Career Opportunities

Research Interests: Educational administration and leadership in K-12 setting, Leadership , The role of the school principals, Social justice and diversity, Comparative policy studies, Education and Training Management, Ideology and Social Policy, Social Contract and Social Justice, Offshore school and its leadership

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My research lies in the areas of educational leadership and administration, social justice and diversity, “subversive” leadership, leadership in cross-cultural settings, and educational policy studies in K-12 settings. I explore how principals negotiate policies and practices that they consider socially unjust to students and how they “creatively” cope with conflicts between moral and ethical obligations and counterproductive policies and practices. Drawing from social justice and leadership theories, I am currently involved in research in four interrelated areas: a) the changing nature of school principals’ work, particularly, their work intensification; b) principals’ subversive strategies in contexts where their day-to-day operation of schools is significantly constrained by policy initiatives and academic standards; c) principals’ strategic leadership through The Art of War to understand school principals’ social justice advocacy when their work is fraught with tensions, moral dilemmas, and political struggles; and d) leadership challenges in cross-cultural contexts (e.g., offshore schools). These projects are funded by SSHRC, Hampton, and HSS grants.

Research Interests: Implementation science, Rural health , Virtual health innovation, Research partnerships

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My implementation science research program focuses on improving (virtual) health services and care for equity-deserving groups in rural, remote, and other isolated communities. My research involves studying the implementation processes of health innovations in real-world settings from different perspectives. To maximize the quality and impact of my work, I meaningfully engage research users as partners throughout the research process. My research involves various types of health innovation. Example research project areas include, but are not limited to: 

• Drone Transport Initiative: exploring the implementation of drones for transporting medical supplies to rural and Indigenous communities.
• Improving healthcare for people with spinal cord injury living in rural and remote communities via educational workshops for rural clinicians (in partnership with Praxis Spinal Cord Institute). 
• Implementation of smoking cessation services in urban and rural areas in B.C. (in partnership with Legacy for Airway Health). 
• Improving guidance for virtual health innovation partnerships with rural and remote communities.
• Canadian Disability Participation Project 2.0. 

Research Interests: Community Health / Public Health, Epidemiology, Nutrition, Health Policies, Lifestyle Determinants and Health, Health Promotion, Health Prevention, Statistics and Probabilities, Preventive medicine, Artificial Intelligence, Chronic Disease Prevention, Clinical Epidemiology, Dietary Assessment, Dietary Pattern Modeling, Dietetics, Machine Learning, Nutritional Epidemiology, Predictive Analytics, Preventive Medicine, Public and Population Health, Simulation

Research Interests: Endometriosis, Recurrent Pregnancy Loss, Infertility, Minimally Invasive Surgery

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Recurrent Pregnancy Loss

Endometriosis

Minimally Invasive Surgery

Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Research Interests: Prostate Cancer , Drug Development, RNA Splicing and Gene Regulation, Hormone Dependent Cancers, Endocrine Regulation

Potential project areas:

1. neuroendocrine prostate cancer;
2. AR driven castrate-resistant prostate cancer
3. computer aided drug design 
4. cell free nucleotide biomarkers from liquid biopsy

Research Interests: Emulsions, Physics of Soft Matter, Agricultural Sprays, Food Physics, Interfacial Rheology, Novel Instrumentation, Foams, Fluid Mechanics

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Research Interests: Nanotechnologies, Structural Tissue Engineering / Biomaterials, Inflammatory Respiratory Diseases, Skin, New Biomedical Approaches - Alternatives to Animal Testing, Novel Therapies for Inflammatory and Genetic Diseases of Human Epithelia, Tissue Regeneration and Wound Healing, Topical Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine

Potential project areas:

1. Development and characterization of complex, human-based tissue models incl. organ-on-chip cultures

2. Development of gene therapies for genetic diseases of the skin and lungs