Dr. Xiaoxiao Li
Assistant Professor
Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Healthcare, Trustworthy AI, Privacy
Prof. Mari Fujita
Associate Professor
Architectural Design, Urban Design, Contemporary Urbanism, Japanese-Canadian Placemaking, Community Engagement, Asian Urbanism
Carol Liao, BA Hons, LLB, LLM, PhD
Assistant Professor
UBC Sauder Distinguished Scholar, Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics
Business law, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, sustainability, social enterprise, benefit corporation, community contribution company, business ethics, access to justice and alternative business structures, Canada Business Corporations Act, BC Partnership Act, BC Business Corporations Act, contract law and interpretation, law and economics, feminism and corporate law, board diversity, impact investing, socially responsible investment, business and human rights, sustainable development
Prof. Wei Cui
Professor
Director, Centre for Asian Legal Studies
Chinese legal system, Chinese taxation, United States taxation, tax policy, international taxation, tax law, law and development
Dr. Alexandra Flynn
Associate Professor
Housing policy, affordable housing, housing affordability, public housing, community planning and development, community-university partnerships, community-based research, property and real estate, housing justice, encampments, homelessness, Indigenous rights, urban and municipal law, climate law
Dr. Jasmin Ma, PhD, PKin
Assistant Professor of Teaching
Physical Activity, Disability, Behaviour Change, Knowledge Translation,
Marie-Eve Bouchard, PhD
Assistant Professor
Ideologies, identity, minorities, language change, language shift, language variation, language contact, racialization processes, African Portuguese, language attitudes,
Gail Hammond, PhD, RD
Associate Professor of Teaching
Consumer food behaviours, Nutrition, Dietitian, Public health nutrition, Social determinants of nutrition and health, Canada’s Food Guide, Healthy eating, Healthy diet
Maureen Ashe, PhD
Associate Professor
Aging, middle-age, behavior change, prevention, physical activity, sedentary behavior, reablement, rehabilitation, activity monitors
Dr. Lesley Lutes, R. Psych
Professor
Director of Clinical Training
clinical health psychology, lifestyle behavior change, mental health and well-being, obesity, diabetes, integrated primary care,
Mark Haden, MSW
Adjunct Professor
Drug policy, illegal drugs, regulation of illegal drugs, cannabis, marijuana, psychedelics, hallucinogens, heroin, cocaine, addiction, parenting children with addiction issues, opioids, fentanyl
Sara Shneiderman, PhD
Associate Professor
Himalaya, Nepal, India, Tibet, social and cultural impacts of disaster and disaster response, migration and citizenship, democratization and secularization, political and social change, ethnicity and religion, inequality and poverty, affirmative action, Indigenous peoples,
Mary Jung, PhD
Associate Professor
exercise adherence, dietary adherence, lifestyle behaviour change, prediabetes, diabetes prevention, health program evaluation, digital health technologies
Dr. Fawziah Marra Lalji, PharmD
Professor
Clinical Pharmacy Lead, BC Centre for Disease Control
Efficacy and safety of COVID-19 vaccines, tuberculosis, tuberculosis treatment, treatment for infectious diseases, antimicrobial utilization, pharmacoepidemiology evaluations, cost-effectiveness of immunization programs,
Melody Burton
Deputy University Librarian
UBC library, library operations, library spaces, facilities, branches, change management, budget, library trends, assessment, statistics, library leadership
Carlos Teixeira, PhD
Professor, Geography
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
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. David Snadden, MBChB, MClSc, MD, CCFP, FRCGP
Professor
Rural healthcare, Rural recruitment and retention, Rural Healthcare systems change,
Michelle Stack, PhD
Associate Professor
educational policy, politics, university rankings, media education, media literacy, anti-racism, disability studies, social justice, educational equity, knowledge mobilization, knowledge translation, media representation of mental illness, comedy and social change
Michelle Stack is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Studies. Her research interests include educational policy and politics, university rankings, media education, anti-racism, disability studies, educational equity and knowledge translation. She is the author of Global University Ranking and the Mediatization of Higher Education, and she is editor of a second upcoming book on university rankings and journal impact factors. Michelle teaches workshops and courses across the university that are aimed at developing the capacity of graduate students to communicate their scholarship to journalists and others. She is preparing to dip her toe for a second time into the world of standup comedy in an attempt to expand conversations about mental illness, white fragility, disability and rankings. Michelle won the Killam Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2017, and she is a 2020-21 Peter Wall Scholar.