Vancouver Campus

Evgeny Pakhomov, PhD

Evgeny Pakhomov, PhD

Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries

Director, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries

Professor, Dept. of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences

Biological oceanography, polar ecology, coastal ecosystems, pelagic food webs, ocean science

Daniel Pratt

Daniel Pratt

Professor, Education

Senior Scholar, Medicine

Chinese vs. Canadian approaches to learning and teaching

Susan Allen, PhD

Professor

Ocean currents, ocean tides, Strait of Georgia oceanography, ocean science

Andrew Scott Baron, PhD

Assistant Professor, Developmental Psychology

Cognitive development, infancy, childhood, adolescence, racism, race, stereotypes, cooperation, bias, innateness, science education, multiculturalism, gender, ethnicity, neuromarketing, attitudes, preferences, psychology

Prof. Christopher Rea, PhD

Prof. Christopher Rea, PhD

Professor

Modern Chinese language, culture, history, literature, and cinema, modern China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, undergraduate research, graduate research, research methodology, fraud, translation, celebrity culture in Asia,

Hani Faris, PhD

Hani Faris, PhD

Adjunct Professor

Faculty Associate in the Institute of Asian Research

Middle East politics & governments, Arab politics & governments, Arab-Israeli conflict, Palestinian issue, politics of developing countries, Islam & Muslims

Maria (Maite) Maldonado, PhD

Maria (Maite) Maldonado, PhD

Professor

Canada Research Chair II (Phytoplankton Trace Metal Physiology)

Phytoplankton, toxic algal blooms, iron fertilization, copper, trace elements, marine primary productivity, biological oceanography, microscopic algae, ocean science

Karen Duffek

Karen Duffek

Curator

Contemporary Visual Arts + Pacific Northwest

Northwest Coast Indigenous art, Museum of Anthropology, museums and First Nations, contemporary Indigenous art, Native art, First Nations art

Samson Madera Nashon, EdD

Professor and Head

Curriculum design, high school physics, primary science, teacher education, science teacher education, physics teacher education and classroom instructions

Toni Schmader, PhD

Professor

Canada Research Chair in Social Psychology (TIer II)

Stereotyping, Prejudice, Social Stigmatization

Nancy Perry, PhD

Professor

Motivation and self-regulated learning in young children, social perspectives on teaching and learning, reading and writing, accommodating individual difference in general education classrooms, learning disabilities, special education

Wendy Poole, PhD

Associate Professor

Educational leadership and administration, organizational change in education (reform of schooling), teachers’ work, teacher unions and teacher unionism, role of teacher unions in education

Dr. Tom Perry, BSc, MD, CM, FRCPC

Dr. Tom Perry, BSc, MD, CM, FRCPC

Clinical Associate Professor

Chair, Education Working Group, UBC Therapeutics Initiative

Reducing polypharmacy, Pain, Critical appraisal of clinical trials, Internal medicine, Politics and parliamentary democracy (previous experience 1989-1996 as Opposition and Government MLA and as Minister of Advanced Education, Training & Technology)

Prof. Michael Church, FRSC, D.Sc.

Prof. Michael Church, FRSC, D.Sc.

Professor Emeritus

geomorphology, rivers, Peace River, Fraser River, sediment transport, environment,

Pat Mirenda, PhD, RN

Professor

autism spectrum disorder; positive behaviour support; applied behaviour analysis; augmentative and alternative communication

Steve G. Withers, PhD

Steve G. Withers, PhD

Professor

Carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry, enzymes, enzyme inhibitors

Siyun Wang, PhD

Siyun Wang, PhD

Assistant Professor, Food Safety Engineering

Food safety, food microbiology, foodborne disease

Kris Sigurdson, PhD

Associate Professor, Theoretical Physics and Cosmology

The universe, cosmology, dark matter, dark energy, particle physics, astrophysics, cosmic microwave background, cosmic 21-cm fluctuations, radio astronomy, CHIME, solar system, space science

Timothy Inglis, PhD

Professor

Movement, control, balance, equilibrium, spinal cord, vestibular, neuroscience, physical therapy

Heather O’Brien, BAH, MLIS, PhD

Associate Professor

User engagement, digital media, human-computer interaction, information seeking, information search, information retrieval, user experience evaluation, computers and emotion