Meet our scholars

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.

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

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

Gabriela Barragan Altamirano

Ecuador

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

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

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

Kate Kysow

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD)

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

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

Anne Bertrand

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

The grammar of scalarity in Ktunaxa

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

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

Kelsey Timler

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD)

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

Leah Shipton

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science (PhD)

The governing dynamics of global health multistakeholder partnerships

Courtney van Ballegooie

Switzerland

Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Oncology (PhD)

Patient Understanding of Modern Chemotherapeutics: Has the increasing complexity of chemotherapy impacted patients quality of life and understanding?

William Harding

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD)

Educational Virtual Reality Simulations

Kaye Hare

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Language and Literacy Education (PhD)

All the Feels’ – Exploring Educators’ Embodied Experiences of Sex Education

Benjamin Hopkins

United States of America

Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano (DMA)

Performance & Protest: The Political Pianist

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

Kimberly Sharpe

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

Geographic variation in healthcare spending and utilization and its impact on return to work for injured workers

Madison Stevens

United States of America

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

‘Righting' Conservation: Exploring Pathways for Realizing Stewardship Rights in Protected Areas

Wilson Mendes

Brazil

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

Healing Synergies: Indigenous Land-based Pedagogies and Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the City

Isobel Mouat

United States of America

Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology and Immunology (PhD)

Teaching science beyond content: introducing what science is and how it is done to first-year students

Max Chewinski

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (PhD)

Public Participation and Disaster Governance: Procedural Justice in Rural British Columbia

Christine Ou

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD)

Behavioral-educational sleep support for parents with postpartum mood disturbances

Ildiko Kovacs

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum Studies (PhD)

Participatory Planning Pedagogy: How Children's Engagement in Community Planning Supports Environmental and Sustainability Education

Janina Krabbe

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD)

Stories of Resistance: identifying sites of change towards decolonizing research practices with women affected by violence

Francisco Javier Gómez López

Colombia

Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD)

Territorial Affirmation: Land Autonomy, Sustainable production and conservation practices in Colombian páramo highland communities

April Mazzuca

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

The Cedar Project: Evaluating a culturally-safe program to support the delivery of optimal treatment of hepatitis C among Indigenous people who use drugs in British Columbia.

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

Raphael Roccor

Germany

Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology and Immunology (PhD)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aidan Nikiforuk

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

Decentralization of Hepatitis C Virus Diagnostics to Rural Canadian Communities

Alexa Tanner

Canada

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

Natural hazard risk in context: Examining contextual factors that influence risk perceptions and associated decisions

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

Mai-Lei (Maggie) Woo Kinshella

Canada

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

Investigating the relationship between maternal diet and pregnancy hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa

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

Kate Wahl

Germany

Doctor of Philosophy in Reproductive and Developmental Sciences (PhD)

Storytelling as a tool for sharing knowledge with health policy makers

Karl Zimmermann

Canada

Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering (PhD)

Biological ion exchange: the power of biological water treatment

Fernanda Rojas-Marchini

Chile

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

'Naturalezas emergentes': The Turn toward Market-based Biodiversity Conservation in the South of Chile

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

Áurea Vericat Rocha

Canada

Braiding Lived Experiences: The Making of a Collaborative Inquiring Community of Indigenous Early Childhood Educators

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