UBC experts are available to comment on kindergarten to Grade 12 and post-secondary education issues.
K – 12
Bullying, childhood development
Shelley Hymel
Educational and Counselling Psychology
Email: shelley.hymel@ubc.ca
Tel: 604.822.6022
Children’s social and emotional development
Kimberly Schonert-Reichl
Educational and Counselling Psychology
Email: kimberly.schonert-reichl@ubc.ca
Tel: 604.822.2215
Cyberbullying, online privacy, technology and youth
Jennifer Shapka
Educational and Counselling Psychology
Email: jennifer.shapka@ubc.ca
Tel: 604.822.5253
Educational policy, media education, social media in schools
Michelle Stack
Dept. of Education Studies
Email: michelle.stack@ubc.ca
Tel: 604.822.9101
Educational policy, governance funding
Charles Undgerleider
Dept. of Educational Studies
Email: charles.ungerleider@ubc.ca
Tel: 604.600.1040
Early learning and teacher preparation, parent-teacher communications
Annette LaGrange
Faculty of Education, Okanagan campus
Email: annette.lagrange@ubc.ca
Tel: 250.807.9586
Literacy, role of parents in education
Jim Anderson
Dept. of Language and Literacy Education
Email: jim.anderson@ubc.ca
Phone: 604.822.6853
ESL programming, testing, reading instruction and immigrant academic success
Lee Gunderson
Dept. of Language and Literacy Education
Email: lee.gunderson@ubc.ca
Tel: 604.822.8456
Technology in teaching and learning
Don Krug
Dept. of Curriculum Studies
Email: don.krug@ubc.ca
Tel: 604.822.5318
Self-regulated learning, strategic learning and motivation for learning
Deborah Butler
Educational and Counselling Psychology
Email: deborah.butler@ubc.ca
Tel: 604.822.5211
Nancy Perry
Educational and Counselling Psychology
Email: nancy.perry@ubc.ca
604.822.6410
Digital literacy and emerging trechnology
Susan Crichton
Director of Innovative Learning Centre
Faculty of Education, Okanagan campus
Email: susan.crichton@ubc.ca
Tel: 250.807.8638
POST-SECONDARY
Student finances
Darren Fernandez (Available after Aug 18)
Enrolment Services
Email: darran.fernandez@ubc.ca
Tel: 604.827.0109
Before Aug 12, contact Jennifer Chin at jennifer.chin@ubc.ca or 604.827.0121
Student mental health
Aneesa Shariff
Couneselling Services
Email: aneesa.shariff@ubc.ca
Tel: 604.822.3811
For UBC’s Early Alert system, contact Cheryl Washburn at cheryl.washburn@ubc.ca or 604.822.4317
Flexible learning, MOOCS, cloud-based learning, new web technologies
David Vogt
Faculty of Education
Email: david.vogt@ubc.ca
Tel: 604.230.4154
Social media, social trends, social control, merging of media, culture and technology
Christopher Schneider
Sociology, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Science, Okanagan campus
Email: christopher.schneider@ubc.ca
Tel: 250.807.8094
English as an additional language, English for academic purposes, international students
Scott Douglas
Faculty of Education, Okanagan campus
Email: scott.douglas@ubc.ca
Tel: 250.807.9277