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  • Doug Sladen
    UBCV
    July 7, 2025 | Research in focus | Faculty & Staff

    Research in focus: Doug Sladen

    Name:Doug SladenMy pronouns:he/himTitle:Associate ProfessorFaculty/Department/Unit:Faculty of Medicine/School of Audiology and Speech SciencesLocation:VancouverYear I started working at UBC:2024

  • Daniel Pauly
    UBCV
    May 20, 2025 | Research in focus | Faculty & Staff

    Research in focus: Daniel Pauly

    For decades, UBC Killam Professor Daniel Pauly, has challenged how we measure ocean health. From revealing the true scale of global overfishing to showing how climate change is shrinking fish, his work is reshaping marine science and informing policy worldwide. Learn more from Daniel and discover what tiny fish can tell us about the planet’s future.

  • Anusha Kassan
    UBCV
    April 28, 2025 | Research in focus | Faculty & Staff

    Research in focus: Anusha Kassan

    Anusha is an associate professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education. Inspired by her bicultural identity and informed by a social justice lens, her research investigates the impact of immigration across different communities.

  • Holly Caggiano
    UBCV
    March 17, 2025 | Research in focus | Faculty & Staff

    Research in focus: Holly Caggiano

    Meet Holly Caggiano, an assistant professor in the School of Community and Regional Planning, whose work explores climate justice and community-led environmental planning. She’s bridging the gap between local officials and their communities to drive more inclusive and effective clean energy transitions.

  • Karen Sherwood
    UBCV
    February 24, 2025 | Research in focus | Faculty & Staff

    Research in focus: Karen Sherwood

    Karen Sherwood is a clinical associate professor in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Her research focuses on using genomics to personalize transplant treatments to improve patient outcomes. Discover how her groundbreaking projects are bringing us closer to achieving transplant tolerance.

  • Ray Taheri
    UBCO
    February 3, 2025 | Research in focus | Faculty & Staff

    Research in focus: Ray Taheri

    Driven by a passion for real-world, community-centred challenges, Ray believes that engineers have a unique responsibility to be part of society's solutions. He works closely with Dr. Hadi Mohammadi on projects to improve the quality of life for those affected by medical conditions.

  • Cecilia Jevitt
    UBCV
    November 12, 2024 | Research in focus | Faculty & Staff

    Research in focus: Cecilia Jevitt

    Cecilia is a professor in the Department of Family Practice with the Faculty of Medicine. Through her research, she aims to reduce weight-based stigma and non-essential medical treatments by showing that women with obesity can have healthy, uncomplicated pregnancies.

  • Sally Stewart
    UBCO
    October 15, 2024 | Research in focus | Faculty & Staff

    Research in focus: Sally Stewart

    With an academic background in health, nutrition and exercise physiology, Sally understands how poor student health negatively impacts learning. She and her team have developed online learning modules on weight stigma/bias with a focus on eating disorders to promote awareness and access to timely care.

  • Mathieos Belayneh
    UBCV
    September 3, 2024 | Research in focus | Faculty & Staff

    Research in focus: Mathieos Belayneh

    Mathieos is a physician in the Faculty of Medicine's Division of Palliative Care. His research focuses on the efficacy of methadone in treating Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy – a disorder that causes chronic neuropathic pain and debilitation in many cancer patients.

  • Amir Ardestani-Jaafari
    UBCO
    August 12, 2024 | Research in focus | Faculty & Staff

    Research in focus: Amir Ardestani-Jaafari

    Amir is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Management. His research focuses on how theoretical math can be used to prepare for uncertainty and variability, ensuring critical systems and services – such as healthcare delivery, transportation networks or energy distribution – remain reliable even under adverse conditions.

  • Elizabeth Nijdam
    UBCV
    July 15, 2024 | Research in focus | Faculty & Staff

    Research 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.

  • Stefan Sunandan Honisch
    UBCV
    May 27, 2024 | Research in focus | Faculty & Staff

    Research 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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