Vicky Bungay

PhD, RN, FCAN

Bio

Dr. Vicky Bungay is a professor and researcher in the School of Nursing, and a former Canada Research Chair in Gender, Equity and Community Engagement. Vicky is committed to the principles and practices of community-based and participatory approaches to research that value holistic views of personhood, reciprocity, strengths, and rights to self-determination to achieve these aims. Her work occurs in collaboration and in partnership with researchers, leaders, staff, and people with lived and living experience of gender-based violence.  

As the Director of Capacity: The Centre for Research in Community Engagement and Gender Equity, Vicky is committed to providing a world-class training environment in applied, inclusive and ethical research. Her research focuses on addressing socio-economic and political inequities (e.g., marginalization) that negatively affect people’s health and well-being including the devastating effects of stigma, discrimination and violence. 

Vicky is also the Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies | Faculty of Applied Science. In this role, she provides strategic leadership for Faculty of Applied Science research and graduate education. This includes strengthening connections across the diverse schools within the faculty: Nursing, Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Community and Regional Planning, and engineering departments, including the School of Engineering at UBC Okanagan.

Profile

Educational Background

• BSN (Nursing), St. Francis Xavier University
• MN (Nursing), Dalhousie University
• PhD (Nursing), University of British Columbia

Honours and Awards 

• Canada Research Chair Tier 2: Gender, Equity and Community Engagement (2015-25)
• Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Award of Recognition, April, 2024.
• John McNeill Excellence in Health Research Mentorship Award, UBC Health, 2024
• Delegate, Science Meets Parliament, Canadian Science Policy Centre award, 2024
• Career Scholar Award, Michael Smith Health Research BC, 2012-2020
• Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Nursing, Canadian Nurses Association, Inducted November, 2020
• Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture Award, University of Victoria, 2018
• Excellence in Advancing Nursing Knowledge and Research Award, Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of British Columbia, 2018

Affiliations & Links

• Capacity Research Centre- https://capacityresearch.ubc.ca
• BC Coalition to End Gender-Based Violence, Invited Research Advisor (2024 – present)
• College of Reviewers, Institute of Sex, Gender and Health, Invited Member (2022-2025)
• Culture Health and Sexuality, Editorial Board Member (2024 – present)

Area of Research

Research Interests

Vicky’s research focuses on addressing socio-economic and political inequities (e.g., marginalization) that negatively affect people’s health and well-being including the devastating effects of stigma, discrimination and violence. She is interested in how research partnerships can positively impact communities that are regularly excluded in health and social policy and programming that affect their lives and how community-based interventions support real world evidence.

Vicky’s current research and partnerships are tackling such issues as gender–based violence and equity- oriented care, bringing together concepts of intersectionality and implementation science with mixed-methods and case-based intervention designs. She engages in this work by actively collaborating and co-learning with multiple stakeholders including people deeply affected by inequities, and not-for-profit and public service sectors.

For a detailed overview of Vicky’s research in the fields of gender-based violence and socio-structural determinants of health please go to: https://capacityresearch.ubc.ca/current-research/ 
 

Publications

Manuscript Publications (2015-2025)

1. Marshall, K., Wytenbroek, L., Bungay, V., & Oliffe, J. (2025). Reconceptualizing biomedical paradigms for contraceptive care through feminist poststructuralism. Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse, 7(1), 6–22. https://doi.org/10.25071/2291-5796.172
2. Rudzinksi, K., Hudspith, L., Guta, A., Comber, S., Dewar, L., Leiper, W., Hawkins, K., Laforet, L., Mangat, R.R., Long, P., Handlovsky, I., & Bungay, V.* (2025). Navigating fragmented services: a gender-based violence (GBV) critical feminist analysis of women’s experiences engaging with health and social supports in three Canadian cities. BMC Public Health, 25, 1213: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-21919-w
3. Hubert, J., Beaumont, M., Bungay, V., & Slemon, A. (2025). Digital Artifacts of Self-Representation: A critical qualitative analysis of nursing memes. Nursing Inquiry, 32:e70021. https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.70021.  
4. Hirani, S., Sandhu, M., Bandara, N. A., Bungay, V., & Twomey, M. (2025). Understanding parenting and pregnant women’s perceptions of accessing, utilizing, and barriers to seeking social support for mental well-being. Behavioral Sciences, 15(3), 348. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15030348
5. Kassam, S. & Bungay, V. (2024). Advancing nursing education through an intersectionality-framed approach: An exemplar with women living at the epicenter of gender-based violence, climate crises, racism, and migration status. Quality Advancement in Nursing Education, 10(4), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.17483/2368-6669.1474
6. Josephs, J. C., Bungay, V., Guta, A., Gilbert, M., & Abdulai, A.F. (2024). Trauma-informed technology designs in digital sexual health interventions. Innovation in Applied Nursing Informatics. 315: Ebook. https://ebooks.iospress.nl/doi/10.3233/SHTI240323
7. Jiao, S., Bungay, V., Jenkins, E., & Gagnon, M. (2024). Opioid-specific harm reduction in the emergency department: How staff provide harm reduction and contextual factors that impact their capacity to engage in harm reduction practice. Harm Reduction Journal, 21(171). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-024-01088-6
8. Browne, A.J., Varcoe, C., Ford-Gilboe, M., Wathen, C.N., Wilson, V., Bungay, V., & Perrin, N. (2024). Using a health equity lens to measure patient experiences of care in diverse health care settings. PLoS ONE 19(6): e0297721. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297721
9. Slemon, A., Wonsiak, T., Delli Colli, A.-R., Blanchet Garneau, A., Varcoe, C., & Bungay, V.* (2024) Social justice in Canadian nursing professional documents: A Foucauldian discourse analysis. Nursing Inquiry.  e12653  https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12653
10. Bungay, V., Dewar, L., Schoening, M., Guta, A., Leiper, W., & Jiao, S. (2024). Co-designing an outreach intervention for women experiencing street-involvement and gender based-violence: Community-academic partnerships in action. Violence Against Women. 30(8), 1760-1782. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012241233004
11. Jiao, S., Bungay, V., Jenkins, E., & Gagnon, M. (2023). How an emergency department is organized to provide opioid specific harm reduction and facilitators and barriers to harm reduction implementation: A systems perspective. Harm Reduction Journal, 139(2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-023-00871-1
12. Slemon, A., Bungay, V., Varcoe, C., & Blanchet Garneau, A. (2023). A. From subversion to hard-wiring equity: A discourse analysis of nurses’ equity-promoting practices in emergency departments. Advances in Nursing Science https://10.1097/ANS.0000000000000517.
13. Ronquillo, C., Dahinten, S., Bungay, V., Currie, L. (2023). Differing effects of implementation leadership characteristics on nurses’ use of mobile health technologies in clinical practice: A cross-sectional study. JMIR Nursing,6; e44435.. https://nursing.jmir.org/2023/1/e44435
14. Gagnon, M., Payne, A., Guta, A., & Bungay, V. (2023). Food engages people, as we know: health care and service providers’ experiences of using food as an incentive in HIV care and support in British Columbia, Canada, AIDS Care, 35(1), 148-152.  https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2021.2014780
15. Bungay, V., Guta, A., Varcoe, C., Slemon, A., Manning, E., Comber, S., & Perri, M. (2023). Gaps in health research related to sex work: an analysis of Canadian health research funding. Critical Public Health, 33(1), 72-82. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2021.1987385 (first published online 2021).
16. Varcoe, C., Browne, A., Perrin, N., Wilson, E., Bungay, V., Byres, D., Wathen, N., Stones, C., Liao, C., & Price, Elder R. (2022). EQUIP emergency. Can interventions to reduce racism, discrimination and stigma in EDs improve outcomes? BMC Health Services Research, 22;1113, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08475-4
17. Jiao, S., Slemon, A., Guta, A., & Bungay, V.* (2022). Exploring the conceptualization, operationalization, implementation, and measurement of outreach in community settings with hard-to-reach and hidden populations. A scoping review. Social Science & Medicine, 309, 115232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115232
18. Bungay, V., Guta, A., Slemon, A., Varcoe, C., & Comber, S. (2022). The ethics of financial incentivization for health research participation among sex workers in a Canadian context. Qualitative Health Research, 32(6), 942-955. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F10497323221089877
19. Varcoe, C., Browne, A., Bungay, V., Perrin, N., Wilson, E. Bungay, V. Wathen, C.N., Byres, D., & Price, Elder R. (2022). Through an equity lens: Illuminating the relationships among social inequities, stigma and discrimination, and patient experiences of Emergency health care. International Journal of Health Services. 52(2), 246-260.  https://doi.org/10.1177%2F00207314221075515
20. Slemon, A., Dahinten, S.V., Stones, C., Bungay, V., & Varcoe, C. (2022). Analysis of the social consequences of the Everyday Discrimination Scale (EDS): Implications for measurement of discrimination in health research. Health Sociology Review, 31(3), 247-261. https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2021.1969980
21. Greer, A., Buxton, J., Pauly, B., & Bungay, V. (2021). Organizational support for frontline harm reduction and system navigation work among workers with living and lived experience: Qualitative findings from British Columbia, Canada. Harm Reduction Journal, 18:60 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-021-00507-2
22. Thomas, K., Browne, A.J., Jiao, S., Dooner, C., Wright, P., Slemon, A., Diederich, J., Wathen, C.N., Bungay, V., Wilson, E., & Varcoe C. (2021). Media framing of emergency departments: A call to action for nurses and other health care providers. BMC Nursing, 20 :118, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-021-00606-2
23. Krabbe, J., Jiao, Z., Guta, A., Slemon, A., Ahluwalia Cameron, A., Bungay, V. (2021). Exploring the operationalisation and implementation of outreach in community settings with hard-to-reach and hidden populations: protocol for a scoping review. BMJ Open,11(2), e039451, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039451
24. Jiao, S., Bungay, V., & Jenkins, E. (2021). Information and communication technologies in commercial sex work: A double-edged sword for occupational health and safety. Social Sciences, 10(1), 23, https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10010023
25. Gagnon, M., Guta, A., Upshur, R., Murray, S.J., & Bungay, V. (2020). “It gets people through the door”: A qualitative case study of the use of incentives in the care of people at risk or living with HIV in British Columbia. BMC Medical Ethics, 21, 105 https://bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12910-020-00548-5
26. Greer, A., Bungay, V., Pauly, B., & Buxton, J. (2020). ‘Peer’ work as precarious: A qualitative study of work conditions and experiences of people who use drugs engaged in harm reduction work. International Journal of Drug Policy, 85, 102922. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102922
27. Mahli, N., Oliffe, J., & Bungay, V. (2020). Male perpetration of dating violence: A scoping review. American Journal of Men’s Health. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1557988320963600
28. Handlovsky, I., Bungay, V., Oliffe, J., & Johnson, J. (2020) Overcoming adversity: A grounded theory of health management among middle-aged and older gay men. Sociology of Health & Illness. 42(7), 1566-1580. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13145 

29. Slemon, A., Jenkins, E., Bungay, V., & Brown, H. (2020). Undergraduate students’ perspectives on pursuing a career in mental health nursing following practicum experience. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 29(1-2), 163-171. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15074 

30. Varcoe, C., Bungay, V., Browne, A.J., Wilson, E., Wathen C.N., Kolar, K., Perrin, N., Comber, S., Blanchet Garneau, A., Byres, D., Black, A., Price, R. (2019). EQUIP Emergency: Study protocol for an organizational intervention to promote equity in health care. BMC Health Services Research. 19:687, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4494-2. 

31. Ronquillo, C., Dahinten, S., Bungay, V., & Currie, L. (2019) The Nurse LEADership for implementation technologies – Mobile health model (Nurse LEAD-IT – mHealth). Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership, 32(2): 71-84. https://doi.org/10.12927/cjnl.2019.25960

32. Handlovsky, I., Bungay, V., Oliffe, J., & Johnson, J. (2020). A qualitative investigation of mental health promotion among aging gay men. Journal of Mental Health, 29(3), 321-327, https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2019.1677874 .

33. Howard, F., Currie, L., Bungay, V., Meloche, M., McDermid, R. et al. (2019). Health solutions to improve post-intensive care outcomes: A realist review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 2019 (8): 11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-018-0939-7 

34. Ferlatte, O., Oliffe, J.L., Salway, T., Broom, A., Bungay, V. & Rice S.M. (2019). Using photovoice to understand suicidality among gay and bisexual men. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 48(5), 1529-1541. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-019-1433-6

35. Varcoe, C., Ford Gilboe, M., Browne, A. J., Perrin, N., McKenzie, H., Khan, K., Price, R., Bungay, V., Smye, V., et al.  (2019). The efficacy of a health promotion intervention for Indigenous women: Reclaiming our spirits. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(13-14), NP7086-NP7116,  https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260518820818 

36. Slemon, A., Bungay, V., Jenkins, E., & Brown, H. (2018). Power and resistance: Nursing students' experiences in mental health practicums. Advances in Nursing Science, 41(4), 359-376. https://doi: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000221
37. Crabtree A., Latham, N., Morgan, R., Pauly, B., Bungay, V., & Buxton, J. (2018) Perceived harms and harm reduction strategies among people who drink non-beverage alcohol: Community-based qualitative research in Vancouver, Canada. International Journal of Drug Policy, 59, 85-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.06.020
38. Ronquillo, C., Dahinten, S., Bungay, V., & Currie, L. (2018). The MOBile-Health and Implementation Leadership Evaluation (MOBILE) nurse study: Developing a testable conceptual model. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 250, 143. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-872-3-143
39. Jenkins, E., Bungay, V., Patterson, A., Saewyc, E., & Johnson, J. (2018). Assessing the impacts and outcomes of youth driven mental health promotion: A mixed-methods assessment of the Social Networking Action for Resilience study. Journal of Adolescence, 67, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2018.05.009
40. Jiao, Z. & Bungay, V. (2019). Intersections of stigma, mental health and sex work: How Canadian men engaged in sex work navigate and resist stigma to protect their mental health. Journal of Sex Research, 56(4), 641-649. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2018.1459446
41. Handlovsky, I., Bungay, V., Oliffe, J., & Johnson, J. (2018). Developing resilience: Gay men’s response to systemic discrimination. American Journal of Men’s Health, 12(5), 1473-1485. https://doi.org/10.1177/1557988318768607
42. Bungay, V. & Guta, A. (2018) Strategies and challenges in preventing violence against Canadian indoor sex workers. American Journal of Public Health, 108(3), 393-398. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2017.304241
43. Chabot, C., Gilbert, M., Haag, D., Ogilvie, G., Hawe, P., Bungay, V., & Shoveller, J. (2018). Anticipating the potential for positive uptake and adaptation in the implementation of a publicly-funded online STBBI testing service: a qualitative analysis. BMC Health Service Research, 2018(18), 57. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-2871-x
44. Kille, J., Bungay, V., Oliffe, J., & Atchison, C. (2017). A content analysis of health and safety communications among Internet-based sex work advertisements: Important information for public health. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 19(4), e111. https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.6746
45. Slemon, A., Jenkins, E., & Bungay, V. (2017). Safety in psychiatric inpatient care: The impact of risk management culture on mental health nursing practice. Nursing Inquiry, 24(4), e12199. https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12199
46. Varcoe, C., Browne, A., Ford-Gilboe, M., Dion Stout, M., McKenzie, H., Price, R., Bungay, V., Smye, V., Inyallie, J., Day, L., Khan, K., Heino, A., & Merritt-Gray, M. (2017). Reclaiming Our Spirits: Development and pilot testing of a health promotion intervention for Indigenous women who have experienced intimate partner violence. Research in Nursing and Health, 40(3), 237-254. https://doi.org/10.1002/nur.21795
47. Manning, E. & Bungay, V. (2017). ‘Business before pleasure’: The golden rule of sex work, payment schedules, and gendered experiences of violence. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 19(3), 338-351. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2016.1219767
48. Bungay, V., Handlovsky, I., Phillips, C., & Prescott, C. (2017). A scoping review of the literature on nursing practices with persons seeking care for sexually transmitted infections. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 26(1-2), 33-48. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13561
49. Mitchell, S.E., Bungay, V., Day, C., & Mooney-Somers, J. (2016). Has the experience of Hepatitis C diagnosis improved over the last decade? An analysis of Canadian women’s experiences. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 48(1), 21-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/0844562116665477      
50. Jenkins, E., Kothari, A., Bungay, V., Johnson, J.L. & Oliffe, J.L. (2016). Strengthening population health interventions: Developing the collaboraKTion framework for community-based knowledge translation. Health Research Policy and Systems, 14(1), 65. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-016-0138-8. 

51. Singien, K., Price, M, Bungay, V., & Wong, S. (2016). Using Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network data to examine depression in patients with a diagnosis of Parkinson disease: a retrospective cohort study. CMAJ, 4(3), E417-E423. https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20160052

52. Black, A., Bungay, V., Mackay, M., Balneaves, L., & Garossino, C. (2016). Understanding mentorship in a research training program for point-of-care clinicians. Journal of Nursing Administration, 46(9), 444-448.  https://doi.org/10.1097/NNA.0000000000000373 

53. Hayward, D., Bungay, V., Wolff, A., & MacDonald, V. (2016). A qualitative study of experienced nurses’ voluntary turnover: Learning from their perspectives. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 25(9-10), 1336-1345. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13210 

54. Bowen, R. & Bungay, V. (2016). Taint: An examination of the lived experiences of stigma and its’ lingering effects for eight sex industry experts. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 18(2), 184-197. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2015.1072875
55. Bungay, V., Oliffe, J., & Atchison, C. (2016). Addressing underrepresentation in sex work research: Reflections on designing a purposeful sampling strategy. Qualitative Health Research, 26(7), 966-978. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732315613042
56. Jenkins, E., Johnson, J., Bungay, V., Kothari, A., & Saewyc, E. (2015). Divided and disconnected – an examination of youth’s experiences with emotional distress within the context of their everyday lives. Health & Place, 35, 105-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.08.006 

Teaching

Current Courses Taught at UBC

To enable full engagement in her role as Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies, Faculty of Applied Science, Vicky is not currently teaching specific courses. 

Previous Courses Taught at UBC

N512: Leadership in Nursing (3 credit graduate)

N520: Administrative Leadership in Nursing (3 credit graduate)

N581: Leadership in Knowledge Application and Translation (3 credit graduate)

Supervisor Eligibility

MHLP, MN, MSN - thesis, MSN - non-thesis, PhD

If interested in supervision please contact Vicky directly to explore possibilities. 

Graduate Supervision

For a list of past graduate trainees supervised by Dr. Bungay please go to https://capacityresearch.ubc.ca/trainees/