MSc with Gunilla Öberg, 2017
Senior Utility Planning Engineer, City of Vancouver
Daniel completed an MSc at IRES with Dr. Gunilla Öberg in 2017 on the topic of urban drinking water conservation and demand management strategies.
He is currently working for the City of Vancouver as a senior utility planning engineer.
Last updated January 2022
MSc with Kai Chan, 2017
Doctoral candidate in Psychology, University of Victoria
https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/lizwilliams/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/liz-williams-4b229a34/
Liz is a SSHRC doctoral candidate in psychology at the University of Victoria, a graduate student fellow of the Animal and Society Research Initiative, and an interdisciplinary research professional. She holds a BA in psychology, MSc in resource management and environmental studies, and a 2-year graduate certificate in post-secondary teaching and education. For her research and teaching Liz focuses on human attitudes and behaviour toward other species, especially in the context of wildlife conservation, the global wildlife trade, pet-keeping, and ecotourism. She also works on environmental impacts on mental health, including climate anxiety, ecological grief, and hope.
Last updated March 2022
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Xuesi Shen, RES MSc.
Supervisor: Hadi Dowlatabadi
Jeffrey Scott, RMES MSc.
Supervisors: Tony Pitcher and Mimi Lam
Maryam Rezaei, RMES PhD.
Supervisor: Hadi Dowlatabadi
(in order of the photos from left to right)
Abdul Ben Hasan, RMES MSc.
Supervisor: Villy Christensen
Alicia Speratti, RMES PhD.
Supervisor: Mark Johnson
Jason Brown, RES PhD.
Supervisor: Terre Satterfield
Holly Andrews RMES MSc.
Supervisor: Terre Satterfield and Mike Meitner
November 23 2017
Congratulations to RES PhD Candidate Michael Lathuillière for his recent publication set to go out in print in December!
You can check out the book chapter at the following link:
We’re happy to announce that Babak Pourbohloul has become an Adjunct Professor at IRES!
Babak Pourbohloul is trained as a theoretical physicist (PhD in complex systems and chaos theory) and has been a faculty member at the University of British Columbia since 2004. He was the founding Director of the Division of Mathematical Modeling at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (2001 – 2016) and the founding Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Complexity Science for Health Systems (2013 – 2017). He has been the Lead Investigator of several international mathematical modeling projects in the development and application of novel quantitative methods in public- and global health systems policy design.
With more than 18 years of experience working in both academic and policymaking environments, Babak leads consulting projects for several national and international authorities and enterprises. He aims to develop and employ methods of complex systems analysis, through multidisciplinary collaborations, to optimize policy design to achieve the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 2030), at the local, national and international levels. His main areas of interest include public- and global health policy design, econophysics and systemic risk analysis, complex networks analysis and nonlinear dynamics
Graham McDowell and Michele Koppes have a recent publication.
To read it click here.
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For McDowell’s bio: https://ires.ubc.ca/person/graham-mcdowell-2/
For Koppes’ bio: https://ires.ubc.ca/person/michele-koppes/
Photo Credit: Graham Mcdowell from http://grahammcdowellresearch.com/visual/
Lucy Rodina (RES PhD Candidate) along with co-author Leila Harris (IRES Faculty) have recently published a new article.
Click link below to view article:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343517301884
Lucy Rodina: https://ires.ubc.ca/person/lucy-rodina/
Lelia Harris: https://ires.ubc.ca/person/leila-harris/
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Abstract
Coupling a hydrosocial perspective with institutional bricolage, this research considers possibilities for participatory water governance in Ashaiman, a peri-urban settlement of Accra, Ghana. We explore three questions: (1) How do people in Ashaiman evoke ideas or experiences of water in general and water governance in particular? (2) What possibilities currently exist for engaging the community in key water-related decisions? (3) What possibilities exist for enhanced participatory water governance in this context, including potential for and interest in new institutions and engagement processes? Results of qualitative interviews and semistructured observation suggest that a siloed, water-centric approach inadequately captures everyday realities of water as hydrosocial and of existing institutions in Ashaiman. In contrast to “modern water,” we propose that water issues may be more meaningfully addressed as bundled with social welfare. Potential implications and alternative ways of understanding socio-institutional arrangements for participatory water governance are explored.
Photo Credit: Stuart Allen from flickr/ Creative Commons