UBC experts on 2024 B.C. provincial election

British Columbians will go to the polls to elect a new government on Oct. 19. UBC experts are available to comment on a variety of election issues.

Climate and Environment

Professor, Dept. of Geography, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability

phone: 604-822-6959

Email: simon.donner@ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • climate change
  • climate change policy

(She/Her/Hers)

Professor, Dept. of Political Science

phone: 604-822-4922

Email: kathryn.harrison@ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • environmental politics and policy
  • climate change policy
  • carbon pricing
  • federal-provincial relations

Finance

(He/Him/His)

Associate Professor, Dept. of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, UBCO

phone: 236-338-0174

Email: ross.hickey@ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • public finance
  • taxation
  • charitable giving

*Unavailable Monday and Wednesday mornings

Health Care

(He/Him/His)

Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept. of Family Practice

Email: sian.tsuei@ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • health system
  • primary care
  • use of artificial intelligence in the health system
Professor, School of Nursing

Phone: 778-994-4981

Email: sabrina.wong@nursing.ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • primary care
  • primary health care

Housing

(She/Her/Hers)

Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law

phone: 647-801-9810

Email: flynn@allard.ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • housing
  • housing policy
  • affordable housing
  • homelessness
Professor Emeritus, School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP)

Email: penny.gurstein@ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • affordable housing
Associate Director, Housing Research Collective

phone: 604-818-0493

Email: craig.jones@ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • affordable housing
  • housing data
  • rental housing

Immigration

Professor, Dept. of Political Science

Tel: 604-822-4359

Email: antje.ellermann@ubc.ca

Interview languages: English, German

Expertise:

  • immigration

Politics

Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Political Science

phone: 604-822-5456

Email: richard.johnston@ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • context for the transformation occurring on the political right
  • B.C. Interior politics

(He/Him/His)

Lecturer, Dept. of Political Science

Email: stewart.prest@ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • political institutions
  • Canadian politics
  • B.C. politics
  • Vancouver politics
Dr. Chris Tenove
Research Associate, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Email: cjtenove@mail.ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • effects of social media, online harassment and generative AI on elections
Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Political Science

Phone: 604-943-9118

Email: allan.tupper@ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • Canadian politics
  • Canadian federalism (Indigenous, federal, municipal, provincial)
  • public management (program delivery)
  • political ethics

(She/Her/Hers)

Professor, Dept. of History, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Phone: 617-905-2321

Email: heidi.tworek@ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • effects of social media, online harassment and generative AI on elections

SOGI

(She/Her/Hers)

Professor and Director, School of Nursing, Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre

Email: elizabeth.saewyc@ubc.ca

Interview languages: English

Expertise:

  • nursing, nursing education
  • 2SLGBTQ+ youth health, SOGI education