Jade Radke (she/her) is a PhD Psychology student in the Behavioral Sustainability Lab at UBC. She received her BA in Honors Psychology under the supervision of Dr. Russ Powell and Miranda Macauley (MA, BCBA) and earned her Behavioral Interventions Certificate of Achievement (BICA) from MacEwan University. Between degrees, Jade worked as an assistant behavioral therapist at an elementary school. She then earned her MA in Resources, Environment, and Sustainability at UBC under the supervision of Dr. Jiaying Zhao with a focus on the role of happiness in climate action. Currently,  Jade is examining the effectiveness of various behavioral interventions for increasing climate action.

Jade’s research focuses on the use of positive reinforcement to elicit pro-environmental behavior change.

Radke, J. & Zhao, J. (in press). Cognitive foundations of climate solutions. Chapter in The Psychological Foundations of Climate Solutions. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Radke, J., Guan, S., Dunn, E., & Zhao, J. (2026) How do-more-good frames influence climate action likelihood and anticipated happiness. Frontiers in Communication, 11, 1693311. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2026.1693311 

Radke, J.*, Argentopoulos, S.*, & Zhao, J. (2025). Carbon emissions and subjective well-being in Blue Zone Ikaria and Athens, Greece. Frontiers in Climate, 7, 1669144. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2025.1669144 

Radke, J., Argentopoulos, S., Dunn, E., & Zhao, J. (2025). Probabilistic refunds increase beverage container recycling behaviour in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. Waste Management, 204, 114954. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2025.114954 

Nielsen, T.*, Radke, J.*, Picard-Deland, C.*, & Powell, R. A.* (2025). More dreams of the rarebit fiend: food sensitivity and dietary correlates of sleep and dreaming. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1544475. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1544475

Sheppard, S. B., Argentopoulos, S., Ware, J., Swearingen, A., Winfield, J., Radke, J., & Zhao, J. (2025). Probabilistic rewards increase the use of reusable cups. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 212, 108001. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.108001

Zhao, J.*, Radke, J.*, Chen, F. S., Sachdeva, S., Gershman, S. J., & Luo, Y. (2024). How do we reinforce climate action? Sustainability Science, 19(4), 1503–1517. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01486-6

Powell, R. A., Schmaltz, R. M., & Radke, J. L. (2021). Unbreakable resolutions as an effective tactic for self-control: Lessons from Mahatma Gandhi and a 19th-century Prussian prince. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.771141

*Co-first authors

Doctoral Fellowship, SSHRC (2024-2027)
Four-Year Doctoral Fellowship, UBC (2024-2028)
Indigenous Graduate Fellowship, UBC (2024-2028)
President’s Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award, UBC (2024-2026)
Indigenous Graduate Fellowship, UBC (2022-2024)
SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Masters (CGS-M) (2022-2023)
Graduate Support Initiative Entrance Scholarship, UBC (2022)
Indigenous Careers Award, Grant MacEwan University (2019-2021)
Louise McKinney Post-Secondary Scholarship, Grant MacEwan University (2019-2020)
Mad Hatters Gala 2007 Scholarship, Grant MacEwan University (2019)