François Jean, PhD
Associate Professor & Scientific Director
Molecular virology, host-virus interactions, emerging and re-emerging human viruses, antiviral agents, viral molecular diagnostics, viral and cellular biomarkers, influenza A virus, hepatitis C virus, dengue virus
Prof. Karthik Pattabiraman, PhD, P.Eng.
Professor
Reliability of Computer Systems, Cyber-security, Internet of Things, Safety-Critical Computer Systems, Dependable Computing, Computer Failures, Software Bugs, Software Vulnerabilities, Security Attacks, Security Threats,
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
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,
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
Marie-Eve Bouchard, PhD
Assistant Professor
Ideologies, identity, minorities, language change, language shift, language variation, language contact, racialization processes, African Portuguese, language attitudes,
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,
Maureen Ashe, PhD
Associate Professor
Aging, middle-age, behavior change, prevention, physical activity, sedentary behavior, reablement, rehabilitation, activity monitors
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
Dr. Jasmin Ma, PhD, PKin
Assistant Professor of Teaching
Physical Activity, Disability, Behaviour Change, Knowledge Translation,
Gunnar Hansson
Associate Professor
Phonetics (speech sounds), phonology (sound patterns, sound systems), language change, linguistic relationships (language families), reconstruction of proto-languages, language contact, Scandinavian languages (esp. Icelandic, Faroese, Swedish), Athabaskan (Dene) languages, Saami (Lapp) languages, Russian
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.
Cyprien Lomas, PhD
Assistant Dean, Learning Technologies
Director, Learning Centre
educational leadership, educational technologies, podcasting, vodcasting, change management, emerging technologies, communities of practice
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,
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. David Snadden, MBChB, MClSc, MD, CCFP, FRCGP
Professor
Rural healthcare, Rural recruitment and retention, Rural Healthcare systems change,