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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Jung, Mary

FHSD (Okanagan)
HES

Justice, Daniel

Arts (Vancouver)
English Language and Literatures
Cherokee intellectual history; Indigenous literary expression, intellectual sovereignty, and critical theory; Indigenous expressive culture; representations of race and sexuality in the literatures of the fantastic; cultural history of animals

https://english.ubc.ca/person/daniel-justice/

Kamat, Vinay

Arts (Vancouver)
Anthropology
Global Health and Emerging Diseases; marine conservation; Extractive Industry; political ecology

https://anth.ubc.ca/faculty/vinay-kamat/

Kandlikar, Milind

Science (Vancouver)
Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability | School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Climate Change, Air Pollution, Extended Producer Responsibility, Human Development, Agricultural Biotechnology, human development and global environment

http://ires.ubc.ca/person/milind-kandlikar/

Kavanagh, Trudy

FoS (Okanagan)
EEGS
treeline ecology, biogeography

https://eegs.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/trudy-kavanagh/

Kazanjian, Arminee

Medicine (Vancouver)
School of Population and Public Health
Health systems and health policy

https://www.spph.ubc.ca/person/arminee-kazanjian/

Keeling, Patrick

Science (Vancouver)
Botany
Molecular evolution and cell biology of eukaryotes, in particular the protists (i.e. eukaryotes that are not animals, fungi, or plants).

https://botany.ubc.ca/people/patrick-keeling

Kellett, Ron

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Environmental quality; urban form; development of tools for urban design; green neighbourhoods

https://sala.ubc.ca/people/faculty/ronald-kellett

Kelly, Deirdre

Education (Vancouver)
Educational Studies
Gender studies, Media and democracy, Social justice

https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/facultystaff/deirdre-kelly/

Kennedy, Mary Clare

FHSD (Okanagan)
Social Work

Kenney, Denise

FCCS (Okanagan)
Creative Studies
eco-art

https://fccs.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/denise-kenney/

Kershaw, Paul

Medicine (Vancouver)
School of Population and Public Health
Child care, parental leave, work-life balance, social policy, social citizenship, responsibilities and rights, gender and politics, income assistance, child benefit package, social inclusion, neighbourhood effects on child development, Canadian federalism, Citizenship, detrimants of Health, social care

https://www.spph.ubc.ca/person/paul-kershaw/

Kesler, Linc

Arts (Vancouver)
Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies
Strategic planning for First Nations staff and student across the university; developing English department curriculum on American Indian and other ethnic minority literatures

https://fnis.arts.ubc.ca/persons/linc-kesler/

Keys, Elizabeth

FHSD (Okanagan)
Nursing

Khan, Samia

Education (Vancouver)
Curriculum and Pedagogy
How can education support sustainability?

https://edcp.educ.ubc.ca/faculty-staff/samia-khan/

Kheirkhah, Sina

Engineering (Okanagan)
Low-carbon fuels

https://engineering.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/sina-kheirkhah/

Kiesser, Alyse

Engineering (Okanagan)
systems ecology, environmental genomics

https://engineering.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/alyse-kiesser/

Kingstone, Alan

Arts (Vancouver)
Psychology
Human cognition and social attention in complex settings behavioral, neuropsychological, and functional neuroimaging research; Cognitive ethology, social attention, brain and human behaviour.

https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/alan-kingstone/

Kirchen, Patrick

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Mechanical Engineering
Thermochemical energy conversion; understanding the impacts of engine operating parameters such as fuel type, injection strategies, and charge preparation on the fundamental combustion and emission formation processes

https://mech.ubc.ca/patrick-kirchen/

Kissoon, Niranjan

Medicine (Vancouver)
Pediatrics
Sepsis and critical care; Vice Chairman of the Council of the Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA); In 2013 the World Sepsis Declaration was released with a mandate to place sepsis on the global development agenda

http://ngdi.ubc.ca/?profile_cct=niranjan-kissoon

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