Social sciences

This division comprises research and experimental development in social sciences. Social sciences refer to disciplines concerned with the study of human actions and conditions and the social, economic and institutional mechanisms affecting humans, in the fields of social sciences, which include psychology and cognitive sciences; economics and business administration; education; sociology and related studies; law and legal practices; political sciences and policy administration; social and economic geography; media and communications; and other social sciences. Research consists of systematic investigation carried by means of experiment or analysis to achieve a scientific or technological advance such as acquiring new knowledge of the underlying foundation of phenomena and observable facts. Experimental development consists of new or substantially improved goods, services, systems, methods or processes.

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Master of High Performance Coaching and Technical Leadership (MHPCTL)

The Master of High Performance Coaching and Technical Leadership is a three year, 30 credit specialized program for experienced sport coaches and technical leaders who are looking to advance in their careers and engage in professional development. The program is composed of a one-year graduate…

Master of Journalism (MJ)

Journalists have traditionally sought to provide news and information in an accurate, timely and accessible manner to enable the public to make informed decisions. Yet journalism is in flux, with the digital age blurring boundaries of news production and consumption between professionals, citizens…

Master of Land and Water Systems (MLWS)

Land and water are essential resources required to sustain human needs, including food security, maintenance of environmental goods and services, and all forms of useable energy. Managing land and water as an integrated system provides a framework to aid society to achieve the goals of an improved…

Master of Management (MM)

Developed to address the evolving needs of today’s most innovative employers, the Master of Management (MM) curriculum provides you with a vital grounding in a broad spectrum of business and management disciplines, from accounting to finance and marketing to strategic management. Combined with the…

Master of Museum Education (MMEd)

The term museum encompasses a broad range of organisations with a focus on learning in settings outside the traditional classroom.  Museums include cultural centres, science centres, historic sites, parks, planetaria, art museums and art galleries.  Contemporary museum education establishes museums…

Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs (MPPGA)

UBC’s professional Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs (MPPGA) program equips future policy makers with a profound understanding of policy-making processes through a solid foundation of rigorous knowledge acquisition, policy analysis, career development, and experiential learning. With a…

Master of Science in Business Administration in Finance (MSCB)

Aimed at students interested in research, the UBC MSc in Business Administration is a challenging and rigorous program designed to prepare students for a PhD program and a subsequent career in academia. As an MSc student, you will not only become part of a rich and stimulating academic community…

Master of Science in Business Administration in Management Information Systems (MSCB)

Aimed at students interested in research, the UBC MSc in Business Administration is a challenging and rigorous program designed to prepare students for a PhD program and a subsequent career in academia. As an MSc student, you will not only become part of a rich and stimulating academic community…

Master of Science in Business Administration in Transportation and Logistics (MSCB)

Aimed at students interested in research, the UBC MSc in Business Administration is a challenging and rigorous program designed to prepare students for a PhD program and a subsequent career in academia. As an MSc student, you will not only become part of a rich and stimulating academic community…

Master of Science in Geography (MSc)

Our program introduces students to independent research while broadening and deepening their contact with a selected aspect of Geography. Research can be conducted in these general thematic sub-disciplines: Biogeography; Climatology; Geomorphology; Hydrology and Glaciology; Environment and…

Master of Science in Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems (MSc)

The MSc program in Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems provides opportunities for students to broaden their knowledge base and gain research experiences.  ILSFS students work on diverse and often interdisciplinary research topics that address priority food systems questions and challenges…

Master of Science in Occupational and Environmental Hygiene (MSc)

Offered by the Occupational and Environmental Health Division in the School of Population and Public Health (SPPH), this Master of Science program leads to professional or research careers that make a difference to community and work environments and to people's health. The "occupational…

Master of Science in Planning (MSCP)

SCARP's Research Masters degree is a thesis-based research program of study, intended for any of the following: Those interested in progressing to Doctoral research Mid-career professionals not prepared to undertake a PhD Those building a professional platform of high-level planning and…

Master of Science in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (MSc)

The Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is a problem-focused and curiosity-driven interdisciplinary research institute and graduate program, with interest and expertise in a wide range of topics under the realm of environment…

Master of Social Work (MSW)

The MSW at UBC can be achieved within one of three fields of practice: Health and social care; Family and Children's Services; Social and International Development. Organized around an ethic of social care and social justice, each stream of practice shares some core courses and electives…

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Kubota, Ryuko

Department of Language & Literacy Education, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Specialized studies in education; critical applied linguistics; culture and language; Language Rights and Policies; language education; language ideologies; multicultural education; race and language teaching

Kumar, Gaurav

Faculty of Forestry

Postdoctoral Fellow

Operations Research; Decision Analytics; Logistics & Supply chain management; Freight Transportation;

Kumpulainen, Kristiina

Department of Language & Literacy Education, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Languages and literature; Social sciences; Critical literacies/pedagogies; Digital Literacies; Arts-based research; Multiliteracy and multimodality; Place-based literacies; Storytelling/narrative inquiry; Imagination

Kunnas, Marika

Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

French language and literacy curriculum, pedagogy and didactics (except sign language); Bilingual/Multilingual education; Critical intercultural studies; Critical literacies/pedagogies; Decolonizing pedagogies and knowledges; Drama/Theater education; French language education; Race and antiracism; identity; language ideologies

Kunz, Nadja

School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Mining engineering; Public administration; Public policy; Public security policy; Decision Analysis; Environmental engineering; Hydrology; Risk management; Systems engineering; water resources management

L

Laird, Colleen

Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Asian history; Cinema studies; Film, television and digital media; Japanese cinema; Gendered image production, gendered reception, and women in film industries; Videographic criticism

Lauer, Sean

Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Urban sociology and community studies

Laurin, Kristin

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social psychology; Psychology of social class; Political psychology; Rationalization and system justification; Morality

Lee, Barbara

School of Social Work, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social work; Social Work; Child Welfare; Child Maltreatment; Child Protection; Ethno-Cultural Communities; Newcomers; Service Delivery; Service Outcomes

Lee, Gene

Division of Accounting and Information Systems, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Economics and business administration; Management information systems; AI in Business; Business Analytics; Information Systems; Social Media Analysis; Mobile Ecosystem

Lee, Kevin

Division of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Industrial relations and work relations; Future of Work & Organizing; Technology, Innovation, & Entrepreneurship; Social Inequality, Worth, & Evaluation; Lived Experience of Organizations & Institutions

LeMoult, Joelle

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; depression and psychobiological responses to stress; understanding how depression develops and unfolds across the lifespan

Lerner, Jackie

Faculty of Science

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Environmental impact assessment; Land use and environmental planning; cumulative effects assessment; gender-based analysis

Li, Xiaojun

Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

International relations; Comparative politics; International Political Economy; International Security; Foreign Policy Analysis

Lightfoot, Sheryl

Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Indigenous policy and policy administration; Indigenous politics; global and comparative Indigenous politics; international relations; Human Rights; non-state actors

Liston, Mary

Peter A. Allard School of Law

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Administrative law; Constitutional law; Public Law; Administrative Law; Jurisprudence; Rule of law; Comparative public law; Law and literature; Law and politics; Democracy; Values and norm systems; Political regimes; Indigenous law

Liu, Tina

Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Atmospheric pollution and air quality; Earth system sciences; Natural hazards; Climate change impacts and adaptation; Environmental geography; modern human-fire relationships; role of fire in the Earth system; impacts of extreme events on planetary health; air quality and public health; satellite remote sensing and big geospatial data

Lo, Kin

Division of Accounting and Information Systems, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social sciences; Financial reporting; Conference calls; Earnings management; Computational Linguistics

Loutzenheiser, Lisa

Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social sciences; anti-oppressive education; queer studies; curriculum theory; Youth Studies; curriculum policy; qualitative methodologies; ethnography; Gender Studies; social inequality; sexuality education; alternative education; marginalized youth; 2SLGBTQ; Race Studies in Education; Mentorship in higher education; Faculty Development

Low, Margaret

School of Community and Regional Planning, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Urban and regional planning; Indigenous community planning; Indigenous sovereignty; Reconciliation

LU, JULIET

Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Forest ecology; Economic geography; Environmental sociology; conflicts and governance issues around resource extraction and intensive land use; transnational land investments; promotion of monoculture plantations at the expense of more biodiverse systems; private sector sustainable governance initiatives

Lukes, Laura

Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Earth and related environmental sciences; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Education; Geoscience Education Research (Discipline-Based Education Research); Self-regulated Learning; field-based experiential learning; learning in informal settings (e.g., museums, parks, science centers); crowdsourced and citizen science; teacher beliefs; motivation, emotion, and beliefs in learning; Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in STEM; learning engineering

M

MacAskill, Don

Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Health services and systems; Medicine, nursing and health curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; paediatric audiology, paediatric hearing loss and balance function; Innovative practice; Leadership

Macfadyen, Leah

Faculty of Education

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Educational technology and computing; Learning sciences; Distance learning; Higher education; Curriculum, pedagogy and didactics, n.e.c.; Learning analytics; Social network analysis; Text analysis; Learning design; Transformative learning; Citizenship education; Online Learning; Culture and technology

Macfarlane, Allison

School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Research, science and technology policy; science and technology policy; energy policy, nuclear energy, nuclear waste management; regulation

Manning, Keenan

Faculty of Education

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

cultural citizenship; ethnic minority; Hong Kong; Multiculturalism; :label

Marshall, Toph

Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Cinema studies; Classical Greek and Ancient Rome history; Classical archaeology; Classical linguistics; Film, television and digital media; Religion and religious studies; Literary or Artistic Works Analysis; Performance and Theatrical Productions

Martindale, Andrew

Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social sciences; Indigenous Archaeology; Northwest Coast; Oral Traditions; Spatial Analyses; Archaeology and the Law; Political economy; Radiocarbon Dating; Indian Residential Schools

Mawani, Renisa

Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Sociology; Colonial Legal History; critical theory; Oceans and Maritime Worlds; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; Race and Racism; Time and Temporality

McConnell, Kathryn

Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social sciences; environmental sociology; climate change; wildfire; migration; built environment

McCready, Samuel

Faculty of Education

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Curriculum, pedagogy and didactics, n.e.c.; Critical studies of technology; Historical studies, n.e.c.; Media, visual and digital culture; Game Studies; Game-based Learning; Productive pedagogies; Historical Games Scholarship; History Education

McEwan, Desmond

School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Sport and exercise psychology; Teamwork; Sport Psychology; Group Dynamics; High-Performance Teams; Human Thriving

Menzies, Charles

Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social sciences; Indigenous studies; Natural Resource Management; Maritime Anthropology; Western Europe; Ethnographic Film; Classical Marxism

Mercer, Sterett

Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Special education and disability; Educational psychology; curriculum-based measurement; academic intervention; written expression

Metcalfe, Amy

Department of Educational Studies, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Higher education; Educational policy; History and philosophy of education; Visual theory, visual culture and visual literacy; Higher Education Studies; Higher Education Policy; Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Higher Education; Science and Knowledge; Internationalization; Migration Studies; Academic Labour and Mobility; Visual Research Methods; Campus Environments

Milligan, Kevin

Vancouver School of Economics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Labour and demographic economics; Public economics; Economic Policies; Children; Inequality; Pensions; Public Finance; Taxation

Milner-Bolotin, Marina

Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Science, technology and engineering curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Specialized studies in education; Educational Technologies; educational innovation; Educational technology; physics education; STEM education; STEM teacher education; Science and Knowledge; teacher education; Teacher and Student Performance Evaluation; Teaching; Teaching and Learning Systems; Technological Innovations

Minard, Antone

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Monteyne, Joseph

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

History of art and architecture; Visual theory, visual culture and visual literacy; Media studies (except social media and digital media); British history; Renaissance/early modern art and print culture; early modern landscape and eco-criticism

Montgomery, H. Monty

School of Social Work, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social work, n.e.c.; First Nations Child Welfare, Aboriginal Social Policy, Indigenous Distance Education

Moore, Marcus

Peter A. Allard School of Law

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Law (except legal practice and international law); Law of Obligations (especially Contracts); Socio-Economic Regulation (especially Standard Form Contracts, Consumer Protection); Regulatory Theory and Design / Governance / New Governance; Law & Society / Socio-Legal Studies / Law in Social Context; Sports Law, Governance & Regulation (especially Injury Prevention); Law Reform; Public Law, Administration and Governance; Tech Regulation (especially Neuroscience); Jurisprudence & Critical Perspectives (especially Critical Disability Theory)

Morgan, Steven

School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health policy; Economics of health care; Health services and systems; Access to medicines; Health care policy; Pharmacare; Pharmaceutical pricing; Prescribing appropriateness; Comparative policy analysis; Health care financing

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Nakamura, Fuyubi

Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social and cultural anthropology; Museum studies (Museology); Visual theory, visual culture and visual literacy; Globalization and culture; Environment, space and place; Anthropology of art; museum studies (working as curator at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC); material and visual culture; Contemporary Japanese calligraphy; Indigenous cultures, especially Ainu; disaster and memory, especially in the context of the Great East Japan Earthquake (3.11).; contemporary Asian art and culture

Nan, Ning

Division of Accounting and Information Systems, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Economics and business administration; Management information systems; blockchain governance; complex adaptive systems; digital business; evolvable information systems; Information Systems; Management; online community

Narayan, Priti

Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social and economic geography; urban development; South Asia; state-society relations

Nathan, Lisa

School of Information, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social relations; Critical studies of technology; climate change adaptation; Indigenous Information Studies; Information Ethics & Policy

Nesbitt, Lorien

Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Land use and environmental planning; Environmental justice; urban forestry; Liveable and equitable urban environments; Socio-ecological interactions in cities; climate change; Ecosystem services; Cities

Noack, Frederik

Food and Resource Economics, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Environment and natural resources economics; Economics of Biodiversity; Economics of Conservation; Fisheries Economics; economic development; Forests

Norris, Samuel

Vancouver School of Economics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Economics and business administration; Education; Crime; labor economics

Nunn, Nathan

Vancouver School of Economics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Economics; Political economy; Economic History; economic development; cultural economics; international trade

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Melanie McPhail

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Law (PhD)

Regulation of innovative health technologies

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Sean O'Rourke

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

zuminstm e tmíxw kt ƛ̓əq̓ƛ̓áq̓tn̓ (“We care for the land of T’eqt’aqtn”): Rebuilding ƛ̓əq̓ƛ̓áq̓tn̓mx (Kanaka Bar Band) Governance and Stewardship through an Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area
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Nick Middeldorp

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Territories in dispute: repression and protection in Indigenous struggles in Northern Cauca, Colombia
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Parker Muzzerall

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (PhD)

Climate politics and public policy
UBC graduate student Daniel Ji

Daniel Ji

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work (PhD)

Understanding resistance in adult-adolescent interactions
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Aisha Ghani

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in School and Applied Child Psychology (PhD)

Canadian South-Asian youth experiences of caregiver-child relationships
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Douglas Robb

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Canadian energy landscapes
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Allison Campbell

Student

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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Elaine Williamson

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD)

Empowering Haida Gwaii: Revitalizing Indigenous-Led Tourism as a Pathway to Economic Sovereignty, Cultural Sustainability and Self-Determination
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Nancy Lin

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work (PhD)

Enhancing access to psychosocial supports after acquired brain injury
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Caroline Stampliaka

Student

Master of Arts in Anthropology (MA)

An Ethnographic Exploration of Migratory Beekeeping in Greece
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Dane Pedersen

Student

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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Kelsey Johnson

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Social and economic geographies of blood plasma donation in the United States
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Carly Hamdon

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (PhD)

The way masculinity contours mens' relationships to the environment
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Atul Aravindakshan

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

Built environment, metabolomics, and cancer risk
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Felix Giroux

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)

Green hydrogen development in Canada
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Paul Boniface Akaabre

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)

Leasehold of Urban Land: Conceptions on Tenure, Practices and Influence on Housing Delivery
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Laura Werbitsky

Student

Master of Arts in Curriculum Studies (MA)

Teachers experience with curriculum change at an international education company in China
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Denali YoungWolfe

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science (PhD)

Âhkameyihtamowin: We Rise, Mapping Indigenous Assurgency Across Turtle Island
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Katelynn Kowalchuk

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science (PhD)

Mental healthcare governance in Canada: Contemporary and historical catalysts for evolution and stagnation
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Olivia Dreisinger

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in English (PhD)

Diagnosis grad school: A podcast series
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Lianne Cho

Student

Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy (MDPhD)

Community Brain Art
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Cheyanne Connell

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)

Naachin of Past and Present
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Ildiko Kovacs

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum Studies (PhD)

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

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)

Landing on Histories: Indigenous Experiences of Belonging in Nepal and India
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Tonje Molyneux

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development, Learning, and Culture (PhD)

Supporting systemic, school-based social and emotional learning through teacher professional development
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Zarina Giannone

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Counselling Psychology (PhD)

Athletes in Transition: A novel intervention targeting elite athletes' identity development
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Frances Macapagal Maddalozzo

Student

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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Martina Zago

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science (PhD)

Standards of civilization: art, law, and empire, 1798-1945
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Gerald Tembrevilla

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum Studies (PhD)

Technological [in]accessibility:Transnational Divide on Digital Literacy in STEM Education
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Francois Lachapelle

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (PhD)

Two Case-Studies in the Sociology of Global Scientific Field
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Jess Tran

Student

Master of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering (MASc)

Justice-Oriented Pedagogies for Informal Engineering Education

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Holly Bergeron-Dumaine

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Theory (PhD)

Critical music theory pedagogy
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Mikayla Pachkowski

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD)

The role of dissociative experiences in suicide

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Samuel Adeyanju

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

People, projects, and poverty: Investigating the effectiveness of livelihood interventions implemented in Community Resource Management Areas (CREMAs) in Northern Ghana
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Yu Tong (Emily) Tang

Student

Master of Arts in Kinesiology (MA)

Influences of Social Media on Sexual Health for Chinese Immigrant Women
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Nina Ebner

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Working the Border: Economic Restructuring and Uneven Development on the US-Mexico Border
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Billy Guo

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration in Accounting (PhD)

Competition and the disclosure of firm-specific vs. industry-wide information
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Sebastian Gomez Cardona

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Economics (PhD)

Household finance, portfolio choice and financial literacy
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Rapichan Phurisamban

Student

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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Travis Fuchs

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum Studies (PhD)

Supporting socially responsible science education in K-12 classrooms
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Cassandra Hesse

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development, Learning, and Culture (PhD)

The influence of pornography on adolescents
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Halina Deptuck

Student

Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology (MA)

Facilitating change in maladaptive beliefs: a quantitative exploration of crisis counsellor helping behaviours among clients with active suicide ideation
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Mahdi Ebrahimi Kahou

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Economics (PhD)

Can machine learning enhance economic models with heterogeneity?
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Sarinn Blawatt

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

Perceptions of social support outside of clinical care during injectable opioid agonist treatment: An explanatory sequential mixed methods study in Vancouver, BC.
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Meera Sharma

Student

Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology (MA)

Investigating Factors Associated with Alcoholism and Recovery Amongst South Asian Men
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Antonin Lacelle-Webster

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science (PhD)

Democratic theory and citizen participation

Neila Miled

Neila Miled

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies (PhD)

Negotiating identity and belonging: A critical ethnography of Muslim youths’ lived school experiences in a British Columbian high school

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Max Cohen

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Placing the Just Transition in Scotland and New Zealand
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Annie Lalande

Student

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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Orkhon Gantogtokh

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies (PhD)

Envisioning doctoral education in Mongolia

Department of Anthropology

Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering

Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy

Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, and Special Education

Department of Educational Studies

Department of English Language and Literatures

Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences

Department of Forest Resources Management

Department of Geography

Department of Language & Literacy Education

Department of Political Science

Department of Psychology

Department of Sociology

Department of Theatre & Film

Department of Wood Science

Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Institute for Gender, Race, Sex and Social Justice

Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability

Office of Research in Education

Peter A. Allard School of Law

Robert H. Lee Graduate School

School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture

School of Community and Regional Planning

School of Creative Writing

School of Kinesiology

School of Nursing

School of Population and Public Health

School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

School of Social Work

Vancouver School of Economics

French Name

Sciences sociales

French Description

Cette division comprend la recherche et le développement expérimental en sciences sociales. Les sciences sociales réfèrent aux disciplines relevant de l'étude des actions et des situations humaines, ainsi que les mécanismes sociaux, économiques et institutionnels touchant l'être humain, dans les domaines des sciences sociales, lesquels incluent la psychologie et les sciences cognitives, l'économie et l'administration des affaires; l'éducation; la sociologie et les études connexes; le droit et l'exercice du droit; la science politique et l'administration des politiques; la géographie sociale et économique; les médias et communications; et les autres sciences sociales. La recherche consiste en l'investigation systématique par l'expérimentation ou l'analyse, afin de réaliser un progrès scientifique ou technologique, comme l'acquisition de nouvelles connaissances sur les fondements des phénomènes et des faits observables. Le développement expérimental consiste à réaliser de nouveaux biens, services, systèmes, méthodes ou procédés, ou d'améliorer substantiellement les biens, services, systèmes, méthodes ou procédés existants.