Updates, news and stories
A selection of updates, news and stories from across the university.
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UBCVJuly 15, 2024 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Elizabeth "Biz" Nijdam
Biz is an assistant professor of teaching in the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies. Find out how she examines the intersection between board games and discourses of colonialism, and the role of she believes board games play in teaching and learning.
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UBCVMay 27, 2024 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Stefan Sunandan Honisch
Stefan is a sessional instructor in the Department of Theatre and Film. Learn more about how his lived experience as a disabled pianist informs his research.
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UBCVMay 6, 2024 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Cathy Kline
As the Assistant Director of Patient and Community Engagement in the Office of the Vice-President, Health, Cathy is interested in integrating patient experience into training the future generation of health professionals.
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UBCOApril 8, 2024 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Grace Fan
Grace is an assistant professor with the Faculty of Management at UBC Okanagan. Learn more about what inspired her to pursue her research and why she hopes it ignites passion in others to learn from Indigenous peoples.
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UBCVMarch 4, 2024 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Alexis McGee
Alexis believes that, as a scholar of colour, her voice can be added to the wealth of resources other scholars and activists have shared as they continue educating each other about intersectionality and anti-Blackness, among other forms of marginalization.
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UBCOJanuary 15, 2024 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Angela Andersen
Angela is a sessional lecturer in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies. Her research focuses on Alevi communities in the Turkish Republic, their oral histories and communal ceremonial architecture.
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UBCVNovember 20, 2023 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Andrei Krassioukov
A professor in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC Vancouver, Andrei helps people with spinal cord injury maintain their cardiovascular health. He is investigating a novel treatment that could improve a patient’s overall quality of life.
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UBCVOctober 30, 2023 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Yue Qian
Having grown up in Wuhan, China, Yue Qian felt compelled to help people in her hometown by better understanding their experiences after the pandemic hit. Her research specifically examines how the pandemic affected the course of gender progress for women.
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UBCVAugust 28, 2023 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Celia Edell
As a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at UBC Vancouver, Celia's research explores how the internet exacerbates the ability to view harmful online interactions as inconsequential, and what that means morally.
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UBCVJune 19, 2023 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Bruno D. Zumbo
Bruno, a professor and researcher in the Faculty of Education, is exploring how survey and test designers can embrace the many ways of being human.
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UBCOMay 23, 2023 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Peiman Azarsa
As a construction materials engineer, Peiman's research is focused on finding new methods and technologies to produce sustainable concrete. Find out what first motivated him to study this essential component in construction and infrastructure development.
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UBCOApril 24, 2023 | Research in focus | Faculty & StaffResearch in focus: Bowen Hui
As an associate professor of teaching at UBC Okanagan's Department of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, and Statistics, Bowen's research explores test-taking behaviour and potential learning gains when students are given multiple attempts to submit and correct their work.