UBC experts on the 2025 federal election
Canadians will be going to the polls within weeks, as a federal election is expected to be called on Sunday. UBC experts are available to comment throughout the campaign.
Canada-U.S. Relations
Bradley Miller
Associate Professor, Dept. of History
Tel: 604-442-4745
Email: brmiller@mail.ubc.ca
Interview languages: English
Expertise:
- Canadian political, legal, and constitutional history
- Canadian-American relations
- Canadian-American border
- history of law and criminal justice
Climate
Dr. Holly Caggiano, PhD
(She/Her/Hers)
Assistant Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning
Email: holly.caggiano@ubc.ca
Interview languages: English
Expertise:
- climate policy
- climate planning
- renewable energy
* Unavailable April 5-8, April 23, May 31-June 6
Simon Donner
Professor, Dept. of Geography
Email: simon.donner@ubc.ca
Interview languages: English
Expertise:
- climate policy
- climate science
* Contactable via email only April 21-May 16
Kathryn Harrison, PhD
(She/Her/Hers)
Professor, Dept. of Political Science
Tel: 604-822-4922
Cell: 778-698-4923
Email: kathryn.harrison@ubc.ca
Interview languages: English
Expertise:
- environment
- climate
- energy
Economy
Werner Antweiler, PhD
Associate Professor, Strategy and Business Economics Division
Tel: 604-822-8484
Email: werner.antweiler@ubc.ca
Interview languages: English, German
Expertise:
- economics
- trade
- environment and energy
Prof. Kristen Hopewell
Director of the Liu Institute for Global Issues
Professor and Canada Research Chair, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Email: kristen.hopewell@ubc.ca
Interview languages: English
Expertise:
- trade and economic policy
- U.S.-Canada relations
- Canada-China relations foreign policy
Paul Kershaw, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health
Email: paul.kershaw@ubc.ca
Interview languages: English
Expertise:
- Child care
- parental leave
- work-life balance
- social policy
- social care
- social citizenship
- responsibilities and rights
- gender and politics
- income assistance
- child benefit package
- social inclusion
- neighbourhood effects on child development
- Canadian federalism
Dr. Samuel Roscoe, PhD
(He/Him/His)
Lecturer, Division of Operations and Logistics
Email: samuel.roscoe@sauder.ubc.ca
Interview languages: English
Expertise:
- tariffs
- supply chains
- election outcome impacts on future tariff negotiations with U.S.
Healthcare
Kim McGrail, PhD, MPH
Professor, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, School of Population and Public Health
Cell: 778-998-3821
Email: kim.mcgrail@ubc.ca
Interview languages: English
Expertise:
- health care costs, health care services
- population health, health data
Housing
Dr. Alexandra Flynn, JD, LLM, PhD
(She/Her/Hers)
Associate Professor
Cell: 647-801-9810
Email: flynn@allard.ubc.ca
Interview languages: English, French
Expertise:
- housing affordability
- housing investments
- homelessness
- intergovernmental relations
- right to housing
- First Nations housing
- northern sovereignty
* Available from March 28 onwards
Tsur Somerville
Associate Professor, Strategy and Business Economics Division
Email: tsur.somerville@sauder.ubc.ca
Interview languages: English
Expertise:
- housing
- real estate development
- mortgages
- urban economics
Immigration
Prof. Irene Bloemraad, PhD
(She/Her/Hers)
President’s Excellence Chair in Global Migration, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology
Email: i.bloemraad@ubc.ca
Interview languages: Dutch, English, French
Expertise:
- immigration
- U.S.-Canada relations as it pertains to borders, migration, asylum etc
Catherine Dauvergne
(She/Her/Hers)
Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law
Cell: 778 828 2294
Email: dauvergne@allard.ubc.ca
Interview languages: English, French (only if pre-recorded)
Expertise:
- immigration, refugee, citizenship law
- constitutional & international law
* Unavailable April 10-11, limited availability April 20-27
Misinformation, Disinformation and Online Influence
Dr. Chris Tenove
Research Associate and Instructor, 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
- foreign interference in elections, especially online
- election integrity policies
Prof. Heidi Tworek
(She/Her/Hers)
Professor of International History and Public Policy, Dept. of History, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Email: heidi.tworek@ubc.ca
Interview languages: English, German
Expertise:
- harassment of political candidates particularly online
- foreign interference related to information
- mis- and disinformation
- social media platforms
- generative AI
- deepfakes
Politics
Richard Johnston
Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Political Science
Tel: 604-228-0218
Cell: 778-387-3425
Email: richard.johnston@ubc.ca
Interview languages: English
Expertise:
- Canadian elections
- history of campaigns
- party system history
* unavailable Friday mornings
Dr. Stewart Prest, PhD
(He/Him/His)
Lecturer, Dept. of Political Science
Email: stewart.prest@ubc.ca
Interview languages: English
Expertise:
- political institutions
- democracy
- Canadian foreign policy
- international relations
Dr. Allan Tupper
Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Political Science
Tel: 604-827-3387
Email: allan.tupper@ubc.ca
Interview languages: English
Expertise:
- Canadian politics
- Canadian federalism
- public management (program delivery)
- political ethics
Security
Allen G. Sens, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Political Science
Tel: 604-822-6127
Email: asens@politics.ubc.ca
Interview languages: English
Expertise:
- national security
- foreign policy
