Our research units and centres support multi-year collaborative teams and programmatic funding in specific areas.
The rich diversity of foci and approaches encompassed by nursing research defies simple categorization. In addition to exploring the research concentrations listed below, please browse the researcher profiles in Our People or search by keyword to identify experts in specific areas.
By illuminating the multidimensional factors that perpetuate marginalization among diverse communities, the team is driving for more effective social policies and programs to promote well-being.
The men’s health research program aims to improve the health of men and their families through designing, implementing and evaluating men’s health promotion programs.
Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre (SARAVYC)
SARAVYC studies how stigma and trauma influence health, and what fosters resilience among young people, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) adolescents, and runaway, homeless or street-involved youth.
Supported by the Elizabeth Kenny McCann Scholar, this unit promotes the scholarship of teaching and learning in nursing and health professional education.
This lab aims to innovate in dementia care for elderly patients, often through the use of new technology. This research is primarily patient-oriented and developed by working closely with many patient partners to improve outcomes of patients.
This Research Excellence Cluster aims to address men's mental health inequities, optimize men's mental health help-seeking experiences, and equip community-based and professional mental-health care services to expertly evaluate and treat men's mental illnesses and suicidality.
This Research Excellence Cluster is a partnership-based, transdisciplinary, intersectoral and cross-social group aiming to support equity-oriented, decolonizing and culturally safe research, program, and policy development to address health and justice inequities.
The Women’s Health Research Cluster aims to mobilise and catalyse more research in women's health. This is a network of researchers, clinicians, community partners, and trainees that are engaged or interested in women’s health research across disciplines.
Advancing Mental Health Equity in a post-COVID-19 Asia-Pacific
This emerging research cluster brings together interdisciplinary researchers and stakeholders to collaborate on community-engaged research, innovative approaches to knowledge exchange and advancing best practices for equitable mental health, including the use of digital technologies.
UBC's Designing for People research network is accelerating creativity at the nexus of social and technical problem-solving, by promoting interdisciplinary teamwork and methods, finding new paths to societal impact through partners and community, and creating sharable resources.
