Back by popular demand\, UBC Psychology is hosting another "Ask Me Anything" on Red dit as part of our Imagine UBC events and activities.
We invite new and returning s tudents to join us and ask us questions about our programs\, student resour ces\, research opportunities\, life as an RA\, student clubs\, and much mor e\, in real time.
A diverse team of people from the psychology commun ity—including faculty\, students and staff—will be responding to your quest ions from u/UBCPsych.
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Faculty
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Andrew Baron (he/him)
Dr. Baron is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at UBC. His work intersects social\, cognitiv e and developmental psychology to explore the origins and development of so cial group bias. His lab conducts research both on UBC’s Vancouver Campus a nd in the Living Lab at Science World. Some current research explores the d evelopment of gender bias in STEM\, children’s understanding of structural inequality and reasoning about social status and social hierarchies. He reg ularly teaches PSYC 315 and PSYC 413 (Distance learning course). He also co nsults with marketing research companies to apply methods from psychology t o help businesses improve their product and brand advertising.
Kil ey Hamlin (she/her)
Dr. Hamlin is a Professor in the Departm ent of Psychology at UBC and Canada Research Chair in Developmental Psychol ogy. Her work explores the earliest developmental origins of the human mora l sense\, by examining precursors to moral cognition and action in preverba l infants.
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Lily May (she/her)< /p>
Dr. May is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology. Prior to becom ing faculty at UBC\, Lily completed her PhD in UBC’s Psychology department studying language development in infants. Now as a lecturer\, Lily spends m ost of her time teaching– primarily in courses all about developmental psyc hology. Lily also has three young kids at home\, meaning that when not ~tea ching~ about cute kids and babies\, she can typically be found ~parenting~ cute kids and babies!
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Catherine Rawn (she/her)
Dr. Rawn is a Professor of Teaching and Associate Head for Undergraduate Affair s in the Department of Psychology\, as well as the Chair of the Curriculum Committee for the Faculty of Arts as a whole. She regularly teaches student s in the required research methods and statistics sequence (PSYC 217 and 21 8). She is a co-author on the textbook used in PSYC 217\, and has published scholarly work on two-stage exams\, student engagement in large classrooms \, student evaluations of teaching\, and the role of teaching-focused facul ty at large research-intensive universities in Canada. Catherine was raised primarily by her grandmother\, and was the first person in her family to a ttend university.
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Eva Zysk (she/her)
Dr. Zysk is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology. Her resear ch interests include contamination fears in OCD\, virtual reality therapy f or Social Anxiety\, and student presentation anxiety. She has received awar ds for her teaching\, including the Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Award. She i s passionate about helping students settle into and enjoy university.
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Jay Hosking (he/him)
Dr. Hosking is a lecturer in UBC's Department of Psychology where he teaches a number of courses rel ated to neuroscience and psychology. He is also the advisor for the BSc Beh avioural Neuroscience program.
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Jimmy Chokmeesuk (he/they)
Jimmy is a 4th-year BA Psychology student who is also minoring in Inte rpersonal Development under the faculty of education at UBC and the preside nt and former vice president of academics of the PSA. With the PSA\, Jimmy hopes to create events that allow people to meet\, connect\, socialize and learn each other's stories\, with a hope to ease their stress and make thei r university journey more enjoyable. Additionally\, in their recent Preside nt position as the Thai genderqueer\, disabled person on the PSA executive team\, they commit to continuing my passion for building a more equitable a nd inclusive environment by introducing new committee: Equity committee\, w hich will be launched in early September. Jimmy is currently working as an undergraduate academic assistant at Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Center (SARAVYC) and was the former volunteer at UBC Social Health La b and Depression\, Anxiety and Stress (DAS) lab. They are passionate about psychopathology and its psychotherapy\, in which he hopes to better the hea lth care system and psychotherapy that overlook transgender\, non-binary\, and gender-nonconforming people’s diverse lived experiences. Jimmy also tak es inclusion and diversity very seriously to ensure that he does not leave anyone on this journey alone. In his spare time\, they love reading a good book\, cooking Thai food and volunteering at a non-profit organization.
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Kateryna Voznyuk (she/her )
Kateryna is the Co-President of UBC Psi Chi Undergraduate Honor Society. She is also a 4th-year BSc Behavioural Neuroscience student\ , IMES and OIS recipient\, and former Vice President External for UBC Psi C hi. She is also a clinical recruiter\, research assistant\, and EDI committ ee member for the Depression\, Anxiety\, and Stress (DAS) Lab and a program volunteer on behalf of the BC Brain Wellness Program. Kateryna has diversi fied her academic experience as a research assistant for UBC labs (Ciernia\ , DAS)\, research mentee for UBC clubs (URO/REX\, Indicium STEM Competition )\, volunteer for external organizations (VBIA\, BC BWP\, Be My Eyes)\, and UBC conference presenter (MURC\, PURC\, and PATHS to a Cure: Neuroscience Research Conference). She is very passionate about drawing from these exper iences to offer advice for students exploring research and volunteering\, w herever they are in their academic journeys. She is also eager to help inte rnational students in managing homesickness and balancing life in a new cou ntry. Outside of academics\, Kateryna loves hiking and exploring local faun a/flora\, reading non-fiction\, alpine skiing\, and looking for the best wa ffles in Vancouver!
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Marta Kolbuszewska (she/her)
Marta is a secon d-year MA student in clinical psychology in the Department of Psychology at UBC. She is a member of the Sexuality and Well-Being Lab where her researc h interests centre around understanding individual and relational processes that contribute to sexual dysfunction and sexual well-being. She is partic ularly interested in using quantitative methods to better understand how th ese processes unfold over time for individuals and couples. She is also a r esearch assistant in the Coping with Neurological Symptoms Lab at UBC. Mart a came to UBC after two undergraduate degrees - one in psychology and stati stics\, and one in history. She values interdisciplinary collaboration.
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Miriam Tang (s he/her)
Miriam is a third-year P sychology student\, serving as the VP Marketing in Psychology Students’ Ass ociation (PSA). In the summer she participated in the UBC Work Learn Progra m\, where she worked as a Marketing/Communications assistant for the Branch of Global Surgical Care at UBC Faculty of Medicine. Additionally\, she als o works as an administrative assistant at an agriculture business part-time .
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Charul Maheshka (she/her)
Charul is a fourth-year undergraduate student completing a BA in Psychology (Honors) with a minor in French Lang uage. She is currently a senior research assistant at the Social Cognition and Emotion lab\, and at the Culture and Self lab\, where she is working cl osely with professors. Previously\, she worked at the MAGIC Lab\, and volun teered at the Center for Cognitive Development.
She has held the Work Learn International Undergraduate Research Award\, a paid full-time lab position\, this summer and last. Over the years\, she has presented her research at multiple conferences\, and w as awarded 2nd place in Oral Presentations at MURC and at LSURC in 2020\, a nd 1st place in the UBC 3MT competition in 2022. She is very passionate abo ut research in social psychology\, and aims to go to graduate school and be come a professor in the future.
Charul is an international student\, and has received scholarships incl uding the IMES\, Student Scholarship in Arts\, and the International Commun ity Achievement Award. She has previously served as an Academic Committee M ember for the Psychology Students Association\, and as an Executive Externa l Coordinator for UBC Psi Chi.
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Kell y Yu (she/her)
Kelly is a second-year MA student in health psychology in the Department of Psychology at UBC. She completed her B.S. in Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. She is a member of the Social Health Lab\, where her res earch interests are focused on cultural differences in the link between soc ial support and health outcomes. She is currently exploring MIDUS (Midlife in the United States) and MIDJA (Midlife in Japan) data to investigate supp ort seeking and physiological and psychological outcomes.
Maria Clara Brandao (she/her)
Mar ia is a second-year MA student in developmental psychology in the Departmen t of Psychology at UBC. She completed her B.S. in Psychology at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil. She is a member of the Centre for Cognitive Development\, where her research in terests are focused on the development of math abilities in children and le arning disabilities. She explores how our intuitive number sense may predic t our future abilities in formal math and how this relationship may be medi ated by our ability to detect mistakes.
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Gian Hermos ura (he/him)\, Lab Manager at the DAS Lab
Gian received his B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Family Studies in May 2022. He is the lab ma nager of the Depression\, Anxiety\, & Stress Lab where he delegates tasks t o research assistants\, has administrative duties such as organizing meetin gs and workshops\, and manages the lab’s grants and finances. As a staff me mber\, he is familiar with applying for paid research assistant and lab man ager positions. Additionally\, he has been a part of 7 research labs over h is 5 years as an undergraduate student including the Peer Relationships in Childhood Lab (clinical psychology)\, the Motivated Cognition Lab (cognitiv e psychology)\, and Culture and Self Lab (social psychology). He has comple ted one 6-credit Directed Studies and two 3-credit Directed Studies in psyc hology. He is very familiar with a variety of research assistant tasks and the process of applying to a lab. As someone who changed his degree in the middle of his undergrad\, he knows what it is like to be uncertain of the f uture and how to find resources to ensure success as an undergrad. As a stu dent\, he lived on campus for 3 years and commuted for 2 years.
Tara Martin (she/her)\, Director\, Administration
Tara has been the Director\, Administration for UBC Psychology since 2011. Star ting way back in 2000\, she was a transfer student to UBC\, and completed h er BA in Psychology and International Relations while holding jobs off camp us\, taking on WorkLearn assignments\, and volunteering with the PSA. After graduating\, she started a CUPE 116 Research Assistant position with UBC P sychology\, and later moved into a lab manager role. In 2018 she completed UBC’s Master of Education program\, focusing on Higher Education. In her sp are time\, she enjoys gardening\, all winter sports\, and spending time wit h her family & pets.
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Sarvenaz Oloomi (she/her)\, Research and Recruitment Coord inator at the EDRG
Sarvenaz is a recent graduate from UBC’s Psychology Honours program (2022)\, who currently works as the research and recruitment coordinator at the Early Development Research Group (EDRG) whe re she coordinates between the seven developmental labs in the department. She is also currently a research assistant in the Anxiety\, Stress\, Autism Program (ASAP)\, Depression\, Anxiety\, Stress Lab (DAS)\, and research le ad at the Infant Studies Center. During her time at UBC\, she had worked as a TA in the Asian Studies and Psychology departments\, worked as a Peer Ac ademic Advisor at the UBC Arts Advising Office and as a president and execu tive in many student clubs. She also completed one of her honours thesis in a UBC psychiatry lab (PAR lab) and has worked as an NSERC USRA research st udent. In her free time\, she loves to make music\, read books\, play baske tball\, and she has a pet parrot.
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< ul>Joyce Lai (she/her)\, Undergraduate Program Assistant\, UBC Psychology
Joyce completed her BA in Psychology and Minor in Commerce in May 2021 and has been working with the Department of Psychology since November of the sa me year. During her time at UBC\, she was involved with the UBC Food Societ y and worked as a Research Assistant with the Social Identity Lab. Joyce al so completed her work terms with the Arts Co-op program with the UBC’s Vanc ouver Summer Program in Hong Kong. In her free time she enjoys going to con certs\, petting cats\, and trying new restaurants.
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