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.
Pranav Shrestha
Nepal
Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering (PhD)
Affordable and portable microscopy for screening sickle cell disease in rural/remote communities
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
Roger Yu-Hsiang Lo
Taiwan
Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)
From annotation to assessment: Tools for sign language phonetic and phonological research
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
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
Maya Daurio
United States of America
Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)
Mapping Against the Grain: An Ethnographic Approach to Digital Language Cartography
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Aidan Nikiforuk
Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)
Decentralization of Hepatitis C Virus Diagnostics to Rural Canadian Communities
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
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
Javiera Pumarino
Chile
Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)
Examining the role of mental health disorders on adult functioning among emerging adults with a history of foster care: A mixed methods study
Stephanie Glick
United States of America
Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies (PhD)
From Graphic Violence to Graphic Novel: Engaging Art as Public Pedagogy to Disarm Public Mass Gun Violence
Jennifer Adkins
Canada
Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (PhD)
Dismantling Racial Ideology Through Intimacy: A Cross National Investigation of Black/White Interracial Couples