With over 400 faculty investigating sustainability-related topics at UBC, it can be hard to know where to start. We’ve curated a list of researchers with expertise across a wide range of disciplines.

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Ritland, Kermit

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Beaty Biodiversity Research Centre; cofounder of Treenomix (a foundation of genomics knowledge; promotes forest health and sustainable forest stewardship for future generations)
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Mawani, Renisa

Arts (Vancouver)
Sociology
Colonial Legal History; Critical Theory; Race and Racism; Oceans and Maritime Worlds; Focused on global food production, climate change, and forms of war, this project draws from anticolonial...

Sheppard, Stephen

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest Resources Management
Climate change planning, outreach, and community engagement; visioning methods and visualization of climate change causes, impacts, and mitigation/adaptation; low-carbon future scenarios visualized...

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Stack, Michelle

Education (Vancouver)
Educational Studies
Adult education; Disability studies; Equity and Diversity; Media and democracy; Policy; Social justice; received a grant from the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies to develop a working group focusing on the possibilities of cooperatives for building resilience in higher learning in the face of epidemics and climate change

https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/facultystaff/michelle-stack/

Stainton, Tim

Arts (Vancouver)
School of Social Work
Service and supports for people with intellectual disabilities; disability rights; community living; self-determination

https://socialwork.ubc.ca/persons/tim-stainton/

Staub-French, Sheryl

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Civil Engineering
Virtual Design and Construction (VDC), Building Information Modeling (BIM), collaboration and integrated project delivery, design and construction coordination, 4D (3D + time) visualization, interactive workspaces

https://www.civil.ubc.ca/faculty/sheryl-staubfrench

Stecklov, Guy

Arts (Vancouver)
Sociology
The impact of development and climate change on age-specific migration patterns in sub-Saharan Africa; the relationship between inequality and an array of social and demographic outcomes

https://sociology.ubc.ca/profile/guy-stecklov/

Stein, Sharon

Education (Vancouver)
Educational Studies
Higher Education, Indigenous Studies, International and Comparative Education, Political economy of education, Post-colonial studies, Race/ethnicity, Social and Cultural Foundations of Education, Social justice, Sustainability

https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/facultystaff/sharon-stein/

Stevens, Mark

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Community and Regional Planning
Land use planning efforts, sustainable development; plan-making and implementation, growth management, natural hazard mitigation; municipal climate change planning in BC; environmental policy adoption

https://scarp.ubc.ca/people/mark-stevens

Stewart, Janice

Arts (Vancouver)
Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
Teaching and learning benefits of socially networked, online Community Mapping tools and the unique potential of locative media for social justice initiatives on the UBC campus

https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/person/janice-stewart/

Stull, Roland

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Atmospheric sciences, green energy, wind power, hydro power, weather disasters, natural disasters, storms, forest-fire weather, avalanche weather, wind storms, geophysical disasters

https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/people/rolandstull

Sumaila, Rashid

Science (Vancouver)
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Bioeconomics, marine ecosystem valuation and the analysis of global issues such as fisheries subsidies, IUU (illegal, unreported and unregulated) fishing and the economics of high and deep seas fisheries

https://oceans.ubc.ca/rashid-sumaila/

Sundberg, Juanita

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
Feminist political ecology; nature conservation, border security, and militarization; environmental dimensions of United States’ border security policies in the United States-Mexico borderlands, with a specific focus on protected areas like national wildlife refuges.

https://www.geog.ubc.ca/persons/juanita-sundberg/

Sunderland, Terry

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Biodiversity, communities and livelihoods, conservation, ecosystem services, forest management, land-use change, landscape ecology, social science, sustainability

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/terry-sunderland

Sundstrom, Lisa

Arts (Vancouver)
Political Science
Democratization, human rights, gender politics, the politics of international democracy assistance, and NGO activism in both domestic and transnational politics; comparative climate policy

https://politics.ubc.ca/persons/lisa-sundstrom/

Suttle, Curtis

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Marine microbiology, Arctic microbiology, Biological Oceanography, Marine Microbiology, Environmental Virology, bacteriophage, bacteria, viruses, environmental microbiology

https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/people/curtissuttle

Swei, Omar

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Civil Engineering
Asset Management, Life Cycle Modeling, Optimization Methods, Real Options, Reinforcement Learning, Risk Analysis, Sequential Decision-Making, Stochastic Modeling, Sustainable Infrastructure Management, Time-Series Methods, Uncertainty Estimation and Propagation.

https://www.civil.ubc.ca/faculty/omar-swei

Szilagyi, Robert

FoS (Okanagan)
Chemistry
environmental chemistry, sustainable energy/technology (too specific to lay out impacts)

https://chemistry.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/robert-szilagyi/

Taghipour, Fariborz

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Chemical and photochemical systems with application to energy and environmental engineering; target is to create sustainable ways of producing solar fuels by utilizing earth-abundant materials and cost-effective processes; water purification

https://www.chbe.ubc.ca/profile/fariborz-taghipour/

Tamez, Margo

FASS (Okanagan)
CCGS
Indigenous traditional knowledge, land-based relations

https://ccgs.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/margo-tamez/

Tansey, James

Sauder School of Business (Vancouver)
Commerce and Business Administration
Emerging markets and institutions for carbon trading, Social determinants of health, GM crops and animals

https://www.sauder.ubc.ca/people/james-tansey

Tarrant, Marie

FHSD (Okanagan)
Nursing

Tavasoli, Alexandra

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Mechanical Engineering
Industrial decarbonization, Community-based and/or distributed infrastructure, Chemical and material manufacturing processes.

https://mech.ubc.ca/alexandra-victoria-tavasoli/

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