Awards & Honours
UBCO Researcher of the Year AWARDS
Each year, we recognize the outstanding achievements of researchers who have made significant contributions to research and/or creative scholarly activity at UBC Okanagan. Three prizes are awarded in the areas of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Social Sciences and Humanities, and Health, in addition to a Graduate student award at the Master’s or PhD level. The recipients of this award epitomize excellence and are leaders in their respective fields and disciplines, working across traditional boundaries to help make the world a better place.
2022 Faculty Researchers of the Year
Jennifer Davis | Faculty of Management
Health award
Jennifer Davis is a Canada Research Chair in Applied Health Economics. Her research focuses on improving the health of older Canadians at risk for falls or cognitive decline. Jennifer assesses the economic value of dementia and mobility intervention and prevention efforts through partnerships with clinicians. Her international collaborations have resulted in policy change and significant advancements in applying health economic evidence to lifestyle interventions.
Kyle Larson | Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science
NATURAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING award
Kyle Larson is an innovator of analytical techniques for tectonics research. Kyle’s novel methods have led to fundamental discoveries about how major mountain belts form, including a solution to a decades-old geological controversy surrounding the origin of the Himalaya. As Director of the Fipke Laboratory for Trace Element Research (FiLTER), Kyle has helped develop paradigm-shifting methods for rapid dating of geological material.
Margaret MacIntyre Latta | Okanagan School of Education
social sciences and humanities award
Margaret Macintyre Latta is a prominent researcher transforming traditional approaches to education. A champion of interdisciplinary and community-based research, her focus is to advance curriculum as a shared participatory learning experience that inspires reconciliation. Her practice-engaged research with Indigenous, school district and community partners supports educators in decolonizing their curriculum and teaching practices.
2021 Student Researcher of the Year
Graduate Studies (PhD) award
As a PhD candidate, Rhyann McKay conducted leading-edge research in partnership with provincial spinal cord injury (SCI) organizations across Canada to co-develop behaviour change interventions for support providers to enhance wellbeing and self-care. Rhyann is currently a health system impact fellow at the University of Alberta, evaluating the implementation of acute care intervention.
graduate studies (phd)
Rhyann Mckay
PhD, Philosophy
master’s student
connor howe
MSc, Health & Exercise Sciences
Social Sciences & Humanities
Jonathan Corbett
Associate Professor, Community, Culture & Global Studies
phd student
katrina plamondon
PhD, Nursing
ubc faculty research Awards
UBCO recipients of the university’s system-wide faculty research awards are below:
UBC Killam Research Prize
Recognizing outstanding research and scholarly contributions.
2019 – Junior Category
ALLISON HARGREAVES
Associate Professor, English & Cultural Studies
UBC Killam Research Fellowship
Enabling faculty to pursue full-time research during a recognized study leave.
2020
CHRISTINE SCHREYER
Associate Professor, Anthropology
2018
Kyle Larson
Associate Professor, Earth, Environmental & Geographic Sciences
Nelly Oelke
Associate Professor, Nursing
2017
Jonathan little
Associate Professor, Health & Exercise Sciences
2016
MIRANDA HART
Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
ABBAS MILANI
Professor, Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
2015
JENNIFER JAKOBI
Professor, Health & Exercise Sciences
UBC Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship
Recognizing exceptional early-career researchers who have demonstrated outstanding research achievement and the potential for significant impact in their fields of scholarship.
2021
MEGAN SMITH
Associate Professor, Creative Studies, Media Studies
2020
Jonathan little
Associate Professor, Health & Exercise Sciences
Dorothy Somerset Award for Performance Development in the Visual and Performing Arts
Recognizing faculty who have made outstanding contributions to (and performances in) art, music, creative writing, theatre or film
2020
NEIL CADGER
Associate Professor, Creative Studies (Theatre)