UBC experts on 2020 B.C. provincial election

British Columbians will go to the polls to elect a new government on Oct. 24. UBC experts are available to comment on a variety of election issues.

Politics

Gerald Baier
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Tel: 604-827-5560
Cel: 604-754-8546
Email: gerald.baier@ubc.ca

• Canadian politics, federal-provincial relations, political parties in Canada

Max Cameron
Professor, Department of Political Science
Tel: 604-822-3129
Cel: 604-786-0992
Email: max.cameron@ubc.ca

• Minority parliament, electoral reform, COVID-19 response

*unavailable Mondays 2-5 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursday 9-11 a.m., 5-6 p.m.

Richard Johnston
Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science
Tel: 604-822-5456
Cel: 778-387-3425
Email: richard.johnston@ubc.ca

• Elections, party systems, political parties, public opinion

Allan Tupper
Professor, Department of Political Science
Tel: 604-827-3387
Email: allan.tupper@ubc.ca

• Western Canadian politics, political parties in Canada, elections

Education

Charles Ungerleider
Professor Emeritus, Department of Educational Studies
Email: charles.ungerleider@ubc.ca

• Education governance; education finance; educational reform; educational equity

Environment

David Boyd
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Email: david.r.boyd@ires.ubc.ca

• Environmental issues, environmental policy

• Biodiversity, climate policy, environment, sustainability

Kathryn Harrison
Professor, Department of Political Science
Tel: 604-822-4922
Email: kathryn.harrison@ubc.ca

• Canadian politics, environmental politics, climate change policy

George Hoberg
Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Email: george.hoberg@ubc.ca

• Environmental issues, climate policy, pipeline conflicts

David Tindall
Professor, Department of Sociology
Email: tindall@mail.ubc.ca

• environment, environmental politics, environmental opinion/values, environmental conflict

Health care and COVID-19

Stephen Hoption Cann
Clinical Professor, School of Population and Public Health
Email: hoption.cann@ubc.ca

• Infectious disease; reducing the risk of spreading COVID-19 at the polls

Steve Morgan
Professor, School of Population and Public Health
Email: steve.morgan@ubc.ca

• Health care policy; universal access to appropriately prescribed, affordably priced, and equitably financed medication

Dr. Srinivas Murthy
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Email: srinivas.murthy@cw.bc.ca

• Infectious disease; reducing the risk of spreading COVID-19 at the polls
• Principal investigator of the CATCO (Canadian Treatments for COVID-19) trial evaluating different treatments for COVID-19 patients in hospital

Heidi Tworek
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Cel: 604-803-9284
Email: heidi.tworek@ubc.ca

• COVID-19 response and communications, online harassment of candidates, disinformation during campaigns

Indigenous relations

Sheryl Lightfoot
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Tel: 604-827-5178
Email: sheryl.lightfoot@ubc.ca

• First Nations, global Indigenous rights and politics

Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-kwe)
Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law
Tel: 604-822-4515
Email: turpel-lafond@allard.ubc.ca

• Indigenous human rights, reconciliation

Municipal relations

Alexandra Flynn
Assistant professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law
Tel: 647-801-9810
Email: flynn@allard.ubc.ca

• Municipal matters, housing, homelessness