Education

Dr. Derek Gladwin

Dr. Derek Gladwin

Associate Professor

Environmental literacy, energy literacy, systems, complexity, energy transition, transdisciplinary education, arts-based education, textual literacy, digital literacy, storytelling and narrative inquiry, empathy education, futures literacy

Dr. Janice Forsyth

Dr. Janice Forsyth

Professor, Indigenous Land-Based Physical Culture and Wellness

Indigenous sport; Canadian sport; Indigenous physical activity; Canada; sports at Canadian Indian residential schools; residential school history; sport and reconciliation; safe sport for Indigenous athletes; Indigenous data in sport; sport and colonialism

Dr. Victor Brar

Adjunct Professor

Educational Leadership, K-12 education, School governance, Social reproduction, Inequality in education

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

George Bluman, PhD

George Bluman, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Math in schools, university math courses, symmetries, differential equations, conservation laws, Chiune Sugihara (Japanese rescuer of Jews in WWII)

Cyprien Lomas, PhD

Cyprien Lomas, PhD

Assistant Dean, Learning Technologies

Director, Learning Centre

educational leadership, educational technologies, podcasting, vodcasting, change management, emerging technologies, communities of practice

Gail Wilson

Senior Instructor

Games education/physical education, instruction, specifically the presentation of developmentally appropriate games for youth sport and physical education

Linda Siegel, PhD

Professor Emerita

Learning disabilities, dyslexia

Anthony J. Griffiths

Professor Emeritus

Genetics, pedagogical methods, public awareness of science

Dr. Ken Denike, BSc, MSc, PhD

Dr. Ken Denike, BSc, MSc, PhD

Assistant Professor Emeritus

Transportation Planning, Medical Geography, Trade-off between equity and efficiency of delivery of public and private economic activity in transportation and education, Using spatial data analysis to plan public infrastructure, Distribution of COVID-19 vaccination, Efficient routes and tracing vaccination of at-home patients,

Henry Davis, PhD

Professor

First Nations languages, Salish languages, language survival, language education, Wakashan languages

Neil Guppy, PhD

Neil Guppy, PhD

Professor

Education, social inequality, immigration

Michael Doebeli, PhD

Michael Doebeli, PhD

Professor

Evolution, biodiversity, cooperation, biological diversity

Niamh Kelly, PhD

Associate Professor

Science education from pre-school to university,
balancing family and professional life, women in science

William Koty, MA

Director, UBC Continuing Studies Centre for Sustainability

Sustainability continuing education, sustainability professional development, lifelong learning, adult education, climate change education

Richard Young, Ed.D

Richard Young, Ed.D

Professor

Parent-adolescent interaction (conversations), career development, particularly as a function of family influence

Dr. Jaymie Matthews, PhD

Dr. Jaymie Matthews, PhD

Professor

MOST: Canada’s first space telescope, pulsating stars and the nature of stars in general, search for and study of extrasolar planets, public education in astronomy, tracking asteroids from space, solar system, space science

Dr. Janis McKenna

Dr. Janis McKenna

Professor

Particle physics, subatomic physics, quarks, leptons, accelerators and their applications, science education, women in physics, women in science, solar system,

W. Craig Riddell

W. Craig Riddell

Professor Emeritus

Labour economics (wages, employment, unemployment), labour relations (unionization, collective bargaining), social policy: education, training, income support programs (unemployment insurance, welfare)

Gary S. Schajer, PhD, P.Eng

Gary S. Schajer, PhD, P.Eng

Professor

Industrial residual stress measurements, full-field optical metrology, X-Ray CT log scanning