Current UBC Students

  • NASSIM ZAND DIZARI

    PhD Candidate (2022-2026)

    Nassim's community-based research explores the geographies of belonging through sound and listening among Iranian women resettled or in the process of resettling in Metro Vancouver.

  • EM ISAAK

    MA Student (2022-present)

    Em's (they/them) research is centered around making biking more inclusive and accessible to the LGBTQ2IA+ community. They are using a critical and queer theory perspective for this project in hopes that it promotes folks to choose more sustainable forms of travel.

  • Neha Raj Singh

    PhD Student (2025-2029)

    Neha’s research explores a radically relational journey towards belonging to the land, and healing through food. Particularly exploring how food cultures, practices, ceremonies and ancestral knowledge systems embody radical relationism and pluriversality towards food sovereignty, and finding a sense of belonging and home. 

Former UBC Students

  • KELSEY MARR, PHD

    (2018-2023)

    Thesis: Pandemic reproduction : an ethnography of disjunctures and im/mobilities in Sundsvall, Sweden

  • ELIMIE OVENDEN

    EMILIE OVENDEN, MA

    (2021-2024)

    Dissertation: "Whose community?" : the political ecology of community forestry in British Columbia's Sea-to-Sky Corrido

  • JO SCOFIELD, MA

    (2021-2024)

    Dissertation: The adoption of inclusive language in abortion related activism