How can Canada repair a broken housing system while also future-proofing it? At UBC, researchers are tackling this question from multiple angles: piloting more efficient and sustainable construction methods, informing policy that recognizes adequate housing as a basic right, and designing homes that protect occupants from natural disasters and the effects of a warming climate.
It might have been better if these victories were spread out, but here we have three successes at once! This story is about a short film, a pilot and a TV show.
I’m excited to share that I co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Practice (Routledge, 2026), which explores how urban design is evolving to address climate change, public health, housing,...
I'm very excited to share the news that my first non-fiction book will be out this September with Anvil Press. Stanley Park Manor: a Collective History was mostly written and compiled over a...
I'm excited to share that my book Winning Pitch: The Canadian Men's Soccer Team at the World Cup and Beyond has been published by Harbour Publishing. Winning Pitch is part memoir, part history of the...
I am thrilled to be working at my alma mater as a faculty lecturer in UBC’s Teacher Education and NITEP programs. Being able to support Indigenous students in their journey to become an educator has...
I am Jaya Viswanathan, and I earned my MSc in Neuroscience from UBC in 2012, where I worked with Dr. Jason Barton trying to understand mechanisms of eye movements and sensori-motor integration. I...
It is rather hard to believe that an Engineer can write, but I have now published five books, all based on true life experiences. My favourite, Outdoor Poems With Love, features an iambic rate of...
I graduated this year with a PhD from the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, where my dissertation explored how language, power, and identity shape polarization and the ways...