Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Economic growth, Technological change, Productivity, Economic development, Measurement, Economic growth policy, Innovation/technology policy
Lake, wetland ecology, biogeochemistry, water resources, aquatic chemistry
Medical anthropology, Indigenous healing, cross-cultural psychiatry, visual anthropology

Visual perception, haptic perception, audition, gustation, olfaction, cognition, evolutionary psychology, ecological approach to perception, public education about blindness, psychological aspects of advocacy, rehabilitation, health, stress management, picture perception, wellness, blindness, guide dog training, drawing development

creativity, computational creativity, cultural evolution, computer models of cultural evolution, concepts, agent-based models, physical light as metaphor for psychological constructs

Public finance, government, federalism, lobbying, taxation, income tax

Water resource economics, natural resource economics, value of environmental goods and services, value of ecological goods and services, environmental economics

Human rights, gender studies, genocide studies, crimes against humanity, media and political transition
Youth and adult substance use and abuse, cognition and substance use, prevention and intervention, measurement of substance use and program effectiveness

clinical health psychology, lifestyle behavior change, mental health and well-being, obesity, diabetes, integrated primary care,
Urban planning, urban geography, cities, sustainable development
Aging, healthy aging, global aging, community, policy, census data, demographics, family, intergenerational education, older persons and love and romance, policy issues, community activation and risk

Labour economics, industrial organization, discrimination and economic education, immigration policy

endangered languages, language revitalization and documentation, constructed languages, language planning, language policy, Indigenous languages, land planning, knowledge mobilization, community-engaged research,

Latin American history, international solidarity

Immigration, immigrants in Canada, housing experiences of immigrants, housing in small and mid sized cities, Kelowna, Okanagan Valley, suburbanization of immigrants, ethnic entrepreneurship, ethnic neighbourhoods, neighourhood change, Canada, Vancouver, Richmond and Surrey, Toronto, Kensington Market

Environmental anthropology, political ecology, water, water governance, agriculture, food security, food sovereignty, Columbia River Treaty, Columbia River Basin, local ecological knowledge, community-based resource management, language documentation, Okanagan Valley, Creston Valley, Columbia Basin Project area, British Columbia, Washington State, Papua New Guinea

cannabis, psychedelics, psychedelic psychotherapy, harm reduction, psilocybin, MDMA, LSD, addiction, treatment of problematic substance use,
Forensic psychology, psychopathy, deception detection, mental health, criminal behaviour, social media, language, computer-mediated communication research