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The PSI Network consists of 347 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. 

Rachel Moylan

United States of America
Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum Studies (PhD)
Teaching in the age of algorithms: Resisting the algorithmic order through co-created sociotechnical experiments

Esther Roorda

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PhD)
Developing sustainable practices in consumer electronic design and repair through community, education and technical design

Sarinn Blawatt

Canada
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.

Marie Boulinaud

France
Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)
Blaming swidden cultivation in the Philippines: evidence, consequences and understandings for Indigenous Peoples

Gopal Khanal

Nepal
Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)
Communities, carnivores and conservation: Understanding socio-ecological interactions among wildlife and livestock herders in Nepal

Trinh Nguyen

Vietnam
Doctor of Philosophy in Library, Archival and Information Studies (PhD)
Exploring information governance in sustainable decentralized projects

Laen Hershler

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Language and Literacy Education (PhD)
Exploring Holocaust Survivor Reflections Through Community-Based Performative Inquiry

Xiaocong Guo

China
Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)
Heat-related illness and injury: Prioritizing at-risk workers for policy and practice in British Columbia

Meghna Mohandas

India
Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)
Private space as sites of ‘othering’: Housing experiences of Indigenous migrant women in Bengaluru, India

Rachel N. Stern

United States of America
Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)
Interdisciplinary and Mixed-Methods Approaches to Extreme Heat: A Community Participatory Study of Older Adults' Heat Experiences in Metro Vancouver

Amin Adibi

Iran
Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmaceutical Sciences (PhD)
Taking a Deep Breath: Insightful Discourses on Race and Spirometry Through Patient Engagement

Alexa Norton

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD)
Optimizing the role of prescribed safer supply and exploring alternate dispensing models during a toxic drug crisis

Karen Lok Yi Wong

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work (PhD)
Understand the processes of the complex healthcare systems from the experiences of Chinese people living with dementia in Vancouver: The use of a process map

Fatimah Bahrami

Iran
Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience (PhD)
The Effects of a Child-Friendly Mindfulness Karate Program on Academic Success and Cognitive, Social-Emotional, and Motor Development

Elaine Williamson

Canada
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

Rinni Mamman

India
Doctor of Philosophy in Rehabilitation Sciences (PhD)
Exploring public perceptions of traumatic brain injury

Sharayu Jakhotiya

India
Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)
People, Policy, And Predators: Studying the impacts of policy, governments, and markets on the governance models of forest dwelling communities in Central India’s tiger reserves

Erin Tattersall

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)
Towards Indigenous sovereignty in collaborative wildlife monitoring in northern Canada

Michelle Gagnon

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD)
Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy as Experienced by Patients and Providers in Canada: A Narrative Inquiry

Zeba Khan

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Women+ and Children's Health Sciences (PhD)
Choices for Alleviating Menstruation-Related Pelvic Pain Study - CrAMPPS

Bulgan Batdorj

Mongolia
Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)
Enhancing Mining Transparency and Accountability through Natural Language Processing

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

Nicole (Nikki) Kaechele

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)
Reparations, compensation, and Indigenous governance: operationalizing reconciliation through theory and practice.

Judith Valerie Engel

Austria
Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano (DMA)
Who is heard? Canadian Women Composers and the legacy of ‘genius’ Music

Manvi Bhalla

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)
Co-Imagining Just Futures: Advancing Intersectional Environmental Justice in Canadian Environmental Health Policy-Making

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

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)

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

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

Miah Godek

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)
Wildfire resilience and Indigenous cultural burning in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia

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

Jonathan Easey

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies (PhD)
Harnessing community and adult learning to increase PrEP access and prevent HIV in Vancouver

Starr Sandoval

Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)
Expressive meaning in Ktunaxa

Michelle Kamigaki-Baron

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)
Investigating the psycholinguistic connections between Pidgin and ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daniel Gallardo

Mexico
Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies (PhD)
Dragging education to imagine otherwise: cultivating decolonial learning environments for Indigenous queer futures.

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

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

Stephen Oppong

Ghana
Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre (PhD)
21st century receptions of classical greek theatre in Africa.

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

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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