Katherine Sirluck, PhD
Instructor
Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, feminist theory, cultural anthropology, language, gender politics, contemporary drama, poetry
Jason Barton, MD
Professor
Canada Research Chair in Human Vision and Eye Movement
Face perception, object recognition, eye movements, higher visual function
Stephen Malloy, MFA
Professor Emeritus
Theatre, directing, acting, playwriting, contemporary classics, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Samuel Beckett, Canadian theatre
Shimi Kang, MD, FRCPC
Clinical Associate Professor
Mental Health, Addiction, & Motivation Specialist
Medical Director, Child and Youth Mental Health, Vancouver Community
Psychiatry, mental health, parenting
Doris Baltruschat, PhD
Author, Educator
Media/digital literacy, stereoscopic (3D), virtual reality and social media, independent film, digital citizenship and media democracy, media ecologies, transmedia storytelling, international co-productions and TV formats, film/TV audience reception, aboriginal media/arctic cinema, social movements, social networks, social networking
Carla Hudson Kam, PhD
Professor & Canada Research Chair
Language development, second language acquisition, critical periods for learning, input and language learning, language learning and language change, children’s books
Dr Ayesha S. Chaudhry, PhD
Associate Professor
Islam, Muslims, religion, gender, human rights, intersectionality, race, family and children, discrimination, racism, Islamophobia, social justice
Cyprien Lomas, PhD
Assistant Dean, Learning Technologies
Director, Learning Centre
educational leadership, educational technologies, podcasting, vodcasting, change management, emerging technologies, communities of practice
Adam Lund
Clinical Associate Professor
Event medicine, mass gathering medicine, mass gathering health, music festivals, electronic dance music events, special events, marathon, triathlon, emergency medicine, obstacle adventure courses, emergency department overcrowding, opioids, fentanyl, prehospital care, paramedicine
Paul Burns
Professor Emeritus & Sessional Lecturer
Post-biblical Christianity to 6th century, religious tolerance, religion and literature, Augustine of Hippo, multidisciplinary approaches to the study of the Humanities
Ron Reid, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Team based learning, flexible learning, pharmacogenomics, personalized medicine
Liane Gabora, PhD
Professor
creativity, computational creativity, cultural evolution, computer models of cultural evolution, concepts, agent-based models, physical light as metaphor for psychological constructs
Martin Guhn, PhD
Assistant Professor
Wellbeing of children and youth, social determinants of developmental health, social and cultural community and neighborhood effects on child development, music and emotion
Neil Pearson, PT, MSc
Clinical Assistant Professor
Pain, chronic pain, pain management, self care, physiotherapy, yoga, therapeutic yoga
Prof. Paul van Donkelaar, PhD
Professor
Traumatic brain injury; intimate partner violence; sports-related concussion; sensorimotor control; neurocognitive function; cerebrovascular physiology,
Blair Leavitt, MD, CM
Professor
Genetic brain diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, Huntington disease, frontotemporal dementia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ataxia
Peter Reiner, VMD, PhD
Professor
Neuroethics, Cognitive Enhancement, Smartphones, Persuasive Technologies, Extended Mind, Autonomy, tDCS, Direct-to-consumer neurotechnology, neuromarketing, nudging
Prof. Edward Taylor, PhD, RCSW, ACSW
Associate Dean
Assessment, diagnoses, and treatment of moderate to severe mental disorders in youth and young adults, School Violence, Terrorism and the many pathways to becoming a terrorist, Understanding violence and mental disorders, Neuro-social development of social intelligence and social problem-solving,
Dr. Lawrence Ward, AB, PhD
Professor
Cognitive/perceptual psychology, psychophysics, cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience, stochastic resonance,
Luke Clark, PhD
Professor
Director, Centre for Gambling Research at UBC
Gambling, problem gambling, addiction, decision-making, reward, cognitive neuroscience