary Pedagogy by a Marginalized Instructor
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Jelena Todorovic

Serbia

Doctor of Philosophy in Classics (PhD)

Disability Theatre and Roman Comedy

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Monica Shank Lauwo

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Language and Literacy Education (PhD)

Stories of lives and literacies: Social class, translanguaging and imagined futures of Tanzanian children
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Lara Sarlak

Turkey

Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)

Infrastructures of the Displaced: a case study of Istanbul

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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
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Sara Press

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in English (PhD)

Diagnosing Disparities: Unsettling the Anglo-Colonial Standards of Health and Normality in Canada and the United States
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Matthew Tomkinson

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre (PhD)

Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade: A Podcast
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Pranav Shrestha

Nepal

Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (PhD)

Affordable and portable microscopy for screening sickle cell disease in rural/remote communities
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Khadija Anjum

Pakistan

Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)

Planning for food security of low-income groups amid rising food price volatility: A gendered analysis
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Jacob Stubbs

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental Medicine (PhD)

CoBrA Community Brain Art Initiative: Co-created brain health promotion with the Downtown Eastside community
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Kelsey Timler

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD)

Participatory Action Research to Support Food Justice Programming for Justice-Involved Women and Children
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Leah Shipton

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science (PhD)

The governing dynamics of global health multistakeholder partnerships
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Celina Solís

Mexico

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

Decolonizing Palates: Food Security Strengthening through underutilized vegetables revitalization in the Mayan Region of Chiapas, Mexico
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Raphael Roccor

Germany

Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology and Immunology (PhD)

Spinning Straw into Golden Liquids – Making High-value Oils from Biomass Residues
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Sarah Dickson-Hoyle

Australia

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Wildfire as a catalyst for co-management: Indigenous knowledge, stewardship and restoration of (post)fire landscapes in British Columbia
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Rishad Habib

Bangladesh

Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration in Marketing and Behavioural Science (PhD)

Understanding the socio-cultural dynamics that shape our perceptions of morality and determine whether and why we act in ethical ways
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Andrea Hoff

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Language and Literacy Education (PhD)

Future Tense: Exploring young people’s agency and resilience towards the future through the creation of autobiographical comics
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Michael W Brunt

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Animal Biology (PhD)

How perceptions of transparency influence the social acceptability of animal use in science
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Dacotah-Victoria Splichalova

United States of America

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

Narratives of Water: Exploring Hydrosocial Relations and Water (In)security in Canada and New Zealand