A doctoral citation summarizes the nature of the independent research, provides a high-level overview of the study, states the significance of the work and says who will benefit from the findings in clear, non-specialized language, so that members of a lay audience will understand it.
| Year | Citation | NID |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Dr. Adkins studied the impact of social pressures on interracial relationships. She discovered that individuals restructure their identity using methods to develop and maintain racialized trust with their partners. Her contributions include introducing a new process called racial frame convergence, which advances the areas of identity and trust. | Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Jalabert examined peripheral and neural synthesis of steroids across seasons and in different social contexts in wild male song sparrows. She showed that steroids are regulated within the brain throughout the year and local steroid production rapidly increases in response to aggressive interactions in the non-breeding season. | Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology (PhD) |
| 2022 | What role do universities play in society beyond education and research? Dr. Wood critically examined the relationship between society and ÑÇÖÞÌìÌÃ's health faculties, departments and schools. Her research highlights the social contract between the university and society and its potential to play an advocacy role toward its improvement. | Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership and Policy (EdD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Munro examined relational processes between sexual and gender minority youth and their parents, and how these processes contribute to the youth's identity formation. Findings show a dynamic and goal-oriented identity construction process and provide insight into complex relationship processes that facilitate youth identity construction. | Doctor of Philosophy in Counselling Psychology (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Baker studied metals in which electronic motion does not obey Ohm's law. He looked at metals where electrons develop preferred directions of motion because of strong interactions with the ionic lattice. He developed a theory of how this leads to new electrical and optical properties, and measured these novel effects in palladium cobalt oxide. | Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Tomkinson's research explores the theatrical relationship between sound and mental health differences. He examines a range of case studies in which audience members are immersed in auditory simulations of madness. His dissertation investigates the shortcomings of simulation as a representational practice. | Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Kluttz studied decolonial learning that takes place in the climate justice movement as non-Indigenous activists work with Indigenous communities in opposition to the fossil fuel industry. She found it to be a process of learning to think, be, and do differently that can only take place in relationship with others and through social action. | Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Sandhra studied museums as spaces of belonging through the experience of three Asian Canadian migrant communities in BC - Sikhs, Chinese and Japanese. Her research and findings centred racialized voices only as a means to demonstrate the power of margins as the site of solidarity and belonging in public history discourse. | Doctor of Philosophy in History (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Breckenridge's research revealed that zooplankton in the Fraser River Estuary are limited by how quickly water moves through the system; channelization of the delta may therefore have reduced zooplankton production. Her modelling suggests that warming and early snowmelt may lead to changes in the abundance of zooplankton in the estuary. | Doctor of Philosophy in Oceanography (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Kanagasingam interviewed social justice-oriented clinicians and their patients to examine how social justice is understood, enacted, and experienced in weight-related clinical care. The study presents an alternative to the dominant approach of treating obesity and offers practice-oriented insights for weight-inclusive and equitable care. | Doctor of Philosophy in Kinesiology (PhD) |
| 2022 | Coxsackievirus B3 shows therapeutic potential towards lung cancer but with evident organ toxicity. Dr. Liu's study on the genetically miRNA-modified virus provides insightful information on optimizing the viral backbone for balanced oncolytic potency and safety with enhanced genomic stability, as well as maximum capacity to carry therapeutic genes. | Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental Medicine (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Shin explored how popular media in South Korea portrayed the pursuit of wealth as a masculine quality during the 1960s and the early 1970s. Unlike conventional portrayals of South Korean capitalism as state-led development, Dr. Shin showed how popular media encouraged ordinary South Koreans to embrace profit-seeking and capital accumulation. | Doctor of Philosophy in History (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Hall's research synthesized health economics with learning health systems to support strategic management of care portfolios. Through the development and implementation of his 'Economic Learning Health System' framework, he assisted a health authority with the optimization of care delivery for seniors receiving home health services. | Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Deith created spatial tools to help manage wild meat hunting, one of the greatest threats to tropical mammals. Using movement algorithms and simulation, she built a software to help conservationists and managers map where overhunting occurs and assess how traditional management rules can improve food system sustainability. | Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Novakovskiy advanced our understanding of genome regulation by improving stem cell differentiation protocols and designing inherently interpretable deep learning methods. His bioinformatics advances will help achieve cell therapies for diabetes patients. | Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Brodyn examines how queerness impacts the way people imagine and create families. Three inter-related studies illuminate the ways queer people employ individual and relational strengths in order to transform the family context into a site of potential healing from societal stigmatization and trauma. | Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Wang developed a series of methods and frameworks for addressing possible problems in clinical diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer so that artificial intelligence can be better applied. The proposed methods will potentially save lives that suffer from skin diseases and reduce healthcare costs. | Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Moscoso-Garay studied the literature of the Rubber Extraction Time in the Amazonia (1879-1914). He examined how the industrial modernization helped to perpetuate stereotypes of gender and nature in the Amazon. His research challenges assumptions about discourses of modernity in the Amazonia | Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Studies (PhD) |
| 2022 | Imagine disasters and laughing and making meaning through humor in the face of the rubbles. Dr. Maestrini's work is a comic poetic collection of stories, poems and theories written to understand the social, political, cultural and pedagogical functions of humor after earthquakes in Mexico, in life and during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Arkin developed and demonstrated novel ways to provide fine-scale forest fuel and fire severity information using remote sensing data. | Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Xiuyun Wu studied the relationship between human visual perception and motor action. She examined how perception and eye movements respond to different visual objects and tasks. This research provides new insights into how visual information is utilized by perception and action, and informs our understanding of the underlying brain mechanisms. | Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience (PhD) |
| 2022 | The prevailing theory of particle physics has been immensely successful but is known to be incomplete. Many of its extensions predict modifications to the rate at which Higgs bosons are produced in pairs. Dr. Gubbels analyzes data collected by the ATLAS detector to search for this process, placing strong constraints on any such new theories. | Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Silva studied an immune cell type called patrolling monocytes, which are important in maintaining vascular health. She identified a beneficial role for these cells in obesity, Alzheimer's disease, and tumour metastases. Her work contributes to the potential of harnessing these cells in novel disease therapies. | Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology and Immunology (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Ghosh studied the effects of social integration and in-group ties on economic performance and growth. He showed that intergroup contact between Hindu and Muslim Indian factory workers improved productivity and attitudes. He also found that weakening in-group (family) ties in the historical U.S. context led to greater urbanization and income. | Doctor of Philosophy in Economics (PhD) |
| 2022 | Dr. Zhu advanced the human computer interaction method on ultrasound machines with the help of the gaze tracking technology, and devised automated medical image analysis approaches with deep learning. This research unveils the usefulness and importance of taking human attention factors into system design and machine learning research. | Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering (PhD) |