Kyle Frackman, PhD
Associate Professor
German, Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, Sweden, Finland, literature, film, cinema, theory, cultural studies, gender, sexuality, social justice, teaching, East Germany
Paul Kershaw, PhD
Associate Professor
Child care, parental leave, work-life balance, social policy, social care, social citizenship, responsibilities and rights, gender and politics, income assistance, child benefit package, social inclusion, neighbourhood effects on child development, Canadian federalism
Dr. Elizabeth Saewyc, PhD, RN, FSAHM, FCAHS, FAAN, FCAN
Professor and Director
SOGI education, LGBTQ2S+ health, adolescent health, nursing, public health nursing, trans and non-binary youth, homeless youth, stigma and discrimination, youth sexual health, youth mental health, adolescent substance use,
Prof. Dixon Sookraj, PhD
Associate Professor
Social welfare policy, international social work education,
Ara Norenzayan, PhD
Professor
Social psychology, cultural psychology, evolutionary psychology, religion, culture, human cooperation, human universals, thinking across cultures
Prof. Edward Taylor, PhD, RCSW, ACSW
Associate Dean
Assessment, diagnoses, and treatment of moderate to severe mental disorders in youth and young adults, School Violence, Terrorism and the many pathways to becoming a terrorist, Understanding violence and mental disorders, Neuro-social development of social intelligence and social problem-solving,
Dr. Farah Shroff, BSc, MEd (Primary Health Care), PhD
Public Health Researcher and Educator
public health, social equity, women’s health, global politics, social determinants of health, anti-racism, anti-imperialism, integrative health, holistic health practices, yoga, meditation, indigenous systems of health, health policy,
Dr Ayesha S. Chaudhry, PhD
Associate Professor
Islam, Muslims, religion, gender, human rights, intersectionality, race, family and children, discrimination, racism, Islamophobia, social justice
Prof. Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins, PhD
Canada Research Chair in Philosophy
Philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, love, romantic love, romance
Dr. Sheila Marshall, PhD
Professor
adolescence, parent-child relationships, mattering,
Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur, PhD
Professor
Human Development, Learning, and Culture
Cultural-historical psychology, child/parent relationships, student/ teacher relationships, play and performance based learning, bridging school and out of school contexts for learning
Susan Birch, PhD Yale
Associate Professor
Social perspective taking, social learning, social cognition, imitation, nonverbal behavior, confidence, communication, decision-making, impression formation, child development, the study of children and adults’ social perspective taking abilities (i.e., their abilities to reason about other peoples’ mental states–their intentions, knowledge, and beliefs) and how their abilities to take another person’s perspective impacts how they form impressions of others, learn from others, communicate with others, and informs a range of socials. Of particular interest is a) how children make inferences about what is credible information to learn (e.g., how they decide whether someone is a credible source of information based on how confident that person seems) and b) how a widespread bias in perspective taking referred to as ‘the curse of knowledge bias’ (a difficulty reasoning about a more naive perspective as the result of being biased by one’s current knowledge) can impair communication (both written and in person) and decision-making across a range of fields (politics, law, education, economics, medicine, etc.)
Carol Ann Courneya
Associate Professor
medical education, arts and humanities and learning, art-making and medical training, medical electives and Residency match success, CaRMS couples matching,
Andrea Grabovac, MD, FRCPC
Clinical Associate Professor
Psychiatry, medication, meditation, vipassana, stages of insight, side effects of meditation, concentration practice, insight practice, mindfulness research, MBCT, MiCBT, MBSR, physician wellness, burnout, stress, well-being, neurobiology of mindfulness
Ashley Miller
Clinical Assistant Professor
Child and adolescent mental health, mood and anxiety disorders, family therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy for depression, mindful parenting, parenting, relationships, parental mental health, social determinants of health, school-based mental health, psychotherapy, emotion-focused therapies, physician wellness
Brenda Lau, MD, FRCPC
Program Director
Clinical Associate Professor
Anesthesiology, pain medicine, pain interventions, autonomic nervous system, rehabilitation, opioids, pain training, point of care, ultrasound, community clinics, regional pain services, movement rehabilitation, yoga, nutrition, prevention, post surgical pain, post trauma pain, headaches, back pain, whiplash, abdominal, fibromyalgia, widespread pain, neuropathic pain, chronic disease, Royal College pain medicine subspecialty, practice based evidence, injury prevention, post surgical care, non opioid pain services, myofacial release, IMS
Jeanette Vinek, BScN, MHScN
Senior Instructor
Relational practice, mindfulness, smartUBC, aboriginal health, spirituality, interprofessional collaboration and education
Dr. Jonathan Ichikawa
Professor
knowledge, epistemology, rape culture, consent, sexual assault, sexual harassment, presupposition, context-sensitive language, skepticism,
Dr. Joanie Sims Gould, PhD, RSW
Associate Professor
older adults, aging, home care, long-term care, physical activity, social connectedness, mobility,
Kimberley Brownlee
Professor of Philosophy
Loneliness, Isolation, Belonging, Social human rights, Freedom of association
Civil disobedience, Conscience, Protest, Punishment,