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College of Arts

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Dr. Michael Batu

Associate Professor, Economics


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February 2026

  • Batu, M. Price Effects of Increasing the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Regions in the Philippines. J Labor Res 47, 1 (2026).
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Dr. Shawn Geniole

Assistant Professor, Psychology


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September 2025

  • Dreber, A., Johannesson, M., Nave, G., Apicella, C., Geniole, S.N., Imai, T., Knight, E., Manfredi, D., Mehta, P.H., Proietti, V., Stanton, S.J., Zeltikova, A., Luberti, F., Ortiz, T. & Carre, J.M. (2025). Investigating the effects of single-dose intranasal testosterone on economic preferences in a large randomized trial of men. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  
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Dr. Amanda McCormick

Associate Professor, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Research Associate - Centre for Public Safety and Criminal Justice Research (CPSCJR)

Peace and Reconciliation Centre (PARC) Community of Practice focusing on Domestic Violence Reduction


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February 2026

  • McCormick, A. V., Ashton, S., Haarhoff, T., & Cohen, I. M. (2026). What police officers know about the risks posed by intimate partner violence-related strangulation and the need for medical-forensic exams. The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles, 0(0).

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Dr. Alessandro Tarsia

Assistant Professor, History


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April 2026

  • Tarsia, Alessandro. “’They Made Us Forget Who We Were’: Ethnocultural Trauma, Historical Consciousness, and the Legacy of Residential Schools for the Coast Salish Peoples in Canada.” Moderna 27, no. 1-2 (2025): 259-268. .
  • Tarsia, Alessandro. “’The Myth of the “Smoking Indian:’ Tobacco Species in the Pacific Northwest Contact Zone Between Exploitative Colonial Gaze and Indigenous Resilience (1770s-1820s).” Iperstoria no. 25 (2025): 342-363. .
  • Tarsia, Alessandro. “The New Ethnohistory of The Pacific Canadian Region Could Teach Italian Canadians How to Be Worse Settlers and Better Human Beings.” Italian Canadiana 36, no. 2 (Fall 2022): 27-59. .

Faculty of Business and Computing

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Dr. Chris Schinckus, PhD (Economics), PhD (Philosophy), PhD (Arts), MPhil, M.Ed, MASt, MA, MSc., BSc., CEDF, SFHEA

Dean, Faculty of Business and Computing


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March 2025

  • Canh, N. P, Christophe, S., Binh, Q. N., Thanh, L. T., & Nhi, N. A. (2025). "Economic policy uncertainty and firm-level stock returns: Further evidence from China". Journal of International Studies (Q2 - Impact factor: 2.51), 18(1), 216-231. .
  • GBD 2021 Adult BMI Collaborators (Chris Schinckus is a co-author) (2025). "Global, regional, and national prevalence of adult overweight and obesity, 1990–2021, with forecasts to 2050: a forecasting study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021". The Lancet. (Q1 - Impact factor: 98.4). March 2025. .
  • GBD 2021 Adolescent BMI Collaborators (Chris Schinckus is a co-author) (2025) "Global, regional, and national prevalence of child and adolescent overweight and obesity, 1990–2021, with forecasts to 2050: a forecasting study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021". The Lancet. (Q1 - Impact factor: 98.4). March 2025. .

January 2025

  • GBD 2021 Europe Life Expectancy Collaborators  (Chris Schinckus is a member of the co-authors) (2025) “Changing life expectancy in European countries 1990–2021: a subanalysis of causes and risk factors from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021”. The Lancet Public Health, 10, 10.1016/S2468-2667(25)00009-X - 
  • Quoc B. H., Schinckus C., and Al-Jaifi H. A. (2025). "Long-Range Correlations in Cryptocurrency Markets: A Multi-Scale DFA Approach". Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 661, 130417.
  • Farouk M. F.,  Schinckus C., and Smith S. D. (2025). "Realising Value from Big Data Analytics: The Process of Affordance Actualisation". Digital Business, 5, 100108.
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Dr. Lynn Kleinveldt

Assistant Professor, Information Studies


January 2026

  • Ramabina, M.T. and Kleinveldt, L. 2023. Online newspaper reading patterns of a university community before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of the University of Venda. Regional Institute of Information and Knowledge Management, 8(2): 66-80.
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Dr. Stefania Pizzirani 

Associate Professor, School of Planning, Geography, and Environmental Studies | Associate Director - Food and Agriculture Institute (FAI)

Dr. Saeed Rahman

Associate Professor, School of Business | Faculty Associate - Food and Agriculture Institute (FAI)


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April 2026

  • Pizzirani, S. and Rahman, S. (2026). MCC Centre: Sustainable Solutions for Clothing Waste Management”, Ivey Publishing ()

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Dr. Jon Thomas, PhD

Director, Esposito Family Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (EFCIE)

BC Regional Innovation Chair in Canada-India Partnership Development 

Associate Professor, School of Business, Faculty of Business and Computing


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May 2026

  • Bala Subrahmanya, M H, Kalyanasundaram, Ganesaraman, Sharath Kumar, K M and Thomas, Jon. Returnee Entrepreneurs and Tech Startups in India: Distinctive Features, Innovativeness and Outcomes, De Gruyter, 2026.
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Dr. Kongwen (Frank) Zhang, PhD

Associate Professor, Curriculum Development and Articulation Chair, School of Computing

Faculty Associate - Community Health and Social Innovation (CHASI) Hub

Faculty Associate - Food and Agriculture Institute (FAI)


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Journal Papers: 

  • Li, Y., Zhu, J., Zhang, K., & C. Lv. (2026). Monitoring agricultural drought mitigation using MODIS data: a spatiotemporal study of Henan province, 2001–2022. Front. Earth Sci. Sec. Hydrosphere, 14,   
  • Zhang, K., Hilal, K., Li, W., & A. K. Casey. (2026). Simulating the Future: A Digital Twin Framework for Rapidly Developing Mid-Size Canadian Cities: The Abbotsford Public Transit Case Study, Electronics  
  • Yan, T, Zhang, K., Cheng, W., & Liu, J. (2026). Evaluating the Influence of Pseudo Tree Crown (PTC) Input Alternatives for Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models on Individual Tree Classification Performance. Remote Sensing  
  • Mei, X., Tang, C., Dai, Z, Zheng, F., Zhang, K., & Lin, T. (2026). Diversified Composite Prompting to Enhance Generalization of Vision-Language Models. CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology,   
  • Zhang, K., Massesa, B., & Gao, J. (2025). Indoor Pathfinding with the A* Algorithm: A Cross-Platform Mobile Implementation Case, Journal of Advances in Engineering and Technology, 2(4),   
  • Kamboj, N. & Zhang, K. (2025). Low-Cost CCTV Repurposing for Sustainable Parking Management: A Non-AI Computer Vision Case Study, Journal of Advances in Engineering and Technology, 2(4),   
  • Zhang, K., Zhang, T., & Liu, J. (2025). Individual Tree Species Classification Using Pseudo Tree Crown (PTC) on Coniferous Forests. Remote Sensing, 17(17), 3102.  
  • Zhang, J., Zhang, K., & Liu, J. (2025). Submarine Topography Classification Using ConDenseNet with Label Smoothing Regularization. Remote Sensing, 17(15), 2686.  
  • Li, W., Zhang, K., Xiong, Q., & Chen, X. (2025). Three-Dimensional Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Path Planning in Simulated Rugged Mountainous Terrain Using Improved Enhanced Snake Optimizer (IESO). World Electric Vehicle Journal, 16(6), 295.  
  • Miao, S., Zhang, K., Zeng, H., & Liu, J. (2024). Improving Artificial-Intelligence-Based Individual Tree Species Classification Using Pseudo Tree Crown Derived from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery. Remote Sensing, 16(11), 1849.  

Faculty of Education, Community, and Human Development

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Dr. Rita Dhungel

Assistant Professor, School of Social Work and Human Services


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February 2026

  • Dhungel, R., Walker, S. (2024). Mapping and Understanding Homelessness Crisis in British Columbia: Community Development Approach. Mind and Society, 13(3): 1-7.  
  • Lorenzetti, L., Jamal, A., Dhungel, R., Hosein, G., Thomas, S., & Halovorsen, J. (2023). Transforming Masculinities Through Cross-Cultural Collaboration: Reflections on Building a Community of Practice Framework. Journal of Participatory Research Methods, 4(2).
  • Stokes, R. ., & Dhungel, R. . (2024). Critical Literature Review:Unpacking The Drug Overdose Crisis in British Columbia, Canada. Mind and Society, 13(01), 8–15.

Faculty of Health Sciences

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Dr. Lara Duke, EdD

Associate Professor, Dean - Faculty of Health Sciences


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September 2025

  • Waechter, Mary E., Duke, Lara M., Martin, Robin, Gracey, Wendy, & Williams. Nancy I.. (2025). Effective Leadership Approaches for Staff Success in Kinesiology Units. Kinesiology Review. Advance online publication. .
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Dr. Michael Gaetz, PhD

Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology


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April 2025

  • Picard, M., Gaetz, M. Cyclic patterns of high-risk behaviours within ballet culture. BMC Psychol 13, 368 (2025).
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Dr. Gillian Hatfield

Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology 

Faculty Associate - Centre for Education and Research on Aging (CERA)


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May 2026

  • Janzen, Anna & Hatfield, Gillian. (2026). The Physical and Cognitive Benefits of Pickleball Participation in Older Adults. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity. 1-9. 10.1123/japa.2024-0176.
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Dr. Cynthia Thomson

Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology 

Director, Assistant Professor, Nursing (BSN) Program


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May 2026

  • Thomson, C. J., Holden, K. N., Giles, L. V., & Cianfrini, L. (2026). Let’s talk about pain: A mixed methods exploration of patients’ pain knowledge and preferred ways to introduce the biopsychosocial model of pain. Canadian Journal of Pain10(1).

Faculty of Science

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Dr. Mashhood Arif

Instructor, Planning, Geography, and Environmental Studies 

 


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July 2026

  • Al Bulushi, F., Adeel, A., Ofi, I. A., Agirbas, E., & Arif, M. M. (2026). Heritage Values in Vernacular Settlement Morphology: An Integrated Framework for Climate-Responsive Conservation and Urban Regeneration. Land, 15(8), 1356. 
  • Arif, M. M., Adeel, A., & Sheikh, N. B. (2026). Social Relations and the Making of Urban Space in Informal Settlements: Everyday Appropriation and Public Space Production. Sustainability, 18(12), 5844. 
  • Ahsan, M., Arif, M. M., Adeel, A., & Sheikh, N. B. (2026). Transformation from Green to Brown: A Geospatial Analysis of Urban Expansion, Urban Heat Environment, and Agriculture Land use Conversion. Global Challenges & Regional Science, 100024. 

June 2026

  • Sheikh, N. B., Arif, M. M., Laverge, J., & Delghust, M. (2026). Residential energy and transport coupling for neighborhood decarbonization in transit-oriented development. In E3S Web of Conferences (Vol. 716, p. 04039). EDP Sciences. 
  • Raja, Z. A., Arif, M. M., & Sheikh, N. B. (2026). The Digital City Dividend: Modeling Residents’ Expected Financial Gains from Tech-Enabled Service Delivery. Urban Science, 10(5), 292. 
  • Sheikh, N. B., Arif, M. M., & Adeel, A. (2025). BALANCING PEDESTRIAN AND VEHICULAR NEEDS IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS: AN AGENT BASED SIGNAL TIMING STUDY. Planning, 35(2), 1-17. 
  • Agirbas, E., Souissi, Y., Adeel, A., Al Salmi, M., & Mashhood, M. Sustainable 3D Printing of Horizontally Oriented Structures: A Case Study of a 12-Meter 3D Printed Pedestrian Bridge.
  • Adeel, A., Arif, M. M., Sheikh, N. B., Ahsan, M., & Bashir, N. (2025). Designing livable transit-oriented development: A multi-stakeholder choice experiment on street-level trade-offs. International Journal of Civil Infrastructure, 8, 138-154. 
  • Al Sulaimani, G., Arif, M. M., Adeel, A., Basheer, M. A., & Sheikh, N. B. (2025). Rethinking Vertical Cities: The Influence of Public Perception on Design, Form, and Socio-Cultural Integration. Societies, 15(9), 250. 
  • Arif, M. M., Adeel, A., Sheikh, N. B. (2025). Mode choice patterns and socio-spatial equity in contrasting transitional urban mobility systems. Te MA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment , 18 (2), 271-
    292. 

  • Adeel, A., Arif, M. M., & Sheikh, N. B. (2025). From Transit Corridors to Vibrant Streets: Urban Development Preferences in Muscat's TOD Zones. In 10th International Conference On Civil Structural and Transportation Engineering (ICCSTE 2025). Imperial College London Conference Center. 
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Dr. Alesandros Glaros, PhD

Project Manager, Faculty Associate- Food and Agriculture Institute (FAI)


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September 2025

  • Glaros, A., Martin, A., Eckert, K. & Newell, R. (2025): “I’m wondering about the society of beetles that I have”: Entomophagy, relationality, and food system transitions at the household-level, Food and Foodways, 1–24.
  • Vakhshoori, S. V., Glaros, A., Newell, R. (2025). Farming futures in a changing climate: Spatial shifts in agricultural suitability across British Columbia under multiple climate change scenarios. Transdisciplinary Research on Integrated Approaches to Sustainability (TRIAS) lab, Royal Roads University, & Food and Agriculture Institute, 51.

July 2025

  • Imam M, Glaros A, Chen C, Dsouza A, Brander A and Ferguson R (2025) A carbon-centric evaluation framework for building-integrated agriculture: a comparison of three farm types and building standards. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 9:1533433.
  • Glaros, A. (2025). The proverbial elephant in the petri-dish: futures for cellular agriculture science in an uncertain world.  Communications Biology  8, 592 (2025).
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Dr. Harley Gordon, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biology

Faculty Associate - BERRi Research Centre 


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July 2026

  • Guthrie C, Hasic S, Gordon H. 2026. Interspecies distribution and processing stability of ergothioneine and histidine in commercially available mushrooms. microPublication Biology. 10.17912/micropub.biology.002257 |

August 2025

  • Strong Association between Proanthocyanidins and Polysaccharides in the Cell Walls of Western Redcedar Bark Gio Ferson M. Bautista, Oliver Musl, Michael L. A. E. Easson, Lars H. Kruse, Harley Gordon, Markus Bacher, Ivan Sumerskii, Aude A. Watrelot, Jörg Bohlmann, Antje Potthast, Thomas Rosenau, and Orlando J. Rojas Biomacromolecules Article ASAP. DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.5c00271 |
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Dr. Ruwan Karunanayaka

Assistant Professor, Math and Statistics 

 


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May 2026

  • Bias reduction via complementation of orthogonal arrays under a baseline parameterization. 
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Dr. Renee Prasad

Associate Professor, Agriculture

Faculty Associate - Food and Agriculture Institute (FAI)


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April 2026

  • Blatt S, Fortier A-M, McCann S, et al. Cabbage root maggot, Delia radicum (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), research in Canada: past, present, and opportunities for the future. The Canadian Entomologist. 2026;158:e9.
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Dr. S M Talha Qadri, PhD

Instructor, Faculty of Science


2024

  • M.A. Lathbl, A.E. Haque, M.H. Hakimi, A. Lashin, S.M.T. Qadri, Organic geochemical characteristics of the Late Cretaceous coal and carbonaceous shale succession from the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand: Implications for sedimentary environmental setting and petroleum generation potential, Geol. J. (2024) 1–21.
  • Sohail, J., Mehmood, S., Jahandad, S., Ehsan, M., Abdelrahman, K., Ali, A., Qadri, S. T., & Fnais, M. S. (2024). Geochemical Evaluation of Paleocene Source Rocks in the Kohat Sub-Basin, Pakistan. ACS Omega, 9, 14123–14141.

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